Opinion | Israel’s electoral crisis ends but the struggle for its soul goes on
By Toby Greene
Toby Greene is a former deputy editor of Fathom and author of Blair, Labour & Palestine: Conflicting Views on Middle...
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November 2022
Opinion | This defeat feels different. It feels fundamental. Now we must fight for the country we love
By Paul Gross
Paul Gross fears this will be the first coalition in Israeli history where a majority of its members...
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November 2022
Opinion | The Scapegoating of Yair Lapid
By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. ‘God’ said Mark Twain, ‘is the most popular scapegoat for our...
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November 2022
The Lust Libel: Sexual Antisemitism in History and Contemporary Culture
By Jonah Cohen
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That...
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November 2022
Book Review | Bibi: My Story
By Anshel Pfeffer
Back in 2017, I sat with a group of Israeli colleagues in a small hotel conference room in...
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November 2022
Fine margins and the Israeli Election – three that will determine the result
By Calev Ben-Dor
As Israelis head to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years, and with little...
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October 2022
Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? The UK mulls moving its Embassy
By Richard Pater
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss was reportedly mulling moving the British embassy to Jerusalem. Richard Pater argues...
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October 2022
‘Maybe he was the last of his kind’: A Conversation about Amos Oz with Nurith Gertz
By Liam Hoare
Liam Hoare talks to literary scholar Nurith Gertz about What Was Lost to Time (Hebrew), her biography of...
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October 2022
Appease or Confront? Western Policy Options and the Iranian Nuclear Bomb
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser served as head of the research division in the Israel Defence Force Military Intelligence division and...
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October 2022
A Party Transformed: How UK Labour is ripping Left Antisemitism out by its roots
By Luke Akehurst
In 2020, following Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, the UK Labour Party was found guilty by the Equalities and Human...
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October 2022
Why Amnesty is wrong to call Israel an ‘Apartheid State’
By Alan Johnson
[The] system of apartheid originated with the creation of Israel in May 1948. – Amnesty International’s Apartheid Report, 2022. ...
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October 2022
Jerusalem Film Festival 2022: On absences haunting films made years after their passing
By Tal Kra-Oz
Tal Kra-Oz is a writer based in Tel Aviv. His work has appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward...
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October 2022
The Rise of Itamar Ben Gvir
By Calev Ben-Dor
In the March 2020 elections Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party was shunned by other right wingers and...
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September 2022
Opinion | Time for the UN to rethink Palestine
By Alex Ryvchin
Alex Ryvchin is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and a member of...
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September 2022
Diary | The inaugural conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
By Kathleen Hayes
Kathleen Hayes is the author of the Fathom articles ‘Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir’ and ‘“Punch a...
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September 2022
Book Review | Peace and Faith: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Jonathan G. Campbell
This lengthy edited volume contains an introduction, sixteen chapters (organized into Parts I-III), appendix (on the history of...
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September 2022
Liz Truss’s world view and its implications for UK-Israel relations
By Toby Greene
‘Geopolitics is back’ Liz Truss has said. In what is the most thorough analysis of her world view...
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September 2022
Book Review | Breaking History: A White House Memoir
By Colin Shindler
Jared Kushner's account of his four years in the Trump White House produces several interesting revelations. It is...
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September 2022
Fathom eBook | Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020
By Fathom Editors
Fathom's new eBook, Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020, contains over 60 articles, reports and interviews. The editors believe it is the most comprehensive...
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September 2020
The IHRA Definition, Institutional Antisemitism, and Wittgenstein
By Eve Garrard
In the wake of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a variety of complaints...
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December 2020
Book Review | Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
By Paul Gross
The Director of the Mossad has to think geopolitically. He (and so far it has always been a...
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December 2020
Israel Without Sharon’s Coma: A Counterfactual History
By Calev Ben-Dor
How might the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have looked had Ariel Sharon not suffered two strokes that left him incapacitated?...
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December 2020
‘The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man.’ The tenacity of an anti-Zionist fable
By Shai Afsai
Some authors are unwilling to dispense with unsubstantiated stories, opting instead to put scholarly standards aside in their...
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December 2020
Fathom Long Read | Adorno and Iran: Critical Theory and Islamic Antisemitism
By Stephan Grigat
‘After Auschwitz’, said the German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno, we should embrace a new categorical imperative:...
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December 2020
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020): A Tribute
By Michael Wegier
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was a good friend to this journal, meeting with its editor when it was...
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December 2020
Opinion | Jews are asking for protection from their universities from antisemitism. David Feldman’s ‘All Lives Matter’ response is not...
By David Hirsh
This is a response to an article by David Feldman, ‘The government should not impose a faulty definition...
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December 2020
Fathom Podcast | Will Saudi Arabia make peace with Israel?
By Sir John Jenkins
In this podcast, Fathom's Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding speaks with Sir John Jenkins, a senior fellow at Policy...
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December 2020
Book Review | Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making
By Liam Hoare
In 2013, the New York-based Israeli novelist Rudy Namdar published The Ruined House. Both upon its initial Hebrew...
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December 2020
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People | An interview with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding spoke with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy about Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and...
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November 2020
The Unique Voice of Ruth Gavison (1945-2020)
By Alexander Yakobson
Alexander Yakobson is co-author with Amnon Rubinstein of Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and...
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November 2020
What Corbyn’s favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry get wrong about contemporary antisemitism
By Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton is the co-author with Frederick Harry Pitts of Corbynism: A Critical Approach, praised by Professor Paul...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘Biden will not reprise the acrimony of Barack Obama’s dealings with Israel. He may prove...
By Joshua Muravchik
A Biden administration carries the promise of restoring bipartisanship to support for the Jewish state, says Joshua Muravchik....
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | Don't expect to see the Obama/Kerry paradigm
By Robert Satloff
Robert Satloff, the Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argues that whilst the Middle...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘There is simply too much damage to repair around the world. The Israelis and the...
By Jo-Ann Mort
A Biden/Harris administration will seek to return foreign policy to the Obama track, but the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘The biggest challenge for US-Israeli relations will be Iran. The Biden team has been vague,...
By Jonathan Rynhold
While the theatrics of Biden and Netanyahu’s personal relationship may engage the attention of media pundits, policymakers will...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | The Abraham Accords shattered a policy paralysis and a cycle of failed mediation and negotiations...
By Alex Ryvchin
Trump’s decision to upend the failed foreign policy establishment orthodoxy about the Middle East Peace Process is being...
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November 2020
Diary from Ramat Gan | ‘The humanities classroom is one of the great achievements of Western civilisation’
By William Kolbrener
William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University. He has written widely on the literature, politics...
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November 2020
Corbyn is one man. Left-Wing Antisemitism is a Tradition
By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson, editor of Fathom and author of our 2019 Report Institutionally Antisemitic Contemporary Left Antisemitism and the...
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October 2020
Fathom Report | Institutionally Antisemitic: Contemporary Left Antisemitism and the Crisis in the British Labour Party
By Alan Johnson
This major Fathom report finds the Labour Party is now ‘institutionally antisemitic’ as the term is defined in...
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March 2019
Rabin’s 1989 Peace Initiative – When The Security Hawk First Displayed His Dovish Peace Policy
By Joel Singer
Joel Singer is the former Legal Adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry under the Yitzhak Rabin-Shimon Peres Government. He...
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October 2020
The Poverty of 'Anti-Zionism' and the Renewal of Zionism
By Alex Ryvchin
‘Anti-Zionism’ writes Alex Ryvchin, ‘has spawned White Papers that locked Jews in a Europe intent on killing them,...
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October 2020
Diary from Tel Aviv | Thinking in Quarantine
By Dahlia Scheindlin
Dahlia Scheindlin is a leading international public opinion analyst, a political consultant and a policy fellow at the Century Foundation; she...
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October 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS: Fathoming UK-Israel2021
By Fathom Editors
In 2021 Fathom will publish a set of articles about the UK-Israel relationship, to be collected into an eBook, and perhaps a...
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October 2020
Images of Israel in India
By Khinvraj Jangid
Dr Khinvraj Jangid is Director of the Centre for Israel Studies at Jindal School of International Affairs, OP...
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October 2020
Rereadings | The Arthur Hertzberg / Hugh Trevor-Roper Controversy about Antisemitism
By Bernard Harrison
Fathom is continuing its series of Rereadings, in which writers revisit classic texts, with Philosopher Bernard Harrison on...
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October 2020
Diary from Tel Aviv | Among the Furious Tribes in Lockdown Israel
By Calev Ben-Dor
Fathom is introducing a new kind of voice to our readers. From time to time we will publish...
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October 2020
Peter Beinart’s Grotesque Utopia
By Shany Mor
Peter Beinart’s essay ‘Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine’ saw him give up in the two-state...
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October 2020
Fathom eBook | Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020
By Fathom Editors
Fathom's new eBook, Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020, contains over 60 articles, reports and interviews. The editors believe it is the most comprehensive...
Read more >
September 2020
The UAE-Israel Deal: Like a Bridge Over Troubled Sands
By Koby Huberman
Koby Huberman is co-founder of the Israeli Regional Initiative Group, which advocates a regional approach for a two-state...
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September 2020
Communists for the Jewish State: British Communists and the Daily Worker in 1948
By John Strawson
'The British Mandate in Palestine is now ended and the Jewish State of Israel has been proclaimed …...
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September 2020
Opinions | What Bibi learned from Arik. And why it might still not be enough.
By Calev Ben-Dor
The prime minister is using Ariel Sharon’s old playbook to manage multiple crises: keep your hands on the...
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September 2020
Fathom Book Reviews
By Fathom Editors
The Fathom editorial team are seeking reviewers. If you would like to review one of the books below for Fathom,...
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January 2020
Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Abraham Accords have created space for a radical transformation in our thinking
By Koby Huberman
Koby Huberman argues the Abraham Accords have made possible a paradigm shift in the way we think of...
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April 2022
An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left
By Kathleen Hayes
Kathleen Hayes invites the ‘anti-Zionist’ Left to think again. For 25 years, I was a member of a...
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April 2022
Israel on Netflix | Maktub (2017)
By Noga Emanuel
Noga Emanuel kicks off our new irregular series looking at Israel on Netflix with her take on Maktub,...
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April 2022
British Christian Zionism (Part 3): Reverend William Hechler – from Hovevei Zion to Herzl and beyond
By Philip Earl Steele
Philip Earl Steele examines the contribution of Reverend William Hechler to the early Zionist movement and argues that...
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April 2022
Fathom Opinion | ‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’ is a dangerous lie. ‘Temple Denial’ is antisemitic historical revisionism. It’s time for...
By Richard L. Cravatts
Richard L. Cravatts is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Last week in Jerusalem,...
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April 2022
Understanding the recent terror attacks in Israel
By Ely Karmon
On 4 April deputy editor Samuel Nurding spoke with Dr Ely Karmon about the recent terrorist attacks in...
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April 2022
Diary | Back from the ‘Other Side’: Reflections on a Visit to the West Bank and East Jerusalem
By Mike Prashker
Mike Prashker is an Israeli educator, social entrepreneur, writer and public speaker. He founded MERCHAVIM – The Institute...
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April 2022
My Israeli Music | Tal Kra-Oz
By Tal Kra-Oz
Tal Kra-Oz is a writer based in Tel Aviv. Previous contributors to this series have done an excellent...
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April 2022
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai | An interview with Matti Friedman
By Matti Friedman
In early March, Fathom's deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sat down with Matti Friedman to discuss his new book,...
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March 2022
Book Review | Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
By Calev Ben-Dor
Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai is the latest in Matti Friedman’s wonderful array of books...
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March 2022
Israel Needs to Talk about the Arab Riots of May 2021
By Russell A. Shalev
In little more than a week in May 2021, Arab rioters set ablaze 10 synagogues and 112 Jewish...
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March 2022
Keir Starmer’s attempt to portray the Labour Party as having ‘closed the door’ on antisemitism is premature
By Euan Phillips
In 2021, after the EHRC-mandated rule changes to tackle antisemitism had been approved by his party, Sir Keir...
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March 2022
Fathom Opinion | The University of Toronto’s Antisemitism Problem
By Stuart Kamenetsky
Stuart Kamenetsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. The institution, he writes, has an...
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March 2022
Israel, Ukraine and the Right Side of History
By Dahlia Scheindlin
Dahlia Scheindlin, writing from Tel Aviv on 15 March, critically assesses the three reasons the Israeli government has...
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March 2022
Bennett, Putin and Zelensky: Between Mediation and Surrender
By Gerald M. Steinberg
Gerald M Steinberg is emeritus professor and founder of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar...
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March 2022
The Meaning of Shahd Abusalama
By Marc Goldberg
Marc Goldberg of the Community Security Trust, writing in a personal capacity, casts a concerned eye over some...
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March 2022
Amnesty International, Israel and Race-Baiting
By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson argues that Amnesty International’s report, by reducing a complex, political, national question involving two victim peoples...
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March 2022
Rejecting IHRA: The Avoidable Debacle at the University of Toronto
By David Matas and Aurel Braun
David Matas is an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg. The author of several books, he is...
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February 2022
The UK-Israeli trade relationship | An interview with Ian Austin
By Ian Austin
In this BICOM episode, Richard Pater speaks to Lord Ian Austin, UK Trade envoy to Israel, about his...
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February 2022
On Amnesty’s car-crash interview in Israel
By Shany Mor
When the two most senior Amnesty officials presented their new report in Israel they struggled to answer the...
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February 2022
The Three Best Recent Books on the Yishuv during the British Mandate, recommended by Donna Robinson Divine
By Donna Robinson Divine
Fathom has been inviting exerts to select their three favourite books about their subject. See Sara Hirschhorn on...
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February 2022
After Soleimani, is Iran losing control of its proxies?
By Danny Citrinowicz
The recent Houthi attack on strategic targets in the UAE has once again raised the issue of Iranian...
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February 2022
Mothers Against Violence: Viewing settlers’ violence under a ‘powerful womanly lens’
By Hamutal Gouri
Hamutal Gouri participated in the response of Mothers Against Violence to settler violence in the Palestinian village of...
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February 2022
The Arab citizens of Israel | An interview with Dr Arik Rudnitzky
By Arik Rudnitzky
In this BICOM Podcast, Richard Pater speaks to Dr Arik Rudnitzky, a researcher in the ‘Arab Society in...
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February 2022
Book Review | The European Left and the Jewish Question 1848-1993: Between Zionism and Antisemitism
By Colin Shindler
While many look to the rise of both Bolshevik Russia and Nazi Germany to understand the Left's evolution...
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February 2022
The Middle East in 2022
By BICOM
BICOM’s seventh annual forecast is a guide for policy makers and opinion formers to issues and events that...
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January 2022
Israel is sliding into a one-state reality
By Emanuel Shahaf
Emanuel Shahaf is Co-Chair of the Federation Movement which proposes a federal citizen state in Eretz-Israel/Palestine, excluding the...
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January 2022
My Israeli Music | Jonathan Spyer
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is an Israeli analyst, writer, and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs. He emigrated to Israel from London...
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January 2022
The Israel Question and the Left: A Review Essay
By Barry Finger
Barry Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former shop steward and activist with the Public...
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January 2022
Britain should do less in the Middle East, but do it better | An Interview with Michael Stephens and Christopher...
By Michael Stephens and Christopher Phillips
What Next For Britain in the Middle East: Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit (I.B Tauris, 2021),...
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January 2022
Is Israel a 'Settler-Colonial' State? A debate between Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh
By Alan Johnson
On 17 December Peter Beinart hosted an online discussion entitled, 'Professors Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh on whether...
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January 2022
Rereading | The Idea of the Jewish State by Ben Halpern
By Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Emirita Professor of Government at Smith College....
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January 2022
My Israeli Music | Yossi Kuperwasser
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser was chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence, and until recently,...
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January 2022
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