Diary | The inaugural conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
By Kathleen Hayes
Kathleen Hayes is the author of the Fathom articles ‘Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir’ and ‘“Punch a...
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September 2022
Book Review | Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State
By Eve Garrard
This is a horrifying book. Not because it's a bad book – on the contrary, Cary Nelson has...
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November 2019
UK Labour and Israel: the little-noticed shift in party policy
By Luke Akehurst
While the four-year long controversy over antisemitism in UK Labour has monopolised media attention, the 2019 UK Labour...
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October 2019
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is editor emeritus of the democratic left magazine Dissent and an advisory editor of Fathom. He...
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October 2019
Amos Oz (1939-2018): Writer, Reader, Dreamer
By Liam Hoare
Liam Hoare writes in praise of Amos Oz, the Israeli novelist and public intellectual who died 28 December....
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January 2019
Ending the 'Universalisation' of the Holocaust and the Wars Against Israel: The GDR People's Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990
By Martin Jander
To ‘universalise’ the Nazi crimes is to deny the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the murder of the...
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December 2018
Pop Islam: How Germany is tackling the new Islamic antisemitism
By Daniel Rickenbacher
In 2018 Germany appointed the diplomat Dr. Felix Klein to the newly created post of Federal Government Commissioner...
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December 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Robin Moss
By Robin Moss
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Keith Kahn-Harris
By Keith Kahn-Harris
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Jonathan Hunter
By Jonathan Hunter
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
Why the Nazi Analogy and Holocaust Inversion are Antisemitic
By Alan Johnson
The following is an excerpt from ‘Antisemitism in the Guise of Anti-Nazism: Holocaust Inversion in the United Kingdom...
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August 2018
From ‘intersectionality’ to the exclusion of Jewish students: BDS makes a worrying turn on US campuses
By Kenneth Waltzer
Kenneth Waltzer is the executive director of the Academic Engagement Network, a national US faculty organisation committed to...
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July 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...
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February 2018
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in West Germany in the 1970s: Lessons for Today
By Martin Jander
In this provocative analysis of discourse about Israel in West Germany in the 1970s, Martin Jander claims that...
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Summer 2017
A Deeply Rooted Anti-Zionism: Reflections from South Africa
By Milton Shain
While the degree of support for radical anti-Zionism in South Africa is often wildly exaggerated – the government...
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Summer 2017
1967 | The Global Left and the Six-Day War
By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park,...
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Spring 2017
Fathom Forum | Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-81
By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include Nazi Propaganda for...
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Spring 2017
Communists Against Jews: the Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland in 1968
By Simon Gansinger
‘Everything started collapsing then’, wrote Halina Zawadzka, who survived the Shoah in Poland, about her experience of 1968...
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Autumn 2016
Lies, Damned Lies and the Academic Boycott of Israel
By Michael Yudkin
Oxford University academic Michael Yudkin critiques the ‘Academic boycott’ promoted by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and...
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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
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 | A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
By David Cesarani
Historian David Cesarani hails Alon Confino’s triumphant demonstration that anti-Jewish policies are within the realms of comprehension and...
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Winter 2015
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Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre
Book Review | Forgotten Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
The Holocaust and Inherited Memory: How we Remember in the 21st Century
From Johns Hopkins to Beirut, and from Beirut to Columbia: a history of the ‘settler colonialism’ charge
Antisemitic Terrorism and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany
