Thucydides Goes to Washington: an interview with Michael...

By Michael Doran
Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. specialising in... Read more >

The UK Election 2019 | Corbyn’s legacy is...

By David Hirsh
David Hirsh, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism argues that Corbyn’s movement has left behind many... Read more >

The UK Election 2019 | In Stoke North,...

By Jane Ashworth
Jane Ashworth is a Labour councillor in Stoke and the co-founder of Engage, the anti-racist... Read more >

The UK Election 2019 | The roots of...

By Peter Mason
Peter Mason is the National Secretary of the Jewish Labour Movement, and a Labour Councillor... Read more >

The UK Election 2019 | Antisemitism is not...

By Sacha Ismail
Sacha Ismail is a supporter of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a small radical socialist... Read more >

The UK Election 2019 | Britain has escaped...

By Toby Greene
In 2019 both the UK and Israel have been politically paralysed. Like or loathe Boris... Read more >

The BDS Faith: Judaism without Zion

By William Kolbrener
Jews don’t know what antisemitism is because they don’t have the right definition of Judaism.... Read more >

Book Review | After ISIS: America, Iran and...

By Brandon Marlon
We’ve encountered the toponyms repeatedly in the headlines: Sinjar. Raqqa. Kirkuk. Kobane. Baghuz. But we’ve... Read more >

‘If we insist on 100 per cent of...

By Ephraim Sneh
Ephraim Sneh is a former Deputy Defence Minister of Israel. He was a member of... Read more >

Book Review | Social Justice and Israel/Palestine

By Donna Robinson Divine
In the introduction to Social Justice and Israel/Palestine, Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov... Read more >

Gas and foreign policy: how Israel is leveraging...

By Ezra Friedman
Ezra Friedman writes that the discovery of gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean has given... Read more >

Book Review | Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of...

By John Lyndon
Plays tend to have three acts. In his excellent and very timely ‘Doves Among Hawks:... Read more >

Book Review | Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism &...

By Eve Garrard
This is a horrifying book. Not because it's a bad book – on the contrary,... Read more >

Obama, Trump and the collapse of the American...

By Kyle Orton
The disastrous foreign policies of two presidents are bringing about the collapse of America’s position... Read more >

Zeruya Shalev: On ‘Pain’ And Her Role As...

By Liam Hoare
The translation of Zeruya Shalev’s 2015 novel Pain should be the moment she assumes ‘her... Read more >

The case for a Minority Government to end...

By Assaf Shapira
Assaf Shapira of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) argues that if the choice is between... Read more >

The ‘Martyrdom’ of Saint Philoumenos: the anatomy of...

By David Gurevich
During the medieval epoch, Christian antisemitism spread the libel that Jews engaged in the ritual... Read more >

Book Review | The Impact of Zionism and...

By Azriel Bermant
Jack Omer-Jackaman’s book could not be more timely given the challenge facing Diaspora Jewry today,... Read more >

With Sovereignty Comes Responsibility: East Jerusalem and Liberal-National...

By Noa Lazimi
Noa Lazimi, former research coordinator at the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) proposes a new... Read more >

Book Review | Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism,...

By Sarah Brown
Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, The Party & Public Belief sets out to reveal ‘the... Read more >

UK Labour and Israel: the little-noticed shift in...

By Luke Akehurst
While the four-year long controversy over antisemitism in UK Labour has monopolised media attention, the... Read more >

Can new leaders salvage the EU-Israel Relationship?

By Margaux Nijkerk
With leadership changes on the horizon in both Brussels and Jerusalem, both Israelis and Europeans... Read more >

Book Review | Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism...

By Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
A better title for this book would have been Original Sin: Britain’s Embrace of the... Read more >

The Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Affair –...

By Yossi Kuperwasser
Regardless of whether Israel’s policy was wise, the most important aspect of the affair was... Read more >

The BDS mindset is a challenge to liberal...

By William Kolbrener
William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University and the author of several books... Read more >

Book review | Erdogan Rising: The Battle for...

By Michael Sercan Daventry
When the US announced that it was pulling out of northeast Syria and Turkish forces... Read more >

Understanding Online Antisemitism: Towards a New Qualitative Approach

By Matthias J. Becker
Matthias Becker is a research fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at TU... Read more >

Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is editor emeritus of the democratic left magazine Dissent and an advisory editor... Read more >

Book Review | Behind the Mask: The Antisemitic...

By Cary Nelson
‘The world would be soooo much better without jews man.’ This post from a social... Read more >

Special Offer from The Jewish Review of Books

By Fathom Editors
A special offer for our friends at Fathom: Get a digital subscription for 70% off... Read more >

Jerusalem: the contours of a possible agreement

By Meir Kraus
Meir Kraus was the head of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research between 2009-2016 and... Read more >

Why Israel’s year of elections has left a...

By Joshua Krasna
Joshua Krasna is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Programme on the Middle... Read more >

Book Review | Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism,...

By Stan Crooke
This review first appeared in the British socialist newspaper Solidarity. In February of this year,... Read more >

Primo Levi and Israel

By Alvin Rosenfeld
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the... Read more >

Book Review | A Specter Haunting Europe: The...

By Izabella Tabarovsky
One of the best-known antisemitic slogans of the August 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ white supremacist... Read more >

To fix the Israel-Diaspora relationship, make our communal...

By Jay Ruderman
Jay Ruderman is the President of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which focuses on the inclusion... Read more >

Revital Amiran and Yisrael Medad: A Final Exchange...

By Revital Amiran Yisrael Medad
The following exchange brings to a close the dispute between Revital Amiran and Yisrael Medad... Read more >

The Special Relationship: Shoring Up Declining Sympathy for...

By Jonathan Rynhold
Jonathan Rynhold relates that while Democrats overwhelmingly hold a favourable view of Israel, the special... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israel elections: ‘With Lieberman you...

By Lahav Harkov
Over the last few elections Israelis have gotten used to the idea that the Likud... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israel elections: ‘Benjamin Netanyahu may...

By Shalom Lipner
Last week’s election results dealt Benjamin Netanyahu a major blow, but although he may be... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Third Elections are Israel’s No...

By Eylon Aslan-Levy
Israelis who are completely certain there will not be a third election after just holding... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | ‘People say he who wields...

By Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer is a leading Israeli journalist and the author of Bibi: The Turbulent Life... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | What should be the priorities...

By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that whoever forms the next government should adopt a ‘Yes, but’ response... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | The Knesset and the Court:...

By Yohanan Plesner
Yohanan Plesner is President of the Israel Democracy Institute. From 2007 to 2013, he served... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Caught between delegitimisation and non-participation...

By Afif Abu Much
Influenced by Netanyahu’s delegitimisation campaign, the Centre-left is making a critical mistake in not reaching... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Arab Voters and the 2019...

By Eihab Kadah
Eihab Kadah, Director of Research in Arab society at Midgam Consulting and Research, assesses how... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | The Robbed Cossack and the...

By Revital Amiran
A sharp rejoinder from Revital Amiran to Yisrael Medad’s critique of her Fathom article ‘The... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | ‘The Likud understand that they...

By Tal Schneider
Tal Schneider is diplomatic and political correspondent for Globes in Israel and is a former... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israelonomics: an interview with Avi...

By Avi Weiss
Professor Avi Weiss is the former Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the Israel Antitrust... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Another Israel is possible. But...

By Hamutal Gouri
Hamutal Gouri is the former executive director of the Dafna Fund and the founder of... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | ‘The Left is finished in...

By Yisrael Medad
Yisrael Medad writes a weekly media column for the Jerusalem Post and serves as a foreign... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Netanyahu isn’t just a Prime...

By Doron Matza
While some analysts believe Israel is approaching a ‘post-Netanyahu era’, Doron Matza argues that regardless... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Ayman Odeh has made Jewish-Arab...

By Ron Gerlitz
Ron Gerlitz, the Co-Executive Director of Sikkuy, The Association for Civic Equality in Israel, argues... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | To renew itself, the Left...

By Emanuel Shahaf
Emanuel Shahaf is Co-Chair of the Federation Movement which proposes a federal citizen state in... Read more >

Poisonous Pedagogy: Israel Hatred and the Collapse of...

By William Kolbrener
Professor William Kolbrener reflects on the corrupting and ideologised pedagogy in higher education that is... Read more >

Fathoming the 2019 Israeli Election: The Sequel

By Fathom Editors
When, back in April, the Fathom editors produced a 130 page eBook Fathoming the 2019... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Nitzan Horowitz: The New Leader...

By Liam Hoare
When Meretz, Ehud Barak’s Israel Democratic Party, and Labor’s Stav Shaffir created the Democratic Union,... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | The Zionist Left Is Renewing...

By Revital Amiran
‘If the public leans left, how come it keeps turning its back on the left... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 | Understanding the blocs

By Dahlia Scheindlin
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert who has advised five national campaigns in... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Whatever happened to electoral reform...

By Professor David Newman
As Israel goes to the polls for the second time in six months, it is... Read more >

IsraelVotes2019 | The Accidental Wisdom of Israel’s Maligned...

By Shany Mor
In late 2013 Shany Mor was commissioned to write an article about Israel’s much-criticised proportional... Read more >