Book Review | Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
By David Rodman
Israel faces a fateful decision. What should be the final status of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria...
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March 2020
From Hamutal Gouri to Andrei Markovits: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films about Israel (Week 1)
By Fathom Editors
Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the...
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March 2020
COVID-19: Blaming the Jews for the Plague, Again
By Lev Topor
From state television to the dark web, antisemitic conspiracy theories are being used by Islamists and white supremacists...
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March 2020
Mandate100 | ‘A Clean Cut’ for Palestine: The Peel Commission Reexamined
By Oren Kessler
In this fascinating dive into the archives Oren Kessler reveals the dramatic exchanges that shaped Lord Peel’s 1936...
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March 2020
Book Review | The Decline of the Left Wing in Israel: Yossi Beilin and the Politics of the Peace Process
By Colin Shindler
In an epoch of reaction, racism and populism, many ask how did Israel lose its way? Why did...
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March 2020
Mandate100 | ‘People say I am a post-Zionist, but I am a non-ideological person, committed to storytelling’: Tom Segev on...
By Tom Segev
The Israeli historian Tom Segev’s books One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000) and...
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March 2020
Mandate100: A Fathom Special Issue
By Fathom Editors
Over the next several months Fathom will publish articles, interviews and book reviews to mark the 100th anniversary of...
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March 2020
Zionist Responses to the Trump Peace Plan (1): The Failure of the Old Paradigm
By Yossi Kuperwasser
According to Brig.-Gen (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the real paradigm change in the Trump plan is that 'it deprives...
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March 2020
Zionist Responses to the Trump Peace Plan (2): Trump’s plan is mad, bad and dangerous to all
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Israel, Zionism and Anglo-Jewish identity 1948-1982...
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March 2020
Book Review | Erdogan’s Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
By Simon Waldman
Soner Cagaptay is the director of the Turkish Research Programme at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...
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March 2020
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies | An interview with Clive Jones
By Clive Jones
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky is a revealing history of the complex and...
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March 2020
Arab Council Takes Aim at Arab Laws Banning Contact with Israeli Citizens: an interview with Mostafa El-Dessouki
By Mostafa El-Dessouki
At a watershed event in London last November, 32 prominent civil society figures from 15 Arab countries publicly...
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March 2020
Book Review | Antisemitism and the Labour Party
By Sarah Brown
Antisemitism and the Labour Party is an anthology of reissued articles and essays which sets out to provide...
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March 2020
Third Time Lucky, the Crown Still Belongs to King Bibi
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
Those disappointed by the seeming victory of the Likud leader in the 2 March 2020 elections should take...
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March 2020
Israel and the Soleimani assassination
By Yossi Alpher
In 1979, as the Mossad’s chief Iran analyst, Yossi Alpher discussed with the head of Mossad a request...
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March 2020
Democratic Socialism, Israel and the Jews: An Interview with Michael Harrington (1975), with new preface by Mitchell Cohen (2020)
By Mitchell Cohen and Michael Harrington
The interview reproduced below, with Michael Harrington (1928-1989), the leading US democratic socialist of the second half of...
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March 2020
The ‘Anti-Deutsche’ and Israel: A Reply to Ha’aretz
By Stefan Frank
On 23 January Haaretz published an article by Ofri Ilany titled ‘Germany's pro-Israel Left Has a New Target...
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March 2020
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