Fathom – Previous Issues

"What worries me most is the lack of a plan for the day after Hamas" | Fathom Interview: Dr Rob...

By Rob Geist Pinfold
Fathom Deputy Editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor talk to Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, Lecturer in Peace and... Read more > November 2023

In Defence of the Jewish People: A Christian Priest Reflects on 7 October

By Revd Ray Gaston
Revd Ray Gaston has been involved in grassroots interfaith dialogue and action as an Anglican priest throughout his... Read more > November 2023

Fathom Long Read | Lethal Journalism and the Pattern: Why the World Fell for Hamas’ Al Ahli Lie

By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is author of Can ‘The Whole World’ Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (2022)... Read more > November 2023

‘The ISIS-ization of Hamas is a threat not only to Israel but to everyone’: Interview with IDF Lieutenant Colonel Avichay...

By Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz is a journalist at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, having worked previously at the Qatari... Read more > November 2023

Opinion | Beyond the Carnage: Credo of a democratic Zionist

By Sam Shube
A member of Kibbutz Nir Am near Gaza, and outgoing executive Director of the Hagar Association which operates... Read more > November 2023

Book Review | Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

By Liam Hoare
At the time of another episode in the Israel-Hamas conflict, Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Amos Oz opened... Read more > November 2023

Celebrating Terror – new research indicates a radicalisation of antisemitic discourse about Israel online in the wake of the Hamas...

By Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton, of the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Berlin‘s Technische Universität introduces the centre’s Decoding Antisemitism... Read more > November 2023

Gaza After Hamas: How to Win the Peace

By Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is Director of Labour Friends of Israel. He argues here for an urgent international plan for... Read more > November 2023

Human Rights Watch: Destructive Agenda, Token Balance

By Gerald M. Steinberg
Gerald M. Steinberg is emeritus professor of politics at Bar Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor. The... Read more > November 2023

“I am happy Netanyahu is indecisive” | Fathom Interview: Dr Ahron Bregman

By Ahron Bregman
Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Jack Omer-Jackaman talk to Dr Ahron Bregman, Senior Teaching Fellow at King's College... Read more > October 2023

‘Daddy, Daddy, God, why am I alive?’ | A harrowing report from a journalist who watched raw footage of the...

By Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz was among the international journalists invited to watch the raw footage of the atrocities committed by... Read more > October 2023

Archive | Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the Anti-Zionist Subject (2015)

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. He published this chapter in 2015 in The... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | After the Hamas Pogrom, we can see what American Universities have become

By Gabriel Noah Brahm
Gabriel Noah Brahm is Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University and Visiting Researcher in... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Why Don’t Israeli Women Count for ‘UN Women’?

By Hamutal Gouri
An open letter signed by dozens of women’s groups from Israel and around the world criticises the failure... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Israeli military action to defeat Hamas is proportionate to the threat from Hamas

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. What is meant by ‘proportionality’ in war? Let’s... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | A ceasefire would normalise the pogrom

By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson argues that those calling for a ceasefire ignore, are ignorant of, or are unconcerned by the... Read more > October 2023

Archive | Six Myths about Hamas (2014)

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. He gave this speech in 2014, after the... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | ‘A new turning point in the history of the State of Israel. Most people don’t understand that’

By Giora Eiland
In a briefing, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, Strategic Planning... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | For the Total Defeat of Hamas, Against the ‘Total Siege’ of Gaza

By Alan Johnson & Jack Omer-Jackaman
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – and Jack Omer-Jackaman are editors of Fathom. Israel is at war. A war... Read more > October 2023

Diary from Jerusalem | Susi Doring Preston | Safe but broken

By Susi Doring Preston
In a beautifully written heartfelt diary from Jerusalem, Susi Doring Preston, a mother of four and high-tech professional,... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | The battle-lines are clear. Which side are you on?

By Joe Schwartz
In this impassioned piece, Joe Schwartz places the Hamas pogrom in the context of Jewish history - the... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | The pro-Israel case against a ground invasion of Gaza

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Walking the thin (red) line

By Samuel Lebens
In a Facebook musing, Israeli-British philosopher Samuel Lebens argues that the current war with Hamas is justified, but... Read more > October 2023

‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide

By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism:... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | Israel was unprepared on three levels: strategically, operationally and tactically. We must now defeat, not just contain, Hamas

By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser was chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence, and until recently, director general of... Read more > October 2023

Opinion | The war in Israel/Palestine

By Alliance for Workers' Liberty
The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL), a UK radical socialist organisation, posted this statement on 8 October 2023. ... Read more > October 2023

Book Review | Challenging the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Twenty Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns

By Kenneth Waltzer
This collection of essays prepared by Ronnie and Lola Fraser, veteran British anti-BDS activists, assesses how friends of... Read more > October 2023

Spring / 2024

American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique

Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk, Jean Améry, and the anti-Zionist left

Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement

Book Extract | Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it

Why 7 October must not become Palestinian Independence Day

Book Review | Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists

The ‘Takeoff to 100’ Plan - Proposal for the Next Government of Israel

The meaning of Israeli Independence Day after 7 October

Podcast: Understanding Hamas

Opinion | Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

Opinion | Is It Time to Leave? The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the Modern World

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Three

The Iran-Israel War and Learning from Frogs: An Interview with Jonathan Spyer

Opinion | From Little Rock to Columbia

‘None of the options are good, but if you don’t want Hamas or endless Israeli occupation, you need something else’:...

David Grossman’s war

Opinion | The Balkanisation of the IDF: A Looming Danger?

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 2: ‘Arafat could never end the conflict… his identity was...

Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to...

Iran's 'successful' attack vs Israel - a blessing very effectively disguised

Is Hamas Winning? An Interview with Michael Doran

‘Hamas must be defeated, not only for Israelis’ sake, but for the chance of peace in our part of the...

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Rage, Fury and Helplessness

Opinion | As government institutions fail in Israel and Palestine, civil society organisations are working tirelessly to sustain their communities

From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn't Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Two

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 1: ‘Focus on institution-building not dramatic diplomatic breakthroughs’: A Conversation...

Opinion | Yes to recognising a Palestinian state now

Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part One

‘We can have a debate about whether Hamas did the right thing’: Judith Butler’s Moral Relativism

‘Reactionary Anti-Imperialism’ as the new Totalitarian Temptation, from Foucault to 7 October

The Peace Process, Past and Future: An Insider’s Reflections and Advice

Telegram Warfare: The New Frontier of Psychological Warfare in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

7 October and the Miseducation of the Palestinian Child

Winter / 2023

Book Review | My Life as a Jew

Why the Israeli Left needs a New Alliance with Religious Voters

‘Eat Their Skulls’: The Pleasures of Antisemitism, revisited after 7 October

Book Review | Israel’s War on Gaza

After the Pogrom: An Australian Journalist Reflects

On the Palestinianisation of Israel Studies

Opinion | Saudi normalisation now. A Palestinian state later

Post-Bibi: Aligning two-state hopes with Israeli fears after 7 October

‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no word of empathy’: Reactions from European club culture to the Supernova Festival...

Faculty for Academic Freedom and Against Antisemitism: Mission Statement and Background Information

Resilience, Social Cohesion and Democracy: The Three Keys to Rebuilding Israel After 7 October

Hamas Exploitation of Hospitals for Hostage Taking: The Legal Imperative to Investigate Aiding and Abetting of War Crimes

Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre

Arabs and Jews: The Holocaust and its Aftermath

"We didn't understand Hamas at all" | Fathom Interview: Michael Milshtein

“Even Jews themselves often hear about Zionism through its detractors” | Fathom Interview: Einat Wilf

A Response to The Jewish Chronicle’s review of 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays' (Routledge, 2023)

Book Review | Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East

Denying 7 October: The Case of Former ANC Minister Ronnie Kasrils

Rereadings | Demonopathy: Leon Pinsker’s Theory of Antisemitism

Antizionism at the Modern Language Association

Peacebuilding Special Issue | A Multilateral and Bottom-Up Approach to End the Israeli-Palestinian Tragedy

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Why it's time for the UK to lead multilateral support for Israeli-Palestinian civil society peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders: The Intersection of Youth, Political Engagement, and Intergenerational Responsibility

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Reconstruction and Renewal in Gaza, Two Scenarios

Peacebuilding Special Issue | How my Israeli and Palestinian friends want you to talk about them

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Standing Together is forging Jewish-Palestinian solidarity for peace

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Interview: Givat Haviva

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Interview: Arava Institute for Environmental Studies

Peacebuilding Special Issue | “Groundwork” Podcasts: "Echoes of Home" and "Two States, One Homeland"

Israeli Democracy: An Audit and a Proposal for Reform

Scandalous Indoctrination: Inside a Kings College Counter-Terrorism Course for UK Civil Servants

Universities in Crisis | What three American University Presidents should have said to the US Congress about campus antisemitism

Opinion | ‘From the River to the Sea’ is the Postmodern ‘Hep! Hep!’

Gaza After Hamas | ‘The idea of Hamas will remain in place as long as the Palestinian issue burns heavy...

‘I had never witnessed such barbarism before’: Major ‘F’ and the Battle of Holit

Poem | October | by Adi Keissar

The ‘Ben Gurion Canal’: A new crazy anti-Israeli conspiracy theory is doing great business on the internet while the social...

Comparing the Hamas Pogrom of 7 October to the Holocaust is a misuse of Holocaust Remembrance say Omer Bartov, Raz...

“America needs to maintain a balance of power against radical Islam” | Fathom Interview: Jonathan Rynhold

Opinion | Gaza After Hamas | Wanted: Two-State Realism

No one believes that any criticism of Israel is invariably antisemitic. The American Association of University Professors has set up...

Opinion | I am a Zionist because I am a leftist, not in spite of that commitment