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Fathom Long Read | The Meaning of David Miller
According to Bristol University Professor David Miller, ‘Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by…
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The Eloquence of Oriented: An interview with Jake Witzenfeld
Sitting in the Green Room at JW3, the London Jewish Community’s cultural centre, a jetlagged Jake Witzenfeld, director of…
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Fathom Long Read | Accommodating the New Antisemitism: a Critique of ‘The Jerusalem Declaration’
Download and print a PDF version here. In this comprehensive critique Cary Nelson argues that the recent ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ on…
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Still Standing, but Shaky: Jordan at 100
Asher Susser is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU). On the occasion of Jordan’s centenary, his…
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Film Review: Dancing Arabs
A review of Dancing Arabs (Aravim Rokdim) by Eran Riklis (Director) and Sayed Kashua (screenwriter). The critically acclaimed 1996 film,…
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Why Amnesty is wrong to call Israel an ‘Apartheid State’
[The] system of apartheid originated with the creation of Israel in May 1948. – Amnesty International’s Apartheid Report, 2022. Israel should…
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Film Review: Bethlehem vs. Omar
The media pitted one against the other. It was indeed a catchy story: two films from two sides of the…
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Letting the right one in: the rise of the Israeli horror film
This has got to be the most surprising, and thrilling, of all trends to have ever emerged in Israeli cinema:…
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7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination
Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas committed atrocities…
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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…
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Docaviv 2016 – The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
This May witnessed the annual Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an event dedicated to the development and the promotion…
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Jerusalem Film Festival 2022: On absences haunting films made years after their passing
Tal Kra-Oz is a writer based in Tel Aviv. His work has appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward and Fathom.…
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Keir Starmer’s attempt to portray the Labour Party as having ‘closed the door’ on antisemitism is premature
In 2021, after the EHRC-mandated rule changes to tackle antisemitism had been approved by his party, Sir Keir Starmer claimed…
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‘Politically homeless’: Yamina voters tell their story
Calev Ben-Dor talks to former Yamina supporters to understand their views on the Bennett-Lapid government and voting considerations for the…
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We Shall Be as A City on A Hill: Trump, ‘Progressive’ Antisemitism, and the Loss of American Jewish Exceptionalism
Shalom Lappin argues that American Jews are caught between a white supremacist threat from the far right and a hostile…
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Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel After the May 2021 Unrest: A Survey by Sammy Smooha
In May 2021, for the first time in Israel, Arabs and Jews in the mixed cities of Haifa, Acre, Jaffa,…
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Films of faith
2012 will be remembered as the year in which Israeli movies finally found God. It's not often a film critic…
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Israel Needs to Talk about the Arab Riots of May 2021
In little more than a week in May 2021, Arab rioters set ablaze 10 synagogues and 112 Jewish residences, looted…
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East meets West in film
It is not only in politics and the street that Israel’s ethnic tensions surface. Our film reviewer Yair Raveh explores…
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Film Review | Ha-Midrashia
Sara Hirschorn is the author of City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard 2017). She…
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Israel on Prime | A Quiet Heart (Original title: Lev shaket meod, 2016)
Fathom film reviewer Noga Emanuel writes in praise of A Quiet Heart, currently showing on Amazon Prime and Izzy. …
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It was the new phenomenon of Israel-focused antisemitism that required the new definition. David Hirsh responds to a recent ‘call to reject’ the IHRA
40 UK-based Israeli academics, broadly from the anti-Zionist left, have issued a ‘call to reject’ the IHRA Working Definition of…
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Documentary Review | Remember Baghdad (2017)
Remember Baghad, now showing on Netflix, is reviewed by Lyn Julius, journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews…
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Israeli cinema: gay but not queer
Israeli cinema has been more mainstream and gay than subversive and queer. But that may be about to change. We…
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‘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…
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Fathom Long Read | Valentina Azarova: A Controversy Assessed
Debate rages about the possible appointment of Valentina Azarova to the position of Director of the Toronto Law School’s International…
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IHRA and JDA: Examining Definitions of Antisemitism in 2021
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland College Park. His latest book, Israel’s Moment: International…
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Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 3): Agenda Broadcasting from Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files
John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? In Part 1 of this series…
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‘Calling a truce with left-wing antisemitism’: The Case Against the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
University College London’s governing Council voted in November 2019 to adopt the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) Working Definition of…
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From Eve Garrard to Dave Rich: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films about Israel (Week 4)
Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. Find…
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Israel reinvents the documentary
The Gatekeepers is a masterpiece in a landmark year for Israeli documentaries. The last fifteen years have seen a stream…
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Liz Truss’s world view and its implications for UK-Israel relations
‘Geopolitics is back’ Liz Truss has said. In what is the most thorough analysis of her world view to date,…
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What should Biden do next on Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Iran? A review essay by Yair Hirschfeld
Professor Yair Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Oslo Accords in 1993. In this review essay he assesses the policy frameworks being…
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Israel on Netflix | Maktub (2017)
Noga Emanuel kicks off our new irregular series looking at Israel on Netflix with her take on Maktub, a commercial…
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The Lust Libel: Sexual Antisemitism in History and Contemporary Culture
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait…
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UK-Israel 2021 | Ambivalent Allies? Zionism, Israel and the Conservative Party from Balfour to Boris
James Vaughan is Lecturer in International History at the University of Aberystwyth. His current research focuses upon the changing attitudes…
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UK-Israel 2021 | How Israel military tech (and doctrine) will make the UK better at fighting the hybrid warfare of the future
Technology is radically transforming the battlefield, revolutionising doctrines of warfighting and counter-terrorism. ‘Hybrid warfare’ is the new reality. These changes…
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Fathom Long Read | Antisemitism and the IHRA at University College London
For twenty years Cary Nelson was part of the elected leadership of the American Association of University Professors, serving as…
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UK-Israel 2021 | Mandate: The Palestine Crucible 1919-1939
Three years ago, a retired British army officer, Ian Westerman, wrote an article in Ha'aretz, entitled 'What did the British…
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The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving the Israeli-Palestine conflict
In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, 'Progressive except for Palestine,' aimed at progressives…
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