This week’s Fathom Highlight is a new article by Professor Gerald Steinberg on the approach the Israeli government has adopted to tackle the threat of BDS and demonisation. Steinberg argues that a series of own-goals have created the impression of a powerful, aggressive government harassing weak NGOs, and an alternative approach, based on Israeli MKs and their counterparts in foreign parliaments creating a shared policy framework, is needed.

Our Voice of the Week is the full Radiohead concert in Israel, 19 July 2017.

Our Image of the Week is the light-and-sound show at the walls beneath the Tower of David in Jerusalem’s Old City. The show uses new laser technology by the British company Digital Projection, 5 September 2017.

The Israeli visa law and other own goals in the BDS wars

by Gerald M. Steinberg