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American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique

By Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams casts a sharply critical eye over the American Jewish anti-Zionism and diasporism of Peter Beinart, Naomi... Read more > May 2024

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

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
In this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement

By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements. He is author of Heaven on Earth: The... Read more > May 2024

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

By Dave Rich
This is the preface of Everyday Hate by Dave Rich, published by Biteback. On the morning of 7... Read more > May 2024

Why 7 October must not become Palestinian Independence Day

By Russell A. Shalev
Perversely, the atrocities of 7 October, have achieved their goal of reviving Palestinian statehood. The Western world seems... Read more > May 2024

Book Review | Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists

By Daniel Goldman
Longtime observer and chronicler of the religious community Yair Ettinger’s[1] bestselling 2020 book on the religious Zionist community... Read more > May 2024

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

By Nimrod Sheffer and Koby Huberman
Nimrod Sheffer and Koby Huberman started developing this vision and plan in 2022. It reflects the knowledge, insights... Read more > May 2024

The meaning of Israeli Independence Day after 7 October

By Toby Greene
The following is a slightly edited version of remarks given by Toby Greene at the Yom Ha’atzmaut &... Read more > May 2024

Podcast: Understanding Hamas

By BICOM
In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Jacky Hugi, an expert on regional affairs. Hugi analyses... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

By Joe Schwartz
Joe Schwartz is a writer, educator, rabbi and attorney living in Tel Aviv. An original version of this... Read more > May 2024

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

By Shalom Lappin
Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern... Read more > May 2024

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Three

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the author of Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian,... Read more > May 2024

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

By Jonathan Spyer
Journalist and Middle East analyst Jonathan Spyer talks to Fathom about the Iranian threat and the Western response... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | From Little Rock to Columbia

By Ari Allyn-Feuer
Ari Allyn-Feuer argues we are shrinking from the gravity of the situation: a violent mob is once again... Read more > May 2024

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

By Toby Greene
Fathom speaks to Toby Greene about two articles co-authored with Professor Jonathan Rynhold and dealing with the political... Read more > May 2024

David Grossman’s war

By Liam Hoare
Liam Hoare takes a look at how Israeli novelist David Grossman has responded to 7 October and the... Read more > May 2024

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

By Sam Shube
Sam Shube resides in a Kibbutz on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. He argues US sanctions on... Read more > May 2024

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

By Dennis Ross
In the second episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Ambassador Dennis... Read more > April 2024

Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to...

By Kyle Orton
Qasem Soleimani’s ‘ring of fire’ strategic concept envisioned surrounding Israel with IRGC units—in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, and... Read more > April 2024

Iran's 'successful' attack vs Israel - a blessing very effectively disguised

By Calev Ben-Dor
Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor critiques the assessment – widespread in western analytic circles – that the Iranian... Read more > April 2024

Is Hamas Winning? An Interview with Michael Doran

By Michael Doran
Michael Doran is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle... Read more > April 2024

‘Hamas must be defeated, not only for Israelis’ sake, but for the chance of peace in our part of the...

By Fania Oz-Salzberger
On 2 April 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor interviewed Fania Oz-Salzberger, an Israeli writer,... Read more > April 2024

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Rage, Fury and Helplessness

By Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Editor of Fathom Calev Ben-Dor shares reflections from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Israel marks 6 months... Read more > April 2024

Opinion | As government institutions fail in Israel and Palestine, civil society organisations are working tirelessly to sustain their communities

By John Lyndon
John Lyndon is CEO of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). The news of a devastating IDF... Read more > April 2024

From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn't Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen

By Mitchell Cohen
Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard... Read more > April 2024

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Two

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the author of Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered: One Woman's Year in the Heart of the... Read more > April 2024

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 1: ‘Focus on institution-building not dramatic diplomatic breakthroughs’: A Conversation...

By Elliott Abrams
This new Fathom podcast series is called Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors. We will seek... Read more > March 2024

Latest Issue Winter / 2024

Are Israel's Wars Just? An interview with Michael Walzer

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel: An Interview with Balázs...

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