Thucydides Goes to Washington: an interview with Michael Doran about US Grand Strategy in the Middle East
By Michael Doran
Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. specialising in Middle East security...
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November 2019
The UK Election 2019 | Corbyn’s legacy is that political antisemitism has re-entered the British mainstream
By David Hirsh
David Hirsh, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism argues that Corbyn’s movement has left behind many thousands of people...
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December 2019
The UK Election 2019 | In Stoke North, Labour voters saw Corbyn as a wrong ‘un
By Jane Ashworth
Jane Ashworth is a Labour councillor in Stoke and the co-founder of Engage, the anti-racist campaign against left...
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December 2019
The UK Election 2019 | The roots of left antisemitism go deeper than Corbynism. They lie in the fatal partnership...
By Peter Mason
Peter Mason is the National Secretary of the Jewish Labour Movement, and a Labour Councillor in the London...
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December 2019
The UK Election 2019 | Antisemitism is not the preserve of the left. This right-wing victory carries its own dangers...
By Sacha Ismail
Sacha Ismail is a supporter of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a small radical socialist group which has...
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December 2019
The UK Election 2019 | Britain has escaped political paralysis. To do the same, Israel must dislodge Netanyahu
By Toby Greene
In 2019 both the UK and Israel have been politically paralysed. Like or loathe Boris Johnson, Thursday’s election...
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December 2019
The BDS Faith: Judaism without Zion
By William Kolbrener
Jews don’t know what antisemitism is because they don’t have the right definition of Judaism. Such is the...
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December 2019
Book Review | After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East
By Brandon Marlon
We’ve encountered the toponyms repeatedly in the headlines: Sinjar. Raqqa. Kirkuk. Kobane. Baghuz. But we’ve done so from...
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December 2019
‘If we insist on 100 per cent of the land, we will end up like Lebanon: it will be an...
By Ephraim Sneh
Ephraim Sneh is a former Deputy Defence Minister of Israel. He was a member of the Knesset for...
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December 2019
Book Review | Social Justice and Israel/Palestine
By Donna Robinson Divine
In the introduction to Social Justice and Israel/Palestine, Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov reflect on their...
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December 2019
Gas and foreign policy: how Israel is leveraging energy to stabilise the region and advance geostrategic objectives
By Ezra Friedman
Ezra Friedman writes that the discovery of gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean has given Israel, long perceived...
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December 2019
Book Review | Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements
By John Lyndon
Plays tend to have three acts. In his excellent and very timely ‘Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the...
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December 2019
Book Review | Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State
By Eve Garrard
This is a horrifying book. Not because it's a bad book – on the contrary, Cary Nelson has...
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November 2019
Obama, Trump and the collapse of the American position in the Middle East
By Kyle Orton
The disastrous foreign policies of two presidents are bringing about the collapse of America’s position in the Middle...
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November 2019
Zeruya Shalev: On ‘Pain’ And Her Role As Israel’s Literary Therapist
By Liam Hoare
The translation of Zeruya Shalev’s 2015 novel Pain should be the moment she assumes ‘her rightful place in...
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November 2019
The case for a Minority Government to end the deadlock in Israel
By Assaf Shapira
Assaf Shapira of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) argues that if the choice is between a minority government...
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November 2019
The ‘Martyrdom’ of Saint Philoumenos: the anatomy of a modern antisemitic ritual murder libel
By David Gurevich
During the medieval epoch, Christian antisemitism spread the libel that Jews engaged in the ritual murder of non-Jews,...
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November 2019
Book Review | The Impact of Zionism and Israel on Anglo-Jewry’s Identity 1948-1982: Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut
By Azriel Bermant
Jack Omer-Jackaman’s book could not be more timely given the challenge facing Diaspora Jewry today, with heightened concerns...
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November 2019
With Sovereignty Comes Responsibility: East Jerusalem and Liberal-National Values
By Noa Lazimi
Noa Lazimi, former research coordinator at the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) proposes a new approach to tackling...
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November 2019
Book Review | Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, The Party & Public Belief
By Sarah Brown
Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, The Party & Public Belief sets out to reveal ‘the reality behind the...
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November 2019
UK Labour and Israel: the little-noticed shift in party policy
By Luke Akehurst
While the four-year long controversy over antisemitism in UK Labour has monopolised media attention, the 2019 UK Labour...
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October 2019
Can new leaders salvage the EU-Israel Relationship?
By Margaux Nijkerk
With leadership changes on the horizon in both Brussels and Jerusalem, both Israelis and Europeans will have the...
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October 2019
Book Review | Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
By Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
A better title for this book would have been Original Sin: Britain’s Embrace of the Zionist Movement. In...
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October 2019
The Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Affair - what we learned about the Democratic Party
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Regardless of whether Israel’s policy was wise, the most important aspect of the affair was what it revealed...
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October 2019
The BDS mindset is a challenge to liberal democracy here, as well as in Israel. Centrists must defend a precious...
By William Kolbrener
William Kolbrener is professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University and the author of several books including Milton’s Warring...
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October 2019
Book review | Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
By Michael Sercan Daventry
When the US announced that it was pulling out of northeast Syria and Turkish forces began pouring in,...
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October 2019
Understanding Online Antisemitism: Towards a New Qualitative Approach
By Matthias J. Becker
Matthias Becker is a research fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at TU Berlin and the...
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October 2019
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is editor emeritus of the democratic left magazine Dissent and an advisory editor of Fathom. He...
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October 2019
Book Review | Behind the Mask: The Antisemitic Nature of BDS Exposed
By Cary Nelson
‘The world would be soooo much better without jews man.’ This post from a social media account appears...
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October 2019
Special Offer from The Jewish Review of Books
By Fathom Editors
A special offer for our friends at Fathom: Get a digital subscription for 70% off of the list...
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Article
Jerusalem: the contours of a possible agreement
By Meir Kraus
Meir Kraus was the head of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research between 2009-2016 and is currently a...
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October 2019
Why Israel’s year of elections has left a foreign policy hangover
By Joshua Krasna
Joshua Krasna is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Programme on the Middle East and a...
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October 2019
Book Review | Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief
By Stan Crooke
This review first appeared in the British socialist newspaper Solidarity. In February of this year, Chris Williamson, Labour...
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October 2019
2017 Fathom Interview with Naftali Bennett
By Naftali Bennett
‘Forming a Palestinian state along the lines that many readers of Fathom believe is the way forward would...
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Winter 2017
‘The Zionist Left needs to understand that change is impossible without us’: an interview with MK Ayman Odeh
By Ayman Odeh
21 per cent of Israel’s citizens are Arab-Palestinians. Since 2015 the leader of the Joint List – an...
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Autumn 2017
Israel70 | ‘Leadership is telling your own people things that are difficult to hear’: an interview with Yair Lapid
By Yair Lapid
According to the latest polls, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid is Israel's most liked politician after the Prime Minister....
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May 2018
As economic crisis worsens, Iran threatens to reactivate nuclear programme
By Yaakov Lappin
In this essay, military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin analyses the rationale behind the US ‘maximum pressure’ campaign,...
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June 2019
UK Strategy in the Middle East (1) | Alistair Burt on the UK’s regional role: is policy fit for purpose?
By Alistair Burt MP
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to explore UK strategy...
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July 2019
UK Strategy in the Middle East (2) | Toby Greene on why populisms of left and right will prevent the...
By Toby Greene
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in collaboration with the Britain Israel Communications and...
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July 2019
The UK in the Middle East (3) | Emman al-Badawy on UK strategy and the region’s youth quake
By Dr Emman El-Badawy
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to explore UK strategy...
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July 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (6) | A personal reflection by John Strawson
By John Strawson
John Strawson was a contributor to the Word Crimes issue of Israel Studies Journal. He also taught in...
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July 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (1) | Cary Nelson Reviews Word Crimes
By Cary Nelson
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the...
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May 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (2) | Gershon Shafir responds to Cary Nelson
By Gershon Shafir
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the...
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July 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (3) | Cary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler: A rejoinder to Gershon Shafir
By Paula A. Treichler and Cary Nelson
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the...
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July 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (4) | Ilan Troen responds to Gershon Shafir
By Ilan Troen
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the...
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July 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (5) | Donna Robinson Divine replies to Gershon Shafir
By Donna Robinson Divine
Editorial Introduction: The controversy sparked by the publication of Word Crimes: Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the...
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July 2019
Explaining Failure: How Palestinian economic potential was denied during Oslo
By Mohammed Samhouri
Dr. Mohammed Samhouri is a former senior economic advisor in the Palestinian Authority, and a former senior research...
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July 2019
Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the Crisis: (1) IfNotNow and The Dyke March Controversy
By Daniel Kalick
IfNotNow’s support for barring the Jewish Pride flag from the Dyke March was another example of its failure...
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July 2019
Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the Crisis: (2) Jewish Voice for Peace’s antisemitic Deadly Exchange campaign
By Miriam F. Elman
The Deadly Exchange campaign falsely blames Israel and its Jewish American supporters for fueling discriminatory policing practices against...
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June 2019
Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the Crisis: (3) Israel Denial and the University
By Cary Nelson
A system is now in place to grant inaccurate and exaggerated ‘anti-Zionist’ claims credibility by giving them a...
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July 2019
Book Review | West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974
By Norman J.W. Goda
Acknowledging German guilt for the Holocaust, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer helped initiate in the early 1950s a relationship with...
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July 2019
Israel and the ‘Crisis of the Arabs’ | an interview with Asher Susser
By Asher Susser
Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty...
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June 2019
Book Review | The Great Betrayal: How America abandoned the Kurds and lost the Middle East
By Paul Iddon
The thesis of David E. Philips’ book The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The...
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June 2019
Reflections on Jabotinsky’s 1906 pamphlet ‘The Bund and Zionism’
By Yisrael Medad
Yisrael Medad is deputy editor of the forthcoming critical English-language edition of the writings of the revisionist Zionist...
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June 2019
British Christian Zionism (Part 1): George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
By Philip Earl Steele
The impact of George Eliot’s 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was central to the coalescence of the first Zionist...
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June 2019
Book Review | Understanding Israel: political, societal and security challenges
By Jacob Eriksson
Israel represents a collection of seeming contradictions. Though Theodor Herzl’s vision was a thoroughly secular one and the...
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June 2019
Zionism and the Left: an interview with Susie Linfield
By Susie Linfield
Susie Linfield is the author of The Lions' Den. Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam...
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June 2019
Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation
By Susie Linfield
With kind permission from Yale University Press, Fathom brings you an extract from 'The Lions' Den: Zionism and the...
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June 2019
‘The Jewish State is a must. Democracy is a must’ | An interview with Elyakim Rubinstein
By Elyakim Rubinstein
Elyakim Rubinstein is the former Attorney General of Israel and served as the Vice President of Israel’s Supreme...
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June 2019
Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld's critique of Seth Anziska's Preventing Palestine
By Yair Hirschfeld
Yair Hirschfeld was one of the two original architects of the Oslo accords. In this extended critical review...
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June 2019
Not so reluctant: Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt peace negotiations
By Ziv Rubinovitz and Gerald Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg, Bar Ilan University and Ziv Rubinovitz, Sonoma State University are the authors of Menachem Begin...
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June 2019
The Cultural Revolution at the National Library of Israel
By Ruth Ebenstein
There are signs of a revolution at the National Library of Israel. One is an 8 x 7...
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June 2019
The Re-emergence of the Jewish Question
By Shalom Lappin
The Jewish communities of Europe and the US increasingly find themselves caught between the rising forces of the...
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May 2019
Removing certain kinds of Jews from anti-racist protection is wrong
By Keith Kahn-Harris
Keith Kahn-Harris’s book Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity is published in June 2019 by...
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May 2019
Radical Social Theory and the ‘Jewish Question’: The Priceless Legacy of Robert Fine (1945-2018)
By Dan Davison
Dan Davison writes a fitting tribute to the radical social theorist and political activist Robert Fine, who died in 2018....
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May 2019
Book Review | Marxist Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
By Stan Crooke
‘A totalising perspective that can grasp the [Israeli] violence as an expression of the capitalist world... an analysis...
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April 2019
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
How the BDS movement is poisoning academic discourse: a case study of Henry Maitles and Critical and Radical Social Work
By Philip Mendes
The academic Left, influenced by the Boycott, Divestment and Sections (BDS) movement, is abandoning core academic standards when...
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February 2019
Leon Trotsky’s Long War Against Antisemitism
By Alan Johnson
All his life Trotsky was a consistent fighter against antisemitism. – Joseph Nedava, Trotsky and the Jews, 1971....
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March 2019
Two states may be the only plausible solution but is it still feasible?
By Tony Klug
In January 1973 the Fabian Society published a pamphlet by a young British student, Tony Klug, titled ‘Middle...
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April 2019
Critical Reflections on the Trump Peace Plan | A conversation with Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
In late February, David Makovsky and Dennis Ross spoke at a BICOM/RUSI event in London about their upcoming...
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April 2019
Israeli Elections: What next for the likely Netanyahu coalition?
By Calev Ben-Dor
Calev Ben-Dor writes that the good news for Netanyahu is that his ability to form a coalition with...
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April 2019
Book Review | Temperature Rising: Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East
By Paul Iddon
Nader Uskowi opens his first book, a concise but definitive account of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC)...
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April 2019
Fathom eBook | Fathoming the Israeli Elections 2019
By Fathom Editors
Election special 2019 FINALFathom has published a new eBook on the 2019 Israeli elections. This pamphlet brings together...
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April 2019
Israeli Elections: Three Takeaways and One Prediction
By Michael Koplow
Michael Koplow argues that Netanyahu’s indictments are preventing the establishment of a national unity government and believes that...
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April 2019
Israeli Elections: Five Takeaways
By Hugh Lovatt
Hugh Lovatt believes that had the Joint List stuck together it may have potentially blocked Netanyahu’s path towards...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | What should be the priorities for the new government?
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that whoever forms the next government should adopt a 'Yes, but' response to the expected...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Why I’m voting Likud
By Rachel Broyde
Rachel Broyde credits Netanyahu's leadership with Israel's strong economic, military and diplomatic situation and argues that as a...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Why I'm voting Blue and White
By Yair Zivan
Yair Zivan believes Israelis have a choice between a Prime Minister indicted in three criminal cases and an...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Why I'm voting Labor
By Tal Harris
Tal Harris argues that while Benny Gantz can replace Netanyahu and remove his Kahanist allies from the public...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Israel’s Arab citizens and the election
By Eihab Kadah
In a conversation with Fathom, Eihab Kadah, director of research in Arab society in Midgam Consulting and Research...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Netanyahu isn’t just a Prime Minister; he represents a paradigm that is here to stay
By Doron Matza
While some analysts believe Israel is approaching a ‘post-Netanyahu era’, Doron Matza argues that regardless of Netanyahu’s personal...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The National-Religious Camp: No Direction Home?
By Sara Hirschhorn
In some ways, the national religious community face the 2019 election without a traditional ideological home. Nevertheless, argues...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The Elections and the Territories
By Yisrael Medad
With only one week to go until election day, the fate of the territories has barely been mentioned....
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Yashar: a new grassroots Israeli political movement
By Eran Etzion
Eran Etzion is the former Deputy head of the National Security Council and Head of the Policy Planning...
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April 2019
Book Review | Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaption Under Fire
By Rob Geist Pinfold
The old adage that ‘generals are always prepared to fight the last war’ encapsulates the on-going exchange of...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Israeli-Palestinian relations and the 2019 Election
By Jonathan Rynhold
Israeli Jews are deeply sceptical, even incredulous, about the peace process, and are instead focused on maintaining security,...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Forget Left and Right. 'Declaration of Independence' or 'Nation-State Law' is now the real divide in Israeli politics
By Paul Gross
Paul Gross argues that the most fundamental difference between the main parties in the upcoming elections is not...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Understanding the blocs
By Dahlia Scheindlin
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert who has advised five national campaigns in Israel and in...
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August 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | ‘We are at the end of the Netanyahu era': A Fathom Forum with Anshel Pfeffer
By Anshel Pfeffer
In this Fathom Forum, journalist and writer Anshel Pfeffer, author of The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The need for political partnership
By Ron Gerlitz
Ron Gerlitz, the Co-Executive Director of Sikkuy, The Association for Civic Equality in Israel, argues that only a...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Towards a consensus on National Security issues?
By Jonathan Spyer
To what extent is the current Israeli election campaign dominated by national security issues, as has historically been...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Why the Israeli Labor party is dying
By Eric Lee
Why has the Israeli Labor Party failed to return to power for over 20 years? Eric Lee points...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The country where the centre can hold
By Pinchas Landau
Pinchas Landau argues that the emergence of the new centrist party ‘Blue and White’ as the main rival...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The Far Right in Israeli Politics
By Colin Shindler
Professor Colin Shindler argues that pragmatism by a Right wing government has often led to an ideological schism...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The growing power of the 'independent' ultra-Orthodox voter
By Gilad Malach
Dr. Gilad Malach is head of the ultra-Orthodox program at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. In a...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | With Gantz, has Israel’s centre found its feet?
By Toby Greene
Toby Greene argues that the merger between the Israel Resilience Party and Yesh Atid represents the third phase...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | It’s basic math. To win, the Israeli Centre-Left needs the Arab citizens of Israel
By Joel Braunold
Two-thirds of the Arab public want to see their representatives sitting in government. If the Israeli Centre-Left is...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Fathoming the Israeli elections: an interview with Nahum Barnea
By Nahum Barnea
Nahum Barnea is a veteran Israeli commentator for Yediot Ahronoth who has covered Israeli domestic and foreign affairs...
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February 2019
In praise of compromise: Simon Round interviews Amos Oz
By Simon Round
Amos Oz has lived through every one of Israel’s wars and fought in two of them. He has...
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Spring 2013
1967 | Natan Alterman or Amos Oz? The Six-Day War and Israeli Literature
By Liam Hoare
Israeli writers were split by the Six-Day War. On one side was the poet Natan Alterman, whose Movement...
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Spring 2017
Israel70 | Amos Oz’s Israel
By Liam Hoare
While Amos Oz’s novels are often read reductively as political allegories, Liam Hoare suggests that Oz’s special subject...
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June 2018
Israel’s land policy (1) | What's in a War Crime? Khan al Ahmar, Land Policy, and International Law
By Naomi Kahn
Naomi Linder Kahn is Director of the International Division at Regavim, an NGO dedicated to the ‘preservation of...
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December 2018
Israel's land policy (2) | Khan al-Ahmar and 'state land' allocations in the West Bank
By Hagit Ofran
Hagit Ofran is co-director of Settlement Watch, a project of the Israeli peace movement, Peace Now. In this article...
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December 2018
Ending the 'Universalisation' of the Holocaust and the Wars Against Israel: The GDR People's Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990
By Martin Jander
To ‘universalise’ the Nazi crimes is to deny the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the murder of the...
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December 2018
Pop Islam: How Germany is tackling the new Islamic antisemitism
By Daniel Rickenbacher
In 2018 Germany appointed the diplomat Dr. Felix Klein to the newly created post of Federal Government Commissioner...
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December 2018
The Long Read | Israel’s Jewish and Democratic Balance: A historian reflects on the Nation-State Law
By Arie Dubnov
Arie M. Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. In this long read...
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December 2018
Book Review | Self-Determination, Statehood and the Law of Negotiation: The Case of Palestine
By John Strawson
Robert Barnidge’s important book seeks to persuade us to view the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the prism of what...
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December 2018
How Israel is turning its high-tech into global political power
By David Rosenberg
Israel's innovative ability and technological prowess is a source of its global political power that was unimaginable a...
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November 2018
Book Review | Israel’s Technology Economy, Origins and Impact
By Alex Brummer
The image of Israel as a nation of high-tech genius was framed by Den Senor and Saul Singer...
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Article
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? | Editorial
By Fathom Editors
In July 2018, the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently asked’ in light of...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Simon Gordon
By Simon Gordon
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Tamara Berens
By Tamara Berens
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Mick Davis
By Sir Mick Davis
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner
By Laura Janner Klausner
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Keith Kahn-Harris
By Keith Kahn-Harris
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Toby Greene
By Toby Greene
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Hannah Weisfeld and Maya Ilany
By Hannah Weisfeld and Maya Ilany
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Robin Moss
By Robin Moss
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Jonathan Hunter
By Jonathan Hunter
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
Reading Hannah Arendt’s 'On Violence' in Israel
By Sarit Larry
In this thought-provoking essay, Sarit Larry examines Israel's discourse of 'security' through the prism of Hannah Arendt’s seminal essay...
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November 2018
‘I had planned to own a farm but I ended up in the Israeli political zoo’: an interview with MK...
By Sharren Haskel
From combat soldier to veterinary nurse to the youngest MK in the Knesset, Sharren Haskel has had an...
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November 2018
‘With every day that passes, we seem to be going further away from the values on which this country is...
By Alona Vinograd
Alona Vinograd is Director of the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions at the Israel Democracy Institute. Deputy...
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October 2018
Moving toward a new paradigm together? An Israeli responds to Hussein Agha
By Edward Rettig
In this cautiously hopeful response to Hussein Agha’s Fathom interview, Israeli Edward Rettig argues that his analysis of...
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October 2018
‘Israel needs social cohesion as well as nanotechnology’: an interview with Mike Prashker
By Mike Prashker
While Israel was never the harmonious campfire of legend, it is now an extremely crowded, contested and combustible...
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October 2018
This is a conflict over narratives. Israel needs to tell ours to Palestinians.
By Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi is senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the author of the recent New York...
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october 2018
David Grossman, the journalist
By Liam Hoare
Prizes have rained down on Israeli novelist David Grossman in recent years; the Israel Prize for literature in...
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october 2018
‘Ars Poetica was the explosion of me writing poetry’: an interview with Adi Keissar
By Adi Keissar
Haaretz called Adi Keissar the most influential poet working in Israel today. Her first book of poetry, Black...
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october 2018
Minding the gaps, connecting the dots: Seven steps towards a feminist funding eco-system in Israel
By Hamutal Gouri
Feminism aims to understand the root causes of gender inequality and its intersection with the other dimensions of...
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october 2018
‘The War Between Wars’: Israel vs Iran in Syria
By Yaakov Lappin
Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a military correspondent. In...
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october 2018
‘Understanding the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa is the key to understanding the whole Middle East conflict’:...
By Lyn Julius
Earlier this year Fathom’s Grant Goldberg interviewed Lyn Julius about her new book, Uprooted, which documents 3,000 years...
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october 2018
Trump’s cuts are dangerous for Israelis and Palestinians: an interview with Dave Harden
By Dave Harden
Dave Harden is managing director of the Georgetown Strategy Group. He has led USAID programmes in Yemen, Syria,...
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october 2018
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