Making Sense of the Israeli Elections
By Naomi Chazan
On 20 March 2015, three days after the Israeli election, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan...
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Winter 2015
The resurgence of neo-traditionalism
By Asher Susser
Asher Susser explains the resurgence of tradition throughout the region and its political consequences for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
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Winter 2015
Book Review | Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
By Colin Shindler
Berl Katznelson, one of Labour Zionism’s ideological founders described David Ben-Gurion as ‘history’s gift to the Jewish people.’...
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Winter 2015
Israel, Europe and the converging terror threat
By Amichai Magen
Dr. Amichai Magen maps the increasing interconnectedness of the Islamist terror threats faced by Europe and Israel, and...
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Winter 2015
The Struggle over the Iranian Nuclear Programme
By Yossi Kuperwasser
It is incumbent on Israel to use all the diplomatic and political tools at its disposal to halt...
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Winter 2015
Book Review | The Hilltop
By Liam Hoare
The Hilltop is the first Israeli novel to chronicle the inner lives of the settlers that has been...
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Winter 2015
Book Review | Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel
By Michael Allen
700 British artists have announced that they are boycotting Israel until the ‘colonial oppression of Palestinians’ ends. In...
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Winter 2015
Book Review | Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance
By David Hirsh
Social theorists sometimes enjoy treating the ‘now’ as the key turning point of history; they like it because...
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Winter 2015
The Future of the Israeli Right: An interview with Yoaz Hendel
By Yoaz Hendel
Israel’s upcoming election is being billed as a choice over the future ideological direction of the country. To...
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Winter 2015
An Arab Social Worker in Israel
By Lamis Shibli Ghadir
Lamis Shibli Ghadir explains the challenges and the rewards of being an Arab social worker in the Ein...
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Winter 2015
Israel’s Jane Austen: Irit Linur’s all too normal Israel
By Noga Emanuel
In 2002 the Israeli novelist Irit Linur wrote an open letter to the editor of Haaretz announcing that...
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Winter 2015
Book Review | A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
By David Cesarani
Historian David Cesarani hails Alon Confino’s triumphant demonstration that anti-Jewish policies are within the realms of comprehension and...
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Winter 2015
The Resistible Rise of Iran: an Interview with Michael Ledeen
By Ben Cohen
Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen spoke with the historian and analyst Michael Ledeen about US foreign policy towards...
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Winter 2015
Film Review: Dancing Arabs
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
A review of Dancing Arabs (Aravim Rokdim) by Eran Riklis (Director) and Sayed Kashua (screenwriter). The critically acclaimed...
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Winter 2015
Anti-Judaism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism
By Eve Garrard
An edited speech given by Eve Garrard, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University...
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Winter 2015
‘Only a blind person would ignore the gravity of the threat which is emerging’: an interview with Dore Gold
By Dore Gold
To get a contrasting view on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s national security policy, Fathom deputy editor Toby Greene spoke with Dore...
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Winter 2015
‘There is no policy, we are on the edge of a volcano’: an interview with Efraim Halevy
By Efraim Halevy
Efraim Halevy was Director of Mossad from 1998 to 2002. Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. They...
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Winter 2015
The ideological roots of media bias against Israel
By Matti Friedman
On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner...
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Winter 2015
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