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Praise for A New Shoah
“This most impressive work is a valuable publication that presents a comprehensive picture of the many acts of terrorism against Israeli citizens. It is a very useful tool that fills the information gaps that unfortunately exist among many in the international community—including the media—and even decision makers, in regard to events in Israel and to our daily struggle for survival. There is no doubt that making this information readily available, together with the detailed descriptions that help increase awareness of the cruel impact of terrorism on the victims, is a very important contribution to a better understanding of life in Israel.”
—Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of the Knesset
“With eloquence and compassion, Giulio Meotti puts a human face on the atrocities suffered by nearly two thousand Israelis killed in terrorist incidents.”
—Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution
“Giulio Meotti belongs to this precious and tiny group of people to whom the Western world owes the preservation of its honor, freedoms, and dignity in a time of totalitarian media control, unlimited oil corruption, terror and violent anti-Semitism. In our time of fashionable cowardice, Meotti’s book is a monument of love and courage dedicated to the forgotten Israeli and Jewish victims of Islamic jihad in Israel and in the world.”
—Bat Ye’or, author of the bestseller Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
“We have become accustomed to talk blandly of ‘terrorism’ as if it were some sort of abstraction. But Giulio Meotti in meticulous fashion puts human faces on the body count from the organized Palestinian terrorist killing of Israeli civilians—and thereby reminds us that this is not a morally equivalent struggle, but a systematic effort to extinguish Israelis and the civilization that they have created.”
—Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Carnage and Culture
“Meotti gives the reader a clear and clean view on the people of Israel for what they are: heroic in their daily democratic normality.”
—Fiamma Nirenstein, journalist, vice president of the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Italian Parliament, and member of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism
“Roger Scruton writes in the preface that Meotti ‘tells the story in detail’: the details of the lives cut short that generally fade into the collective forgetfulness. This book measures the appalling costs that the rebirth of anti-Semitism, fueled by an absolute and undying hatred for Israel as such and for its citizens, is imposing on the whole planet—not just in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.”
—Pierluigi Battista, deputy editor of the leading Italian daily Corriere della Sera
“Reading A New Shoah by Giulio Meotti, I immediately wondered why an Italian reporter, who doesn’t belong to the nationalist Jewish Right, felt the need to spend four years gathering the testimonies of victims and survivors of Arab terrorism in Israel. He did it to give them a name amidst a public opinion, dominated by anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic propaganda, that denies them one.... And Meotti wanted not only to give them a name, but to tell their stories, their hope, and often, their acts of heroism.”
—Vittorio Dan Segre, former Israeli diplomat, academic, and author of several books
Foreword
Against the Last Wave of Anti-Semitism
Roger Scruton
For nearly two thousand years, following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman imperial army, the Jews lived in exile from their holy places, keeping their religion, language, and customs alive in an unparalleled act of collective memory. Less a race or a tribe than what Giulio Meotti calls a “metaphysical family,” the Jews have remained faithful to their culture and their calling through continuous suffering, targeted wherever they settled by the resentment and xenophobia of their hosts, yet never forgetting Jerusalem—the holy city of their dreams. No other people in history has experienced so much undeserved suffering, or devoted so much energy to remembering and mourning its dead.
And when, in the mid twentieth