Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 1): What Martin Forde KC Got Wrong John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? He explains here why he believes… Read more > Fathom Long Read | The Progressive Saviour Complex: Quakers, American Jews and Israel Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky are senior non-resident scholars at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and co-authors of Religion,… 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 > Fathom Forum | ‘City on a Hilltop’? 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Of course… Read more > Patterns of Antisemitism in Mainstream Media Comment Threads. Case Studies of the UK, France and Germany Karolina Placzynta is a researcher for the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin.… Read more > The Re-emergence of the Jewish Question The Jewish communities of Europe and the US increasingly find themselves caught between the rising forces of the far right… 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 > The Corbyn left: the politics of position and the politics of reason Abstract This paper is about a preference within contemporary left-wing culture for defining opponents as not belonging rather than seeking… 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 > Book Review | We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel Daniel Gordis’s We Stand Divided is the latest book on the growing rift between American Jews and Israelis. What distinguishes… Read more > Terrorism in cyberspace Professor Gabriel Weimann spoke to a Fathom Forum about his book Terrorism in Cyberspace: The Next Generation. The following is… Read more > Yet again, the Courts find for John Ware and his BBC Panorama documentary ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’ Documentary maker John Ware explains why he has brought three successful court cases against those who he believed had defamed… 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 > Democratic Socialism, Israel and the Jews: An Interview with Michael Harrington (1975), with new preface by Mitchell Cohen (2020) The interview reproduced below, with Michael Harrington (1928-1989), the leading US democratic socialist of the second half of the twentieth… Read more > Celebrating Terror – new research indicates a radicalisation of antisemitic discourse about Israel online in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks Matthew Bolton, of the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Berlin‘s Technische Universität introduces the centre’s Decoding Antisemitism project’s latest… Read more > Open letter to The George Washington University regarding allegations of antisemitism Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep concern about its failure to… Read more > Anti-Zionism and the Humanities: A response to Saree Makdisi This lengthy essay by two leading US professors challenges the world of academic publishing. They identify the symptoms of a… 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 > British Christian Zionism (Part 2): the work of Laurence Oliphant The literary, diplomatic and direct organisational efforts of the British Christian Zionist Laurence Oliphant were central to the coalescence of… 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. In this wide-ranging discussion… Read more > Telegram Warfare: The New Frontier of Psychological Warfare in the Israel-Palestine Conflict Social Media platforms like Telegram have become integral to Hamas’s communications and information warfare. OSINT analyst Tal Hagin charts the… Read more > ‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no word of empathy’: Reactions from European club culture to the Supernova Festival Massacre Tanja Ehmann asks why, despite the massacre at the Supernova music festival, parts of the European club culture scene have… 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 > Fathom Long Read | Lethal Journalism and the Pattern: Why the World Fell for Hamas’ Al Ahli Lie Richard Landes is author of Can ‘The Whole World’ Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (2022) Introduction This… Read more > Is Hamas Winning? An Interview with Michael Doran Michael Doran is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at… 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 > Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In… 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 >