Articles by Richard Landes

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/02/14/macina-update-on-georges-bensoussan-trial-in-paris/A tireless warrior in the cogwar, Menachem Macina, frequent commenter here, left a long comment with an update on the George Bensassoun blasphemy trial in Chambre 17 in Paris. I post it here to give […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/02/02/on-the-clash-of-civilizations-in-the-era-of-trump/[NB: I wrote this last November, but forgot to post it. Better late than never, and given the reaction to Trump’s Executive Order about admitting people from seven Muslim-majority nations as feeding global Jihad, it […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/02/02/asso21c-how-kerry-knows-settlements-an-obstacle-to-peace/I’m a bit late on this one, but it’s such a good example of, and going into the list of Astoundingly Stupid Statements of the 21st Century, that I have to fisk it. Earlier this […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/01/20/french-jewish-historian-sued-over-far-right-rhetoric-against-muslims/The use of accusations of Islamophobia to enforce Caliphater blasphemy codes and block the expression of any criticism of Muslims in Europe has long been acknowledged. The most disturbing trend in this verbal warfare is […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/01/09/an-earlier-earthquake-in-the-jewish-world-response-to-eva-illouz/Eva Illouz wrote a dramatic New Year’s piece for Ha-aretz, in which she accuses fellow Jews who support Trump of falling prey to messianic fantasies and “betraying Jews, Jewish history and humanity,” and claiming for the […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/12/21/fake-news-and-queer-theory-feminists-on-anti-semitism-at-hebrew-u/I just attended a session at the Sassoon Center for Antisemitism at Hebrew University on Sartre and the Jewish Question. 11:15-13:15 Session 3 Sartre, Fanon, and the Subject of Decolonization Chair: Martina Weisz, The Hebrew […]