Documentary Review | Remember Baghdad (2017)
By Lyn Julius
Remember Baghad, now showing on Netflix, is reviewed by Lyn Julius, journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association...
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July 2022
The Modern Language Association, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
By Cary Nelson and Joe Lockard
The MLA Executive Council have hit a new low by acting in secret, without notice and without membership...
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July 2022
Opinion | We Need to Talk About the BBC
By David Collier
In a week when it was reported that the BBC ignore 99 per cent of attacks on Israelis but...
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July 2022
Book Review | Israel’s Moment: International Support and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949
By John Strawson
Herf’s book forensically demolishes the myth that the West set out to create Israel to promote its interests....
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July 2022
Book Review | Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
By Danny Seidemann
There are no experts on Jerusalem. The city is too complex, its history too long, too shrouded in...
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July 2022
Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Time (1) | ‘Punch a Terf’ and ‘Smash the Zionists’: Misogyny and Antisemitism in...
By Kathleen Hayes
Series Introduction: Huge waves of intellectual change are sweeping the Western world at an astonishing speed. Liberal democratic...
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July 2022
Antisemitism and the University of London: Statement by David Hirsh
By David Hirsh
A debate is raging at Goldsmiths, University of London after the President of the Student Union tweeted that...
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July 2022
Book Review | The Wealthy: Chronicle of a Jewish Family (1763-1948)
By Liam Hoare
At the age of 40, having worked as a teacher and an official in the Israeli education ministry...
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July 2022
Arabs sharing government power with Jews in Israel is the new normal. It works, and there is no turning back
By Ron Gerlitz
Written shortly before the collapse of the Israeli coalition government, Ron Gerlitz, CEO of aChord – Social Psychology...
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June 2022
Fathom Opinion | A Left-Winger’s Lament for the Israeli Coalition
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
Written shortly before yesterday’s long anticipated break-up of the Israeli government, Jack Omer-Jackaman argues that leftists like himself...
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June 2022
The most important creative output in modern Hebrew literature since Agnon: Yael Halevi-Wise appreciates the life and work of A.B.Yehoshua...
By Yael Halevi-Wise
Yael Halevi-Wise marks the passing of her friend, the Israeli novelist, short story writer and playwright, A.B.Yehoshua. Author...
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June 2022
Looking Forward by Farming Upwards: Israeli Diplomacy in South East Asia
By Haim Shweky
Haim Shweky was the cultural attaché to the Israeli embassy in Vietnam between 2018-2019. He recounts his time...
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June 2022
The Boston Mapping Project: BDS and the Paranoid Style of Politics
By Richard L. Cravatts
Richard L. Cravatts is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. The Boston ‘Mapping Project’...
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June 2022
‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and Zionism in James Joyce’s Ulysses
By Noga Emanuel
In 2022 book-lovers celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, which tracks the...
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June 2022
Understanding decision-making in the Palestinian arenas
By Michael Milshtein
BICOM Director Richard Pater speaks to Dr Michael Milshtein, a colonel (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces and...
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June 2022
Christians and the reconciliation route to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict
By Cary Nelson
A few months ago, Presbyterians for Middle East Peace (PFMEP) published Peace And Faith: Christian Churches and the...
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June 2022
Algeria, where are your Saturday people, and where are your Sunday people?
By Lela Gilbert
Lela Gilbert is a Fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and the author of Saturday People,...
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June 2022
Beyond Liberal Peacemaking: New Initiatives in Israel
By Calev Ben-Dor
With the peace process frozen, some groups – Mosaica, Shrinking the Conflict Initiative, Women Wage Peace, Shaharit, the Herbert...
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May 2022
How Israeli & Palestinian Peacebuilders Can Leverage Post-Pandemic Trends in Philanthropy
By Adam Basciano
Adam Basciano is the co-founder and former director of IPF Atid, Israel Policy Forum’s network of next generation...
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May 2022
Fathom Opinion | ‘We are suffocating among people who think that they are absolutely right’: When totalitarian speech invades the...
By Hedda Harari-Spencer
Hedda Harari-Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew at Tufts University. All translations from French are her own....
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May 2022
The Three Best Books on Understanding Evil
By Stephen de Wijze
Stephen de Wijze is senior lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Manchester and the co-editor with...
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May 2022
The political odyssey of Ayman Odeh
By Calev Ben-Dor
What took Ayman Odeh, the young Arab politician who rose to prominence before the 2015 elections and was...
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May 2022
‘Israel Is Living On Borrowed Time’: Yossi Melman on Security Threats and Social Divisions
By Yossi Melman
In early April, deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with Haaretz’s intelligence and security correspondent Yossi Melman and spoke about...
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May 2022
The Anti-Israel Politicisation of the US Academy: The Next Phase is Happening at California and Illinois
By Cary Nelson
The University of California and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC are on the verge of green-lighting...
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May 2022
My Israeli Music | Hen Mazzig
By Hen Mazzig
Hen Mazzig is an Israeli writer living in London. He is a Senior Fellow at The Tel Aviv...
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May 2022
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
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...
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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
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