In praise of compromise: Simon Round interviews Amos...

By Simon Round
Amos Oz has lived through every one of Israel’s wars and fought in two of... Read more >

1967 | Natan Alterman or Amos Oz? The...

By Liam Hoare
Israeli writers were split by the Six-Day War. On one side was the poet Natan... Read more >

Israel70 | Amos Oz’s Israel

By Liam Hoare
While Amos Oz’s novels are often read reductively as political allegories, Liam Hoare suggests that... Read more >

Israel’s land policy (1) | What’s in a...

By Naomi Kahn
Naomi Linder Kahn is Director of the International Division at Regavim, an NGO dedicated to... Read more >

Israel’s land policy (2) | Khan al-Ahmar and...

By Hagit Ofran
Hagit Ofran is co-director of Settlement Watch, a project of the Israeli peace movement, Peace Now.... Read more >

Ending the ‘Universalisation’ of the Holocaust and the...

By Martin Jander
To ‘universalise’ the Nazi crimes is to deny the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the... Read more >

Pop Islam: How Germany is tackling the new...

By Daniel Rickenbacher
In 2018 Germany appointed the diplomat Dr. Felix Klein to the newly created post of... Read more >

The Long Read | Israel’s Jewish and Democratic...

By Arie Dubnov
Arie M. Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. In... Read more >

Book Review | Self-Determination, Statehood and the Law...

By John Strawson
Robert Barnidge’s important book seeks to persuade us to view the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the... Read more >

How Israel is turning its high-tech into global...

By David Rosenberg
Israel's innovative ability and technological prowess is a source of its global political power that... Read more >

Book Review | Israel’s Technology Economy, Origins and...

By Alex Brummer
The image of Israel as a nation of high-tech genius was framed by Den Senor... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Fathom Editors
In July 2018, the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently asked’... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Simon Gordon
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Tamara Berens
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Sir Mick Davis
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Laura Janner Klausner
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Keith Kahn-Harris
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Toby Greene
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Hannah Weisfeld and Maya Ilany
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Robin Moss
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

British Jews and Israel – how is the...

By Jonathan Hunter
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must... Read more >

Reading Hannah Arendt’s ‘On Violence’ in Israel

By Sarit Larry
In this thought-provoking essay, Sarit Larry examines Israel's discourse of 'security' through the prism of Hannah... Read more >

‘I had planned to own a farm but...

By Sharren Haskel
From combat soldier to veterinary nurse to the youngest MK in the Knesset, Sharren Haskel... Read more >

‘With every day that passes, we seem to...

By Alona Vinograd
Alona Vinograd is Director of the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions at the Israel... Read more >

Moving toward a new paradigm together? An Israeli...

By Edward Rettig
In this cautiously hopeful response to Hussein Agha’s Fathom interview, Israeli Edward Rettig argues that... Read more >

‘Israel needs social cohesion as well as nanotechnology’:...

By Mike Prashker
While Israel was never the harmonious campfire of legend, it is now an extremely crowded,... Read more >

This is a conflict over narratives. Israel needs...

By Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi is senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the author of... Read more >

David Grossman, the journalist

By Liam Hoare
Prizes have rained down on Israeli novelist David Grossman in recent years; the Israel Prize... Read more >

‘Ars Poetica was the explosion of me writing...

By Adi Keissar
Haaretz called Adi Keissar the most influential poet working in Israel today. Her first book... Read more >

Minding the gaps, connecting the dots: Seven steps...

By Hamutal Gouri
Feminism aims to understand the root causes of gender inequality and its intersection with the... Read more >

‘The War Between Wars’: Israel vs Iran in...

By Yaakov Lappin
Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a... Read more >

‘Understanding the Jews of the Middle East and...

By Lyn Julius
Earlier this year Fathom’s Grant Goldberg interviewed Lyn Julius about her new book, Uprooted, which... Read more >

Trump’s cuts are dangerous for Israelis and Palestinians:...

By Dave Harden
Dave Harden is managing director of the Georgetown Strategy Group. He has led USAID programmes... Read more >

Why UNRWA is an obstacle to two states...

By Einat Wilf
Einat Wilf is the co-author of The War of Return (with former Haaretz journalist Adi Schwartz). She... Read more >

Israel’s Nation-State Law and the three circles of...

By Ruth Gavison
Ruth Gavison is Professor Emerita of Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and... Read more >

‘A liberal society and respect for human rights...

By Michael Sfard
Leading Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard talked to Fathom about his new book, The Wall... Read more >

What is Left antisemitism?

By Sean Matgamna
Contemporary left-wing antisemitism is first and foremost a denial of Israel’s right to exist and, as a... Read more >

The Zionist Ideas: an interview with Gil Troy

By Gil Troy
Professor Gil Troy’s The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow is a... Read more >

The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland...

By Gil Troy
Reproduced from The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, and Tomorrow, edited by... Read more >

Oslo25 | Israel and the Middle East after...

By Yair Hirschfeld
Yair Hirschfeld was one of two Israeli academics (alongside the late Ron Pundak) who began... Read more >

Oslo25 | Why are negotiations still stuck?

By Orna Mizrahi
Orna Mizrahi is the former Israeli Deputy National Security Adviser for foreign policy and a... Read more >

Oslo25 | Twenty five years since Oslo: an...

By Joel Singer
Joel Singer was the Israeli delegation’s legal adviser to the Oslo talks. A confidant of... Read more >

Oslo25 | ‘We must liberate our thinking from...

By Hussein Agha
Hussein Agha has been involved in Palestinian peace negotiations for three decades. A senior associate... Read more >

Fathom 21 | Editorial

By Fathom Editors
Oslo25 When the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 the optimists hoped for peace and,... Read more >

Denial: Norman Finkelstein and the New Antisemitism

By Alan Johnson
In recent days the US polemicist Norman Finkelstein has injected a crude claim into the... Read more >