Bat Ye'or

[[File:Bat Ye’or.png|thumb|right|165px|Bat Ye'or.]]
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{{cquote|Her books thus possess a scholarly veneer, which has led many on the forums of the internet where those who obsess about the perceived threat of [[Islam]] gather to quote her words as though they were of unimpeachable authority. … And this is despite the stream of howlers and ludicrous overstatements that litter her prose.|||Sholto Byrnes<ref>[https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/books/history-rewritten-1.420613/ History rewritten: Bat Ye’or’s new book suggests the existence of a powerfulEuropean-Arab axis of hatred aimed at Israel. Her claims, writes Sholto Byrnes, are as ludicrous as they are overstated.] by Sholto Byrnes (Oct 27, 2011) ''The National''.</ref>}}
'''Bat
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 Ye'or''' is the pseudonym of '''Gisèle Littman''' (née Orebi) {{lived|1933}}, an [[Egypt]]ian-born [[British]] citizen and [[Swiss]] resident. She is a major figure and "ideological leader" of the [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]] [[counter-jihad]] movement and author of several virulently anti-Muslim books.

She is most notorious for coining the [[conspiracy theory]] called "[[Eurabia]]," which notably served as the main ideological inspiration for the Islamophobic mass murderer [[Anders Behring Breivik]].<ref>[http://www.islamophobiawatch.co.uk/bat-yeor-theorist-of-the-counterjihad-movement/ Bat Ye’or: Theorist of the ‘counterjihad’ movement] by Bob Pitt (September 3, 2013) ''Islamophobia Watch''</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140705182828/http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/country/Switzerland International ‘Counter-Jihadist’ map: Switzerland] ''Hope Not Hate'' (archived from July 5, 2014).</ref> The conspiracist sense of the word Eurabia was first adopted by Ye'or in 2002, but the term had been used in a non-conspiracist sense by others as early as 1975 in the journal ''Eurabia'', which was published by the European Coordinating Committee of Friendship Societies with the Arab World.<ref name=bangstad>"Bat Ye'or and Eurabia" by Sindre Bangstad (2019) In: ''Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy'', edited by Mark Sedgwick. Oxford University Press. {{isbn|9780190877590}}. Pages 170-183.</ref>{{rp|177}} The conspiracist sense of the term Eurabia was popularized by [[journalist]] {{wpl|Oriana Fallaci}} in her 2004 book ''The Force of Reason'', wrote about Ye'or.<ref name=bangstad/>{{rp|177}}<ref>''The Force of Reason'' by Oriana Fallaci (2004) Rizzoli. {{isbn|0847827534}}.</ref>{{rp|142-144}}

Ye'or's sympathizers ([[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]], [[Bruce Bawer]], [[Niall Ferguson]], Ishad Manji, [[Melanie Phillips]], {{wpl|Robert Spencer}} and {{wpl|Mark Steyn}}) have referred to her as a [[historian]],<ref name=bangstad/>{{rp|170}} but among professional historians, her writings are not well-regarded.<ref name=bangstad/>{{rp|173}} Ye'or's academic standing is complicated by her having published books with a legitimate academic publisher, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,<ref>''The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude'' by Bat Ye'or (1996) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. {{isbn|0838636888}}.</ref><ref>''Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide'' by Bat Ye'or (2003) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. {{isbn|0838639437}}.</ref><ref>''The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam'' by Bat Ye'or (2008) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. {{isbn|161147079X}}.</ref><ref>''Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis'' by Bat Ye'or (2005) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. {{isbn|1611473144}}.</ref><ref>''Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate'' by Bat Ye'or (2011) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. {{isbn|1611474922}}.</ref> and by counter-jihadists to sometimes claim that she has academic [[credentials]],<ref name=bangstad/>{{rp|176}} though she has none.<ref name=bangstad/>{{rp|172}}<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/1.4919785 'The Protocols of the Elders of Brussels'] by Adi Schwartz (Jun. 20, 2006) ''Haaretz''.</ref>

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