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										    				Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times |...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Richard Landes
											    			Richard Landes is a historian who taught at Boston University. His work focuses on apocalyptic...														
														
															
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										    				Film Review | Ha-Midrashia										    			
											    		
											    			 By Sara Hirschhorn
											    			Sara Hirschorn is the author of City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli...														
														
															
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										    				Burning Down the House – The Crisis in...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Jon Mills
											    			Jon Mills is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and psychologist. He is an honorary professor in...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | The Antisemitic Origins of Islamist...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Daniel Ben-Ami
											    			Islamism is one of the least understood forms of anti-Semitism. Leave to one side those...														
														
															
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										    				The 1936 Revolt still rages today: an interview...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Oren Kessler
											    			Oren Kessler’s new book Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle...														
														
															
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										    				The Three Best Israeli Short Stories recommended by...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Noga Emanuel
											    			Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books on a theme or subject. Here,...														
														
															
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										    				Why Israelis are so Happy at 75										    			
											    		
											    			 By Jonah Cohen
											    			The following is a revised version of Jonah Cohen’s keynote speech at the Jewish Federation...														
														
															
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										    				A Modern History of Palestinian Rejectionism										    			
											    		
											    			 By Ben-Dror Yemini
											    			Ben-Dror Yemini argues that media, academia, and the Israeli and global left have committed a...														
														
															
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										    				Diary | Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut in...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Paul Gross
											    			British-Israeli Paul Gross reflects on his experience of two days of annual celebration and mourning...														
														
															
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										    				Opinion | The Meaning of Diane Abbott’s Astonishing...										    			
											    		
											    			 By David Hirsh
											    			Leading Corbynite Labour MP Diane Abbott has had the party whip withdrawn after writing in...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Daniel Ben-Ami
											    			Dave Rich’s book on that thorniest of subjects, anti-Semitism, has already received many plaudits including...														
														
															
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										    				Opinion | Can fasting be a tool for...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Khinvraj Jangid
											    			Rabbi David Stav, head of the Orthodox Tzohar organisation, has called for fasting as a...														
														
															
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										    				Iran’s drone diplomacy is a danger to the...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Alex Grinberg
											    			Alex Grinberg is an expert on Iran based at the Jerusalem Institute for Security and...														
														
															
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										    				Patterns of Antisemitism in Mainstream Media Comment Threads....										    			
											    		
											    			 By Karolina Placzynta
											    			Karolina Placzynta is a researcher for the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research...														
														
															
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										    				The Three Best Books on Critical Theory and...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Matthew Bolton
											    			Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books about a subject. Here, Matthew Bolton...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Sharing the Promised Land: In...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Eugene Bardach
											    			Pity the soul who has to forsake those sentimental (or rousing) Zionist songs of her...														
														
															
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										    				The Protest Envoy: Ehud Barak comes to London										    			
											    		
											    			 By Jack Omer-Jackaman
											    			Last week, on the day a general strike was called in response to the sacking...														
														
															
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										    				Lara Sheehi’s Joyous Rage: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism, Advocacy Academia...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Cary Nelson
											    			Fathom Editor’s Introductory Note. Sometimes it is hard to know what is the more alarming:...														
														
															
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										    				My Israeli Music: Ittay Flescher										    			
											    		
											    			 By Ittay Flescher
											    			With over 20 years’ experience in formal and experiential education settings, Ittay is regularly invited...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Israel 201: Your Next Level...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Amy Weinreb
											    			The world has reached a saturation point with Israel 101 books. We have enough options...														
														
															
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										    				Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Israel’s...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Calev Ben-Dor
											    			Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben Dor reflects on a tumultuous few days in Israel and...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Sarah Brown
											    			Everyday Hate’s clarity and engaging style make it an invaluable introduction to antisemitism; however, it...														
														
															
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										    				‘I am one of those liberals who got...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Gabriel Noah Brahm
											    			When Fathom launched we promised there would likely be a piece in every issue with...														
														
															
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										    				For Political Compromise, and then Judicial Reform										    			
											    		
											    			 By Donna Robinson Divine
											    			Judicial reform is necessary, but if there is no compromise on its character the full...														
														
															
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										    				‘A lachrymose conception of 20th century North African...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Sam Shube
											    			In the previous issue of Fathom we carried Sam Shube’s analysis of Israel’s ethno-political divide...														
														
															
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										    				‘The Mizrahim recognised that the antisemitism fuelling the...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Lyn Julius
											    			Lyn Julius replies again to Sam Shube. For their earlier exchanges see here, here and...														
														
															
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										    				Culture Wars, Ethnicity and the Future of Israel’s...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Sam Shube
											    			‘Second Israel’ is the key to modern Israeli politics not just to Netanyahu’s victory in...														
														
															
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										    				Fallacies about Mizrahi Jews and Israeli Politics |...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Lyn Julius
											    			Lyn Julius is the author of Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab...														
														
															
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										    				Book review | Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Kathleen Hayes
											    			  ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ – William Faulkner In the...														
														
															
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										    				Opinion | Ben-Gvir is no Begin										    			
											    		
											    			 By Jonah Naghi
											    			Jonah Naghi is the Chair of Israel Policy Forum's IPF Atid Steering Committee in the...														
														
															
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										    				‘This is an attempt to change the structure...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Amichai Cohen
											    			With debate in Israel raging over the government’s proposed judicial reforms and with President Herzog’s...														
														
															
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