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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

Latest Issue Winter / 2025-26

Despair is not an option | Thoughts from the Gaza Envelope

The crisis of European Jews: between failing liberal democracies and dangerous authoritarians

The Jewish Council of Australia and the politics of approval

Book Review | Lihi Lapid's On Her Own

How Syria’s transition went off the rails

Russian lessons for Anglophone Jews

The Uprising in Iran | An Interview with Alireza Nader

A Talk to Students for Justice in Palestine

Israel on Netflix | Shababnikim (The New Black)

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

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

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

Autumn / 2025

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

Book Review | A Precise Chaos

The Telos of a Hatred

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

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

AI and Fact-Checking: When Probability Replaces Evidence

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

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

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

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

Diary from Jerusalem | Meredith Rothbart | Peacebuilding during War

Insecure: British Jewish Life after Manchester

The Struggle over Antisemitism Awareness Training

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

To Overcome Netanyahu, Democratic Israel must Leave Bibi Alone

The Moderation Gulf

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

White Feminism - White Orientalism

Book Review | Etgar Keret's Autocorrect

Summer / 2025

Time to Unmask the Imposture of anti-Zionism

Opinion | The Defenestration of Ayman Odeh

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

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

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

Adorno’s ‘Today’ – And Ours

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

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

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

Emanuel Macron's Palestinian Faux Pas

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

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

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

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

A Tale of Contempt

Trump’s False Promise to American Jews

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

The Values that Bind: Book Extract

Winter / 2024-25

From the Edge of the Abyss | Dispatch from Israel

Fathom Interview | 'The Gulf wants a non-Iranian aligned Gaza' | Najwa AlSaeed

Resisting Despair: A.B. Yehoshua’s Literary Legacy

Jewish Indigeneity to the Land of Israel

Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | An Eternity of Days

The Core Problems with Boycott and Divestment

Book Review | Chasidim Just Laugh

Alan Johnson: In Appreciation

Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays')

A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist Party, Sept. 1967

The London Initiative: Partnering to Re-Connect Democracy, Fairness and Peace for a Better Shared Future

We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left

Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance

Book Review | Forest of Noise

‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland

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