Multi-stage Coordinated Unilateralism: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm In this wide-ranging and hopeful essay, Cary Nelson aims to move the international conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict away from mutual recriminations and… Read more > 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… Read more > Understanding Online Antisemitism: Towards a New Qualitative Approach Matthias Becker is a research fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at TU Berlin and the Center for… Read more > Patterns of Antisemitism in Mainstream Media Comment Threads. 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The answer offered in this article is… Read more > First Industrial Nation Meets Start-Up Nation Beyond the headlines, Britain and Israel – the First Industrial Nation’ and the ‘Start-Up Nation’ – are drawing closer together… 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 > The BDS Disinformation Campaign in the Modern Language Association In this comprehensive essay, Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and co-editor of The… Read more > Diary from Jerusalem | Susi Doring Preston | Safe but broken In a beautifully written heartfelt diary from Jerusalem, Susi Doring Preston, a mother of four and high-tech professional, shares her… Read more > How Israeli & Palestinian Peacebuilders Can Leverage Post-Pandemic Trends in Philanthropy Adam Basciano is the co-founder and former director of IPF Atid, Israel Policy Forum’s network of next generation peacebuilders. In… Read more > ‘To understand what makes Israel tick today you must understand who Netanyahu is and how he became the man he is’: a Fathom Forum with Anshel Pfeffer Anshel Pfeffer is the author of a major new biography of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 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Here, Matthew Bolton recommends three on critical theory… Read more > Diary | Back from the ‘Other Side’: Reflections on a Visit to the West Bank and East Jerusalem Mike Prashker is an Israeli educator, social entrepreneur, writer and public speaker. He founded MERCHAVIM – The Institute for the… Read more > Rereadings | The Arthur Hertzberg / Hugh Trevor-Roper Controversy about Antisemitism Fathom is continuing its series of Rereadings, in which writers revisit classic texts, with Philosopher Bernard Harrison on Arthur Hertzberg’s… Read more > Pop Islam: How Germany is tackling the new Islamic antisemitism In 2018 Germany appointed the diplomat Dr. Felix Klein to the newly created post of Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish… Read more > 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… Read more > 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… Read more > Israel and Diaspora Jewry: Is the Coronavirus Crisis an opportunity to redesign the relationship? Shira Ruderman argues that the coronavirus virus has presented Israel, the Nation State of the Jewish people, with an opportunity… Read more > Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | The Disorientations of Lethal Journalism: On Western Media and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Richard Landes is a historian who taught at Boston University. His work focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the turn of… Read more > The Three Best Israeli Short Stories recommended by Noga Emanuel Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books on a theme or subject. Here, Fathom film and book reviewer… Read more > 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… Read more > Israel70 | Forget ‘the ultimate deal’. For now, the status quo is the best option available Shalom Lipner is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. 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The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on… Read more > The UK in the Middle East (3) | Emman al-Badawy on UK strategy and the region’s youth quake On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to explore UK strategy in the… Read more > Ending the ‘Universalisation’ of the Holocaust and the Wars Against Israel: The GDR People’s Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990 To ‘universalise’ the Nazi crimes is to deny the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the murder of the Jewish people… Read more > Three best books on Zionism, recommended by Gil Troy Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on… Read more > The Netanyahu Years: an interview with Ben Caspit In this exclusive interview, Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sits down with Ben Caspit, a senior columnist for the leading… Read more > The Three Best Books on Settlements, recommended by Sara Hirschhorn Welcome to a new Fathom series in which experts select their three favourite books about a subject. To kick us… Read more > The Three Best Books on Antisemitism, recommended by Dave Rich Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on… Read more > The Three Best Recent Books on the Yishuv during the British Mandate, recommended by Donna Robinson Divine Fathom has been inviting exerts to select their three favourite books about their subject. See Sara Hirschhorn on settlements, Gil… 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 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 >