Raphael Israeli is professor of Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University, Israel. He is the author of over forty books, including From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter, The Death Camps of Croatia, and The Oslo Idea.

• ForewordIntroduction: The Nature of Lies: Hoaxes, Wishful Thinking, Envy, Denial, Self-Righteousness, and Conspiracy Theories1 Lies Generated by Hatred: Political and Religious Sources2 Truth-Bending Propensities of Politics and Political Ideologies3 A Sample of Manufactured Libel against the Jews in the Arab and Muslim Media4 The Distribution of Lies and Hatred: Mosques, Education, the Media, Internet, Poetry, and Folk Songs5 Distribution of Libel, in Defense of Lies6 The Palestinians as the Arab Prototype of Lie Manufacturing7 Iran: The Extremist Shiite Example8 Turkey: The Non-Arab Muslims Entering the FrayConclusion: Are Hatred and Lie Propagation Reversible?: Summary ReflectionsBibliographyAnalytical Index

Ambitious, scholarly, and shrewd - Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2015

Raphael Israeli is professor of Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University, Israel. He is the author of over forty books, including From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter, The Death Camps of Croatia, and The Oslo Idea.

• ForewordIntroduction: The Nature of Lies: Hoaxes, Wishful Thinking, Envy, Denial, Self-Righteousness, and Conspiracy Theories1 Lies Generated by Hatred: Political and Religious Sources2 Truth-Bending Propensities of Politics and Political Ideologies3 A Sample of Manufactured Libel against the Jews in the Arab and Muslim Media4 The Distribution of Lies and Hatred: Mosques, Education, the Media, Internet, Poetry, and Folk Songs5 Distribution of Libel, in Defense of Lies6 The Palestinians as the Arab Prototype of Lie Manufacturing7 Iran: The Extremist Shiite Example8 Turkey: The Non-Arab Muslims Entering the FrayConclusion: Are Hatred and Lie Propagation Reversible?: Summary ReflectionsBibliographyAnalytical Index

Ambitious, scholarly, and shrewd - Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2015

Raphael Israeli is professor of Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University, Israel. He is the author of over forty books, including From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter, The Death Camps of Croatia, and The Oslo Idea.

• ForewordIntroduction: The Nature of Lies: Hoaxes, Wishful Thinking, Envy, Denial, Self-Righteousness, and Conspiracy Theories1 Lies Generated by Hatred: Political and Religious Sources2 Truth-Bending Propensities of Politics and Political Ideologies3 A Sample of Manufactured Libel against the Jews in the Arab and Muslim Media4 The Distribution of Lies and Hatred: Mosques, Education, the Media, Internet, Poetry, and Folk Songs5 Distribution of Libel, in Defense of Lies6 The Palestinians as the Arab Prototype of Lie Manufacturing7 Iran: The Extremist Shiite Example8 Turkey: The Non-Arab Muslims Entering the FrayConclusion: Are Hatred and Lie Propagation Reversible?: Summary ReflectionsBibliographyAnalytical Index

Ambitious, scholarly, and shrewd - Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2015