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
A filmmaker, a feminist, an Israeli, a Bedouin, a Palestinian. A conversation with Rana Abu Fraiha
By Calev Ben-Dor
Rana Abu Fraiha was born in the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva before leaving with her family at...
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December 2021
The Afghanistan retreat: We may soon be recalling why we went there in the first place.
By Tzvi Fleischer
Tzvi Fleischer argues the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal does not mark the end of the global conflict launched on...
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December 2021
Thomas Mann’s Philo-Semitism and Colm Toibin’s Thomas Mann
By Shalom Goldman
In January 1934, the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior revoked the novelist Thomas Mann’s German citizenship, in...
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December 2021
A reply to David Davidi-Brown on the Israeli government's designation of six Palestinian NGOs
By Gerald M. Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg is the Director of NGO Monitor. Fathom published his supportive response to the Israel government’s...
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December 2021
Book Review | The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness
By Philip Spencer
The subtitle of this interesting memoir is ‘comfort in rootlessness’. This formulation is, as the author suggests, a...
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December 2021
It’s too soon to write the obituary of the anti-Iran alliance in the Middle East
By Jonathan Spyer
The claim that the pro-Western alliance in the region has collapsed in the wake of a US withdrawal...
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November 2021
The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving...
By Philip Mendes
In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, 'Progressive except for Palestine,' aimed...
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November 2021
Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel's Designations (2)
By David Davidi-Brown
Fathom invited responses to the Israeli government’s decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as prohibited terrorist fronts from...
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November 2021
‘Can’t You See He’s Fooled You All?’: An Open Letter to Peter Gabriel et al explaining why Israel is not...
By Alan Johnson
100 artists including Ken Loach, Mark Rylance and Susan Sarandon have signed an open letter indicting Israel as...
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November 2021
Book Review | War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
By Efraim Halevy
Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist, has spent years researching and writing this account of dramatic events in...
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November 2021
UK-Israel 2021 | Ambivalent Allies? Zionism, Israel and the Conservative Party from Balfour to Boris
By James Vaughan
James Vaughan is Lecturer in International History at the University of Aberystwyth. His current research focuses upon the...
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November 2021
Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel’s Designations (1)
By Gerald M. Steinberg
Fathom invited responses to the Israeli government’s decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as prohibited terrorist fronts from...
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November 2021
The Fourth Window, or the Wounds of Amos Oz
By Liam Hoare
Liam Hoare says The Fourth Window, a new documentary about Amos Oz by the Israeli filmmaker Yair Qedar,...
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November 2021
My Israeli Music | Lusil Blek
By Lusil Blek
Lusil Blek is an Israeli graphic designer. Her mother constantly reminds her that she started singing when she...
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November 2021
Book Review | Growing up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Customs and Communities from the Bene Israel to the Art of...
By Khinvraj Jangid
Growing up Jewish in India is a book about the Jews of India told from a variety of...
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October 2021
Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel After the May 2021 Unrest: A Survey by Sammy Smooha
By Sammy Smooha
In May 2021, for the first time in Israel, Arabs and Jews in the mixed cities of Haifa,...
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October 2021
Combatting gang crime and violence in Arab communities
By Michael Milshtein
Dr Michael Milshtein is head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern...
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October 2021
Rasmea Odeh: How an unrepentant Palestinian terrorist became a political hero of the anti-Zionist left
By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson reviews Steven Lubet’s The Trials of Rasmea Odeh: How a Palestinian Guerilla Gained and Lost U.S. Citizenship....
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October 2021
Book Review | Hidden Heroes: One Woman's Story of Resistance and Rescue in The Soviet Union
By Yisrael Medad
From 1962, when Matzot for Russia’s Jews for the upcoming Passover holiday were dumped on the pavement in...
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October 2021
The Abraham Accords One Year On | An interview with Dr Moran Zaga
By Moran Zaga
Dr Moran Zaga is a research fellow at the University of Haifa focused on the geopolitics of the Gulf....
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October 2021
How Best to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism on the Left: An Exchange between Kathleen Hayes and Michael Walzer
By Kathleen Hayes Michael Walzer
Mosaic magazine ran four pieces in July 2021 focusing on the respective merits of the IHRA Definition of...
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October 2021
Opinion | Labour Party Conference 2021: 'Significant progress has been made on tackling antisemitism, but there is still a mountain...
By Luke Akehurst
I’ve spent most of the last week at the Labour Party’s Annual Conference, in my capacity as an...
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October 2021
Opinion | ‘Labour’s stance on Israel-Palestine is shifting back to the balanced, mature and constructive approach of the Blair-Brown years’:...
By Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is the Director of Labour Friends of Israel. Six years ago, at his first conference as...
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October 2021
My Israeli Music: Keith Kahn-Harris on Israeli Metal, Punk and Noise
By Keith Kahn-Harris
Keith Kahn-Harris is the author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, and Strange Hate: Antisemitism,...
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October 2021
What does the withdrawal from Afghanistan mean for the US role in the Middle East?
By Jonathan Rynhold
Professor Jonathan Rynhold, the Deputy Head of the department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, spoke to Fathom-BICOM...
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September 2021
Amazon Prime's Human Factor: American negotiators and the failure of the Oslo Peace Process
By Calev Ben-Dor
Calev Ben-Dor praises The Human Factor as a great piece of documentary making but argues it is ultimately...
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September 2021
We Shall Be as A City on A Hill: Trump, ‘Progressive’ Antisemitism, and the Loss of American Jewish Exceptionalism
By Shalom Lappin
Shalom Lappin argues that American Jews are caught between a white supremacist threat from the far right and...
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September 2021
My Israeli Music: Aaron Kalman
By Aaron Kalman
Prior to joining Lightricks, a Jerusalem-based hightech unicorn developing apps to unleash creativity, Aaron Kalman was a senior...
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September 2021
Jean Améry as a Critic of the Anti-Israel Left
By Alvin Rosenfeld
Jean Améry is best known as the author of At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on...
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September 2021
Book Review | More Than I Love My Life
By Liam Hoare
In October 1951, Rade Panić—who had fought for Josip Broz Tito’s partisans during the Second World War—committed suicide...
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September 2021
My Israeli Music: DJ Antithesis
By DJ Antithesis
Samuel Green, aka DJ Antithesis, produces the longest-running Israeli music podcast: Kol Cambridge. Also known as The Zionist...
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September 2021
Fathom eBook | Essays on the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948
By Fathom Editors
Fathom has published a new eBook to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the British Mandate,...
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August 2020
‘Balancing the liberal and the national was the genetic code of the movement Jabotinsky and Begin founded’: Dan Meridor on...
By Dan Meridor
Dan Meridor served at various times as the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice...
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July 2020
Israel and Diaspora Jewry: Is the Coronavirus Crisis an opportunity to redesign the relationship?
By Shira Ruderman
Shira Ruderman argues that the coronavirus virus has presented Israel, the Nation State of the Jewish people, with...
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July 2020
Opinions | And the Walls Came Tumblin’ Down?
By Shaul Judelman
Rabbi Shaul Judelman is the Israeli co-Director for the NGO Roots, a unique network of local Palestinians and Israelis...
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July 2020
Mandate100 | The ‘Antisemite Ernest Bevin’ and the day Britain recognised the State of Israel
By Ronnie Fraser
Ronnie Fraser was working in the Israel State archives when he came across a lengthy and confidential document...
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July 2020
Mandate100 | Palestinians and the Partition Plan
By Mustafa Kabha
The editors thank Bloomsbury Academic (US), an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., for permission to reprint this chapter, a...
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July 2020
Opinions | The Wisdom of Peter Beinart’s Grandmother
By Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius is the author of Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished...
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July 2020
Opinions | How Not To Quote Ze’ev Jabotinsky: A Reply to Peter Beinart
By Yisrael Medad
Yisrael Medad argues that Peter Beinart’s quoting of Ze’ev Jabotinsky in his recent essay, as in his earlier...
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July 2020
'The unilateral application of Israeli sovereignty is necessary to move the peace process forward’: An Open Letter to Boris Johnson...
By Yossi Kuperwasser
On 1 July the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote an op-ed in the Israeli press, titled ‘As...
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July 2020
Dore Gold, Amos Gilead and Ghaith al-Omari: Three views on annexation / applying Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank
By Fathom Editors
BICOM-Fathom Webinar with Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilead on implications of Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank and Israel's...
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July 2020
Mandate100 | ‘A dangerous people to quarrel with’: Lloyd George’s Secret Testimony to the Peel Commission Revealed
By Oren Kessler
Oren Kessler reveals the secret 1937 testimony given by David Lloyd George to the Palestine Royal Commission. Lloyd...
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July 2020
Opinions | What John McDonnell Still Does Not Understand
By Eve Garrard
For John McDonnell to pretend that Rebecca Long-Bailey lost her shadow cabinet job because she criticised Israel is...
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July 2020
The Lie That Will Not Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
By Dave Rich
This is Dave Rich's introduction to the forthcoming second edition of The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the...
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July 2020
Book Review | Palestinian Refugees After 1948
By Simon Waldman
The Palestinian refugee problem has attracted the attention of many scholars from a variety of disciplines. When a...
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July 2020
Israel’s Annexation Policy – Why Now and What Next?
By Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Fathom Editor Calev Ben-Dor offers Fathom readers a comprehensive review of the Israeli debate about, and likely...
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June 2020
Zeev Sternhell (1935-2020)
By Alan Johnson
Fathom Editor Alan Johnson reflects on the life and work of Zeev Sternhell who died this week. Obituary notices...
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June 2020
Mandate100 | The Year 1939: Why did Britain Abandon the Two-State Solution on the Eve of World War Two?
By Yaakov Lappin
Using documents in the National Archive, including German documents photographed and sent to Whitehall by an American spy,...
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June 2020
Rereading Past Continuous: Revisiting Yaakov Shabtai’s ‘Revolution’ in Hebrew Prose
By Liam Hoare
Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s...
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June 2020
Book Review | The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
By Alex Ryvchin
There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called...
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June 2020
Why Memmi Matters
By Susie Linfield
Albert Memmi, who died recently, was a Jew, an Arab, a Zionist, an anti-colonialist, a secularist, a socialist,...
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June 2020
The Yom Kippur War and British Politics
By Robert Philpot
Thousands of posters of Golda Meir appeared in the windows of Jewish homes; money poured in to fundraising...
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June 2020
The Soldiers are Still Talking
By Tal Kra-Oz
Soldiers' Talk: Protective Edge (2019) is a set of interviews with those who served in Gaza in 2014....
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June 2020
Book Review | Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed
By Khinvraj Jangid
The Palestinian national movement has been in disarray for a long time. The failings of its political leadership...
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June 2020
From Gil Troy to Susie Linfeld: Fathom writers share their favourite films and books about Israel (Week 8)
By Fathom Editors
Each fortnight Fathom writers have been recommending Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This...
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June 2020
Intersectionality and Antisemitism – A New Approach
By Karin Stögner
Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network...
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May 2020
Mandate 100 | ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’: S. Yizhar's and Amos Oz’s Stories of Jewish Struggle in the British...
By Liam Hoare
S. Yizhar is often called the founding father of Israeli literature and Amos Oz was for many the...
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May 2020
‘Seventy years we’ve been told we’re brothers in arms! Why not brothers in the economy, brothers in life?’ The Druze...
By Daniel Klein
Recent angry protests by Israel’s Druze citizens are about much more than shekels, argues Daniel Klein. Druze MK...
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May 2020
From Matti Friedman to Einat Wilf: Fathom writers share their favourite films and books about Israel (Week 7)
By Fathom Editors
Each fortnight Fathom writers have been recommending Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This...
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May 2020
Book Review | Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad
By Kyle Orton
Early in his new book, Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad, The Washington Institute’s...
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May 2020
Mandate 100 | ‘Negating the Diaspora’? Theory and Practice in Yishuv-Diaspora Relations during the Mandate
By Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine was the President of the Association for Israel Studies. In this careful and empathic account of...
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May 2020
Yair Lapid is now the leader of Israel’s ‘democracy camp’
By Paul Gross
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid’s recent 6,000-word essay set out a centrist vision of Israel’s future and warned...
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May 2020
Let us be Social Democrats. There is a way back for the Israeli Labour Party.
By Tal Harris
Tal Harris is a member of the central committee of the Israeli Labour Party and was among the...
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May 2020
Book Review | Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality
By Yisrael Medad
This slim volume traces Ian Lustick's thinking on why the two-state solution, which he terms the TSS, has...
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May 2020
Mandate100 | Perfidious Albion or Strategic Realpolitik? Reassessing Britain’s 1939 White Paper
By Ben Crome
As part of Fathom’s series of essays marking the 100th anniversary of the British Mandate, Ben Crome examines...
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April 2020
Book Review | MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
By Paul Iddon
Ben Hubbard’s new book is a biography of Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, popularly referred...
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April 2020
From John Strawson to Lyn Julius: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films (Week 5)
By Fathom Editors
Each week five Fathom writers will recommend Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This...
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April 2020
Why the world needs to worry about the expiration of the Iran arms embargo in October 2020
By Ezra Friedman
Ezra Friedman warns that the expiration of the Iran arms embargo in October 2020 will allow Iran not...
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April 2020
Book Review | A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
By Azriel Bermant
In a recent interview with Fathom, Tom Segev, the distinguished journalist and historian and author of A State...
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April 2020
From Eve Garrard to Dave Rich: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films about Israel (Week 4)
By Fathom Editors
Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the...
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April 2020
A Pandemic of Anti-Zionist Signification: Exploiting Gaza for Ideological Gain
By Cary Nelson
‘Close and unprecedented’ was how the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied...
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April 2020
Mandate100 | ‘Neither a Jewish State nor an Arab State’: How Zionist Bi-Nationalism Tried and Failed to Change the Face...
By Ben Reiff
In a penetrating study that draws on extensive archival research Ben Reiff asks why the small but vociferous...
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April 2020
Remembering Robert Fine
By Philip Spencer
The late writings of Robert Fine, who died in 2018, can help us understand the manifold connections between...
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April 2020
Book Review | The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology
By Donna Robinson Divine
It is hard to imagine a more fitting time for a study of Abba Ahimeir, not only because...
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April 2020
From Stephen De Wijze to Matthew Levitt, Fathom writers share their favourite books and films (Week 3)
By Fathom Editors
Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the...
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April 2020
Fighting Back Against COVID-19 in Israel’s Bedouin Community
By Ruth Ebenstein
Ruth Ebenstein examines the vulnerability of Israel’s Bedouin community during the pandemic and explores both the self-help measures...
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April 2020
Mandate100| 1920: A Pivotal Year Reexamined
By Yisrael Medad
Fathom is marking the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the British Mandate with a series of essays....
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April 2020
Book Review | Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East
By Michael Wegier
Yadgar’s book was born out of a difficulty he found while teaching at Berkeley of recommending reading that...
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April 2020
From Jo-Ann Mort to Donna Robinson Divine: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films (Week 2)
By Fathom Editors
Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the...
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April 2020
Keir Starmer is UK Labour’s new leader. Will he set a new course on Israel and Antisemitism?
By Luke Akehurst
Sir Keir Starmer has been elected as the British Labour Party’s new Leader. Luke Akehurst, a former member...
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April 2020
Mandate100 | ‘A Clean Cut’ for Palestine: The Peel Commission Reexamined
By Oren Kessler
In this fascinating dive into the archives Oren Kessler reveals the dramatic exchanges that shaped Lord Peel’s 1936...
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March 2020
COVID-19: Blaming the Jews for the Plague, Again
By Lev Topor
From state television to the dark web, antisemitic conspiracy theories are being used by Islamists and white supremacists...
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March 2020
Book Review | Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
By David Rodman
Israel faces a fateful decision. What should be the final status of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria...
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March 2020
From Hamutal Gouri to Andrei Markovits: Fathom writers share their favourite books and films about Israel (Week 1)
By Fathom Editors
Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the...
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March 2020
Mandate100: A Fathom Special Issue
By Fathom Editors
Over the next several months Fathom will publish articles, interviews and book reviews to mark the 100th anniversary of...
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March 2020
Mandate100 | ‘People say I am a post-Zionist, but I am a non-ideological person, committed to storytelling’: Tom Segev on...
By Tom Segev
The Israeli historian Tom Segev’s books One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000) and...
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March 2020
Book Review | The Decline of the Left Wing in Israel: Yossi Beilin and the Politics of the Peace Process
By Colin Shindler
In an epoch of reaction, racism and populism, many ask how did Israel lose its way? Why did...
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March 2020
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