Book Review | My Life as a Jew

By Philip Mendes
Michael Gawenda is a well-known Australian journalist. He was editor of the centre-left Melbourne Age... Read more >

Why the Israeli Left needs a New Alliance...

By Sam Shube
Israeli democracy requires a shift from the politics of selective exclusion to one of strategic... Read more >

‘Eat Their Skulls’: The Pleasures of Antisemitism, revisited...

By Eve Garrard
Eve Garrard’s 2013 'The Pleasures of Antisemitism', argued that not merely cognitive errors but also... Read more >

Book Review | Israel’s War on Gaza

By Barry Finger
It turns out that Dara Horn was overly generous in her concession that ‘People Love... Read more >

After the Pogrom: An Australian Journalist Reflects

By Michael Gawenda
Australian journalist Michael Gawenda reflects on tensions on the Australian Jewish left through the prism... Read more >

On the Palestinianisation of Israel Studies

By Alex Stein
Alex Stein argues that by imposing a rigid ideological standard for scholarship on Israel-Palestine, the new... Read more >

Opinion | Saudi normalisation now. A Palestinian state...

By Paul Gross
With reports suggesting the Biden White House is considering unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,... Read more >

Post-Bibi: Aligning two-state hopes with Israeli fears after...

By Michael Rubin
After 7 October the idea that any Palestinian actor can be trusted to control territory... Read more >

‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no...

By Tanja Ehmann
Tanja Ehmann asks why, despite the massacre at the Supernova music festival, parts of the... Read more >

Faculty for Academic Freedom and Against Antisemitism: Mission...

By Cary Nelson and Brett Kaufman
‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’, has been formed and is growing fast on campuses in... Read more >

Resilience, Social Cohesion and Democracy: The Three Keys...

By Mike Prashker
Mike Prashker founded MERCHAVIM: The Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel in... Read more >

Hamas Exploitation of Hospitals for Hostage Taking: The...

By Anne Herzberg
Gaza’s hospitals were used to conceal hostages. Who knew what and when? Whether hospital staff... Read more >

Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens...

By Philip Mendes
Following 7 October the Greens were the only Australian political party that refused to support... Read more >

Arabs and Jews: The Holocaust and its Aftermath

By Sabrina Soffer
Sabrina Soffer is former Commissioner of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism at the George... Read more >

“We didn’t understand Hamas at all” | Fathom...

By Michael Milshtein
On 25 January 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Calev Ben-Dor and Jack Omer-Jackaman interviewed Michael Milshtein,... Read more >

“Even Jews themselves often hear about Zionism through...

By Einat Wilf
On 22 January 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor interviewed Einat Wilf.... Read more >

A Response to The Jewish Chronicle’s review of...

By Alan Johnson
David Hirsh and I have been reading, researching, writing and politically organising to counter left... Read more >

Book Review | Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the...

By Daniel Ben-Ami
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East tells the story of an important but largely... Read more >

Denying 7 October: The Case of Former ANC...

By David Benatar
David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.... Read more >

Rereadings | Demonopathy: Leon Pinsker’s Theory of Antisemitism

By Philip Earl Steele
Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear... Read more >

Antizionism at the Modern Language Association

By Cary Nelson
After nearly two decades of trying, on 6 January the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | A Multilateral and Bottom-Up...

By John Lyndon
John Lyndon is the CEO of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). Since 7... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Why it’s time for...

By Rachael Liss
Rachael Liss is the European Policy and Development Coordinator for ALLMEP, working on the design and... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders: The...

By Wasim Almasri
Wasim Almasri is the Director of Programs for the Alliance of Middle East Peace (ALLMEP),... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Reconstruction and Renewal in...

By Kamal Mashharawi
Kamal Mashharawi is a Palestinian entrepreneur and peace activist from Gaza. He has written previously... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | How my Israeli and...

By Avi Meyerstein
Avi Meyerstein is the founder and president of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). Should... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Standing Together is forging...

By Dina Kraft
Journalist Dina Kraft profiles Standing Together activist Sally Abed who argues ‘peace is a very,... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Interview: Givat Haviva

By Mohammad Darawshe and Michal Sela
Fathom deputy editor Jack Omer-Jackaman speaks to Mohammad Darawshe and Michal Sela of Givat Haviva,... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Interview: Arava Institute for...

By Tareq Abu Hamed and Eliza Mayo
Fathom deputy editor Jack Omer-Jackaman speaks with Tareq Abu Hamed and Eliza Mayo of the... Read more >

Peacebuilding Special Issue | “Groundwork” Podcasts: “Echoes of...

By Fathom Editors
Here, as part of our special Issue dedicated to the work of the Alliance for... Read more >

Israeli Democracy: An Audit and a Proposal for...

By Vernon Bogdanor
Sir Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government, King’s College London and a member of the... Read more >

Scandalous Indoctrination: Inside a Kings College Counter-Terrorism Course...

By Anna Stanley
A former civil servant, Anna Stanley reports on a counter-terrorism course she attended which she... Read more >

Universities in Crisis | What three American University...

By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson is emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His Hate Speech... Read more >

Opinion | ‘From the River to the Sea’...

By Aviva Winton
‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is a new attempt to... Read more >

Gaza After Hamas | ‘The idea of Hamas...

By Gershon Baskin
Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Jack Omer-Jackaman speak to renowned writer and peace activist Gershon... Read more >

‘I had never witnessed such barbarism before’: Major...

By Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz is a journalist at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, having worked previously at... Read more >

Poem | October | by Adi Keissar

By Adi Keissar
In 2018, Fathom interviewed Adi Keissar, an Israeli poet of Yeminite descent and founder of... Read more >

The ‘Ben Gurion Canal’: A new crazy anti-Israeli...

By Jonas Hessenauer
Jonas Hessenauer is a social scientist and researcher on antisemitism. He is currently working at... Read more >

Comparing the Hamas Pogrom of 7 October to...

By Ingo Elbe and Enrico Pfau
Ingo Elbe and Enrico Pfau of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg map the several... Read more >

“America needs to maintain a balance of power...

By Jonathan Rynhold
Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor speaks to Professor Jonathan Rynhold, head of the department of... Read more >

Opinion | Gaza After Hamas | Wanted: Two-State...

By Paul Gross
If you think the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, perpetrated by the... Read more >

No one believes that any criticism of Israel...

By David Schraub
David Schraub is Assistant Professor of Law at Lewis and Clark Law School. He responds... Read more >

Opinion | I am a Zionist because I...

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Zionism, Israel and... Read more >

‘When Iran says “death to Israel”, it means...

By Behnam Ben Taleblu
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a native Farsi speaker, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for... Read more >

A False Sense of Security, Effective Shield or...

By Azriel Bermant
Israel has established an integrated system spanning the entire country to address multiple threats, activating... Read more >

Opinion | The Paradigm Shift of 7 October...

By Sara Hirschhorn
‘What have we learned since 7 October?’, asks Sara Hirschhorn. Her reply: that the West... Read more >

Book Review | In the Shadow of the...

By Alex Stein
A few years ago, I built a special tour for a group of Diaspora Jews... Read more >

Fathom Long Read | Political Antisemitism Explained

By Bernard Harrison
Bernard Harrison’s book Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion (Indiana University Press, 2020) is, we... Read more >

“What makes the Palestinian predicament special is displacement,...

By Shany Mor
Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Calev Ben Dor talk to Dr Shany Mor, lecturer in... Read more >

In Memory of Vivian Silver (1949-2023)

By Amal Elsana Alh’jooj
Vivian Silver was a universally admired Israeli peace activist who advocated for Palestinian rights. She... Read more >

“Israelis and Palestinians don’t fully recognise the trauma...

By John Lyndon
Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Jack Omer-Jackaman speak with John Lyndon, Executive Director of ALLMEP... Read more >

Gaza After Hamas: A Proposal for a Palestinian...

By Solon Solomon
Solon Solomon is Assistant Professor at Brunel University London and former member of the Knesset... Read more >

“Hamas was expecting Hezbollah to follow… Hezbollah and...

By Hanin Ghaddar
Fathom editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor talk to Lebanon expert Hanin Ghaddar, Friedman Senior... Read more >

Universities in Crisis | The Professors and the...

By Derek Spitz
This essay seeks to register and understand the deeper causes of the appalling reaction of... Read more >

Universities in Crisis | ‘We need to reckon...

By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson argues that Lara Sheehi’s comments over recent weeks have provided a roadmap for... Read more >

Universities in Crisis | Glorifying Atrocities: The Case...

By David Litman
David M. Litman examines Brown University and its Center for Middle East Studies (CMES). After... Read more >

Universities in Crisis | Open Letter to the...

By Paul Frosh
Paul Frosh is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew... Read more >

Universities in Crisis | Opinion: There is no...

By Stuart Kamenetsky
Stuart Kamenetsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His opinion piece... Read more >