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Professor Richard Landes teaches History at Boston University and is director and co-founder of the Center for Millennial Studies. Richard is the author of Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes (989-1034) ( Harvard University Press, 1995). 

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Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

By Richard Landes
 Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World”... Read more > July 2024

Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement

By Richard Landes
 Richard Landes is a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements. He is author of Heaven on Earth: The... Read more > May 2024

Fathom Long Read | Lethal Journalism and the Pattern: Why the World Fell for Hamas’ Al Ahli Lie

By Richard Landes
 Richard Landes is author of Can ‘The Whole World’ Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (2022)... Read more > November 2023

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | The Disorientations of Lethal Journalism: On Western Media and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By Richard Landes
 Richard Landes is a historian who taught at Boston University. His work focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the... Read more > May 2023

‘A Remarkably Aggressive Naïveté’: A Response to Derek Penslar and Michael Walzer

By Richard Landes
 Richard Landes argues that the claim made by the signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration that – in the... Read more > April 2021

Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred

By Richard Landes
 In this bracing polemic, the US academic Richard Landes argues that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls... Read more > Summer 2016

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