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"What worries me most is the lack of a plan for the day after Hamas" | Fathom Interview: Dr Rob...

By Rob Geist Pinfold
Fathom Deputy Editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor talk to Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, Lecturer in Peace and... Read more > November 2023

In Defence of the Jewish People: A Christian Priest Reflects on 7 October

By Revd Ray Gaston
Revd Ray Gaston has been involved in grassroots interfaith dialogue and action as an Anglican priest throughout his... Read more > November 2023

Fathom Long Read | Lethal Journalism and the Pattern: Why the World Fell for Hamas’ Al Ahli Lie

By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is author of Can ‘The Whole World’ Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (2022)... Read more > November 2023

‘The ISIS-ization of Hamas is a threat not only to Israel but to everyone’: Interview with IDF Lieutenant Colonel Avichay...

By Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz is a journalist at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, having worked previously at the Qatari... Read more > November 2023

Opinion | Beyond the Carnage: Credo of a democratic Zionist

By Sam Shube
A member of Kibbutz Nir Am near Gaza, and outgoing executive Director of the Hagar Association which operates... Read more > November 2023

Book Review | Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

By Liam Hoare
At the time of another episode in the Israel-Hamas conflict, Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Amos Oz opened... Read more > November 2023

Celebrating Terror – new research indicates a radicalisation of antisemitic discourse about Israel online in the wake of the Hamas...

By Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton, of the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Berlin‘s Technische Universität introduces the centre’s Decoding Antisemitism... Read more > November 2023

Gaza After Hamas: How to Win the Peace

By Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is Director of Labour Friends of Israel. He argues here for an urgent international plan for... Read more > November 2023

Human Rights Watch: Destructive Agenda, Token Balance

By Gerald M. Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg is emeritus professor of politics at Bar Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor. The... Read more > November 2023

“I am happy Netanyahu is indecisive” | Fathom Interview: Dr Ahron Bregman

By Ahron Bregman
Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Jack Omer-Jackaman talk to Dr Ahron Bregman, Senior Teaching Fellow at King's College... Read more > October 2023

‘Daddy, Daddy, God, why am I alive?’ | A harrowing report from a journalist who watched raw footage of the...

By Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz was among the international journalists invited to watch the raw footage of the atrocities committed by... Read more > October 2023

Archive | Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the Anti-Zionist Subject (2015)

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. He published this chapter in 2015 in The... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | After the Hamas Pogrom, we can see what American Universities have become

By Gabriel Noah Brahm
Gabriel Noah Brahm is Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University and Visiting Researcher in... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Why Don’t Israeli Women Count for ‘UN Women’?

By Hamutal Gouri
An open letter signed by dozens of women’s groups from Israel and around the world criticises the failure... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Israeli military action to defeat Hamas is proportionate to the threat from Hamas

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. What is meant by ‘proportionality’ in war? Let’s... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | A ceasefire would normalise the pogrom

By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson argues that those calling for a ceasefire ignore, are ignorant of, or are unconcerned by the... Read more > October 2023

Archive | Six Myths about Hamas (2014)

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. He gave this speech in 2014, after the... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | ‘A new turning point in the history of the State of Israel. Most people don’t understand that’

By Giora Eiland
In a briefing, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, Strategic Planning... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | For the Total Defeat of Hamas, Against the ‘Total Siege’ of Gaza

By Alan Johnson & Jack Omer-Jackaman
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – and Jack Omer-Jackaman are editors of Fathom. Israel is at war. A war... Read more > October 2023

Diary from Jerusalem | Susi Doring Preston | Safe but broken

By Susi Doring Preston
In a beautifully written heartfelt diary from Jerusalem, Susi Doring Preston, a mother of four and high-tech professional,... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | The battle-lines are clear. Which side are you on?

By Joe Schwartz
In this impassioned piece, Joe Schwartz places the Hamas pogrom in the context of Jewish history - the... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | The pro-Israel case against a ground invasion of Gaza

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Walking the thin (red) line

By Samuel Lebens
In a Facebook musing, Israeli-British philosopher Samuel Lebens argues that the current war with Hamas is justified, but... Read more > October 2023

‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism:... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Israel was unprepared on three levels: strategically, operationally and tactically. We must now defeat, not just contain, Hamas

By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser was chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence, and until recently, director general of... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | The war in Israel/Palestine

By Alliance for Workers' Liberty
The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL), a UK radical socialist organisation, posted this statement on 8 October 2023. ... Read more > October 2023

Book Review | Challenging the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Twenty Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns

By Kenneth Waltzer
This collection of essays prepared by Ronnie and Lola Fraser, veteran British anti-BDS activists, assesses how friends of... Read more > October 2023

Summer / 2023

The Democratic Socialists of America just endorsed ethnic murder

Democratic Socialism, Israel and the Jews: An Interview with Michael Harrington (1975), with new preface by Mitchell Cohen (2020)

Towards Israel-Saudi Normalisation?

Book Review | Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation

An Open Letter from Jewish Scholars about Today’s Intellectual Environment

The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?

Israel and the Haredim – Between integration and separatism: A Review Essay

13 Ways for Israel to securely create a better status quo

Fathom eBook: Birthing Zionism – Studies of 19th-century British Christian Zionists: George Eliot, Laurence Oliphant and Rev. William Hechler

A good principle misapplied: the case for thinking again about the Jamie Driscoll decision

The Zionist Case for a Divided Jerusalem

Autumn / 2023

"What worries me most is the lack of a plan for the day after Hamas" | Fathom Interview: Dr Rob...

In Defence of the Jewish People: A Christian Priest Reflects on 7 October

Fathom Long Read | Lethal Journalism and the Pattern: Why the World Fell for Hamas’ Al Ahli Lie

‘The ISIS-ization of Hamas is a threat not only to Israel but to everyone’: Interview with IDF Lieutenant Colonel Avichay...

Opinion | Beyond the Carnage: Credo of a democratic Zionist

Book Review | Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

Celebrating Terror – new research indicates a radicalisation of antisemitic discourse about Israel online in the wake of the Hamas...

Gaza After Hamas: How to Win the Peace

Human Rights Watch: Destructive Agenda, Token Balance

“I am happy Netanyahu is indecisive” | Fathom Interview: Dr Ahron Bregman

‘Daddy, Daddy, God, why am I alive?’ | A harrowing report from a journalist who watched raw footage of the...

Archive | Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the Anti-Zionist Subject (2015)

Opinion | After the Hamas Pogrom, we can see what American Universities have become

Opinion | Why Don’t Israeli Women Count for ‘UN Women’?

Opinion | Israeli military action to defeat Hamas is proportionate to the threat from Hamas

Opinion | A ceasefire would normalise the pogrom

Archive | Six Myths about Hamas (2014)

Opinion | ‘A new turning point in the history of the State of Israel. Most people don’t understand that’

Opinion | For the Total Defeat of Hamas, Against the ‘Total Siege’ of Gaza

Diary from Jerusalem | Susi Doring Preston | Safe but broken

Opinion | The battle-lines are clear. Which side are you on?

Opinion | The pro-Israel case against a ground invasion of Gaza

Opinion | Walking the thin (red) line

‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide

Opinion | Israel was unprepared on three levels: strategically, operationally and tactically. We must now defeat, not just contain, Hamas

Opinion | The war in Israel/Palestine

Book Review | Challenging the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Twenty Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns

My peoples, our children

The Imperative of Liberal Zionism: A Response to Anthony Julius’ essay ‘Whither Liberal Zionism?'

TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 3): Agenda Broadcasting from Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files

The ‘Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’: A New Stage in the Degradation of the American University

Fathom Collection Published by Routledge Press

Winter / 2022

Book Review | Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity

Book Review | British Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Israel’s Histadrut

Opinion | Western Democracies Face Two Threats: The Tyranny of the Majority and The Tyranny of the Minority

‘A gamechanger in Israel’s relationship with Egypt and cooperation with the EU’: The geopolitics of Israel’s natural gas fields

‘For peace, a political agreement between politicians is not enough’ | An interview with Noor A’wad, Palestinian activist with Roots

Book Review| Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons

Book Review | Victorious

Open letter to The George Washington University regarding allegations of antisemitism

Small Vote, Great Power: Rabbi Tau, Avi Maoz, the Noam Party and the Threat to Equal Rights in Israel

Opinion | Judicial Reform is needed to preserve the legitimacy of Israeli democracy

Archive | Menachem Begin on Law and Democracy

When Discourse about Israel Becomes Antisemitic: A Guide for the Perplexed

‘If these ideas get implemented, it will be a major shift. Israel will become a different country’: An Interview with...

A World War and a Jewish War: Derek Penslar reviews Dan Diner

Book Review | Ten Years Hard Labour

Defending Israel’s Legitimacy: Proposals for a reborn Ministry of Strategic Affairs

Book Review | Bibi, My Story

The Annual Fathom Lecture 2022 | Why we should all be Zionists if we want peace

The Progressive Friend of Israel in the era of Ben Gvir: Prospects and Tasks

Lessons from Germany’s Social Democrats for the Israeli Labor Party

Fathom at 10: Celebrating our first decade

Opinion | Navigating China’s Security Presence in the Middle East and North Africa

Judicial Reform is Not Dangerous for Israeli Democracy – it is Essential

Yet again, the Courts find for John Ware and his BBC Panorama documentary 'Is Labour Antisemitic?'

Book Review | Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

The Three Best Books by Israeli Writers (Not Called Oz, Grossman, or Yehoshua), recommended by Liam Hoare

The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How Should the West Respond

Judicial Reform and the Implications for Israeli Democracy

'Politically homeless': Yamina voters tell their story

‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary America

Book Review | Bibi: My Story

Spring / 2023

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | The Disorientations of Lethal Journalism: On Western Media and the Arab-Israeli Conflict