Book Review | Peter Beinart's 'Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning'
By Andrew Apostolou
Andrew Apostolou reviews Peter Beinart's Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, arguing that the author's...
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March 2025
The AAUP and the BDS Black Hole
By Joe Lockard
Joe Lockard argues that while there is a culture war underway in US higher education, one that contests...
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March 2025
Bitesize | Why I am pulling out of the Israeli Government antisemitism conference
By David Hirsh
In this Fathom bitesize read, David Hirsh explains why he withdrew from the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism...
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March 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...
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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...
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February 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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December 2024
Opinion | The Moral Collapse of the American Association of University Professors
By Michael Yudkin
Michael Yudkin is an emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The American Association of University...
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November 2024
No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and the West’s Culture of Victimhood
By Andres Spokoiny
Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long...
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November 2024
Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel
By Balazs Berkovits
Somewhere near the centre of the intellectual revolution of our times, and to the manner in which it...
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November 2024
Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large
By Adam Gregerman
Adam Gregerman is Professor of Jewish Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He examines four parallels between...
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October 2024
‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking
By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly...
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October 2024
7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP
By Yaron Matras
Yaron Matras is former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester and Associate Fellow of the London...
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October 2024
The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine
By Barry Finger
Barry Finger reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book The Message. Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former...
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October 2024
Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology
By Christopher Schilling
Christopher L. Schilling is the author of The Therapized Antisemite: The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of...
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October 2024
Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal
By Joe Lockard
Joe Lockard is associate professor of English at Arizona State University-Tempe. Very few pay attention to faculty statements...
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October 2024
Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations
By Matthias J. Becker
Matthias J. Becker leads the innovative research project Decoding Antisemitism and has for many years been advocating for...
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October 2024
Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again
By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson is the author, most recently, of Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic...
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October 2024
The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative
By Hedda Harari-Spencer
Hedda Harari-Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew at Tufts University. On 17 May the University of Pennsylvania...
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October 2024
The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...
By Mitchell Cohen
In April 2024 Fathom published an interview with Mitchell Cohen entitled ‘From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of...
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October 2024
Opinion | Labour is trying to appease the unappeasable, deserting our true friends in the process
By Tom Harris
Tom Harris was Labour MP for Glasgow South from 2001 to 2015. He argues that Labour is wasting...
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September 2024
Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea
By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World”...
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July 2024
‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report
By Gerald M. Steinberg
The systematic omission of Hamas’ massive underground terror infrastructure from the 2024 Human Rights Watch Gaza report, part...
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July 2024
7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination
By John Ware
Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas...
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July 2024
‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism
By Philip Mendes
Philip Mendes is Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social...
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June 2024
‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October
By Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. This chapter was first published in Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic...
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June 2024
Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’
By Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker
Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker of the Decoding Antisemitism project show how commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day...
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June 2024
Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism
By Eve Garrard
Eve Garrard argues we can learn something of value about contemporary antisemitism from the use of two metaphors....
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June 2024
Book Extract | Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it
By Dave Rich
This is the preface of Everyday Hate by Dave Rich, published by Biteback. On the morning of 7...
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May 2024
Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement
By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements. He is author of Heaven on Earth: The...
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May 2024
American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique
By Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams casts a sharply critical eye over the American Jewish anti-Zionism and diasporism of Peter Beinart, Naomi...
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May 2024
Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk, Jean Améry, and the anti-Zionist left
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
In this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy...
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May 2024
Opinion | Is It Time to Leave? The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the Modern World
By Shalom Lappin
Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern...
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May 2024
Opinion | From Little Rock to Columbia
By Ari Allyn-Feuer
Ari Allyn-Feuer argues we are shrinking from the gravity of the situation: a violent mob is once again...
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May 2024
From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn't Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen
By Mitchell Cohen
Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard...
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April 2024
Book Review | Israel’s War on Gaza
By Barry Finger
It turns out that Dara Horn was overly generous in her concession that ‘People Love Dead Jews.’ The...
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February 2024
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Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West
Book Review | Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning’
A Tale of Two ‘Marches’
Traditionalist interfaith reconciliation: a necessity for regional peace
The AAUP and the BDS Black Hole
