‘Choosing comrades’: Solidarity in the Middle East and Labour’s foreign policy
By Gary Kent
In this essay, Gary Kent argues that the British Labour Party should seek to amplify the voices of...
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July 2021
Iran under President Raisi: What should the region and the West expect? | An interview with Henry Rome
By Henry Rome
On 13 July, Fathom’s deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with the Eurasia Group’s Henry Rome to discuss...
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July 2021
Bar Kochba and Us: The Israeli Debate during Tisha Be’Av
By Calev Ben-Dor
Calev Ben-Dor argues that the fight raging today between Israeli politicians about how to interpret the meaning of...
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July 2021
Anshel Pfeffer and Antisemitism: A Reply by Ben Cohen
By Ben Cohen
Ben Cohen is the author of Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism. He...
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July 2021
Fathom Long Read | The Progressive Saviour Complex: Quakers, American Jews and Israel
By Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky
Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky are senior non-resident scholars at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and co-authors...
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July 2021
Criticism of Israel is not Antisemitic. But ‘Anti-Zionism’ is. This is why
By Russell A. Shalev
Russell Shalev argues that human rights movements cannot adequately address anti-Jewish discrimination, harassment or violence without recognising the...
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July 2021
Rereadings | The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda Avner
By Liam Hoare
‘The ultimate insider’s account’ wrote George Gruen on the release of Yehuda Avner’s book The Prime Ministers in...
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July 2021
Opinion | Liberal Zionists fight for liberalism in Israel, and Zionism abroad
By Paul Gross
Before immigrating to Israel from the UK in 2007 Paul Gross worked for the British government on religious...
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July 2021
Fathom Long Read | Valentina Azarova: A Controversy Assessed
By Cary Nelson
Debate rages about the possible appointment of Valentina Azarova to the position of Director of the Toronto Law...
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July 2021
UK-Israel 2021 | Mandate: The Palestine Crucible 1919-1939
By Colin Shindler
Three years ago, a retired British army officer, Ian Westerman, wrote an article in Ha'aretz, entitled 'What did...
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July 2021
The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly distorting today’s debate about Middle East...
By Salo Aizenberg
The erasure from our historical memory of Israeli attempts to achieve peace by agreeing to Palestinian statehood, and...
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July 2021
UK-Israel 2021 | The Flourishing of UK-Israel Academic Networks
By John Levy
John Levy, Director of the Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East (ASG) explains how his...
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July 2021
Incoming! Watch out, Peter Beinart is Fighting the Good Fight (again)
By Joshua A. Brook
Peter Beinart backed the US invasion of Iraq. He called it ‘the Good Fight’ and wrote a 2006...
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July 2021
Book Review | Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future
By Justin Bronk
Drone Wars is an ambitious attempt to provide a narrative framework for the development, combat usage and future...
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July 2021
Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir
By Kathleen Hayes
'I swam in a sea of antisemitism for years and didn’t notice the water was filthy,’ writes Kathleen...
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July 2021
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