The IHRA Definition, Institutional Antisemitism, and Wittgenstein
By Eve Garrard
In the wake of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a variety of complaints...
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December 2020
Book Review | Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
By Paul Gross
The Director of the Mossad has to think geopolitically. He (and so far it has always been a...
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December 2020
‘The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man.’ The tenacity of an anti-Zionist fable
By Shai Afsai
Some authors are unwilling to dispense with unsubstantiated stories, opting instead to put scholarly standards aside in their...
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December 2020
Israel Without Sharon’s Coma: A Counterfactual History
By Calev Ben-Dor
How might the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have looked had Ariel Sharon not suffered two strokes that left him incapacitated?...
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December 2020
Fathom Long Read | Adorno and Iran: Critical Theory and Islamic Antisemitism
By Stephan Grigat
‘After Auschwitz’, said the German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno, we should embrace a new categorical imperative:...
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December 2020
Opinion | Jews are asking for protection from their universities from antisemitism. David Feldman’s ‘All Lives Matter’ response is not...
By David Hirsh
This is a response to an article by David Feldman, ‘The government should not impose a faulty definition...
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December 2020
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020): A Tribute
By Michael Wegier
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was a good friend to this journal, meeting with its editor when it was...
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December 2020
Book Review | Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making
By Liam Hoare
In 2013, the New York-based Israeli novelist Rudy Namdar published The Ruined House. Both upon its initial Hebrew...
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December 2020
Fathom Podcast | Will Saudi Arabia make peace with Israel?
By Sir John Jenkins
In this podcast, Fathom's Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding speaks with Sir John Jenkins, a senior fellow at Policy...
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December 2020
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