Zeev Sternhell (1935-2020)
By Alan Johnson
Fathom Editor Alan Johnson reflects on the life and work of Zeev Sternhell who died this week. Obituary notices...
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June 2020
Rereading Past Continuous: Revisiting Yaakov Shabtai’s ‘Revolution’ in Hebrew Prose
By Liam Hoare
Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s...
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June 2020
Book Review | The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
By Alex Ryvchin
There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called...
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June 2020
Mandate100 | The Year 1939: Why did Britain Abandon the Two-State Solution on the Eve of World War Two?
By Yaakov Lappin
Using documents in the National Archive, including German documents photographed and sent to Whitehall by an American spy,...
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June 2020
Why Memmi Matters
By Susie Linfield
Albert Memmi, who died recently, was a Jew, an Arab, a Zionist, an anti-colonialist, a secularist, a socialist,...
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June 2020
The Soldiers are Still Talking
By Tal Kra-Oz
Soldiers' Talk: Protective Edge (2019) is a set of interviews with those who served in Gaza in 2014....
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June 2020
Israel’s Annexation Policy – Why Now and What Next?
By Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Fathom Editor Calev Ben-Dor offers Fathom readers a comprehensive review of the Israeli debate about, and likely...
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June 2020
From Gil Troy to Susie Linfeld: Fathom writers share their favourite films and books about Israel (Week 8)
By Fathom Editors
Each fortnight Fathom writers have been recommending Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This...
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June 2020
Book Review | Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed
By Khinvraj Jangid
The Palestinian national movement has been in disarray for a long time. The failings of its political leadership...
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June 2020
The Yom Kippur War and British Politics
By Robert Philpot
Thousands of posters of Golda Meir appeared in the windows of Jewish homes; money poured in to fundraising...
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June 2020
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Hezbollah as a Criminal Organisation
“Hamas was expecting Hezbollah to follow… Hezbollah and the Iranians were planning to overwhelm Israel”| Fathom Interview: Hanin Ghaddar
Book Review | Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning’
Traditionalist interfaith reconciliation: a necessity for regional peace
A Tale of Two ‘Marches’
