Jewish votes and British foreign policy: The 1930...

By Ronnie Fraser
At the Whitechapel and St. George’s by-election on 3 December 1930 Jewish voters directly influenced... Read more >

The Netanyahu Years: an interview with Ben Caspit

By Ben Caspit
In this exclusive interview, Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sits down with Ben Caspit, a... Read more >

Why is there no Museum of Contemporary Israeli...

By Liam Hoare
Israeli museums, argues Liam Hoare, are a terrain of political struggle over history and memory.... Read more >

BICOM-JN Conference 2017 | Speech by Shadow Foreign...

By Emily Thornberry
This speech was delivered by the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry at the BICOM-Jewish News... Read more >

2017 Fathom Interview with Naftali Bennett

By Naftali Bennett
‘Forming a Palestinian state along the lines that many readers of Fathom believe is the... Read more >

‘The door won’t always remain open’: David Makovsky...

By David Makovsky
Fathom hosted a private briefing with David Makovsky, the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington... Read more >

‘Trump is continuing Obama’s retreat from the world’:...

By William Kristol
William Kristol is the founder and editor at large of the influential US political magazine... Read more >

‘Whatever happens in the region must come from...

By Sir John Jenkins
Sir John Jenkins is a former UK Ambassador to Syria (2007-9), Libya (2011) and Saudi... Read more >

The Palestinian reconciliation agreement – context, consequences and...

By Michael Herzog
On 1 November, the Hamas movement began the process of handing over the three Gaza... Read more >

A Proposal for a Federal Republic of Israel

By Arieh Hess and Emanuel Shahaf
The Federation Movement advocates a new political approach to peace in which Israeli law is... Read more >

The Suez Crisis and the Jews of Egypt

By Lyn Julius
‘There are few greater injustices than to say about something that happened, that it did... Read more >

Fathom 18 | Editorial

By Fathom Editors
Fathom 18 is a bumper issue offering 30 pieces on four broad topics: the Middle... Read more >

Fathom eBook | Balfour 100: The Fathom Essays

By Fathom Editors
Fathom has published a new eBook to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration,... Read more >

Fathom Forum | Reciprocal Radicalisation Hotbeds: how Islamist...

By Julia Ebner
The following remarks were made to a Fathom Forum in London on 3 October 2017.... Read more >

Balfour 100 | Christian Zionism and the Balfour...

By Gershon Shafir
Gershon Shafir argues that British Christian Zionism pre-dated practical Jewish Zionism and helped to ensure... Read more >

Balfour 100 | ‘Weizmann corralled the British government...

By Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Schneer’s book The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was praised by... Read more >

After ISIS Symposium: Can ISIS really be defeated...

By Kyle Orton
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi,... Read more >

After ISIS Symposium: Where will ISIS regroup? |...

By Ely Karmon
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi,... Read more >

After ISIS Symposium: Will ISIS now target Egypt?...

By Michael Barak
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi,... Read more >

After ISIS Symposium: Why ISIS will survive the...

By Aymenn al-Tamimi
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi,... Read more >

After ISIS Symposium: Will the counter-insurgency tactics used...

By Craig Whiteside
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi,... Read more >

After ISIS Symposium: What is the scale of...

By David Wells
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi,... Read more >

BDS and DSA: the American Left loses its...

By Jo-Ann Mort
Dissent editorial board member Jo-Ann Mort, a cofounder of the Democratic Socialists of America and... Read more >

Book Review | The Guardians: The League of...

By Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
A book about the League of Nations, let alone one of its little known subsections,... Read more >

Book Review | The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian...

By Lauren Mellinger
In his new memoir The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Reflection from No Man’s... Read more >

Book Review | We Were the Future: A...

By Liam Hoare
Of all the aspects and institutions of kibbutz life, the children’s house is one that... Read more >

Book Review | The Left in Disarray

By Colin Shindler
Most of the time, the key terms of the anti-capitalist Left have no clear meaning,... Read more >

Book Review | The End of Jewish Modernity

By Philip Spencer
This is a sadly disappointing book. At one level, it is yet another example of... Read more >

No Room for Small Dreams: How the Start-up...

By Chemi Peres
Chemi Peres is the chairman of the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation, founded by... Read more >

Israel’s diplomatic relations reconsidered

By Michael Koplow
There is a fundamental assumption undergirding the argument that people like me make about Israel... Read more >

Southern Syria: How to stop the Iranian plan...

By Michael Herzog
Michael Herzog served as head of the IDF’s Strategic Planning Division and chief of staff... Read more >

Fathom Forum | ‘City on a Hilltop’? Sara...

By Sara Hirschhorn
Fathom was delighted to welcome Dr Sara Hirschhorn to a Fathom Forum in London to... Read more >

The Israeli visa law and other own goals...

By Gerald M. Steinberg
It’s time to press reset on Israel’s confused response to the genuine threat of BDS... Read more >

‘The assumption that a conflict of over 100...

By Yair Hirschfeld
As the play Oslo opens in London, Fathom’s Calev Ben-Dor sat down with Yair Hirschfeld... Read more >

Oslo | Staging the ‘White Man’s Burden’

By Einat Wilf
To mark the Tony Award winning play Oslo opening in London this September, based on... Read more >

A question of moral responsibility: an interview with...

By Hagai El-Ad
Hagai El-Ad is the Executive Director of B'Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human... Read more >

Human Rights and German-Israeli relations after the Gabriel...

By Gadi Taub
In April 2017 the social democratic German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel decided to meet with... Read more >

‘The Zionist Left needs to understand that change...

By Ayman Odeh
21 per cent of Israel’s citizens are Arab-Palestinians. Since 2015 the leader of the Joint... Read more >

‘We have to share the land somehow. But...

By Yossi Kuperwasser
Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser was chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence,... Read more >