Dr. Richard Landes spoke to a general membership meeting of ZOA, New York recently on the international community’s obsession on Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria. His talk was called “The Cult of the Occupation”

Richard Landes is a retired professor of Medieval History at Boston University, a Senior Fellow at Bar Ilan’s Center for International Communication, and Director of the fledgling Institute for Cognitive War Research. His current work focuses on global Jihad as an apocalyptic millennial movement that has conducted a remarkably successful cognitive war campaign against the West, and on the causes of Western democracies’ failure to resist. He is currently writing a book entitled: They’re so Smart cause We’re so Stupid: A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century.