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 > The Eloquence of Oriented: An interview with Jake Witzenfeld   Sitting in the Green Room at JW3, the London Jewish Community’s cultural centre, a jetlagged Jake Witzenfeld, director of… Read more > Fathom Long Read | Accommodating the New Antisemitism: a Critique of ‘The Jerusalem Declaration’ Download and print a PDF version here.  In this comprehensive critique Cary Nelson argues that the recent ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ on… Read more > Still Standing, but Shaky: Jordan at 100 Asher Susser is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU). On the occasion of Jordan’s centenary, his… Read more > Film Review: Dancing Arabs A review of Dancing Arabs (Aravim Rokdim) by Eran Riklis (Director) and Sayed Kashua (screenwriter). 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Sometimes it is hard to know what is the more alarming: the state of the humanities… Read more > Docaviv 2016 – The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival This May witnessed the annual Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an event dedicated to the development and the promotion… Read more > Jerusalem Film Festival 2022: On absences haunting films made years after their passing Tal Kra-Oz is a writer based in Tel Aviv. His work has appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward and Fathom.… Read more > Keir Starmer’s attempt to portray the Labour Party as having ‘closed the door’ on antisemitism is premature In 2021, after the EHRC-mandated rule changes to tackle antisemitism had been approved by his party, Sir Keir Starmer claimed… Read more > ‘Politically homeless’: Yamina voters tell their story Calev Ben-Dor talks to former Yamina supporters to understand their views on the Bennett-Lapid government and voting considerations for the… Read more > We Shall Be as A City on A Hill: Trump, ‘Progressive’ Antisemitism, and the Loss of American Jewish Exceptionalism Shalom Lappin argues that American Jews are caught between a white supremacist threat from the far right and a hostile… Read more > Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel After the May 2021 Unrest: A Survey by Sammy Smooha In May 2021, for the first time in Israel, Arabs and Jews in the mixed cities of Haifa, Acre, Jaffa,… Read more > Films of faith 2012 will be remembered as the year in which Israeli movies finally found God. 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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 > Israeli cinema: gay but not queer Israeli cinema has been more mainstream and gay than subversive and queer. But that may be about to change. We… Read more > Documentary Review | Remember Baghdad (2017) Remember Baghad, now showing on Netflix, is reviewed by Lyn Julius, journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews… Read more > ‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary America Alvin Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University and is the Director of the… Read more > Fathom Long Read | Valentina Azarova: A Controversy Assessed Debate rages about the possible appointment of Valentina Azarova to the position of Director of the Toronto Law School’s International… Read more > IHRA and JDA: Examining Definitions of Antisemitism in 2021 Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland College Park. His latest book, Israel’s Moment: International… 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 > ‘Calling a truce with left-wing antisemitism’: The Case Against the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism University College London’s governing Council voted in November 2019 to adopt the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) Working Definition of… Read more > Israel reinvents the documentary The Gatekeepers is a masterpiece in a landmark year for Israeli documentaries. The last fifteen years have seen a stream… Read more > From Eve Garrard to Dave Rich: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films about Israel (Week 4) Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. Find… Read more > Liz Truss’s world view and its implications for UK-Israel relations ‘Geopolitics is back’ Liz Truss has said. In what is the most thorough analysis of her world view to date,… Read more > What should Biden do next on Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Iran? A review essay by Yair Hirschfeld Professor Yair Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Oslo Accords in 1993. In this review essay he assesses the policy frameworks being… 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 > Israel on Netflix | Maktub (2017) Noga Emanuel kicks off our new irregular series looking at Israel on Netflix with her take on Maktub, a commercial… Read more > UK-Israel 2021 | How Israel military tech (and doctrine) will make the UK better at fighting the hybrid warfare of the future Technology is radically transforming the battlefield, revolutionising doctrines of warfighting and counter-terrorism. ‘Hybrid warfare’ is the new reality. 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His current research focuses upon the changing attitudes… Read more > UK-Israel 2021 | Mandate: The Palestine Crucible 1919-1939 Three years ago, a retired British army officer, Ian Westerman, wrote an article in Ha'aretz, entitled 'What did the British… 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 > The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving the Israeli-Palestine conflict In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, 'Progressive except for Palestine,' aimed at progressives… Read more >