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7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination

By John Ware
Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas... Read more > July 2024

‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report

By Gerald M. Steinberg
The systematic omission of Hamas’ massive underground terror infrastructure from the 2024 Human Rights Watch Gaza report, part... Read more > July 2024

Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World”... Read more > July 2024

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

By Seth Frantzman
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on Wednesday, July 17, setting off alarms in the coastal city of Nahariya... Read more > July 2024

Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer

By Stephen de Wijze
Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. He writes in praise... Read more > July 2024

Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself

By Dan Perry
Dan Perry was the Cairo-based Middle East Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. He also... Read more > July 2024

The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky

By Izabella Tabarovsky
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for... Read more > July 2024

The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare

By Liam Hoare
Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David... Read more > July 2024

Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

By Philip Earl Steele
On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book... Read more > July 2024

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld

By Yair Hirschfeld
In the third episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Yair Hirschfeld recalls... Read more > June 2024

‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. This chapter was first published in Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic... Read more > June 2024

Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace

By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki is a co-founder and editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books and a visiting fellow... Read more > June 2024

Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon

By BICOM
In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi about the situation on... Read more > June 2024

Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation

By Paul Gross
Centrism is ‘the antidote to the extremism and sustained attacks on liberal democracy that are sweeping much of... Read more > June 2024

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

By Philip Mendes
Philip Mendes is Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social... Read more > June 2024

Spring / 2025

Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | Israel's Secular Days of Awe

The Holocaust and Inherited Memory: How we Remember in the 21st Century

Book Review | Forgotten Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

Antisemitic Terrorism and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 6: "We should adopt a gradual formula that what is...

From Johns Hopkins to Beirut, and from Beirut to Columbia: a history of the 'settler colonialism' charge

Book Review | The Holy and the Broken - A Cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be...

Reversing the victims and perpetrators of racism: the use of blaming the victim strategies to minimise and deny the antisemitism...

The Oslo Years | A Diary

A Tale of Two 'Marches'

Book Review | Peter Beinart's 'Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning'

Traditionalist interfaith reconciliation: a necessity for regional peace

The AAUP and the BDS Black Hole

Bitesize | Why I am pulling out of the Israeli Government antisemitism conference

Dispatch from Damascus

Opinion | An Elementary Truth: Gaza is Palestinian

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 5: A conversation with Koby Huberman

Opinion | Israel's futile policy towards Russia

Autumn / 2024

The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine

2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah

‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking

The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews

Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large

7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP

Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of...

Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal

The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius

Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology

Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society

The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...

The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative

Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again

How Oslo could solve Gaza

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Day 332

Opinion | It is never a good idea for British foreign policy to be dictated by domestic political concerns, as...

Opinion | The British Government Must Not Abandon Israel

Opinion | Labour is trying to appease the unappeasable, deserting our true friends in the process

The Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes

Summer / 2024

7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination

‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report

Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer

Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself

The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky

The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare

Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld

‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October

Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace

Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon

Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt

What kind of victory does Israel need? - An Interview with Azar Gat

Dispatch from the scene of a massacre

Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism

Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’

Opinion | Haredi Conscription: Lessons for Israel from Pre-Revolutionary Russia

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