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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? 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 > ‘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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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… 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 > 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 > 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 > 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… 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 > 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 > From Hamutal Gouri to Andrei Markovits: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films about Israel (Week 1) Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown.   … Read more > 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… 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 > Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 2): Agenda Journalism in Asa Winstanley’s book Weaponising Anti-Semitism John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? In Part 1 of this series… Read more > An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left Kathleen Hayes invites the ‘anti-Zionist’ Left to think again. For 25 years, I was a member of a small, insular, Trotskyist organisation.… Read more > Book Review | Behind the Mask: The Antisemitic Nature of BDS Exposed ‘The world would be soooo much better without jews man.’ This post from a social media account appears in the… 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 > Václav Havel’s legacy and the struggle for human rights in Iran today Ladan Boroumand is the cofounder and research director of The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF), an NGO dedicated to the promotion… Read more > Fathom Long Read | Adorno and Iran: Critical Theory and Islamic Antisemitism ‘After Auschwitz’, said the German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno, we should embrace a new categorical imperative: ‘arrange your… Read more > Special Offer from The Jewish Review of Books A special offer for our friends at Fathom: Get a digital subscription for 70% off of the list price! The Jewish… Read more > Fighting Back Against COVID-19 in Israel’s Bedouin Community Ruth Ebenstein examines the vulnerability of Israel’s Bedouin community during the pandemic and explores both the self-help measures being taken… Read more > To fix the Israel-Diaspora relationship, make our communal organisations genuinely representative Jay Ruderman is the President of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which focuses on the inclusion of people with disabilities worldwide… Read more > Is Israel a ‘Settler-Colonial’ State? A debate between Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh On 17 December Peter Beinart hosted an online discussion entitled, 'Professors Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh on whether Israel is… Read more > Israel’s Arab citizens and the struggle for equality 'Israel Apartheid Week’ is looming on campuses worldwide. In fact,  as this edited extract from a new ebook shows, Israel… Read more > About us Fathom welcomes fully edited submissions about all aspects of Israeli politics, culture, society and security; the peace process and peacebuilding;… Indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand Middle Eastern politics; well researched, balanced, deeply committed to Israel but equally… Today’s discussion about Israel is too often supercharged with emotion and underpowered in expertise and nuance. It is time to… Read more > Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre Following 7 October the Greens were the only Australian political party that refused to support a federal parliamentary motion condemning… Read more >