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February 15, 2024

The Shoddy Scholarship of the Media’s Favorite Anti-Israel Revisionist Historian

Avi Shlaim, crank.

Since October 7, editorials by and interviews with the historian Avi Shlaim have been showing up throughout international media. Shlaim’s celebrity can be attributed to the fact that he is an Israeli with a professorship at Oxford who blames the Jewish state (along with Britain) for all its woes and insists that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Jonathan Leaf takes a close look at how he acquired his reputation as a great scholar:

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February 15, 2024

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