Diary from Ramat Gan | ‘The humanities classroom is one of the great achievements of Western civilisation’ William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University. He has written widely on the literature, politics & philosophy… Read more > Fathom Opinion | The University of Toronto’s Antisemitism Problem Stuart Kamenetsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. The institution, he writes, has an antisemitism problem.… Read more > Lara Sheehi’s Joyous Rage: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism, Advocacy Academia and Jewish Students’ Nightmares at GWU Fathom Editor’s Introductory Note. Sometimes it is hard to know what is the more alarming: the state of the humanities… Read more > Making Sense of ISIS: an interview with Michael Weiss Michael Weiss is the co-author with Hassan Hassan of the New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.… Read more > The Era of Responsibility is over | an interview with Nadav Eyal on the Revolt against Globalisation Nadav Eyal is the International Correspondent for Israel's Reshet News, Op-Ed contributor for Yedioth Ahronoth, and author of the one… Read more > UK Labour and Israel: the little-noticed shift in party policy While the four-year long controversy over antisemitism in UK Labour has monopolised media attention, the 2019 UK Labour party conference… Read more > The Soldiers are Still Talking Soldiers' Talk: Protective Edge (2019) is a set of interviews with those who served in Gaza in 2014. It is… Read more > Why I Signed the Jerusalem Declaration: A Response to Cary Nelson Derek Penslar is William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University and Resident Faculty at the Minda de… Read more > Diary | The inaugural conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism Kathleen Hayes is the author of the Fathom articles ‘Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir’ and ‘“Punch a TERF” and… Read more > A Pandemic of Anti-Zionist Signification: Exploiting Gaza for Ideological Gain ‘Close and unprecedented’ was how the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory… Read more > Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 1: ‘Focus on institution-building not dramatic diplomatic breakthroughs’: A Conversation with Elliott Abrams This new Fathom podcast series is called Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors. We will seek the views… Read more > Fauda: How the Transformation of the Right Brought Israel to the Verge of a Constitutional and Social Crisis Calev Ben-Dor argues four changes have transformed the Israel Right: Benjamin Netanyahu’s need for political survival overpowering his more statesmanly… Read more > Let us be Social Democrats. There is a way back for the Israeli Labour Party. Tal Harris is a member of the central committee of the Israeli Labour Party and was among the minority of… Read more > CALL FOR PAPERS: Fathoming UK-Israel2021 In 2021 Fathom will publish a set of articles about the UK-Israel relationship, to be collected into an eBook, and perhaps a print edition… Read more > ‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary America Alvin Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University and is the Director of the… Read more >