Fathom 5
By Fathom Editors
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Sderot: the bomb shelter capital of the world
By Alan Craig
Since 2000 the city of Sderot has been a target of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into...
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Winter 2014
The unwelcome arrival of the quenelle
By Dave Rich
When the Premier League footballer Nicolas Anelka celebrated a goal by performing a quenelle salute he touched off...
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Winter 2014
Holocaust Inversion and contemporary antisemitism
By Lesley Klaff
One of the cruellest aspects of the new antisemitism is its perverse use of the Holocaust as a...
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Winter 2014
Israel’s Arab citizens and the struggle for equality
By Joshua Muravchik
'Israel Apartheid Week’ is looming on campuses worldwide. In fact, as this edited extract from a new ebook...
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Winter 2014
Revisiting Isaac Deutscher
By Martyn Hudson
The Polish historian and socialist Isaac Deutscher coined the term ‘the non-Jewish Jew’ to celebrate the tradition of...
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Winter 2014
The new Bedouin politics
By Safa Abu-Rabia
An exciting new Bedouin Arab leadership is emerging in Israel’s Negev region. Younger, feminist, critical of both state...
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Winter 2014
The Politics of Benjamin Netanyahu: an interview with Aluf Benn
By Aluf Benn
Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief of Haaretz newspaper spoke to Fathom Editor Alan Johnson about the politics and...
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Winter 2014
We must divide the land: an interview with Isaac Herzog
By Isaac Herzog
The newly elected Labour leader Isaac Herzog sat down with Fathom to discuss what the Britain-Israel relationship means...
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Winter 2014
The Geneva deal and Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
By Ben Cohen
Amid the fanfare about the interim agreement reached in Geneva in November 2013 over Iran’s nuclear programme –...
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Winter 2014
The legacy of Ariel Sharon: an interview with David Landau
By David Landau
Few individuals have had more impact on the history of the state of Israel than its former Prime...
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Winter 2014
Sakhir the Rock Opera: an interview with Yariv Ben-Yehuda
By Yariv Ben-Yehuda
Yariv Ben-Yehuda is the co-creator, along with Erez Cohen of the rock opera Sakhir, a high-octane romp through...
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Winter 2014
Do look back: Lou Reed’s Jewish soul music
By Steven Lee Beeber
When I was writing my book about the Jewish origins of punk, The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s, I referred...
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Winter 2014
Film Review: Bethlehem vs. Omar
By Yair Raveh
The media pitted one against the other. It was indeed a catchy story: two films from two sides...
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Winter 2014
The fruits of Arab labour: an interview with Sayed Kashua
By Sayed Kashua
Sayed Kashua is the creator of the hugely popular Israeli television sitcom Arab Labour and one of the...
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Winter 2014
Book Review: Rebels Against Zion
By David Hirsh
In the first half of the 20th century, most Jews failed to find their way to a successful...
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Winter 2014
Book Review: Moynihan’s Moment
By Michael Allen
The eminent political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset described Daniel P. Moynihan as ‘the prescient politician’ for his suggestion,...
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Winter 2014
Book Review: Like Dreamers
By Liam Hoare
Israel, as Amos Oz once observed, was born out of a spectrum of dreams and visions, blueprints and...
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Winter 2014
Book Review: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
By Colin Shindler
In his autobiography, Chaim Weizmann commented that Theodor Herzl was ‘not of the people’ despite being an inspiring...
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Winter 2014
Book Review: Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
By Peter Ryley
The inclusion of the anarchist Emma Goldman in the Yale University Press Jewish Lives series is to be...
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Winter 2014
Fathom 4
By Fathom Editors
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The view from outside
By Yigal Shtayim
The tools that citizens are using to advance human rights in Tel Aviv and beyond are evolving. A...
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Autumn 2013
Rules of Engagement
By Richard Pater
An Israeli Defence Force reservist recounts a day patrolling the southern Hebron hills of the West Bank. It’s...
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Autumn 2013
UNRWA: an obstacle to peace?
By Einat Wilf
For the sake of peace, reform of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is urgently needed,...
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Autumn 2013
Women, the Wall and the Struggle for Jewish Pluralism in Israel
By Noa Sattath
Women of the Wall has been challenging Orthodox religious authorities for over 25 years by praying at the...
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Autumn 2013
Time to End Palestinian Incitement
By David Pollock
The glorification of violence in Palestinian Authority media must be addressed if peace talks are to succeed. Even...
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Autumn 2013
Social Justice in Israel
By Tali Nir and Marc Grey
How much social justice can we really expect from the Nineteenth Knesset? The Association for Civil Rights in...
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Autumn 2013
Restoring our glorious tradition
By Dov Lipman
The growing size of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) population, and its self-imposed isolation from the worlds of military service...
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Autumn 2013
Hezbollah as a Criminal Organisation
By Matthew Levitt
The radical Shiite Lebanese organisation Hezbollah may be best known for its armed activities, but it also runs...
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Autumn 2013
Twenty years after Oslo: peace now?
By Toby Greene
Was Israel’s attempt to resolve its dispute with the Palestinians through bilateral negotiations with the PLO doomed from...
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Autumn 2013
Two States is Common Sense
By Hitham Kayali
The one-state solution is a mirage. Only the two state solution can meet the national aspirations of both...
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Autumn 2013
Hilik Bar MK on the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
By Hilik Bar
Hilik Bar MK is Secretary General of the Israeli Labour Party, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and...
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Autumn 2013
The Making of Within the Eye of the Storm: an interview with Bassam Aramin, Rami Elhanan and Shelley Hermon
By Alan Johnson
Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, a Palestinian and Israeli, were once dedicated fighters willing to kill and be...
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Autumn 2013
On Jerusalem: an interview with Danny Seidemann
By Danny Seidemann
Daniel Seidemann is an Israeli attorney specialising in Israeli-Palestinian relations in Jerusalem. He is the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem,...
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Autumn 2013
Christianophobia: an interview with Rupert Shortt
By Rupert Shortt
Rupert Shortt is the author of Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack and religion editor of the Times Literary...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: Menachem Begin: A Life
By Steven J. Zipperstein
'Had there been telephones back then,’ recalled a close aide years later, ‘Begin would never have survived his...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: The Tragedy of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
By Henry Srebrnik
The Tragedy of a Generation, states the book’s dust jacket, is ‘the story of the rise and fall...
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Autumn 2013
Letting the right one in: the rise of the Israeli horror film
By Yair Raveh
This has got to be the most surprising, and thrilling, of all trends to have ever emerged in...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One
By Andrei S. Markovits
Growing up in the West Romanian town of Timisoara in the 1950s as the only child of a...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: The Invention of the Land of Israel
By Israel Bartal
Shlomo Sand’s political treatise, The Invention of the Land of Israel, is another link in his larger project...
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Autumn 2013
Fathom 2
By Fathom Editors
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Article
There is a future with Yair Lapid
By Benjy Goldberg
Yesh Atid have brought a reforming passion to Israeli politics. Yair Lapid and his party are prepared for...
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Spring 2013
Yair Lapid is the heart of all things: a view from the Centre
By Gil Messing
The success of Yesh Atid, winning 19 Knesset seats just one year after its formation is politically dramatic...
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Spring 2013
A new country: a view from the Left
By Jo-Ann Mort
Jerusalem, January 25. The gloomy narrative that Israel’s soul had been captured by the settlers and the ideological...
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Spring 2013
Success in politics: a view from the Right
By Yisrael Medad
In the elections for Israel’s 19th Knesset the success of Benjamin Netanyahu almost proved to be his downfall....
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Spring 2013
Israel’s economy: the in-tray
By Alex Brummer
From reforming the banks to the crisis in the Eurozone, from increasing Haredi employment to reducing social inequality,...
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Spring 2013
Obama’s second term: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not yet soluble
By Joshua Muravchik
There is no alternative to the two-state solution, but neither party is yet in a position to make...
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Spring 2013
Obama’s second term: empower the nation-builders not the extremists
By Hussein Ibish
Salam Fayyad’s institution-building program remains the only policy available to lay the groundwork for a successful two-state outcome....
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Spring 2013
No blank cheques: Morsi and Hamas
By Benedetta Berti
Relations between Egypt and Hamas have improved under Morsi. But he has issued no blank cheque and continuity...
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Spring 2013
UK-Israel-Palestine and the new age of the city
By Liam Byrne
We are entering a new urban age, so let’s build world class partnerships between the great hubs of...
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Spring 2013
The right to democracy
By Amnon Rubinstein
There is a paradox at the heart of human rights discourse – its failure to recognise the right...
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Spring 2013
Why don’t the Arabs of Israel vote more?
By Mohammad Darawshe
A new study by the Abraham Fund Initiatives is optimistic about the potential to increase Arab participation in...
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Spring 2013
Needed: a paradigm shift in the ‘Middle East Peace Process’
By Shlomo Avineri
Almost twenty years after the signing of the Oslo Agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the...
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Spring 2013
The Syrian civil war
By Jonathan Spyer
The end of the Assad regime will probably not mark the end of the civil war but a...
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Spring 2013
Alibi Antisemitism
By Norman Geras
Israel has been made an alibi for a new climate of antisemitism on the left. In Marx’s essay...
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Spring 2013
The New Arab Politics
By Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi
Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi is the co-founder and general director of an Israeli NGO, Injaz Center for Professional Arab Local...
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Spring 2013
Israel’s Jazz Scene: an interview with Eli Degibri
By Eli Degibri
Eli Degibri is an Israeli Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He is the co-Artistic Director of the Red...
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Spring 2013
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: an interview with Emanuele Ottolenghi
By Emanuele Ottolenghi
Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. His most recent book,...
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Spring 2013
Israel has a narrative that can resonate: an interview with David Horovitz
By David Horovitz
David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel, a current affairs website based in Jerusalem...
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Spring 2013
Head to Head: Yossi Beilin and Ephraim Sneh on the Iranian nuclear threat
By Yossi Beilin and Ephraim Sneh
Israeli policy makers across the political spectrum agree that Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be a major...
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Spring 2013
In praise of compromise: Simon Round interviews Amos Oz
By Simon Round
Amos Oz has lived through every one of Israel’s wars and fought in two of them. He has...
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Spring 2013
The Making of The Gatekeepers: an interview with Dror Moreh
By Dror Moreh
Dror Moreh is the director of the Academy Award nominated Israeli documentary The Gatekeepers, a rare insight into...
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Spring 2013
The making of the law in these parts: an interview with director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
By Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
The Israeli documentary The Law in these Parts won the Sundance 2012 World Cinema Grand Jury Documentary Prize...
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Spring 2013
Deathbed the Musical
By Liat Har-Gil
Israeli animation graduate Liat Har-Gil from Rosh Ha’ayen won the 2012 Faith Shorts, the global film competition of...
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Spring 2013
Israel reinvents the documentary
By Yair Raveh
The Gatekeepers is a masterpiece in a landmark year for Israeli documentaries. The last fifteen years have seen...
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Spring 2013
Can two walk together?
By A.B Yehoshua
An extract from a play by A.B. Yehoshua. Translated by David Janner-Klausner and adapted for stage by Amy...
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Spring 2013
Book Review: Israel’s Death Hierarchy
By Avi Kober
This is an excellent account of Israeli casualty aversion by one of Israel’s leading military sociologists. At the...
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Spring 2013
Book Review: Beyond Occupation
By Robbie Sabel
The book is a brief for the claim that Israeli practices in the territories amount to ‘a crime...
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Spring 2013
Book Review: Moshe Dayan: Israel’s controversial hero
By Shany Mor
Occasionally in the history of nations a character emerges who seems to personify the nation itself, not so...
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Spring 2013
Book Review: Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
By Alan Johnson
The cultural theorist Judith Butler has written what she intends as a critique of Zionism derived from Jewish...
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Spring 2013
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