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Latest Issue Winter / 2025

Two Mirrors, Two Truths: The Divergent Documentary Approaches of Holding Liat and Letter to David

By Atira Winchester
 In the wake of 7 October, 2023, Israeli documentary cinema has grappled with an unprecedented challenge: how to... Read more > December 2025

Beyond Left and Right: Israel's Post- 7 October Political Awakening

By Daniel Goldman
 In the darkness of a Gaza hideout following another dangerous mission, Major (Res.) David Sherez[1] sat with his... Read more > December 2025

‘Expelled From the Community of Which We Were a Part Only Yesterday’ Jean Améry on the Dilemma for Left-Wing Jewish...

By Marlene Gallner
 Marlene Gallner explores the thoughts of Jean Améry about the Dilemma for Left-Wing Jewish Intellectuals, Sartre’s notion of... Read more > December 2025

Autumn / 2025

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 9: He asked who I was representing Amman or Israel?...

By Efraim Halevy
 Efraim Halevy joined the Mossad in 1961 and became Director of the organisation from 1998 to 2002. He... Read more > November 2025

Book Review | A Precise Chaos

By Joanna Chen
 Jo-Ann Mort has been writing about the Middle East conflict for decades, maintaining the kind of relationships on... Read more > November 2025

The Telos of a Hatred

By Adam Slonim
 In a long read, Adam Slonim offers a comprehensive survey of antisemitism. Searching for ‘The Telos of a... Read more > November 2025

The Jewish Question Revisited: Tommy Robinson, Corbynist Populism, and the Ideological Grammar of Antisemitism

By Raoul Wootliff
 Anglo-Israeli Raoul Wootliff comprehensively dismantles British far-right agitator Tommy Robinson’s professed reformation from peddler of antisemitism to staunch... Read more > November 2025

Diplomacy’s Ground Game: Why Women-Led Civil Society Must be Central to Israeli-Palestinian Peace

By Rachael Liss
 Rachael Liss of the Alliance for Middle East Peace’s (ALLMEP) outlines the importance of the Women, Peace, and... Read more > November 2025

AI and Fact-Checking: When Probability Replaces Evidence

By Tal Hagin
 In a detailed explainer which will prove especially informative for those aware of the increasingly dominant influence of... Read more > November 2025

Difficult Conversations | What Israelis and Palestinians need to hear | Fania Oz-Salzberger

By Fania Oz-Salzberger
 Following news of a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the 20 remaining living hostages, Fathom asked... Read more > October 2025

Difficult Conversations | What Israelis and Palestinians need to hear | Mo Husseini

By Mo Husseini
 Following news of a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the 20 remaining living hostages, Fathom asked... Read more > October 2025

Difficult Conversations | What Israelis and Palestinians need to hear | Calev Ben-Dor & Paul Gross

By Paul Gross
 Following news of a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the 20 remaining living hostages, Fathom asked... Read more > October 2025

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | To Laugh and Cry with the Same Eyes

By Calev Ben-Dor
 Tuesday 7 October – Evening As three stars became visible in the cloudless Tel Aviv sky, signaling the... Read more > October 2025

Diary from Jerusalem | Meredith Rothbart | Peacebuilding during War

By Meredith Rothbart
 Dear Diary, I sit here writing in my sukkah, unable to focus as we anxiously await the return... Read more > October 2025

Insecure: British Jewish Life after Manchester

By Greg Allon
 Greg Allon reflects on the attack on Jewish worshippers at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester on 2... Read more > October 2025

The Struggle over Antisemitism Awareness Training

By Cary Nelson and Joe Lockard
 A FOUNDING PANEL On a 27 September 2024 panel recorded for YouTube, Nina Mehta, one of the co-organisers... Read more > October 2025

Book Review | Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine

By Yair Hirschfeld
 Hussein Agha and Robert Malley’s book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine... Read more > September 2025

To Overcome Netanyahu, Democratic Israel must Leave Bibi Alone

By Sam Shube
 Sam Shube of Nir Am in the Gaza Envelope argues the prime minister has become less a political... Read more > September 2025

The Moderation Gulf

By John Fenn
 Open-source intelligence analyst John Fenn examines Saudi counter-extremism centre Etidal’s attempts to confront online extremism. Fenn situates such... Read more > September 2025

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 8: ‘What we have here is a biblical conflict. Biblical...

By Hussein Agha
 Fathom editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor speak to Hussein Agha about the failure of the peace process... Read more > September 2025

White Feminism - White Orientalism

By Dastan Jasim
 Dastan Jasim offers a powerful and forthright essay on her experiences - as a female Kurdish academic researching... Read more > September 2025

Book Review | Etgar Keret's Autocorrect

By Liam Hoare
 Etgar Keret’s new short story collection Autocorrect is the right book at the right time – though that,... Read more > September 2025

Summer / 2025

Time to Unmask the Imposture of anti-Zionism

By Eva Illouz
 In this scholarly analysis, Eva Ilouz, Directrice d'Etudes at France's École des hautes études en sciences sociales, probes... Read more > July 2025

Opinion | The Defenestration of Ayman Odeh

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
 In this impassioned opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman protests the campaign to impeach MK Ayman Odeh, instigated... Read more > July 2025

Fathom Interviews | Insights from the 12 Day Israel-Iran War

By Fathom Editors
 Sima Shine, Alireza Nader, and Jonathan Rynhold consider the achievements of Israeli and American action in Iran. Were... Read more > July 2025

The Right Side of History? Iran, Intellectuals, and the Far-Left

By Adam J. Sacks
 Adam J. Sacks chronicles the history of left and left-adjacent attraction to Islamist ideology. From early Soviet accommodation... Read more > July 2025

Fathom Long Read | From Mystical Theology to Political Violence: The Dangerous Logic of Palestinian Elimination

By Daniel Goldman
 In a substantively researched and scholarly essay, Daniel Goldman issues a call to action to the Religious Zionist... Read more > July 2025

Adorno’s ‘Today’ – And Ours

By Jeffrey Bernstein
 Jeffrey Bernstein reviews a new translation of Theodor Adorno’s 1962 lecture, Fighting Antisemitism Today. What did antisemitism look... Read more > July 2025

Fathom Interviews | The Israel-Iran War – What's Next?

By Fathom Editors
 On Monday 16 June, Fathom Co-editor Calev Ben-Dor conducted interviews with Matthew Levitt, the Director of the Reinhard... Read more > June 2025

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 7: "The essence of what we're doing is to try...

By Tal Becker
 Tal Becker is the vice president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he leads educational initiatives on Israel... Read more > June 2025

The Runnymede Trust’s ‘Facing Antisemitism: The Struggle for Safety and Solidarity’ – An Epistle to the Jews

By David Seymour
 David Seymour offers a critical reading of 'Facing Antisemitism: The Struggle for Safety and Solidarity', a recent report... Read more > June 2025

Emanuel Macron's Palestinian Faux Pas

By Sam Shube
 Sam Shube critiques French President Macron’s recent foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Attempts to kickstart two state negotiations, Shube... Read more > June 2025

Lebanon Six Months After the Ceasefire | Fathom Interview: Hanin Ghaddar

By Hanin Ghaddar
 Six months after the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was secured, Fathom editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor... Read more > June 2025

The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Essay by Mitchell Cohen (Part 3) - Moral Miasma

By Mitchell Cohen
 In April 2024 Fathom published an interview with Mitchell Cohen entitled ‘From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of... Read more > June 2025

After Six Hundred Days of War, There's More to Gain from a Ceasefire

By Paul Gross
 I’m writing this on the 600th day of this war. 600 days since Israel was forever changed; permanently... Read more > June 2025

Book Review | Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom & Mindless: What Happened to Universities

By James Wald
 At the end of the first chapter of Hate Speech (62), Cary Nelson presciently observes, 'Matters are likely... Read more > June 2025

A Tale of Contempt

By Or Bassok
 Legal scholar Or Bassok takes a nuanced look at the Israeli Supreme Court’s ongoing battle with the Netanyahu... Read more > May 2025

Trump’s False Promise to American Jews

By Andrew Apostolou
 Historian Andrew Apostolou argues that despite its justified fear over antisemitism, American Jewry must not be seduced by... Read more > May 2025

Blessed God Always Loves Me? The Changing Faces of Hebrew Songs of War

By Noga Emanuel
 Noga Emanuel reviews the history of Israeli songs which resonate in times of war. What causes certain songs... Read more > May 2025

The Values that Bind: Book Extract

By Daniel Taub
 Many factors play a crucial role in a successful negotiation. One of these is the context in which... Read more > May 2025

Spring / 2025

Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | Israel's Secular Days of Awe

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
 There is a rhythm to this Land. Not a melody exactly – But a pulse. A thrum beneath... Read more > May 2025

The Holocaust and Inherited Memory: How we Remember in the 21st Century

By Oliver Sears
 Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best,... Read more > May 2025

Book Review | Forgotten Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

By Alex Stein
 Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, the new book by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson,... Read more > May 2025

Antisemitic Terrorism and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany

By Martin Jander
 Drawing on his paper delivered at the recent conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary... Read more > May 2025

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 6: "We should adopt a gradual formula that what is...

By Gilead Sher
 Attorney Gilead Sher is a former Israeli senior peace negotiator and Chief of Staff to PM Ehud Barak.... Read more > April 2025

From Johns Hopkins to Beirut, and from Beirut to Columbia: a history of the 'settler colonialism' charge

By Daniel Szeftel
 In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through... Read more > March 2025

Book Review | The Holy and the Broken - A Cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be...

By Elhanan Miller
 One of the most moving moments in Ittay Flescher’s new memoir, The Holy and the Broken, takes place... Read more > April 2025

Reversing the victims and perpetrators of racism: the use of blaming the victim strategies to minimise and deny the antisemitism...

By Philip Mendes
 Philip Mendes examines the conclusions of an inquiry held by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights,... Read more > April 2025

The Oslo Years | A Diary

By Yair Hirschfeld
 Fathom is pleased to present, published for the first time, the diaries of Israeli peace negotiator Yair Hirschfeld.... Read more > April 2025

A Tale of Two 'Marches'

By Calev Ben-Dor
 Writing from Jerusalem, Fathom editor Calev Ben-Dor examines the trends that have brought Israel to its current domestic... Read more > March 2025

Book Review | Peter Beinart's 'Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning'

By Andrew Apostolou
 Andrew Apostolou reviews Peter Beinart's Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, arguing that the author's... Read more > March 2025

Traditionalist interfaith reconciliation: a necessity for regional peace

By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
 The Abraham Accords are not simply a series of normalisation agreements between Muslim countries and Israel, motivated by... Read more > March 2025

The AAUP and the BDS Black Hole

By Joe Lockard
 Joe Lockard argues that while there is a culture war underway in US higher education, one that contests... Read more > March 2025

Bitesize | Why I am pulling out of the Israeli Government antisemitism conference

By David Hirsh
 In this Fathom bitesize read, David Hirsh explains why he withdrew from the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism... Read more > March 2025

Dispatch from Damascus

By Kyle Orton
 Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of... Read more > March 2025

Opinion | An Elementary Truth: Gaza is Palestinian

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
 In this forceful opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman argues for rejecting and opposing President Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’... Read more > March 2025

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 5: A conversation with Koby Huberman

By Koby Huberman
 Veteran peace practitioner Koby Huberman shares with Fathom his experiences on both the bilateral level – between Israel... Read more > March 2025

Opinion | Israel's futile policy towards Russia

By Azriel Bermant
 Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in... Read more > March 2025

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