Fathom > October 2024

Issue

Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large

By Adam Gregerman
 Adam Gregerman is Professor of Jewish Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He examines four parallels between... Read more > October 2024

The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews

By Adam J. Sacks
 Opened in 2024, the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews is the largest branch of the... Read more > October 2024

‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking

By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
 Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly... Read more > October 2024

7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP

By Yaron Matras
 Yaron Matras is former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester and Associate Fellow of the London... Read more > October 2024

The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine

By Barry Finger
 Barry Finger reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book The Message. Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former... Read more > October 2024

2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah

By Kyle Orton
 Kyle Orton argues those drawing parallels to Israel’s 2006 are radically mistaken. In 2024 Israel intelligence, planning and... Read more > October 2024

Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology

By Christopher Schilling
 Christopher L. Schilling is the author of The Therapized Antisemite: The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of... Read more > October 2024

Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal

By Joe Lockard
 Joe Lockard is associate professor of English at Arizona State University-Tempe. Very few pay attention to faculty statements... Read more > October 2024

The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius

By Lyn Julius
 Lyn Julius is the author of Uprooted: how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished... Read more > October 2024

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of...

By Gidi Grinstein
 Gidi Grinstein was intimately involved in the negotiations during the Oslo years and served as secretary of the... Read more > October 2024

Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations

By Matthias J. Becker
 Matthias J. Becker leads the innovative research project Decoding Antisemitism and has for many years been advocating for... Read more > October 2024

Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society

By Calev Ben-Dor
 Calev Ben-Dor reviews three new books published to mark the anniversary of the brutal Hamas attack on Israel.... Read more > October 2024

Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again

By Cary Nelson
 Cary Nelson is the author, most recently, of Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic... Read more > October 2024

The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative

By Hedda Harari-Spencer
 Hedda Harari-Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew at Tufts University. On 17 May the University of Pennsylvania... Read more > October 2024

The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...

By Mitchell Cohen
 In April 2024 Fathom published an interview with Mitchell Cohen entitled ‘From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of... Read more > October 2024

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