Issue 13 of Fathom out now!
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20 June
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2016
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Undeclared Wars on Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1981: An Interview with Jeffrey Herf
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Jeffrey Herf
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London Calling: Why Mayor Sadiq Khan is ‘Good for the Jews’
by Marcus Roberts
‘Yes, but is it good for the Jews?’ goes the classic question, often used ironically, to ask what the effect of a given event will...
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Assessing the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Policy
by Grant Rumley and Adam Rasgon
Has the internationalisation strategy pushed by President Abbas transformed international public opinion and diplomacy and set the Palestinians on the path to statehood? Adam Rasgon...
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After Oslo’s failure, the two-state solution is now an international responsibility: an interview with Husam Zomlot
by Husam Zomlot
Husam Zomlot serves as ambassador-at-large for the state of Palestine and adjunct professor of Government at Birzeit University. He is founder and co-ordinator of the...
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‘Where is Syria going? A Round Table with Jonathan Spyer
by Jonathan Spyer
The Fathom editors hold a monthly invite-only round table discussion in our London office between a policy expert and a group of opinion-formers. In May,...
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Sykes and Picot ignored the sectarianism of the Middle East, and we are still paying the price
by Asher Susser
It is 100 years since the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement – the division of the territory of the Ottoman Empire into states overseen by...
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‘The greatest emissary the Jewish people ever had’: Asaf Siniver on Abba Eban
by Asaf Siniver
Asaf Siniver’s biography of Abba Eban tells the story of an entirely exceptional man who by the age of 35 was Israel's Ambassador to both...
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Darkenu: keeping the dream of Israel alive
by Polly Bronstein
Israel has a new organisation. Darkenu styles itself as the movement of Israel’s moderates. It’s leader Polly Bronstein argues that while Israel was created out...
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Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred
by Richard Landes
In this bracing polemic, the US academic Richard Landes argues that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls the ‘global progressive left’ – whatever the...
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Book Review│Doomed to Succeed: The US- Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
by David Lowe
On 12 May 1948, nearly six months after the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, United States President Harry...
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Book Review│Socialism of Fools: Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism
by Colin Shindler
The Italian academic, Michele Battini examines the gradual transformation of the traditional Christian anti-Semitic charge of usury into modern anti-Jewish anti-capitalism. Fuelled by the economic...
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Social Cohesion and the Future of Israel
by Mike Prashker
Mike Prashker, author of a forthcoming book, A Place for Us All – Social Cohesion and The Future of Israel, argues that healthier social cohesion...
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An Antisemitic Hoax: Lenni Brenner on Zionist ‘Collaboration’ With the Nazis
by Paul Bogdanor
The former mayor of London Ken Livingstone has defended his explosive claim that Adolf Hitler was ‘a Zionist’ by citing Lenni Brenner’s book Zionism in...
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Docaviv 2016 – The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
by Gavin Gross
This May witnessed the annual Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an event dedicated to the development and the promotion of the art of documentary...
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The Eloquence of Oriented: An interview with Jake Witzenfeld
by Jake Witzenfeld
Sitting in the Green Room at JW3, the London Jewish Community’s cultural centre, a jetlagged Jake Witzenfeld, director of the documentary Oriented, ran his...
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