New Issue of Fathom
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27 October
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2014
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Welcome to a new issue of Fathom and a new website!
The editors are proud to announce the launch of a new-look and ‘fully responsive’ Fathom website.
It looks great whether you are using a PC, tablet or mobile phone.
The new bumper issue of the journal (No.8 /Autumn 2014) contains expert analysis, informed opinion and genuine debate about Israel and the region from Gadi Taub, Dani Dayan, Lior Amihai, Mohammed Darawshe ,Lyn Julius, Habib C. Malik, Ruth Amossy, Toby Greene, Ben Cohen, Benjamin Pogrund, Jonathan Spyer, Paul Gross, Einat Wilf, Sapan Maini-Thompson , Mordechai Kedar, Joshua Muravchik, Noga Emanuel, Dave Rich, Jacob Eriksson, Andrei Steven Markovits, and Robert Fine.
We hope that you enjoy both the new issue and the website and, as ever, welcome your feedback, ideas, and submissions.
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In Defence of Zionism
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Gadi Taub
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A new Tikva for all Israelis
by Benjamin Pogrund
Benjamin Pogrund argues that revising the national anthem could be an important symbolic step towards achieving the integration of Israel’s Arab citizens in Israeli society....
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Britain’s reaction to Operation Protective Edge
by Toby Greene
The UK’s response to the recent Gaza conflict demonstrates, not for the first time, the role that domestic politics and public opinion can play in...
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Palestinian politics after the Gaza conflict: Ben Cohen interviews David Pollock
by Ben Cohen
Where is Palestinian politics going? Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen talked to David Pollock. Hamas ‘It's not unreasonable and it's actually instructive in some respects,’...
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Winning the media war
by Einat Wilf
Einat Wilf’s regular column – dispatches from a roving ambassador for Israel – asks how to win the battle of ideas and images waged in...
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Givat Haviva and the pursuit of a shared society
by Mohammad Darawshe
Mohammad Darawshe, the Co-Executive Director of the Givat Haviva Institute, spoke to a Fathom Forum in September 2014 about how to tackle the inequality and...
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Settlements and the Two-State Solution: Alan Johnson interviews Lior Amihai
by Lior Amihai
Settlement construction beyond Israel’s internationally recognised borders is a controversial topic within Israel and often the subject of international criticism and concern. Fathom Editor Alan...
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Settlements and the Two-State Solution: Lorin Bell-Cross interviews Dani Dayan
by Dani Dayan
Settlement construction is a controversial topic within Israel and is often the subject of international criticism and concern. Fathom Assistant Editor Lorin Bell-Cross spoke with...
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IS and the incoherence of Western policy
by Jonathan Spyer
The West wants to destroy IS but it has neither allies on the ground nor a grasp of the dynamics of the conflict unfolding in...
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Book Review | Drawing Fire: Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel
by Robert Fine
It is a feature of our times that certain aspects of what Israel has become – notably its occupation of Palestine and its colonial-like domination...
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Book Review | Israel and the World Powers: Diplomatic Alliances and International Relations beyond the Middle East
by Jacob Eriksson
This volume comes at a particularly interesting time for Israel. The most recent war in Gaza has claimed the lives of over 2,100 Palestinians –...
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Book Review | Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism
by Dave Rich
First, the disclosure: Ben Cohen is a friend and comrade who was kind enough to invite me to his son’s bar mitzvah in Jerusalem this...
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Book Review | The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
by Andrei S. Markovits
The editors deserve major kudos for having compiled an impressive anthology featuring contributions in opposition to the deeply sordid, yet potentially potent, Boycott, Divestment and...
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How the World Turned Against Israel: an interview with Joshua Muravchik
by Joshua Muravchik
Israel was once the plucky underdog supported by Western public opinion, Left and Right. Today, it is the object of a global campaign to demonise...
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Rachel Shabi’s Mizrahi post-Zionism: a Critique
by Lyn Julius
The discrimination and injustice suffered by Mizrahi Jews in Israel has been used instrumentally by Rachel Shabi to attack Zionism itself. Lyn Julius of Harif...
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Why we keep getting the Middle East wrong
by Mordechai Kedar
Dr Mordechai Kedar spoke to a Fathom Forum in London in September 2014 about why so many Western commentators get Middle Eastern politics so wrong....
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After Gaza: the case for Israeli unilateralism
by Paul Gross
If the status quo is unsustainable and the grounds for a negotiated agreement are absent, at least for now, what should Israel do? Paul Gross...
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BDS vs. conflict-resolution
by Sapan Maini-Thompson
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement ignores a key principle of conflict-resolution: severing economic ties risks perpetuating political conflict. According to the Portland Trust,...
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The European Association of Israel Studies and the Academic Boycott
by Ruth Amossy, Denis Charbit and Nadia Ellis
The European Association of Israel Studies sparked controversy in September by requesting that a lecturer at Ariel University, located in a West Bank settlement, not identify his institutional...
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