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From the Edge of the Abyss | Dispatch from Israel

By Calev Ben-Dor
The rubble at the site of the former Sderot police station – destroyed by an Israeli tank on... Read more > February 2025

Fathom Interview | 'The Gulf wants a non-Iranian aligned Gaza' | Najwa AlSaeed

By Najwa AlSaeed
Najwa AlSaeed talks to Fathom about Gulf states' desire for a post-Hamas Gaza freed from Iranian influence; navigating... Read more > February 2025

Resisting Despair: A.B. Yehoshua’s Literary Legacy

By Ranen Omer-Sherman
Ranen Omer-Sherman, JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville, surveys the life and work... Read more > February 2025

Jewish Indigeneity to the Land of Israel

By Ben Freeman
Ben Freeman writes about his recent book, The Jews: An Indigenous People. While Jews' primary concern is how... Read more > February 2025

Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | An Eternity of Days

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Ceasefire Announced (15 January 2025) I’ve been holding my breath since 7 October 2023. Tonight, in the back... Read more > February 2025

The Core Problems with Boycott and Divestment

By Cary Nelson et al
The authors (Cary Nelson, Susana Cavallo, David Greenberg, Rebecca Lesses, Jeffry Mallow, and Stan Nadel) on behalf of... Read more > February 2025

Book Review | Chasidim Just Laugh

By Shaul Judelman
It is with great awe and trepidation that I agreed to put on the page my reflections on... Read more > February 2025

Alan Johnson: In Appreciation

By Fathom Editors
Professor Alan Johnson conceived and founded Fathom in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting... Read more > January 2025

Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays')

By David Hirsh
This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator... Read more > January 2025

A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist Party, Sept. 1967

By Philip Earl Steele
War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and... Read more > January 2025

The London Initiative: Partnering to Re-Connect Democracy, Fairness and Peace for a Better Shared Future

By Sir Mick Davis & Mike Prashker
Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to... Read more > January 2025

We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

By Meredith Rothbart
Meredith Rothbart is co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva. Here, she argues for a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding,... Read more > January 2025

The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left

By Shalom Lappin
Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern... Read more > January 2025

Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance

By Michael Feuer
Michael Feuer argues that the eruption of protests against Israel after 7 October sounded the alarm of resurgent... Read more > January 2025

Book Review | Forest of Noise

By Joe Lockard
Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as... Read more > January 2025

‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland

By Oliver Sears
Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community... Read more > December 2024

Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria

By Itai Anghel
Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program... Read more > December 2024

Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West

By Joanna Tokarska Bakir
Professor Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is Chair of Ethnic and National Relations at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of... Read more > December 2024

Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?

By Paul Gross
Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald... Read more > December 2024

Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment

By Charles Asher Small
Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy... Read more > December 2024

Prejudice in the Academy: An analysis of the parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities

By Philip Mendes
Professor Philip Mendes is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department... Read more > December 2024

Fathom Interview | 'The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than is usually possible against terrorists'

By Alexander Yakobson
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Alexander Yakobson, co-author of Israel and the Family of Nations: The... Read more > December 2024

Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

By Matthew Levitt
Matt Levitt is the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.... Read more > November 2024

A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...

By Marina Barats
Marina Barats is a recent MA International Political Economy graduate from King’s College London Background President Joe Biden... Read more > November 2024

Latest Issue Spring / 2025

Dispatch from Damascus

Opinion | An Elementary Truth: Gaza is Palestinian

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 5: A conversation with Koby Huberman

Opinion | Israel's futile policy towards Russia

Winter / 2024

From the Edge of the Abyss | Dispatch from Israel

Fathom Interview | 'The Gulf wants a non-Iranian aligned Gaza' | Najwa AlSaeed

Resisting Despair: A.B. Yehoshua’s Literary Legacy

Jewish Indigeneity to the Land of Israel

Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | An Eternity of Days

The Core Problems with Boycott and Divestment

Book Review | Chasidim Just Laugh

Alan Johnson: In Appreciation

Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays')

A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist Party, Sept. 1967

The London Initiative: Partnering to Re-Connect Democracy, Fairness and Peace for a Better Shared Future

We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left

Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance

Book Review | Forest of Noise

‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland

Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria

Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West

Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?

Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment

Prejudice in the Academy: An analysis of the parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities

Fathom Interview | 'The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than is usually possible against terrorists'

Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...

Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

Towards Peace Realism: 13 Principles

Opinion | The Moral Collapse of the American Association of University Professors

Fathom Interview | Are Israel's Wars Just?

Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel

No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and the West’s Culture of Victimhood

The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, recommended by Lesley Klaff

Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence

Autumn / 2024

The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine

2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah

‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking

The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews

Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large

7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP

Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of...

Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal

The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius

Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology

Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society

The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...

The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative

Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again

How Oslo could solve Gaza

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Day 332

Opinion | It is never a good idea for British foreign policy to be dictated by domestic political concerns, as...

Opinion | The British Government Must Not Abandon Israel

Opinion | Labour is trying to appease the unappeasable, deserting our true friends in the process

The Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes

Summer / 2024

7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination

‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report

Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer

Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself

The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky

The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare

Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld

‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October

Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace

Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon

Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt

What kind of victory does Israel need? - An Interview with Azar Gat

Dispatch from the scene of a massacre

Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism