Removing certain kinds of Jews from anti-racist protection is wrong
By Keith Kahn-Harris
Keith Kahn-Harris’s book Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity is published in June 2019 by...
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May 2019
Fathom Report | Institutionally Antisemitic: Contemporary Left Antisemitism and the Crisis in the British Labour Party
By Alan Johnson
This major Fathom report finds the Labour Party is now ‘institutionally antisemitic’ as the term is defined in...
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March 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
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 | 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
‘Understanding the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa is the key to understanding the whole Middle East conflict’:...
By Lyn Julius
Earlier this year Fathom’s Grant Goldberg interviewed Lyn Julius about her new book, Uprooted, which documents 3,000 years...
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october 2018
What is Left antisemitism?
By Sean Matgamna
Contemporary left-wing antisemitism is first and foremost a denial of Israel’s right to exist and, as a result, a comprehensive hostility...
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September 2018
Denial: Norman Finkelstein and the New Antisemitism
By Alan Johnson
In recent days the US polemicist Norman Finkelstein has injected a crude claim into the debate about antisemitism...
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August 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 | 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...
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May 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...
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April 2018
The Israeli visa law and other own goals in the BDS wars
By Gerald M. Steinberg
It’s time to press reset on Israel’s confused response to the genuine threat of BDS and demonisation. A...
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Autumn 2017
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
Ken Livingstone and the myth of Zionist ‘collaboration’ with the Nazis
By Paul Bogdanor
In this meticulous rebuttal of the former Mayor of London’s charge that ‘you had right up until the...
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Spring 2017
Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora’
By Chaim Gans
Writing in Fathom Michael Walzer responded to the discussion of diaspora Jews in Chaim Gans’s book A Political...
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Spring 2017
The BDS Disinformation Campaign in the Modern Language Association
By Cary Nelson
In this comprehensive essay, Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and co-editor...
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Winter 2016
Dave Rich | ‘The Left's Jewish problem’
By Dave Rich
Dave Rich is deputy director of communications at the Community Security Trust (CST), associate research fellow...
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Autumn 2016
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
Like a Cloud Contains a Storm: Jean Améry’s Critique of Anti-Zionism
By Marlene Gallner
Jean Améry is best known in the anglophone world as a Holocaust survivor and author of At The...
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Autumn 2016
Undeclared Wars on Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1981: An Interview with Jeffrey Herf
By Jeffrey Herf
http:// Jeffery Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include Nazi Propaganda...
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Summer 2016
Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred
By Richard Landes
In this bracing polemic, the US academic Richard Landes argues that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls...
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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
Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism
By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf, author of the award winning book 'Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the...
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Summer 2016
Representing the Trial: Judith Butler Reads Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann
By Russell Berman
Judith Butler is one of the world’s most influential academics and public intellectuals and a leading supporter of...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Mitchell Cohen
By Mitchell Cohen
Perry Anderson and the House of Anti-Imperialism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House...
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Spring 2016
Antisemitic anti-Zionism and the scandal of Oxford University Labour Club
By Alex Chalmers
Alex Chalmers was co-Chair of Oxford University Labour Club until he resigned in February, alleging that a ‘large...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Michael Walzer
By Michael Walzer
Perry Anderson’s War Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Cary Nelson
By Cary Nelson
Perry Anderson’s Reactionary Fantasy Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | John Strawson
By John Strawson
One-State is a Trap for Two Peoples in Palestine and Israel Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s...
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Spring 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Shany Mor
By Shany Mor
Perry Anderson’s Theological Anti-Zionism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was...
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Spring 2016
Book Review│The Definition of Anti-Semitism
By Robert Fine
The word ‘antisemitism’ currently has a strange aura around it. There is a curious reluctance on the part...
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Spring 2016
Book Review | The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
By Jonathan Rynhold
This book will serve as the definitive history of the Israeli Right in English. Building on his previous...
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Spring 2016
The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink
By Alan Johnson
A shorter version of this talk was delivered as a contribution to a panel discussion on ‘The Left...
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Autumn 2015
In These Times: A Statement on Contemporary European Anti-Semitism
By Shalom Lappin, Brian Bix, Eve Garrard, Steve De Wijze, Matthew Kramer, and Hillel Steiner
Antisemitism is a form of racism. Indeed, it is one of the oldest and most virulent instances of...
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Summer 2015
Debating Michael Walzer’s 'Islamism and the Left'
By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and one of...
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Summer 2015
Antisemitism and Oren Ben-Dor
By Sarah Brown
Oren Ben-Dor is a Professor in the University of Southampton’s Law School, and co-organiser of a controversial conference...
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Summer 2015
Reflections on Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Europe
By Kenneth Waltzer
The editors are proud to launch a new longer-form publication. Each 'Fathom Insight' will allow writers and readers...
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Summer 2015
Anti-Judaism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism
By Eve Garrard
An edited speech given by Eve Garrard, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University...
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Winter 2015
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