Fathom – Topic – Anti-Zionism

‘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

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

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

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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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”... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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.... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > 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... Read more > February 2024

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

By Cary Nelson and Brett Kaufman
‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’, has been formed and is growing fast on campuses in the US. Cary... Read more > February 2024

Antizionism at the Modern Language Association

By Cary Nelson
After nearly two decades of trying, on 6 January the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting finally succeeded in... Read more > February 2024

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

By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson is emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His Hate Speech and Academic Freedom... Read more > January 2024

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