Fathom > January 2020

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In Defence of the IHRA Definition

By Bernard Harrison and Lesley Klaff
 Correction: In an earlier version of this article, the authors claimed that Sir Stephen Sedley, writing in the... Read more > January 2020

Book Review | We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel

By William Kolbrener
 Daniel Gordis’s We Stand Divided is the latest book on the growing rift between American Jews and Israelis.... Read more > January 2020

British Christian Zionism (Part 2): the work of Laurence Oliphant

By Philip Earl Steele
 The literary, diplomatic and direct organisational efforts of the British Christian Zionist Laurence Oliphant were central to the... Read more > January 2020

Emily Landau (1960-2020): A Tribute

By Azriel Bermant
 Azriel Bermant pays tribute to Fathom advisory editor Emily Landau who died 6 January 2020. It was with... Read more > January 2020

The Old Left is Dead. Israel Needs a New One.

By Etan N. Nechin
 When Israel goes to the polls for a third time in a year, the Labor party might well... Read more > January 2020

‘The fight against ISIS was successful, but not on a strategic level’| An interview with Seth Frantzman, author of After...

By Seth Frantzman
 Seth Frantzman’s new book, After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East, based on his... Read more > January 2020

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Voice of the Week

Our Voice of the Fortnight is Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Prize laureate and leader of the Liberian women's peace movement, in discussion with seven Palestinian and Israeli women on peace and the role of women in peacemaking, 4 January 2021.

Image of the Week

Our Image of the Fortnight is British soldiers searching Jewish pedestrians in Jerusalem during the mandate period, 2 March 1947. Photo by GPO.

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