Dr. Raphaeli Israeli of Hebrew University reviews Andrew Bostom’s The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism in The Jerusalem Post. In an unprecedented feat — all the more remarkable because the author is a medical professional — Bostom assembles “all the major sources which govern the holy war in Islam” and “testify to the long and sorry history of anti-Semitism in Islam.”
This magisterial work “reverses in a dramatic way many of the ill-conceived and misjudged information that had attempted in the past to ascribe to the lands of Islam a much more benign and idyllic image of their (mis)treatment of the Jews.” This resource is indispensable to future scholars wishing “to comprehend the significance of the new outburst of anti-Semitism, clearly articulated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, among Muslims worldwide.”
Kudos to Bostom.