Richard Landes

Richard Landes is an historian and former Boston University professor living in Jerusalem. His work focuses on apocalyptic and millennial beliefs at the turn of the first and second millennia, 1000 and 2000 C.E. His relevant books include The Apocalyptic Year 1000 (2003) and Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (2011). He coined the term “Pallywood” in 2003 while investigating the Muhammad al-Durah affair and maintains a blog critical of Western journalism, The Augean Stables. His latest book, Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, published by Academic Studies Press, appeared in 2022.