Raphael Israeli (born September 15, 1935)[1] is an Israeli historian and writer. He is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Chinese history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[2] as well as a research fellow at Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace[3] and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.[4]

Biography

Israeli was born in Fes, Morocco[2] and emigrated to the new state of Israel at the age of fourteen.[5] For twelve years he was a career officer in the Israeli Defence Force in Military Intelligence, whereafter he switched to Academia.[citation needed]

He received a degree in Arabic and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D in Chinese and Islamic History.[2] He has taught for 30 years at the Hebrew University and was a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Europe. He is the author of over 50 research books and some 100 scholarly articles on the Modern Middle East, Islamic radicalism, Islam in China, Asia and Europe.[2]

In 2017, Israeli published a book in Hebrew titled The Arab Minority in Israel, Open and Hidden Processes, in which he calls the Arab minority a "fifth column", who receive more from the state than they contribute and expresses regret that they are not confined to camps like Japanese Americans were in WWII.[6] The Anti-Defamation League called the book "hateful rhetoric".[7]

For his 2008 book The Spread of Islamikaze Terrorism in Europe: The Third Islamic Invasion, Israeli said that Europe is in danger of becoming "Eurabia" within half a century.[8][9] Israeli has been described as a proponent of the counter-jihadist worldview of Bat Ye'or.[10][11]

Publications

References

  1. ^ International Who's Who in Asian Studies (Asian Research Service, 1975), p. 110.
  2. ^ a b c d "Prof. Raphael Israeli". Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  3. ^ "The Harry S. Truman Research Institute". truman.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  4. ^ "Key People". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  5. ^ McGahern, Una (2012). Palestinian Christians in Israel: State Attitudes towards Non-Muslims in a Jewish State. Routledge. ISBN 9781136656804.
  6. ^ Chaim Levinson (June 9, 2017). "Senior Israeli politicians celebrate book that says Arabs should be incarcerated in camps". Haaretz.
  7. ^ "ADL blasts Likud MKs for attending launch of anti-Arab book". The Times of Israel.
  8. ^ "Face of Europe changing as many French, British convert to Islam". The Jerusalem Post. January 23, 2007.
  9. ^ "HU prof. says he was 'abandoned' after criticizing Muslims". The Jerusalem Post. February 19, 2007.
  10. ^ "Dhimmitude Unveiled". New English Review. August 2013.
  11. ^ "Beskriver muslimer som hot - föreläser för svensk tankesmedja". Expo (in Swedish). May 7, 2015.
  12. ^ Gordon, Jerry, "Will the Islamic State be Destroyed or Self-Destruct?" (review and interview) Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, newenglishreview.org, November, 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-27.

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