Raphael Israeli

Raphael Israeli (; born September 15, 1935) is an Israeli historian and writer. He is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Chinese history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a research fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Biography Israeli was born in Fes, Morocco For twelve years he was a career officer in the Israeli Defence Force in Military Intelligence, whereafter he switched to Academia.

He received a degree in Arabic and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D in Chinese and Islamic History. The Anti-Defamation League called the book "hateful rhetoric".

For his 2008 book The Spread of Islamikaze Terrorism in Europe: The Third Islamic Invasion, Israeli said that Europe is in danger of becoming "Eurabia" within half a century. Israeli has been described as a proponent of the counter-jihadist worldview of Bat Ye'or.

Publications Jerusalem Divided: the Armistice Regime, 1947–1967, Frank Cass, 2002. Poison: Manifestations of a Blood Libel, Lexington Books, 2002. Green Crescent over Nazareth: the Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land, Frank Cass, 2002. Islam in China: Religion, Ethnicity, Culture and Politics, Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books), Maryland, 2002. Dangers of a Palestinian State (ed.), Geffen, Jerusalem, 2002. War, Peace and Terror in the Middle East, Psychology Press, 2003. Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology, Frank Cass, London, 2004. The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue, Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Living with Islam: the Sources of Fundamentalist Islam (Hebrew), Achiasaf, 2006. Arabs in Israel: Friends or Foes? (Hebrew and English), Ariel Books, 2008. The Spread of Islamikaze Terrorism in Europe: The Third Islamic Invasion, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008. Islamic Radicalism and Political Violence: The Templars of Islam and Sheikh Ra’id Salah, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008. Palestinians Between Nationalism and Islam : a Collection of Essays, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008. Piracy in Qumran: The Battle over the Scrolls of the Pre-Christ Era, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 2008. The Islamic Challenge in Europe, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, 2008. Muslim Minorities in the Modern State, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, 2009. Muslim anti-Semitism in Christian Lands, Transaction, 2009. Back to Nowhere, Moroccan Jews in Fantasy and Reality, Lambert, Germany, 2010 (also in Hebrew in Jerusalem). Dabry : The Opening of China by the French, Lambert, Germany, 2011. The Blood Libel and its Derivatives, Transaction, 2012. The Oslo Idea: The Euphoria of Failure, Transaction, 2012. Israel's New Strategic Dilemmas, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co. in Texas, 2012. Death Camps in Croatia: Visions and Revisions, Transaction, 2013. From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter: Roots and Consequences, Transaction, 2013. Savagery in the Heart of Europe: the Bosnia War (1992–1995), Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co., Texas, 2013. (Raphael Israeli and Albert Benabou) Hatred, Lies and Violence in the Islamic World, Transaction, NJ, 2014. Defeat, Trauma, Lesson: Israel Between Life and Extinction, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co., TX, 2014. Years of Upheaval: The Axial Years in Islam since 1989, Transaction, NJ, 2017 The Internationalization of ISIS: The Muslim State in Iraq and Syria, Transaction Publishers, April 2016, 287 pages.