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Fathom Highlight | Israel-Democratic Party relations / 23 October / 2019

Our Fathom Highlight this week features three pieces. Yossi Kuperwasser argues that regardless of whether Israel’s policy was wise, the most important aspect of the Rashida Tlaib and Ilan Omar Affair was what it revealed about shifting relations between Israel and the Democratic Party. William Kolbrener invites readers to conceptualise BDS as a movement cultivating an anti-Western sensibility that seeks to undermine liberal democratic institutions and the convictions upholding them. And, Michael Sercan Daventry reviews Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey by Hannah Lucinda Smith.

Our Image of the Week is people participating in the International Bible Marathon, West Bank, 18 October.

Our Voice of the Week is co-founder and research director at the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation Ladan Boroumand honouring the memory of civilians murdered by the Iranian regime. Interested readers can listen to a full conversation with Ladan here.

The Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Affair - what we learned about the Democratic Party

by Yossi Kuperwasser | October 23, 2019

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Regardless of whether Israel’s policy was wise, the most important aspect of the affair was what it revealed about shifting relations between Israel and the Democratic party, argues Yossi Kuperwasser. Israel's decision to deny two new Democratic members of the US Congress, Rashida Tlaib from Michigan and Ilhan Omar from Minnesota, an entry visa to visit ‘Palestine’ (the name of a state that does not exist in reality and according to Israel and the United States), or, in fact, the...
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The BDS mindset is a challenge to liberal democracy here, as well as in Israel. Centrists must defend a precious inheritance.
by William Kolbrener

William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University and the author of several books including Milton’s Warring Angels. Developing further his critique in Fathom...
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Book review | Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
by Michael Sercan Daventry

When the US announced that it was pulling out of northeast Syria and Turkish forces began pouring in, the world reacted with horror. How could...
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