Dispatches from the front: a quarterly report from a roving ambassador for Israel
By Einat Wilf
Welcome to Einat Wilf’s new Fathom column. A former MK and now a roving global ambassador for Israel...
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Spring 2014
Václav Havel’s legacy and the struggle for human rights in Iran today
By Ladan Boroumand
Ladan Boroumand is the cofounder and research director of The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF), an NGO dedicated to...
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Spring 2014
Saving the Promised Land: Alan Johnson interviews Ari Shavit
By Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Israel is one of the most talked...
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Spring 2014
The state of Hamas: Toby Greene interviews Benedetta Berti
By Benedetta Berti
Questions have been raised about the direction and intentions of Hamas since the signing of a reconciliation agreement...
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Spring 2014
Jews and the Left
By Philip Mendes
Dr Philip Mendes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine at Monash...
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Spring 2014
America’s Global Dilemma
By Ben Cohen
‘Reset,’ ‘Pivot,’ ‘Leading from Behind,’ ‘Red Lines,’ – the catchphrases of President Obama’s foreign policy are now often...
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Spring 2014
Israeli Youth in Distress
By Simcha Getahune
Dr Simcha Getahune, Director of ELEM – Youth in Distress spoke to Fathom’s Bethany Coates about troubled youth...
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Spring 2014
Israel and the Territories
By Ahron Bregman
Fathom editors spoke to Ahron Bregman about his new book Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the...
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Spring 2014
Jerusalem Solitudes in Early Hebrew Literature
By Noga Emanuel
As the spiritual bedrock of Judaism, Jerusalem had been a magnet for millennial longing. For centuries Jews intensely...
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Spring 2014
The Philosophy behind ‘BDS’: a review of ‘Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics’
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
What is one to make of a volume of specialised essays in contemporary philosophy – a compilation including...
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Spring 2014
East meets West in film
By Yair Raveh
It is not only in politics and the street that Israel’s ethnic tensions surface. Our film reviewer Yair...
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Spring 2014
Book Review: My Promised Land: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Israel
By Hannah Weisfeld
As a British Jew reading Ari Shavit’s account of modern day Israel, his starting point feels particularly poignant....
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Spring 2014
Finding the Words: a review essay
By Liam Hoare
Books under review: Falling Out of Time David Grossman, Jonathan Cape, 2014, pp.208; Neuland, Eshkol Nevo, Chatto &...
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Spring 2014
Book Review: Israel Has Moved
By Jonathan Cummings
According to Michel Foucault, the French philosopher, the essence of modernity can be understood in the way in...
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Spring 2014
Time for a Revolution in Israel’s Global Engagement
By Gidi Grinstein and Daphna Kaufman
Israel needs a revolution in how it thinks about foreign relations. To meet huge external challenges it needs...
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Spring 2014
Disaster in the Levant: the Syrian Civil War in its fourth year
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is one of the few policy experts to regularly visit the front lines in Syria. In...
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Spring 2014
Demarcating the Israeli-Palestinian Border
By Professor David Newman
One reason for the foundering of the recent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was the failure of the parties to...
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Spring 2014
Israel’s National-Religious Jews and the quest for peace
By Ofer Zalzberg
The Middle East Peace Process has often marginalised the voice of the ‘National-Religious,’ or ‘Religious Zionist’ Jews. Ofer...
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Spring 2014
The Two-State Solution: The Way Forward
By Manuel Hassassian and Raphael Cohen-Almagor
When we launched Fathom the editors declared that the journal would be ‘a partisan and artisan of the...
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Spring 2014
Mutual recognition is essential for a solution
By Toby Greene
The Hassassian and Cohen-Almagor document is commendable for its embrace of mutual recognition, respect and dialogue, even if...
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Spring 2014
Philosophers For Hamas!
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
A leading European philosopher has declared for killing ‘Zionists’ and arming Hamas. Gabriel Brahm asks what it all...
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Spring 2014
A reply to The Lancet’s ‘Open letter for the people in Gaza’
By David Stone
Introduction On 22 July 2014, one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, published a letter entitled...
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Spring 2014
The new assault on Israeli academia (and us)
By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors and co-editor of The Case Against Academic...
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Spring 2014
The Journey of the Kurds
By Gary Kent
The journey of Iraqi Kurdistan from dictatorship to democracy has been remarkable. Gary Kent reports on the transformation...
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Spring 2014
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