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Jewish votes and British foreign policy: The 1930 Whitechapel by-election

By Ronnie Fraser
At the Whitechapel and St. George’s by-election on 3 December 1930 Jewish voters directly influenced British policy on... Read more > January 2018

The Netanyahu Years: an interview with Ben Caspit

By Ben Caspit
In this exclusive interview, Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sits down with Ben Caspit, a senior columnist for... Read more > Winter 2017

Why is there no Museum of Contemporary Israeli History?

By Liam Hoare
Israeli museums, argues Liam Hoare, are a terrain of political struggle over history and memory. ‘Until these arguments... Read more > Winter 2017

BICOM-JN Conference 2017 | Speech by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry

By Emily Thornberry
This speech was delivered by the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry at the BICOM-Jewish News Conference, held in... Read more > Autumn 2017

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... Read more > Winter 2017

‘The door won’t always remain open’: David Makovsky on the ‘Settlements and Solutions’ project

By David Makovsky
Fathom hosted a private briefing with David Makovsky, the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute and director... Read more > Autumn 2017

‘Trump is continuing Obama’s retreat from the world’: William Kristol on US foreign policy

By William Kristol
William Kristol is the founder and editor at large of the influential US political magazine The Weekly Standard.... Read more > Autumn 2017

‘Whatever happens in the region must come from the region’: Sir John Jenkins on Islamism, Modernity and the Middle East

By Sir John Jenkins
Sir John Jenkins is a former UK Ambassador to Syria (2007-9), Libya (2011) and Saudi Arabia (2012-5). In... Read more > Autumn 2017

The Palestinian reconciliation agreement – context, consequences and open questions

By Michael Herzog
On 1 November, the Hamas movement began the process of handing over the three Gaza border crossings to... Read more > Autumn 2017

A Proposal for a Federal Republic of Israel

By Arieh Hess and Emanuel Shahaf
The Federation Movement advocates a new political approach to peace in which Israeli law is applied to the... Read more > Autumn 2017

The Suez Crisis and the Jews of Egypt

By Lyn Julius
‘There are few greater injustices than to say about something that happened, that it did not happen’ wrote... Read more > Autumn 2017

Fathom 18 | Editorial

By Fathom Editors
Fathom 18 is a bumper issue offering 30 pieces on four broad topics: the Middle East after ISIS,... Read more > Autumn 2017

Fathom eBook | Balfour 100: The Fathom Essays

By Fathom Editors
Fathom has published a new eBook to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which you can... Read more > Autumn 2017

Fathom Forum | Reciprocal Radicalisation Hotbeds: how Islamist and far-Right extremism feed off each other

By Julia Ebner
The following remarks were made to a Fathom Forum in London on 3 October 2017. Ebner is a... Read more > Autumn 2017

Balfour 100 | Christian Zionism and the Balfour Declaration

By Gershon Shafir
Gershon Shafir argues that British Christian Zionism pre-dated practical Jewish Zionism and helped to ensure that, by the... Read more > Autumn 2017

Balfour 100 | 'Weizmann corralled the British government behind the Zionist movement': an interview with Jonathan Schneer

By Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Schneer’s book The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was praised by Simon Sebag Montefiore... Read more > Autumn 2017

After ISIS Symposium: Can ISIS really be defeated without legitimate local governance? | Kyle Orton

By Kyle Orton
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David... Read more > Autumn 2017

After ISIS Symposium: Where will ISIS regroup? | Ely Karmon

By Ely Karmon
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David... Read more > Autumn 2017

After ISIS Symposium: Will ISIS now target Egypt? | Michael Barak

By Michael Barak
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David... Read more > Autumn 2017

After ISIS Symposium: Why ISIS will survive the loss of its 'Islamic State' | Aymenn al-Tamimi

By Aymenn al-Tamimi
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David... Read more > Autumn 2017

After ISIS Symposium: Will the counter-insurgency tactics used to defeat ISIS help it recruit new fighters? | Craig Whiteside

By Craig Whiteside
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David... Read more > Autumn 2017

Autumn / 2017

Jewish votes and British foreign policy: The 1930 Whitechapel by-election

The Netanyahu Years: an interview with Ben Caspit

Why is there no Museum of Contemporary Israeli History?

BICOM-JN Conference 2017 | Speech by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry

2017 Fathom Interview with Naftali Bennett

‘The door won’t always remain open’: David Makovsky on the ‘Settlements and Solutions’ project

‘Trump is continuing Obama’s retreat from the world’: William Kristol on US foreign policy

‘Whatever happens in the region must come from the region’: Sir John Jenkins on Islamism, Modernity and the Middle East

The Palestinian reconciliation agreement – context, consequences and open questions

A Proposal for a Federal Republic of Israel

The Suez Crisis and the Jews of Egypt

Fathom 18 | Editorial

Fathom eBook | Balfour 100: The Fathom Essays

Fathom Forum | Reciprocal Radicalisation Hotbeds: how Islamist and far-Right extremism feed off each other

Balfour 100 | Christian Zionism and the Balfour Declaration

Balfour 100 | 'Weizmann corralled the British government behind the Zionist movement': an interview with Jonathan Schneer

After ISIS Symposium: Can ISIS really be defeated without legitimate local governance? | Kyle Orton

After ISIS Symposium: Where will ISIS regroup? | Ely Karmon

After ISIS Symposium: Will ISIS now target Egypt? | Michael Barak

After ISIS Symposium: Why ISIS will survive the loss of its 'Islamic State' | Aymenn al-Tamimi

After ISIS Symposium: Will the counter-insurgency tactics used to defeat ISIS help it recruit new fighters? | Craig Whiteside

After ISIS Symposium: What is the scale of the threat to the UK from returning Jihadis? | David Wells

BDS and DSA: the American Left loses its way

Book Review | The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

Book Review | The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Reflection from No Man’s Land

Book Review | We Were the Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz

Book Review | The Left in Disarray

Book Review | The End of Jewish Modernity

No Room for Small Dreams: How the Start-up Nation can help create the Start-Up Region

Israel's diplomatic relations reconsidered

Southern Syria: How to stop the Iranian plan for regional dominance

Fathom Forum | ‘City on a Hilltop’? Sara Hirschhorn on the clash between liberal values and settler realities

The Israeli visa law and other own goals in the BDS wars

Summer / 2017

Fathom 17 | Editorial

Balfour 100 | The world of our founders: being Jewish in Palestine after Balfour

Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in West Germany in the 1970s: Lessons for Today

A Deeply Rooted Anti-Zionism: Reflections from South Africa

The Left and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The path to righteous hatred

Book Review | All the Rivers

The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas: an interview with Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon

Book Review | Colonialism and the Jews

Trump is in danger of pulling a reverse Obama

A future for Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding

Book Review | The Shell

Balfour 100 | ‘Mack’: Aaron Aaronsohn, the NILI intelligence network and the Balfour Declaration

Balfour 100 | Repairing the World: why Britain should now recognise the State of Palestine

Balfour 100 | We need to talk about the Balfour Declaration

Balfour 100 | British policy in Palestine 1917–1925

Balfour 100 | Before Balfour: The Labour Party’s War Aims memorandum

Balfour 100 | Chaim Weizmann, the Guardian and the Balfour Declaration

Book Review | Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

Book Review | Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

Spring / 2017

Fathom 16 | Editorial

Einat Wilf: Constructive ambiguity has not worked. Peace needs constructive specificity

1967 | How the Six-Day War is still transforming Israel

Fathom Forum | Professor Sammy Smooha: ‘Israeli Democracy in Comparative Perspective’

1967 | 'A deal with the region should go through Ramallah’: an interview with Nidal Foqaha

1967 | ‘The Palestinians won’t pay the price of peace, which is recognition’: an interview with Michael Oren

1967 | How Nasser’s vendetta against America led to the Six-Day War

1967 | The international media and the Six-Day War

1967 | As long as the Arab world views Israel as a temporary aberration to be conquered, Israel will stand...

‘The situation in Gaza is much worse than prior to the war in 2014’: an interview with Giora Eiland

1967 | Internalising defeat – the Six-Day War and the Arab world: an interview with Kanan Makiya

Abbas in Washington: dancing in place or moving forward?

1967 | Why more and more Israeli Jews think the settlements are in Israel

Book Review | A Political Theory for the Jewish People

Ken Livingstone and the myth of Zionist ‘collaboration’ with the Nazis

Book Review | North Korea and the Middle East

1967 | The wisdom of Resolution 242

Book review | Israel and Palestine Alternative Perspectives on Statehood

New thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: towards a hybrid approach

1967 | Don’t believe the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable

On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora

Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora’

‘I did not leave the Likud, the Likud left me’: an interview with Moshe Ya’alon

1967 | Remembering the Six-Day War

1967 | The Six-Day War and Israeli society: an interview with Yossi Klein Halevi