In an interview with Swati Pandey of Zocalo Public Square, Israeli scholar, Hagai Ram and author of Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession, remarks that he became "increasingly disenchanted" with the Israeli ways of understanding Iran, "While there are many good reasons for the Jewish state to be apprehensive of the Islamic republic, I felt there was also a great deal of irrationality involved in that apprehension, and it is the cultural roots of that irrationality I sought to investigate in my book." 
Read the full interview here.
The book steps back from all-too-common geopolitical analyses to show that Israel's disagreements with Iran are as much a product of shared cultural trajectories and entangled histories as they are strategic concerns and political differences.
In an article in Informed Comment, Ram discusses how Israel has time and again (ab)used the specter of the “Iranian threat” in order to divert attention from its own oversights, such as the war crimes associated with its military strike in Gaza earlier in the year, and the continuation of the state-sanctioned apartheid regime in the Palestinian territories.
Read the full interview here.
The book steps back from all-too-common geopolitical analyses to show that Israel's disagreements with Iran are as much a product of shared cultural trajectories and entangled histories as they are strategic concerns and political differences.
In an article in Informed Comment, Ram discusses how Israel has time and again (ab)used the specter of the “Iranian threat” in order to divert attention from its own oversights, such as the war crimes associated with its military strike in Gaza earlier in the year, and the continuation of the state-sanctioned apartheid regime in the Palestinian territories.
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