Fathom > May 2024

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Book Extract | Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it

By Dave Rich
 This is the preface of Everyday Hate by Dave Rich, published by Biteback. On the morning of 7... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement

By Richard Landes
 Richard Landes is a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements. He is author of Heaven on Earth: The... Read more > May 2024

Why 7 October must not become Palestinian Independence Day

By Russell A. Shalev
 Perversely, the atrocities of 7 October, have achieved their goal of reviving Palestinian statehood. The Western world seems... Read more > May 2024

American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique

By Elliott Abrams
 Elliott Abrams casts a sharply critical eye over the American Jewish anti-Zionism and diasporism of Peter Beinart, Naomi... Read more > May 2024

Book Review | Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists

By Daniel Goldman
 Longtime observer and chronicler of the religious community Yair Ettinger’s[1] bestselling 2020 book on the religious Zionist community... Read more > May 2024

Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk, Jean Améry, and the anti-Zionist left

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
 In this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | Is It Time to Leave? The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the Modern World

By Shalom Lappin
 Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern... Read more > May 2024

Podcast: Understanding Hamas

By BICOM
 In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Jacky Hugi, an expert on regional affairs. Hugi analyses... Read more > May 2024

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Three

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
 Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the author of Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian,... Read more > May 2024

The ‘Takeoff to 100’ Plan - Proposal for the Next Government of Israel

By Nimrod Sheffer and Koby Huberman
 Nimrod Sheffer and Koby Huberman started developing this vision and plan in 2022. It reflects the knowledge, insights... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

By Joe Schwartz
 Joe Schwartz is a writer, educator, rabbi and attorney living in Tel Aviv. An original version of this... Read more > May 2024

The meaning of Israeli Independence Day after 7 October

By Toby Greene
 The following is a slightly edited version of remarks given by Toby Greene at the Yom Ha’atzmaut &... Read more > May 2024

The Iran-Israel War and Learning from Frogs: An Interview with Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer
 Journalist and Middle East analyst Jonathan Spyer talks to Fathom about the Iranian threat and the Western response... Read more > May 2024

David Grossman’s war

By Liam Hoare
 Liam Hoare takes a look at how Israeli novelist David Grossman has responded to 7 October and the... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | From Little Rock to Columbia

By Ari Allyn-Feuer
 Ari Allyn-Feuer argues we are shrinking from the gravity of the situation: a violent mob is once again... Read more > May 2024

Opinion | The Balkanisation of the IDF: A Looming Danger?

By Sam Shube
 Sam Shube resides in a Kibbutz on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. He argues US sanctions on... Read more > May 2024

‘None of the options are good, but if you don’t want Hamas or endless Israeli occupation, you need something else’:...

By Toby Greene
 Fathom speaks to Toby Greene about two articles co-authored with Professor Jonathan Rynhold and dealing with the political... Read more > May 2024

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Voice of the Week

Our Voice of the Fortnight is an exposure of the antisemitism at Al Jazeera's US-based network AJ+.

Is AJ+ Anti-Semitic? from Canary Mission on Vimeo.

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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