Fathom > June 2019

Issue

Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the Crisis: (2) Jewish Voice for Peace’s antisemitic Deadly Exchange campaign

By Miriam F. Elman
 The Deadly Exchange campaign falsely blames Israel and its Jewish American supporters for fueling discriminatory policing practices against... Read more > June 2019

Israel and the ‘Crisis of the Arabs’ | an interview with Asher Susser

By Asher Susser
 Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty... Read more > June 2019

As economic crisis worsens, Iran threatens to reactivate nuclear programme

By Yaakov Lappin
 In this essay, military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin analyses the rationale behind the US ‘maximum pressure’ campaign,... Read more > June 2019

Book Review | The Great Betrayal: How America abandoned the Kurds and lost the Middle East

By Paul Iddon
 The thesis of David E. Philips’ book The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The... Read more > June 2019

British Christian Zionism (Part 1): George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda

By Philip Earl Steele
 The impact of George Eliot’s 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was central to the coalescence of the first Zionist... Read more > June 2019

Reflections on Jabotinsky’s 1906 pamphlet ‘The Bund and Zionism’

By Yisrael Medad
 Yisrael Medad is deputy editor of the forthcoming critical English-language edition of the writings of the revisionist Zionist... Read more > June 2019

Book Review | Understanding Israel: political, societal and security challenges

By Jacob Eriksson
 Israel represents a collection of seeming contradictions. Though Theodor Herzl’s vision was a thoroughly secular one and the... Read more > June 2019

Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation

By Susie Linfield
 With kind permission from Yale University Press, Fathom brings you an extract from 'The Lions' Den: Zionism and the... Read more > June 2019

Zionism and the Left: an interview with Susie Linfield

By Susie Linfield
 Susie Linfield is the author of The Lions' Den. Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam... Read more > June 2019

‘The Jewish State is a must. Democracy is a must’ | An interview with Elyakim Rubinstein

By Elyakim Rubinstein
 Elyakim Rubinstein is the former Attorney General of Israel and served as the Vice President of Israel’s Supreme... Read more > June 2019

Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld's critique of Seth Anziska's Preventing Palestine

By Yair Hirschfeld
 Yair Hirschfeld was one of the two original architects of the Oslo accords. In this extended critical review... Read more > June 2019

Not so reluctant: Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt peace negotiations

By Ziv Rubinovitz and Gerald Steinberg
 Gerald M. Steinberg, Bar Ilan University and Ziv Rubinovitz, Sonoma State University are the authors of Menachem Begin... Read more > June 2019

The Cultural Revolution at the National Library of Israel

By Ruth Ebenstein
 There are signs of a revolution at the National Library of Israel. One is an 8 x 7... Read more > June 2019

Most read

From Our archives

1251883549 Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode...
By Dennis Ross
2109351008 ‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide
By Alan Johnson
454558574 Fathom eBook | Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020
By Fathom Editors
2266342337 Diary from Jerusalem | Susi Doring Preston | Safe but...
By Susi Doring Preston
2177889748 Oslo25 | ‘We must liberate our thinking from the Oslo...
By Hussein Agha
2514088726 Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk,...
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
3033942862 The Rise of Itamar Ben Gvir
By Calev Ben-Dor
1197494755 Zionism and the Left: an interview with Susie Linfield
By Susie Linfield
1915241685 Philosophers For Hamas!
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
3115587801 Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation
By Susie Linfield
2108802210 A filmmaker, a feminist, an Israeli, a Bedouin, a Palestinian....
By Calev Ben-Dor
3574423151 A reply to The Lancet’s ‘Open letter for the people...
By David Stone
2124689929 ‘Balancing the liberal and the national was the genetic code...
By Dan Meridor
2735611582 Oslo25 | Twenty five years since Oslo: an insider’s account
By Joel Singer
1581440105 Corbyn is one man. Left-Wing Antisemitism is a Tradition
By Alan Johnson
206606086 The Danger of Greater Israel
By Michael Walzer
1528117169 Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People | An interview...
By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
2249070288 The IHRA Definition, Institutional Antisemitism, and Wittgenstein
By Eve Garrard
3159398588 Fathom Long Read | The Meaning of David Miller
By David Hirsh
1540856136 The Jewish Political Tradition: an interview with Michael Walzer
By Michael Walzer
3653711245 The Three Best Books on Antisemitism, recommended by Dave Rich
By Dave Rich
408152473 Fathom eBook | Balfour 100: The Fathom Essays
By Fathom Editors
718174370 Jean Améry as a Critic of the Anti-Israel Left
By Alvin Rosenfeld
1035754925 Fathom eBook | Two States for Two Peoples – 20...
By Fathom Editors
3080753995 My Israeli Music: Hamutal Gouri
By Hamutal Gouri