For a deeper understanding of Israel and the region

Issue 9 of Fathom out now! / 09 March / 2015

Issue 9 of Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region is now available online.

 

Israel, Europe and the converging terror threat

by Amichai Magen

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Dr. Amichai Magen maps the increasing interconnectedness of the Islamist terror threats faced by Europe and Israel, and considers how policy makers can work together to keep their citizens safe. Not long ago, the sensible commuter in an average European city could reasonably assume that she was generally immune from the kind of security threats faced regularly by her friend living in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. By the beginning of 2015, the security ecosystem affecting Israelis and Europeans had converged...
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The Resistible Rise of Iran: an Interview with Michael Ledeen
by Ben Cohen

Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen spoke with the historian and analyst Michael Ledeen about US foreign policy towards the Iranian regime.  An opponent of the...
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Book Review | Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance
by David Hirsh

Social theorists sometimes enjoy treating the ‘now’ as the key turning point of history; they like it because it puts their own intellectual work of...
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The Future of the Israeli Right: An interview with Yoaz Hendel
by Yoaz Hendel

Israel’s upcoming election is being billed as a choice over the future ideological direction of the country. To discuss the vision being offered by the...
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‘There is no policy, we are on the edge of a volcano’: an interview with Efraim Halevy
by Efraim Halevy

Efraim Halevy was Director of Mossad from 1998 to 2002. Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. They spoke on 28 January 2015. Part 1:...
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‘Only a blind person would ignore the gravity of the threat which is emerging’: an interview with Dore Gold
by Dore Gold

To get a contrasting view on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s national security policy, Fathom deputy editor Toby Greene spoke with Dore Gold. A former Israeli ambassador to the...
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The resurgence of neo-traditionalism
by Asher Susser

Asher Susser explains the resurgence of tradition throughout the region and its political consequences  for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was speaking to a Fathom Forum...
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An Arab Social Worker in Israel
by Lamis Shibli Ghadir

Lamis Shibli Ghadir explains the challenges and the rewards of being an Arab social worker in the Ein Kerem Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Hadassah...
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The ideological roots of media bias against Israel
by Matti Friedman

On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner in London. Expanding on a widely-noted argument...
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Film Review: Dancing Arabs
by Gabriel Noah Brahm

A review of Dancing Arabs (Aravim Rokdim) by Eran Riklis (Director) and Sayed Kashua (screenwriter). The critically acclaimed 1996 film, Lone Star, directed by the...
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Anti-Judaism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism
by Eve Garrard

An edited speech given by Eve Garrard, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, to the Pears Institute for...
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Book Review | A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
by David Cesarani

Historian David Cesarani hails Alon Confino’s triumphant demonstration that anti-Jewish policies are within the realms of comprehension and that it is possible to find the...
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The Struggle over the Iranian Nuclear Programme
by Yossi Kuperwasser

It is incumbent on Israel to use all the diplomatic and political tools at its disposal to halt the signing of an accord with Iran...
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Book Review | The Hilltop
by Liam Hoare

The Hilltop is the first Israeli novel to chronicle the inner lives of the settlers that has been translated into English. It is the first...
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Book Review | Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel
by Michael Allen

700 British artists have announced that they are boycotting Israel until the ‘colonial oppression of Palestinians’ ends. In an open letter to the Guardian, the...
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Book Review | Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
by Colin Shindler

Berl Katznelson, one of Labour Zionism’s ideological founders described David Ben-Gurion as ‘history’s gift to the Jewish people.’ Anita Shapira rightly describes Israel’s first Prime...
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Israel’s Jane Austen: Irit Linur’s all too normal Israel
by Noga Emanuel

In 2002 the Israeli novelist Irit Linur wrote an open letter to the editor of Haaretz announcing that she had cancelled her subscription to the...
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