A Bone-Chilling Lecture

Actually two

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Last week I attended a lecture at our local public library that chilled me to the bone. Maybe it shouldn’t have, because last month I had attended another lecture at another public library by the same lecturer, and my bones were already chilled from that one. The lecturer’s name is Dr. Andrew Bostom. He’s an accomplished physician who works as an independent scholar on Islamic antisemitism, and he is, in my opinion, doing very important work and seems to be doing it largely alone. In 2020 he published an updated version of a true magnum opus, a 750-page book called “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History,” a dense, heavily documented and data-driven tome that will take your breath away in its painstaking description of just how deep and dangerous the phenomenon is. Its glowing-with-praise blurbers include a who’s who of relevant public intellectuals, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Victor Davis Hanson, Martin Gilbert, and more. This book needs to be far more widely distributed and read.

The two lectures I’ve seen were also both fully documented and data heavy, and they will chill you to the bone. I believe both are available on Bostom’s website, but I’ll offer his brief summary of the more recent lecture and provide the relevant links.

Called “Understanding the Pandemic of Modern Antisemitism,” its highlights include:

• Demonstration that Muslim Antisemitism is the major source of contemporary Jew-hatred as revealed by two decades of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) (& other corroborating) survey data tabulating extreme Antisemitism, worldwide, including data released 1/14/25

• Demonstration that authoritative institutional Islam, not merely the so-called “radical Islam” of jihad terror organizations, drives this Muslim Antisemitism, particularly in relation to the October 7, 2023, jihad carnage in southern Israel, & the explosion of Antisemitic expressions & attacks since that event.

• Demonstration that Islamic teaching institutions/mosques, from the most authoritative, like Sunni Islam’s Vatican equivalent, Al-Azhar University, and its mosque, to local U.S. mosques, including the Islamic Center of Rhode Island in Providence, inculcate “sacralized” Islamic Jew-Hate from Islam’s core text, the Qur’an itself and the traditions of Muhammad, unchallenged by feckless, cowardly “Jewish community leadership,” paralyzed by fears of being sprayed with false, execrable smears of “Islamophobia.“

Strong stuff.

A link to the video presentation is here. A link to the slides constituting the presentation is here.