Fathom > June 2024

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Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon

By BICOM
 In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi about the situation on... Read more > June 2024

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

By Philip Mendes
 Philip Mendes is Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social... Read more > June 2024

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld

By Yair Hirschfeld
 In the third episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Yair Hirschfeld recalls... Read more > June 2024

Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace

By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
 Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki is a co-founder and editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books and a visiting fellow... Read more > June 2024

‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October

By Alan Johnson
 Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. This chapter was first published in Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic... Read more > June 2024

Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation

By Paul Gross
 Centrism is ‘the antidote to the extremism and sustained attacks on liberal democracy that are sweeping much of... Read more > June 2024

Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’

By Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker
 Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker of the Decoding Antisemitism project show how commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day... Read more > June 2024

Opinion | Haredi Conscription: Lessons for Israel from Pre-Revolutionary Russia

By Brian Horowitz
 Brian Horowitz holds the Sizeler Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he teaches Jewish history,... Read more > June 2024

What kind of victory does Israel need? - An Interview with Azar Gat

By Azar Gat
 Azar Gat, Ezer Weizman Chair for National Security at Tel Aviv University, speaks to Calev Ben-Dor about the... Read more > June 2024

Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism

By Eve Garrard
 Eve Garrard argues we can learn something of value about contemporary antisemitism from the use of two metaphors.... Read more > June 2024

Dispatch from the scene of a massacre

By Calev Ben-Dor
 Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor reflects on his visit to Israel’s south, and the sites of the 7... Read more > June 2024

What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt

By Matthew Levitt
 Counter-terror expert Matthew Levitt speaks to Fathom about Hamas’s vision and strategy. What is Hamas's strategy for the... Read more > June 2024

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Voice of the Week

Our Voice of the Fortnight is Einat Wilf critiquing David Lammy's announcement to renew UNWRA funding

Image of the Week

Released hostage Shlomi Ziv returning to his home in Moshav Elkosh, in northern Israel, 25 June 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90

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