‘The door won’t always remain open’: David Makovsky on the ‘Settlements and Solutions’ project
By David Makovsky
Fathom hosted a private briefing with David Makovsky, the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute and director...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
‘Trump is continuing Obama’s retreat from the world’: William Kristol on US foreign policy
By William Kristol
William Kristol is the founder and editor at large of the influential US political magazine The Weekly Standard....
Read more >
Autumn 2017
The Palestinian reconciliation agreement – context, consequences and open questions
By Michael Herzog
On 1 November, the Hamas movement began the process of handing over the three Gaza border crossings to...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
‘Whatever happens in the region must come from the region’: Sir John Jenkins on Islamism, Modernity and the Middle East
By Sir John Jenkins
Sir John Jenkins is a former UK Ambassador to Syria (2007-9), Libya (2011) and Saudi Arabia (2012-5). In...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
BICOM-JN Conference 2017 | Speech by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry
By Emily Thornberry
This speech was delivered by the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry at the BICOM-Jewish News Conference, held in...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
A Proposal for a Federal Republic of Israel
By Arieh Hess and Emanuel Shahaf
The Federation Movement advocates a new political approach to peace in which Israeli law is applied to the...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
The Suez Crisis and the Jews of Egypt
By Lyn Julius
‘There are few greater injustices than to say about something that happened, that it did not happen’ wrote...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Fathom Forum | Reciprocal Radicalisation Hotbeds: how Islamist and far-Right extremism feed off each other
By Julia Ebner
The following remarks were made to a Fathom Forum in London on 3 October 2017. Ebner is a...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Fathom 18 | Editorial
By Fathom Editors
Fathom 18 is a bumper issue offering 30 pieces on four broad topics: the Middle East after ISIS,...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Book Review | The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Reflection from No Man’s Land
By Lauren Mellinger
In his new memoir The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Reflection from No Man’s Land former UN...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
BDS and DSA: the American Left loses its way
By Jo-Ann Mort
Dissent editorial board member Jo-Ann Mort, a cofounder of the Democratic Socialists of America and former vice-chair (and...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Can ISIS really be defeated without legitimate local governance? | Kyle Orton
By Kyle Orton
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Book Review | The Left in Disarray
By Colin Shindler
Most of the time, the key terms of the anti-capitalist Left have no clear meaning, they express and...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Fathom eBook | Balfour 100: The Fathom Essays
By Fathom Editors
Fathom has published a new eBook to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which you can...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Balfour 100 | 'Weizmann corralled the British government behind the Zionist movement': an interview with Jonathan Schneer
By Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Schneer’s book The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was praised by Simon Sebag Montefiore...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Where will ISIS regroup? | Ely Karmon
By Ely Karmon
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Will ISIS now target Egypt? | Michael Barak
By Michael Barak
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Will the counter-insurgency tactics used to defeat ISIS help it recruit new fighters? | Craig Whiteside
By Craig Whiteside
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Why ISIS will survive the loss of its 'Islamic State' | Aymenn al-Tamimi
By Aymenn al-Tamimi
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: What is the scale of the threat to the UK from returning Jihadis? | David Wells
By David Wells
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Book Review | The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
By Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
A book about the League of Nations, let alone one of its little known subsections, the Permanent Mandates...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Balfour 100 | Christian Zionism and the Balfour Declaration
By Gershon Shafir
Gershon Shafir argues that British Christian Zionism pre-dated practical Jewish Zionism and helped to ensure that, by the...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Book Review | The End of Jewish Modernity
By Philip Spencer
This is a sadly disappointing book. At one level, it is yet another example of a widespread failure...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Book Review | We Were the Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz
By Liam Hoare
Of all the aspects and institutions of kibbutz life, the children’s house is one that in particular continues...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Israel's diplomatic relations reconsidered
By Michael Koplow
There is a fundamental assumption undergirding the argument that people like me make about Israel needing to come...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
No Room for Small Dreams: How the Start-up Nation can help create the Start-Up Region
By Chemi Peres
Chemi Peres is the chairman of the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation, founded by his father Shimon...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Southern Syria: How to stop the Iranian plan for regional dominance
By Michael Herzog
Michael Herzog served as head of the IDF’s Strategic Planning Division and chief of staff to Israel’s minister...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Fathom Forum | ‘City on a Hilltop’? Sara Hirschhorn on the clash between liberal values and settler realities
By Sara Hirschhorn
Fathom was delighted to welcome Dr Sara Hirschhorn to a Fathom Forum in London to discuss her recent...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
The Israeli visa law and other own goals in the BDS wars
By Gerald M. Steinberg
It’s time to press reset on Israel’s confused response to the genuine threat of BDS and demonisation. A...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
‘The assumption that a conflict of over 100 years can be solved by a piece of paper is totally detached...
By Yair Hirschfeld
As the play Oslo opens in London, Fathom’s Calev Ben-Dor sat down with Yair Hirschfeld who was, with...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Oslo | Staging the ‘White Man's Burden’
By Einat Wilf
To mark the Tony Award winning play Oslo opening in London this September, based on the Oslo Peace...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Human Rights and German-Israeli relations after the Gabriel Affair
By Gadi Taub
In April 2017 the social democratic German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel decided to meet with Breaking the Silence...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
A question of moral responsibility: an interview with Hagai El-Ad of B’Tselem
By Hagai El-Ad
Hagai El-Ad is the Executive Director of B'Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
‘The Zionist Left needs to understand that change is impossible without us’: an interview with MK Ayman Odeh
By Ayman Odeh
21 per cent of Israel’s citizens are Arab-Palestinians. Since 2015 the leader of the Joint List – an...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
‘We have to share the land somehow. But for peace, the Palestinians must change their narrative’: an interview with Yossi...
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser was chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence, and until recently,...
Read more >
Autumn 2017
Newsletter
Sign up to our newsletter.
![]()
Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West
Traditionalist interfaith reconciliation: a necessity for regional peace
Book Review | Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning’
A Tale of Two ‘Marches’
The AAUP and the BDS Black Hole
