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										    				Book Review | Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity										    			
											    		
											    			 By Liam Hoare
											    			On 28 September 1973, two Palestinian terrorists from the Syrian Ba’athist faction As-Sa'iqa hijacked a...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | British Trade Unions, the Labour...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Luke Akehurst
											    			Ronnie Fraser has been bravely fighting a sometimes lonely battle against antisemitism and anti-Zionism in...														
														
															
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										    				Opinion | Western Democracies Face Two Threats: The...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Alan Johnson
											    			Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom, He writes here in a personal capacity.  ...														
														
															
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										    				‘A gamechanger in Israel’s relationship with Egypt and...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Calev Ben-Dor
											    			Israel has discovered enough natural gas to become a regional energy exporter. As Europe wrestles...														
														
															
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										    				‘For peace, a political agreement between politicians is...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Joshua A. Brook
											    			Noor A’wad joined Roots, a Palestinian-Jewish peacebuilding organisation, in 2016 after meeting Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review| Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons										    			
											    		
											    			 By Keith Kahn-Harris
											    			In 2006, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri announced an ‘International Holocaust Cartoon Contest’ as an outraged...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Victorious										    			
											    		
											    			 By Liam Hoare
											    			‘Unlike others, I am no longer slaughtering sacred cows,’ Amos Oz told Niva Lanir in...														
														
															
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										    				Open letter to The George Washington University regarding...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Daniel Burston et al.
											    			Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep...														
														
															
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										    				Small Vote, Great Power: Rabbi Tau, Avi Maoz,...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Daniel Goldman
											    			About a half a million Israelis voted for the ‘Religious Zionist’ slate which made the...														
														
															
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										    				Opinion | Judicial Reform is needed to preserve...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Adi Schwartz
											    			Adi Schwartz is a former staff writer at Haaretz and is co-author with Einat Wilf...														
														
															
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										    				Archive | Menachem Begin on Law and Democracy										    			
											    		
											    			 By Fathom Editors
											    			In the increasingly fiery debate over the role of Israel’s judiciary, former Likud Prime Minister...														
														
															
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										    				When Discourse about Israel Becomes Antisemitic: A Guide...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Cary Nelson and Michael Saenger
											    			Cary Nelson and Michael Saenger argue for understanding antisemitic anti-Zionism as ‘a prejudice with definable...														
														
															
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										    				‘If these ideas get implemented, it will be...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Calev Ben-Dor
											    			Former Likud Justice Minister Dan Meridor discusses what he sees as the erosion of liberal...														
														
															
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										    				A World War and a Jewish War: Derek...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Derek Penslar
											    			Derek Penslar reviews Dan Diner’s, Ein anderer Krieg: Das jüdische Palästina und der Zweite Weltkrieg...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Ten Years Hard Labour										    			
											    		
											    			 By Marc Goldberg
											    			Chris Williamson was a Labour Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Derby North. He...														
														
															
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										    				Defending Israel’s Legitimacy: Proposals for a reborn Ministry...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Jacob Dallal
											    			Jacob Dallal reflects on his five-years working at the Ministry of Strategic Affairs from 2016...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Bibi, My Story										    			
											    		
											    			 By Yisrael Medad
											    			The memoirs of politicians and public figures, it has been claimed, are among the most...														
														
															
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										    				The Annual Fathom Lecture 2022 | Why we...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Einat Wilf
											    			On 7 December 2022, in celebration of its 10th birthday, Fathom invited Einat Wilf to...														
														
															
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										    				The Progressive Friend of Israel in the era...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Jack Omer-Jackaman
											    			Jack Omer-Jackaman argues that this is a perfect opportunity to prove the truth of what...														
														
															
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										    				Lessons from Germany’s Social Democrats for the Israeli...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Kira Lewis
											    			Kira Lewis believes the Israeli Labor Party can learn some lessons from a historic social...														
														
															
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										    				Fathom at 10: Celebrating our first decade										    			
											    		
											    			 By Fathom Editors
											    			Fathom was created by BICOM in 2012 for the long haul. We were created not...														
														
															
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										    				Opinion | Navigating China’s Security Presence in the...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Grant Rumley and Carol Silber
											    			Grant Rumley is the Goldberger Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Glazer...														
														
															
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										    				Judicial Reform is Not Dangerous for Israeli Democracy...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Russell A. Shalev
											    			Suzie Navot of the Israel Democracy Institute argued in Fathom that the judicial reforms being...														
														
															
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										    				Yet again, the Courts find for John Ware...										    			
											    		
											    			 By John Ware
											    			Documentary maker John Ware explains why he has brought three successful court cases against those...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Kathleen Hayes
											    			This is a very important book. Over the last decade or so, a sweeping ideology...														
														
															
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										    				The Three Best Books by Israeli Writers (Not...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Liam Hoare
											    			Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books on a theme or subject....														
														
															
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										    				The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Matthias Kuntzel
											    			Matthias Küntzel is the author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. This talk...														
														
															
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										    				Judicial Reform and the Implications for Israeli Democracy										    			
											    		
											    			 By Suzie Navot
											    			In this edited transcript of her conversation with BICOM Director Richard Pater, Vice-President of Research...														
														
															
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										    				‘Politically homeless’: Yamina voters tell their story										    			
											    		
											    			 By Calev Ben-Dor
											    			Calev Ben-Dor talks to former Yamina supporters to understand their views on the Bennett-Lapid government...														
														
															
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										    				‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary...										    			
											    		
											    			 By Alvin Rosenfeld
											    			Alvin Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University and...														
														
															
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										    				Book Review | Bibi: My Story										    			
											    		
											    			 By Colin Shindler
											    			When he was asked by a student in 2018, what is the most important subject...														
														
															
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