In this week’s highlight – a preview of the upcoming tenth issue of Fathom – Professor Cary Nelson, co-editor of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, aims to move the international conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict towards practical steps to create a ‘two-state dynamic’. He sets out a detailed proposal for a multi-staged Israeli withdrawal from major portions of the West Bank and interim measures to increase Palestinian self governance and nation-building in the absence of a final status peace agreement.

Our Image of the Week is of Jonathan Freedland in Conversation with Israeli Opposition and Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog at the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’.

Out Voice of the Week is a panel discussion on Iran at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference. Participants were: Sir Richard Dalton (Chatham House), Emily Landau (INSS), Meir Javendanfar (Iran-Israel Observer), Shashank Joshi (RUSI) and Sima Shine (Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs).

Other videos from the conference which are available are:

Isaac Herzog in conversation with Jonathan Freedland,Yair Lapid in conversation with Bronwen Maddox,Lord Sacks: ‘If we stand together against religious persecution, we win’ and a speech by Shaul Mofaz. The remaining recordings from the conference will be uploaded shortly.

Multi-stage Coordinated Unilateralism: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm

by Cary Nelson