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 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 >

Israel70 | ‘Leadership is telling your own people...

By Yair Lapid
According to the latest polls, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid is Israel's most liked politician after... Read more >

As economic crisis worsens, Iran threatens to reactivate...

By Yaakov Lappin
In this essay, military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin analyses the rationale behind the... Read more >

UK Strategy in the Middle East (1) |...

By Alistair Burt MP
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to... Read more >

UK Strategy in the Middle East (2) |...

By Toby Greene
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in collaboration with the Britain... Read more >

The UK in the Middle East (3) |...

By Dr Emman El-Badawy
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to... Read more >

The Word Crimes Controversy (6) | A personal...

By John Strawson
John Strawson was a contributor to the Word Crimes issue of Israel Studies Journal. He... Read more >

The Word Crimes Controversy (1) | Cary Nelson...

By Cary Nelson
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of... Read more >

The Word Crimes Controversy (2) | Gershon Shafir...

By Gershon Shafir
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of... Read more >

The Word Crimes Controversy (3) | Cary Nelson...

By Paula A. Treichler and Cary Nelson
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of... Read more >

The Word Crimes Controversy (4) | Ilan Troen...

By Ilan Troen
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of... Read more >

The Word Crimes Controversy (5) | Donna Robinson...

By Donna Robinson Divine
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of... Read more >

Explaining Failure: How Palestinian economic potential was denied...

By Mohammed Samhouri
Dr. Mohammed Samhouri is a former senior economic advisor in the Palestinian Authority, and a... Read more >

Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the...

By Daniel Kalick
IfNotNow’s support for barring the Jewish Pride flag from the Dyke March was another example... Read more >

Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the...

By Miriam F. Elman
The Deadly Exchange campaign falsely blames Israel and its Jewish American supporters for fueling discriminatory... Read more >

Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the...

By Cary Nelson
A system is now in place to grant inaccurate and exaggerated ‘anti-Zionist’ claims credibility by... Read more >

Book Review | West Germany and Israel: Foreign...

By Norman J.W. Goda
Acknowledging German guilt for the Holocaust, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer helped initiate in the early 1950s... Read more >

Israel and the ‘Crisis of the Arabs’ |...

By Asher Susser
Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the... Read more >

Book Review | The Great Betrayal: How America...

By Paul Iddon
The thesis of David E. Philips’ book The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned The Kurds... Read more >

Reflections on Jabotinsky’s 1906 pamphlet ‘The Bund and...

By Yisrael Medad
Yisrael Medad is deputy editor of the forthcoming critical English-language edition of the writings of... Read more >

British Christian Zionism (Part 1): George Eliot’s Daniel...

By Philip Earl Steele
The impact of George Eliot’s 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was central to the coalescence of... Read more >

Book Review | Understanding Israel: political, societal and...

By Jacob Eriksson
Israel represents a collection of seeming contradictions. Though Theodor Herzl’s vision was a thoroughly secular... Read more >

Zionism and the Left: an interview with Susie...

By Susie Linfield
Susie Linfield is the author of The Lions' Den. Zionism and the Left from Hannah... Read more >

Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation

By Susie Linfield
With kind permission from Yale University Press, Fathom brings you an extract from 'The Lions' Den:... Read more >

‘The Jewish State is a must. Democracy is...

By Elyakim Rubinstein
Elyakim Rubinstein is the former Attorney General of Israel and served as the Vice President... Read more >

Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward...

By Yair Hirschfeld
Yair Hirschfeld was one of the two original architects of the Oslo accords. In this... Read more >

Not so reluctant: Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt...

By Ziv Rubinovitz and Gerald Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg, Bar Ilan University and Ziv Rubinovitz, Sonoma State University are the authors... Read more >

The Cultural Revolution at the National Library of...

By Ruth Ebenstein
There are signs of a revolution at the National Library of Israel. One is an... Read more >

The Re-emergence of the Jewish Question

By Shalom Lappin
The Jewish communities of Europe and the US increasingly find themselves caught between the rising... Read more >

Removing certain kinds of Jews from anti-racist protection...

By Keith Kahn-Harris
Keith Kahn-Harris’s book Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity is published in... Read more >

Radical Social Theory and the ‘Jewish Question’: The...

By Dan Davison
Dan Davison writes a fitting tribute to the radical social theorist and political activist Robert Fine, who... Read more >

Book Review | Marxist Perspectives on Palestine/Israel

By Stan Crooke
‘A totalising perspective that can grasp the [Israeli] violence as an expression of the capitalist... Read more >

How Israel Misread Palestinian Intentions

By Evan Gottesman
Last weekend’s brief and bloody spat between Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Israel obscured another... Read more >

We are paralysed by the failed search for...

By Micah Goodman
Discussing his best selling book 'Catch 67', Micah Goodman tracks the evolution of the debate... Read more >

The US has always had a blind spot...

By Khaled Elgindy
American academic Khaled Elgindy is a non-resident fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at... Read more >

The Peace Process is Stuck. Israel Must Take...

By Asher Susser
Asher Susser believes that while the status quo is not sustainable, a final status agreement... Read more >

Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism

By Izabella Tabarovsky
For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda... Read more >

In His Novels, And His Columns, Sayed Kashua...

By Liam Hoare
‘I wanted to say to my wife that this is really the end, it’s finished,’... Read more >