Fathom – Previous Issues

Israel70 | Young Voices: time for the decision of the century in the West Bank

By Rob Pinfold
Rob Pinfold is a Neubauer Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Young Voices: Israel's Arabs should be in Israel's government

By Tal Harris
Tal Harris is the spokesperson of MK Amir Peretz and a PhD candidate in sociology on urban migration... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Young Voices: The moderate majority in Israel must find its voice in the decade ahead

By Tel Aviv Widrich
Tel Aviv Widrich is director of operations for Darkenu. Meaningful change in Israel, though desired by the moderate... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Young Voices: A Plea for Civility

By Aaron Kalman
Aaron Kalman is a diplomatic adviser to Education Minister Naftali Bennett and former Jewish Agency Emissary to Australia.... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Young Voices: From the Kibbutz to the shared economy?

By Netta Geist
Netta Geist is a former Parliamentary Advisor to MK Stav Shaffir. She holds an MA in Public Policy... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Young Voices: Will a leader of Middle Eastern descent emerge to lead this Middle Eastern country?

By Hen Mazzig
Hen Mazzig is an Israeli writer, international speaker, social media activist and advocate. Hen’s family comes from Iraq... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | How to keep the window open for the two-state solution

By Dennis Ross
As Israel approaches its 70th anniversary and the peace process at a low ebb, Dennis Ross, former Middle... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Palestinians are raising the alarm – the time to rescue the two-state solution is running out

By Ziad Darwish
Dr Ziad Darwish is a member of The Palestinian Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society – PLO (PCIIS).... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Forget ‘the ultimate deal’. For now, the status quo is the best option available

By Shalom Lipner
Shalom Lipner is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.... Read more > March 2018

Israel70 | How to fix the crisis in Israel-World Jewry relations

By Gidi Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
Gidi Grinstein and Ari Afilalo argue that on the eve of Israel’s 70th anniversary, it must reembrace its... Read more > April 2018

Anti-Zionism and the Humanities: A response to Saree Makdisi

By Cary Nelson and Russell Berman
This lengthy essay by two leading US professors challenges the world of academic publishing. They identify the symptoms... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Editorial

By Fathom Editors
Israel70 is a special bumper issue of the journal that maps the state of Israel at 70 years old and... Read more > March 2018

One-to-one | Towards the renewal of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

By Dahlia Scheindlin
On 22 March Fathom editor Alan Johnson sat down with Dahlia Scheindlin for the first of Fathom’s one-to-one interviews,... Read more > April 2018

Israel70 | Celebrating the argument

By Einat Wilf with Shany Mor
Zionism and the State of Israel are unique examples of a movement of national liberation, and a state,... Read more > March 2018

Israel70 | It is time for the minority to establish itself as a political actor in Israeli decision-making

By Mohammad Darawshe
Mohammad Darawshe is Director of the Center for Shared Society at Givat Haviva Institute and also served as... Read more > March 2018

Israel70 | Yisrael Aumann on gaming Israel's future

By Yisrael Aumann
Yisrael Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a professor at the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality... Read more > March 2018

Book Review | Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine

By Cary Nelson
Sunaina Maira’s book Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine would not ordinarily be a publication of special... Read more > May 2018

The space between the Iraq-Iran border and the Mediterranean Sea today constitutes a single arena of conflict, by Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and a freelance security analyst and correspondent for... Read more > February 2018

‘As Jews who experienced the Holocaust, we have a moral obligation to help our neighbours': Talking to ‘Lt Col. E’...

By Elhanan Miller
Since 2016 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has operated its Good Neighbour Project, which coordinates the transfer of... Read more > February 2018

Book Review | Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Anti-Semitism and Gender

By Colin Shindler
This important book is based on an international conference on Jews and the Left held in New York... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Editorial

By Fathom Editors
Feminism in Israel is a special issue of Fathom journal that brings together the voices of 22 women from across... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Perhaps peace comes dropping slow: Rabbanit Tirza Kelman reflects on a trip to Northern Ireland

By Tirza Kelman
Two dozen religious Israelis met with an Irish priest. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Palestinian, Feminist, Peacebuilder: an interview with Huda Abu Arqoub

By Huda Abu Arqoub
Huda Abu Arqoub is Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), a network of civil society... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Meeting the challenges, making the changes: governing for women’s equality

By Rachel Azaria
Rachel Azaria is a Modern Orthodox Israeli politician, currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Kulanu.... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Haredi Feminism: an interview with Pnina Pfeuffer

By Pnina Pfeuffer
Pnina Pfeuffer is a leading figure in Haredi feminism and a regular columnist for Ha’aretz, Jerusalem Post, and... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Gender equality and the status of women in Israel: an interview with MK Aliza Lavie

By Aliza Lavie
Aliza Lavie is a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and a senior lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University.... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Feminism and the melodies of Judaism

By Elana Maryles Sztokman
The decision of Elana Maryles Sztokman, a long-time leading figure in US and Israeli Orthodox Jewish feminism to... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Feminism and Israeli-Palestinian Peace: an interview with Sarai Aharoni

By Sarai Aharoni
Sarai Aharoni is Assistant Professor at the Gender Studies Programme, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and one of... Read more > February 2018

Feminism in Israel | Feminism and Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity can make another Israel possible: an interview with Fida Nara and Sarit...

By Fida Nara and Sarit Larry
Mahapach-Taghir is a grassroots, feminist, Jewish-Arab organisation that works for social change through education and empowerment in marginalised communities... Read more > February 2018

Winter / 2022

Book Review | Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity

Book Review | British Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Israel’s Histadrut

Opinion | Western Democracies Face Two Threats: The Tyranny of the Majority and The Tyranny of the Minority

‘A gamechanger in Israel’s relationship with Egypt and cooperation with the EU’: The geopolitics of Israel’s natural gas fields

‘For peace, a political agreement between politicians is not enough’ | An interview with Noor A’wad, Palestinian activist with Roots

Book Review| Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons

Book Review | Victorious

Open letter to The George Washington University regarding allegations of antisemitism

Small Vote, Great Power: Rabbi Tau, Avi Maoz, the Noam Party and the Threat to Equal Rights in Israel

Opinion | Judicial Reform is needed to preserve the legitimacy of Israeli democracy

Archive | Menachem Begin on Law and Democracy

When Discourse about Israel Becomes Antisemitic: A Guide for the Perplexed

‘If these ideas get implemented, it will be a major shift. Israel will become a different country’: An Interview with...

A World War and a Jewish War: Derek Penslar reviews Dan Diner

Book Review | Ten Years Hard Labour

Defending Israel’s Legitimacy: Proposals for a reborn Ministry of Strategic Affairs

Book Review | Bibi, My Story

The Annual Fathom Lecture 2022 | Why we should all be Zionists if we want peace

The Progressive Friend of Israel in the era of Ben Gvir: Prospects and Tasks

Lessons from Germany’s Social Democrats for the Israeli Labor Party

Fathom at 10: Celebrating our first decade

Opinion | Navigating China’s Security Presence in the Middle East and North Africa

Judicial Reform is Not Dangerous for Israeli Democracy – it is Essential

Yet again, the Courts find for John Ware and his BBC Panorama documentary 'Is Labour Antisemitic?'

Book Review | Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

The Three Best Books by Israeli Writers (Not Called Oz, Grossman, or Yehoshua), recommended by Liam Hoare

The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How Should the West Respond

Judicial Reform and the Implications for Israeli Democracy

'Politically homeless': Yamina voters tell their story

‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary America

Book Review | Bibi: My Story

Autumn / 2022

Opinion | Israel’s electoral crisis ends but the struggle for its soul goes on

Opinion | This defeat feels different. It feels fundamental. Now we must fight for the country we love

Opinion | The Scapegoating of Yair Lapid

The Lust Libel: Sexual Antisemitism in History and Contemporary Culture

Book Review | Bibi: My Story

Fine margins and the Israeli Election – three that will determine the result

Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? The UK mulls moving its Embassy

‘Maybe he was the last of his kind’: A Conversation about Amos Oz with Nurith Gertz

Appease or Confront? Western Policy Options and the Iranian Nuclear Bomb

A Party Transformed: How UK Labour is ripping Left Antisemitism out by its roots

On Amnesty’s Antisemitic ‘Apartheid’ Report

Jerusalem Film Festival 2022: On absences haunting films made years after their passing

The Rise of Itamar Ben Gvir

Opinion | Time for the UN to rethink Palestine

Diary | The inaugural conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism

Book Review | Peace and Faith: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Liz Truss’s world view and its implications for UK-Israel relations

Book Review | Breaking History: A White House Memoir

Fathom eBook | Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020

Summer / 2022

Documentary Review | Remember Baghdad (2017)

The Modern Language Association, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

Opinion | We Need to Talk About the BBC

Book Review | Israel’s Moment: International Support and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949

Book Review | Nine Quarters of Jerusalem

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Time (1) | ‘Punch a Terf’ and ‘Smash the Zionists’: Misogyny and Antisemitism in...

Antisemitism and the University of London: Statement by David Hirsh

Book Review | The Wealthy: Chronicle of a Jewish Family (1763-1948)

Arabs sharing government power with Jews in Israel is the new normal. It works, and there is no turning back

Fathom Opinion | A Left-Winger’s Lament for the Israeli Coalition

The most important creative output in modern Hebrew literature since Agnon: Yael Halevi-Wise appreciates the life and work of A.B.Yehoshua...

Looking Forward by Farming Upwards: Israeli Diplomacy in South East Asia

The Boston Mapping Project: BDS and the Paranoid Style of Politics

‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and Zionism in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Understanding decision-making in the Palestinian arenas

Christians and the reconciliation route to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict

Algeria, where are your Saturday people, and where are your Sunday people?

Beyond Liberal Peacemaking: New Initiatives in Israel

How Israeli & Palestinian Peacebuilders Can Leverage Post-Pandemic Trends in Philanthropy

Fathom Opinion | ‘We are suffocating among people who think that they are absolutely right’: When totalitarian speech invades the...

The Three Best Books on Understanding Evil

The political odyssey of Ayman Odeh

‘Israel Is Living On Borrowed Time’: Yossi Melman on Security Threats and Social Divisions

The Anti-Israel Politicisation of the US Academy: The Next Phase is Happening at California and Illinois

My Israeli Music | Hen Mazzig

Spring / 2022

Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Abraham Accords have created space for a radical transformation in our thinking