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Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria

By Itai Anghel
Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program... Read more > December 2024

Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West

By Joanna Tokarska Bakir
Professor Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is Chair of Ethnic and National Relations at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of... Read more > December 2024

Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?

By Paul Gross
Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald... Read more > December 2024

Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment

By Charles Asher Small
Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy... Read more > December 2024

Prejudice in the Academy: An analysis of the parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities

By Philip Mendes
Professor Philip Mendes is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department... Read more > December 2024

Fathom Interview | 'The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than is usually possible against terrorists'

By Alexander Yakobson
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Alexander Yakobson, co-author of Israel and the Family of Nations: The... Read more > December 2024

Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

By Matthew Levitt
Matt Levitt is the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.... Read more > November 2024

A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...

By Marina Barats
Marina Barats is a recent MA International Political Economy graduate from King’s College London Background President Joe Biden... Read more > November 2024

Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

By Joshua A. Brook
Palestine is Everywhere ‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What... Read more > November 2024

Towards Peace Realism: 13 Principles

By George Stevens
George Stevens is co-founder of the 4MENA Network, the first network of organisations from Israel, Palestine and across... Read more > November 2024

Opinion | The Moral Collapse of the American Association of University Professors

By Michael Yudkin
Michael Yudkin is an emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The American Association of University... Read more > November 2024

Fathom Interview | Are Israel's Wars Just?

By Michael Walzer
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Michael Walzer, the leading American public intellectual and author of Just... Read more > November 2024

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel

By Balazs Berkovits
Somewhere near the centre of the intellectual revolution of our times, and to the manner in which it... Read more > November 2024

No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and the West’s Culture of Victimhood

By Andres Spokoiny
Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long... Read more > November 2024

The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, recommended by Lesley Klaff

By Lesley Klaff
Lesley Klaff is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is, in the words of the late... Read more > November 2024

Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence

By Scott Abramson
Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center... Read more > November 2024

Latest Issue Winter / 2024

Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria

Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West

Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?

Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment

Prejudice in the Academy: An analysis of the parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities

Fathom Interview | 'The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than is usually possible against terrorists'

Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...

Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

Towards Peace Realism: 13 Principles

Opinion | The Moral Collapse of the American Association of University Professors

Fathom Interview | Are Israel's Wars Just?

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel

No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and the West’s Culture of Victimhood

The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, recommended by Lesley Klaff

Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence

Autumn / 2024

The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine

2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah

‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking

The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews

Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large

7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP

Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of...

Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal

The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius

Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology

Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society

The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...

The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative

Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again

How Oslo could solve Gaza

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Day 332

Opinion | It is never a good idea for British foreign policy to be dictated by domestic political concerns, as...

Opinion | The British Government Must Not Abandon Israel

Opinion | Labour is trying to appease the unappeasable, deserting our true friends in the process

The Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes

Summer / 2024

7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination

‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report

Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer

Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself

The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky

The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare

Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld

‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October

Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace

Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon

Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt

What kind of victory does Israel need? - An Interview with Azar Gat

Dispatch from the scene of a massacre

Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism

Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’

Opinion | Haredi Conscription: Lessons for Israel from Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Spring / 2024

American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique

Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk, Jean Améry, and the anti-Zionist left

Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement

Book Extract | Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it

Why 7 October must not become Palestinian Independence Day

Book Review | Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists

The ‘Takeoff to 100’ Plan - Proposal for the Next Government of Israel

The meaning of Israeli Independence Day after 7 October

Podcast: Understanding Hamas

Opinion | Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

Opinion | Is It Time to Leave? The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the Modern World

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Three

The Iran-Israel War and Learning from Frogs: An Interview with Jonathan Spyer

Opinion | From Little Rock to Columbia

‘None of the options are good, but if you don’t want Hamas or endless Israeli occupation, you need something else’:...

David Grossman’s war

Opinion | The Balkanisation of the IDF: A Looming Danger?

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 2: ‘Arafat could never end the conflict… his identity was...