Christianophobia: an interview with Rupert Shortt Rupert Shortt is the author of Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack and religion editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Alan… Read more > ‘Trump is continuing Obama’s retreat from the world’: William Kristol on US foreign policy William Kristol is the founder and editor at large of the influential US political magazine The Weekly Standard. In 2008… Read more > The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu: an interview with Neill Lochery Neil Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at University College London (UCL). 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Though… Read more > Diary | Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut in a divided Israel British-Israeli Paul Gross reflects on his experience of two days of annual celebration and mourning in Israel amidst ‘the deep… Read more > Returning Jihadis: A Generational Threat Professor Peter Neumann’s new book Radicalised: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West, has been described as ‘The book… Read more > ‘Israel Is Living On Borrowed Time’: Yossi Melman on Security Threats and Social Divisions In early April, deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with Haaretz’s intelligence and security correspondent Yossi Melman and spoke about Israeli security… Read more > Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 7: “The essence of what we’re doing is to try to create a sense of consciousness and identity that resonates for people as true to who they are as Middle Easternerns” A conversation with Tal Becker Tal Becker is the vice president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he leads educational initiatives on Israel in the… Read more > Israel70 | Schooling for Peace: an interview with Dr Nava Sonnenschein Dr Nava Sonnenschein is one of the founding members of the binational egalitarian community, Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salam. In… Read more > Making Sense of the Israeli Elections On 20 March 2015, three days after the Israeli election, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan made sense… Read more > Trump, Israel and the Jews: What Happens Next? Shany Mor is a former Director for Foreign Policy on the Israeli National Security Council. In these first thoughts on… Read more > Lessons from Germany’s Social Democrats for the Israeli Labor Party Kira Lewis believes the Israeli Labor Party can learn some lessons from a historic social democratic party that was recently… Read more > The Philosophy behind ‘BDS’: a review of ‘Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics’ What is one to make of a volume of specialised essays in contemporary philosophy – a compilation including some of… Read more > Book Review | Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East In 2013, shortly after his nomination for US Defence Secretary, then Senator Chuck Hagel purchased three dozen copies of a… Read more > Peter Beinart’s Grotesque Utopia Peter Beinart’s essay ‘Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine’ saw him give up in the two-state solution and… Read more > Shiraz Maher | Mapping contemporary Salafi-Jihadism Shiraz Maher is the author of Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea (Hurst, 2016) and Deputy Director at the International… Read more > Oslo25 | ‘We must liberate our thinking from the Oslo straitjacket’: An interview with Hussein Agha Hussein Agha has been involved in Palestinian peace negotiations for three decades. A senior associate member of St. Antony’s College,… Read more > Lessons from Cyprus for Israel-Palestine Cyprus has experienced a protracted, unresolved conflict for roughly five decades. Like Israel-Palestine, the conflict has ethno-nationalist and territorial dimensions,… Read more > Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | Israel’s Secular Days of Awe There is a rhythm to this Land. Not a melody exactly – But a pulse. A thrum beneath the stones… Read more > Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation With kind permission from Yale University Press, Fathom brings you an extract from 'The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from… Read more > From John Strawson to Lyn Julius: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films (Week 5) Each week five Fathom writers will recommend Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This week, the… Read more > Oslo25 | Twenty five years since Oslo: an insider’s account Joel Singer was the Israeli delegation’s legal adviser to the Oslo talks. A confidant of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he… Read more > Mandate100 | Palestinians and the Partition Plan The editors thank Bloomsbury Academic (US), an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., for permission to reprint this chapter, a survey of… Read more > 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… Read more > 1967 | ‘A deal with the region should go through Ramallah’: an interview with Nidal Foqaha Nidal Foqaha is Director-General of the Palestinian Peace Coalition-Geneva Initiative in Ramallah. He served as an advisor at the Palestine… Read more > Rereadings | The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner ‘The ultimate insider’s account’ wrote George Gruen on the release of Yehuda Avner’s book The Prime Ministers in 2010.  In… Read more > Book Review | Forgotten Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, the new book by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson, enters the… Read more > Mandate100 | ‘A Clean Cut’ for Palestine: The Peel Commission Reexamined In this fascinating dive into the archives Oren Kessler reveals the dramatic exchanges that shaped Lord Peel’s 1936 proposal to… Read more >