Writing a few days ago for the indispensable Jewish Ideas Daily about UNESCO’s decision to approve Muslim denial of any Jewish connection to biblical sites in Israel by classifying Rachel’s Tomb, near Bethlehem, as a mosque, Alex Joffe mentioned the critically important work of the Israeli scholar, Yitzhak Reiter, in documenting “…the modern Islamic tradition according to which Jerusalem was never associated with the Jews.”

Author and journalist Stefan Frank has conducted an extensive interview with Professor Reiter, who teaches at Ashkelon Academic College and is a senior fellow of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, which we are pleased to publish here.

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