Fathom 13 | Editorial
By Fathom Editors
Fathom 13 examines four questions central to explaining the current impasse in the peace process between the Israelis...
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Summer 2016
Undeclared Wars on Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1981: An Interview with Jeffrey Herf
By Jeffrey Herf
http:// Jeffery Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include Nazi Propaganda...
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Summer 2016
For peace, we need vision, hope and bridge-building: an interview with Aziz Abu Sarah
By Aziz Abu Sarah
Aziz Abu Sarah is a National Geographic Explorer and Cultural Educator. A Palestinian from Jerusalem, Aziz has pioneered...
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Summer 2016
Darkenu: keeping the dream of Israel alive
By Polly Bronstein
Israel has a new organisation. Darkenu styles itself as the movement of Israel’s moderates. It’s leader Polly Bronstein...
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Summer 2016
‘Where is Syria going? A Round Table with Jonathan Spyer
By Jonathan Spyer
The Fathom editors hold a monthly invite-only round table discussion in our London office between a policy expert...
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Summer 2016
London Calling: Why Mayor Sadiq Khan is ‘Good for the Jews’
By Marcus Roberts
‘Yes, but is it good for the Jews?’ goes the classic question, often used ironically, to ask what...
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Summer 2016
‘The greatest emissary the Jewish people ever had’: Asaf Siniver on Abba Eban
By Asaf Siniver
Asaf Siniver’s biography of Abba Eban tells the story of an entirely exceptional man who by the age...
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Summer 2016
We are weak because there is no Palestinian non-violent movement
By Ali Abu Awwad
Ali Abu Awwad is a leading Palestinian activist and the founder of Roots – an Israeli-Palestinian project in...
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Summer 2016
We must not be afraid to talk about the roots of the conflict
By Shaul Judelman
Shaul Judelman is a Jewish Israeli living in the Gush Etzion settlement and he is the coordinator of...
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Summer 2016
Assessing the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Policy
By Grant Rumley and Adam Rasgon
Has the internationalisation strategy pushed by President Abbas transformed international public opinion and diplomacy and set the Palestinians...
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Summer 2016
After Oslo’s failure, the two-state solution is now an international responsibility: an interview with Husam Zomlot
By Husam Zomlot
Husam Zomlot serves as ambassador-at-large for the state of Palestine and adjunct professor of Government at Birzeit University....
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Summer 2016
Sykes and Picot ignored the sectarianism of the Middle East, and we are still paying the price
By Asher Susser
It is 100 years since the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement – the division of the territory of...
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Summer 2016
Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred
By Richard Landes
In this bracing polemic, the US academic Richard Landes argues that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls...
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Summer 2016
Israel and the Death Penalty: Lessons from the Talmud
By Edward Rettig
The proposal to make it easier to pass the death sentence is a troubling exercise in unsustainable moral...
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Summer 2016
An Antisemitic Hoax: Lenni Brenner on Zionist ‘Collaboration’ With the Nazis
By Paul Bogdanor
The former mayor of London Ken Livingstone has defended his explosive claim that Adolf Hitler was ‘a Zionist’...
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Summer 2016
Book Review│Doomed to Succeed: The US- Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
By David Lowe
On 12 May 1948, nearly six months after the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish...
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Summer 2016
Book Review│Socialism of Fools: Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism
By Colin Shindler
The Italian academic, Michele Battini examines the gradual transformation of the traditional Christian anti-Semitic charge of usury into...
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Summer 2016
Social Cohesion and the Future of Israel
By Mike Prashker
Mike Prashker, author of a forthcoming book, A Place for Us All – Social Cohesion and The Future...
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Summer 2016
Docaviv 2016 – The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
By Gavin Gross
This May witnessed the annual Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an event dedicated to the development and...
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Summer 2016
The Eloquence of Oriented: An interview with Jake Witzenfeld
By Jake Witzenfeld
Sitting in the Green Room at JW3, the London Jewish Community’s cultural centre, a jetlagged Jake Witzenfeld,...
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Summer 2016
Defending Human Rights in a Nation Under Siege: A Sermon of Sorts
By Edward Rettig
In a chaotic and morally obtuse situation, little understood by outsiders, Israel must still try to follow the...
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Summer 2016
Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism
By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf, author of the award winning book 'Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the...
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Summer 2016
Fathom 12 | Editorial
By Fathom Editors
Fathom 12 addresses five themes. First, the rise of the new antisemitism. Alex Chalmers hit the headlines when...
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Spring 2016
First Industrial Nation Meets Start-Up Nation
By Alex Brummer
Beyond the headlines, Britain and Israel – the First Industrial Nation’ and the ‘Start-Up Nation’ – are drawing...
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Spring 2016
Can Israel remain secure in a world of Arab disintegration, American retreat, and Iranian ambition?
By Calev Ben-Dor
In a comprehensive and clear-sighted survey Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor assesses the implications of regional disintegration for...
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Spring 2016
Representing the Trial: Judith Butler Reads Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann
By Russell Berman
Judith Butler is one of the world’s most influential academics and public intellectuals and a leading supporter of...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Mitchell Cohen
By Mitchell Cohen
Perry Anderson and the House of Anti-Imperialism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House...
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Spring 2016
Antisemitic anti-Zionism and the scandal of Oxford University Labour Club
By Alex Chalmers
Alex Chalmers was co-Chair of Oxford University Labour Club until he resigned in February, alleging that a ‘large...
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Spring 2016
'What we are lacking is courageous leadership': an interview with Koby Huberman
By Koby Huberman
BICOM Chief Executive James Sorene spoke with Koby Huberman, who was a high tech entrepreneur before it was...
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Spring 2016
Two-state solution 2.0: New Israeli thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Toby Greene
A number of proposals for how Israel can act to change the status quo in the Israeli-Palestinian arena...
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Spring 2016
Prisoners, Peace and the Palestinian National Movement: an interview with Ashraf al-Ajrami
By Ashraf al-Ajrami
Ashraf al-Ajrami was the Minister of Prisoners Affairs for the Palestinian Authority (PA) between 2007 and 2009. A...
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Spring 2016
'Doing God', or the importance of religious peacemaking: an interview with Rabbi Michael Melchior
By Michael Melchior
When it comes to conflict resolution, the dominant view has been that God should be taken out of...
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Spring 2016
Learning the Lessons of the Oslo Peace Process
By Yair Hirschfeld
Yair Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Oslo Accords and is now the Director General of the Economic...
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Spring 2016
Nawi-Gate: the self-immolation of the Israeli far-left
By Eylon Aslan-Levy
Israeli TV broadcast extraordinary claims by a far-left Israeli activist: that he had delivered to the Palestinian Authority...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Michael Walzer
By Michael Walzer
Perry Anderson’s War Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Einat Wilf
By Einat Wilf
Anderson’s One-State Solution ignores the certain fate of the Jews Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | John Strawson
By John Strawson
One-State is a Trap for Two Peoples in Palestine and Israel Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Shany Mor
By Shany Mor
Perry Anderson’s Theological Anti-Zionism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Cary Nelson
By Cary Nelson
Perry Anderson’s Reactionary Fantasy Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was...
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Spring 2016
Book Review│The Definition of Anti-Semitism
By Robert Fine
The word ‘antisemitism’ currently has a strange aura around it. There is a curious reluctance on the part...
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Spring 2016
Book Review | Diasporic Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Keith Kahn-Harris
One of the most striking features of intra-Jewish conflicts over Israel in the UK and elsewhere in the...
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Spring 2016
Book Review | The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
By Jonathan Rynhold
This book will serve as the definitive history of the Israeli Right in English. Building on his previous...
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Spring 2016
Fathom 11
By Fathom Editors
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Article
Fathom Forum | David Newman | Thinking creatively about borders and settlers
By Professor David Newman
David Newman is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Professor of Geopolitics in the Department...
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Autumn 2015
Fathom Review 2015
By Fathom Editors
Preface by Anthony Julius Fathom exists to fathom Israel's complexities. It engages with a troubling characteristic of much...
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Autumn 2015
Deterring Iran: Time for a new mindset
By Michael Herzog
As the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 goes into effect with the announcement of Implementation Day...
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Autumn 2015
‘This shows it is possible to transform Israel into a just society’: Ron Gerlitz on the Arab Economic Development Plan
By Ron Gerlitz
The Israeli government has approved an ambitious $3.85 billion plan for the social and employment development of Israel’s Arab citizens....
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Autumn 2015
Models of Israeli disengagement: an interview with Shany Mor
By Shany Mor
Shany Mor is a former Director for Foreign Policy on the Israeli National Security Council. In this video he...
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Autumn 2015
‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
In this in-depth interview, Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks with Professor Gabriel Noah Brahm about his work, his...
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Autumn 2015
Symposium on Rabin's legacy – Einat Wilf
By Einat Wilf
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Six steps to defeat ISIS
By Giora Eiland
Giora Eiland spoke to Fathom about six steps the coalition must take to defeat ISIS: cooperating with Russia,...
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Autumn 2015
The Syrian Cauldron – A View from Israel
By Michael Herzog
As Parliament is set to debate joining the coalition against ISIS in Syria, BICOM Senior Visiting Fellow Brig....
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Autumn 2015
Rabin eBook | Foreword by President Reuven Rivlin
By Reuven Rivlin
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded...
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Autumn 2015
Rabin eBook | A statesman not a politician: remembering Yitzhak Rabin
By Uri Dromi
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
What does the ‘Corbyn Revolution’ mean for the UK Left and Israel?
By Luke Akehurst
Veteran activist and former UK Labour Party National Executive Committee member Luke Akehurst offers an in-depth look at...
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Autumn 2015
Fathom eBook | The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin
By Fathom Editors
Fathom has published a new eBook to mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which...
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Autumn 2015
Symposium on Rabin's legacy – Tzipi Livni
By Tzipi Livni
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Fathom Forum | Jonathan Rynhold | What does the US presidential election mean for US-Israel relations?
By Jonathan Rynhold
Dr. Jonathan Rynhold is author of The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture (2015), senior researcher at the...
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Autumn 2015
Islamic State and Islamist politics in the UK: why ‘not in my name’ is not enough
By Dave Rich
Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust argues that while IS has the support of only small minorities...
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Autumn 2015
Ultra-nationalism, settlements and Jewish extremism: an interview with Sara Hirschhorn
By Sara Hirschhorn
Settlements and settlers in the West Bank are seen as by many in Europe and the West as...
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Autumn 2015
Is it Iran’s Middle East now?
By Jonathan Spyer
Leading regional expert Jonathan Spyer thinks not. While the single best organised and most aggressive alliance active currently...
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Autumn 2015
The Corbyn left: the politics of position and the politics of reason
By David Hirsh
Abstract This paper is about a preference within contemporary left-wing culture for defining opponents as not belonging rather...
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Autumn 2015
The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink
By Alan Johnson
A shorter version of this talk was delivered as a contribution to a panel discussion on ‘The Left...
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Autumn 2015
Book Review│Australia & Israel: A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship
By Philip Mendes
Australia and Israel are superficially the oddest of couples. They are geographically distant, and massively different in size....
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Autumn 2015
Book Review | Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel
By Matti Friedman
Einat Wilf's book Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel is available on Amazon or...
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Autumn 2015
David Cesarani: In Memoriam
By Jeffrey Herf
As readers of this journal know by now, David Cesarani, Professor of History at Royal Holloway, London University...
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Autumn 2015
Rabin eBook | Why Rabin matters today
By Luciana Berger
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Symposium on Rabin's legacy – Omer Bar-Lev
By Omer Bar-Lev
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Symposium on Rabin's legacy – Michael Herzog
By Michael Herzog
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Symposium on Rabin's legacy – Sara Hirschhorn
By Sara Hirschhorn
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Symposium on Rabin's legacy – Ronen Hoffman
By Ronen Hoffman
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Rabin eBook | Rabin in Churchill’s War Rooms: remembering a Prime Minister
By Sir Martin Gilbert
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Rabin eBook | Rabin’s Strategy: understanding security and the limits of power
By Shlomo Avineri
This piece is from Fathom’s eBook The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which can be downloaded here....
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Autumn 2015
Fathom 10
By Fathom Editors
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Article
What Palestinian terrorists write on Facebook
By Elhanan Miller
As the British government’s recently launched counter-extremism strategy acknowledges the role of social media in spreading hate, Elhanan...
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Summer 2015
Fathom eBook | Two States for Two Peoples – 20 Years after Oslo II: How to renew the peace process...
By Fathom Editors
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Oslo II agreement, Fathom has published an eBook – Two States for...
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Summer 2015
Making Sense of ISIS: an interview with Michael Weiss
By Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss is the co-author with Hassan Hassan of the New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army...
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Summer 2015
Building Peace from the Grassroots
By Joel Braunold
On 30 June 2015, Joel Braunold, US Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) spoke to...
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Summer 2015
Book Review |Boycotting Israel is Wrong: The progressive path to peace between Palestinians and Israelis
By Luke Akehurst
Boycotting Israel is Wrong is a timely short book on the BDS phenomenon by Australian academics Philip Mendes...
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Summer 2015
Debating Michael Walzer’s 'Islamism and the Left'
By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and one of...
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Summer 2015
Book Review | Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
By David Lowe
David E. Lowe is the Vice President for Government Relations and Public Affairs at the National Endowment for...
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Summer 2015
The New Special Relationship: The British Conservative Party and Israel
By Alan Mendoza
In recent years, a once ambivalent relationship between the world’s oldest political party and one of its younger...
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Summer 2015
‘The time to compromise is when you are strong’: an interview with Omer Bar-Lev MK
By Omer Bar-Lev
Omer Bar-Lev is an MK for the Zionist Union. He was a commander in one of the IDF’s...
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Summer 2015
Book Review |The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions
By James Bloodworth
What has happened to the secular and democratic left? It would be an exaggeration to say that everywhere...
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Summer 2015
In These Times: A Statement on Contemporary European Anti-Semitism
By Shalom Lappin, Brian Bix, Eve Garrard, Steve De Wijze, Matthew Kramer, and Hillel Steiner
Antisemitism is a form of racism. Indeed, it is one of the oldest and most virulent instances of...
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Summer 2015
Book Review |Catch The Jew!
By Michael Wegier
Tuvia Tenenbom is a product of the Ultra-Orthodox community in B'nai Brak, near Tel Aviv. He grew up...
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Summer 2015
Israel’s Embittered Generation
By Marc Goldberg
After another election disappointment for the Israel left, British-Israeli blogger Marc Goldberg asks how Israeli Labour can win...
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Summer 2015
Terrorism in cyberspace
By Gabriel Weimann
Professor Gabriel Weimann spoke to a Fathom Forum about his book Terrorism in Cyberspace: The Next Generation. The...
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Summer 2015
Interfaith on Campus: lessons of the St Andrews Coexistence Initiative
By Joel Salmon
St Andrews is an institution consistently placed in the top three universities in the UK. Over 600 years...
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Summer 2015
The Collective Impact Forum and Arab Employment: an interview with Yifat Ovadia
By Yifat Ovadia
Yifat Ovadia established the Collective Impact Forum (CIF) to increase the employment of the Arab population in Israel’s...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM Conference 2015: ‘If we stand together against religious persecution, we win’, a speech by Lord Sacks
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in a speech to the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’.
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM Conference: Discussion on Iran
By BICOM
A panel discussion on Iran at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference. Participants were: Sir Richard Dalton (Chatham House),...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Discussion on radicalisation
By BICOM
A panel discussion on radicalisation at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference. Participants were: Charles Farr (Director of the Office for...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Yair Lapid in conversation with Bronwen Maddox
By Yair Lapid
Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaking to Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’.
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Isaac Herzog in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
By Isaac Herzog
Leader of Israel's opposition and Zionist Union party Isaac Herzog speaking to The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland the BICOM-Jewish...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: A speech by Shaul Mofaz
By Shaul Mofaz
A speech by former IDF Chief of Staff and Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz at the the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Collapse of Arab states and the rise of ISIL
By BICOM
A panel discussion on the collapse of Arab states and the rise of ISIL at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Does increasing antisemitism threaten the future of European Jewry?
By BICOM
A panel discussion on antisemitism at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference. Participants were: Fulvio Martusciello MEP ,Sarah Benioff (DCLG), Robert...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Have rejectionists slammed the door on the two-state solution?
By BICOM
A panel discussion on the two-state solution at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference. Participants were: Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser, Omer Bar...
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Summer 2015
Multi-stage Coordinated Unilateralism: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm
By Cary Nelson
In this wide-ranging and hopeful essay, Cary Nelson aims to move the international conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict away from mutual...
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Summer 2015
Red lines and pitfalls: the Iran deal and beyond – an interview with Mike Herzog
By Michael Herzog
Brig. Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog assesses the underlying concerns with the Iran nuclear negotiations, the implications for the...
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Summer 2015
Reflections on Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Europe
By Kenneth Waltzer
The editors are proud to launch a new longer-form publication. Each 'Fathom Insight' will allow writers and readers...
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Summer 2015
Gaza One Year After - An Interview with Elhanan Miller
By Elhanan Miller
Elhanan Miller is the Arab Affairs reporter for the Times of Israel. Alan Johnson is the editor...
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Summer 2015
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