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
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...
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February 2025
Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
By Joshua A. Brook
Palestine is Everywhere ‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What...
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November 2024
The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, recommended by Lesley Klaff
By Lesley Klaff
Lesley Klaff is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is, in the words of the late...
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November 2024
The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius
By Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius is the author of Uprooted: how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished...
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October 2024
Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society
By Calev Ben-Dor
Calev Ben-Dor reviews three new books published to mark the anniversary of the brutal Hamas attack on Israel....
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October 2024
The Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes
By Kathleen Hayes
Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara...
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September 2024
The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky
By Izabella Tabarovsky
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for...
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July 2024
The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David...
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July 2024
Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation
By Paul Gross
Centrism is ‘the antidote to the extremism and sustained attacks on liberal democracy that are sweeping much of...
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June 2024
Book Review | Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists
By Daniel Goldman
Longtime observer and chronicler of the religious community Yair Ettinger’s[1] bestselling 2020 book on the religious Zionist community...
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May 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
Book Review | Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
By Daniel Ben-Ami
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East tells the story of an important but largely unknown chapter of...
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February 2024
Rereadings | Demonopathy: Leon Pinsker’s Theory of Antisemitism
By Philip Earl Steele
Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really...
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February 2024
Book Review | In the Shadow of the Wall
By Alex Stein
A few years ago, I built a special tour for a group of Diaspora Jews who were in...
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November 2023
Book Review | Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
By Liam Hoare
At the time of another episode in the Israel-Hamas conflict, Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Amos Oz opened...
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November 2023
Book Review | Challenging the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Twenty Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns
By Kenneth Waltzer
This collection of essays prepared by Ronnie and Lola Fraser, veteran British anti-BDS activists, assesses how friends of...
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October 2023
The Imperative of Liberal Zionism: A Response to Anthony Julius’ essay ‘Whither Liberal Zionism?'
By Toby Greene
Toby Greene is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, and former deputy-editor of Fathom. His publications include:...
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September 2023
TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
By Noga Emanuel
Noga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling...
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September 2023
Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 2): Agenda Journalism in Asa Winstanley’s book Weaponising Anti-Semitism
By John Ware
John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? In Part 1 of...
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September 2023
Book Review | Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation
By Marc Goldberg
Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation is perhaps the...
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July 2023
Book Review | The Antisemitic Origins of Islamist Violence: A Study of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic State
By Daniel Ben-Ami
Islamism is one of the least understood forms of anti-Semitism. Leave to one side those who foolishly romanticise...
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May 2023
The 1936 Revolt still rages today: an interview with Oren Kessler
By Oren Kessler
Oren Kessler’s new book Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict (Rowman...
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May 2023
Book Review | Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is Built Into Our World And How You Can Change It
By Daniel Ben-Ami
Dave Rich’s book on that thorniest of subjects, anti-Semitism, has already received many plaudits including glowing testimonials from...
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May 2023
Book Review | Sharing the Promised Land: In Pursuit of Equality Between Jewish and Arab Citizens in Israel
By Eugene Bardach
Pity the soul who has to forsake those sentimental (or rousing) Zionist songs of her youth, like Shir...
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April 2023
Book Review | Israel 201: Your Next Level Guide to the Magic and Mystery and Chaos of Life in the...
By Amy Weinreb
The world has reached a saturation point with Israel 101 books. We have enough options to guide readers...
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April 2023
Book Review | Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is Built Into Our World and How You Can Change It
By Sarah Brown
Everyday Hate’s clarity and engaging style make it an invaluable introduction to antisemitism; however, it also has plenty...
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March 2023
Book review | Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is Built Into Our World and How You Can Change It
By Kathleen Hayes
‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ – William Faulkner In the early hours of...
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March 2023
Book Review | Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
By Liam Hoare
On 28 September 1973, two Palestinian terrorists from the Syrian Ba’athist faction As-Sa'iqa hijacked a train near Marchegg...
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February 2023
Book Review | British Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Israel’s Histadrut
By Luke Akehurst
Ronnie Fraser has been bravely fighting a sometimes lonely battle against antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the British trade...
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February 2023
Book Review | Victorious
By Liam Hoare
‘Unlike others, I am no longer slaughtering sacred cows,’ Amos Oz told Niva Lanir in a 2012 interview...
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February 2023
Book Review | Bibi, My Story
By Yisrael Medad
The memoirs of politicians and public figures, it has been claimed, are among the most popular form of...
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December 2022
Book Review | Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews
By Kathleen Hayes
This is a very important book. Over the last decade or so, a sweeping ideology that looks much...
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November 2022
Book Review | Bibi: My Story
By Colin Shindler
When he was asked by a student in 2018, what is the most important subject to study for...
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November 2022
Book Review | Bibi: My Story
By Anshel Pfeffer
Back in 2017, I sat with a group of Israeli colleagues in a small hotel conference room in...
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November 2022
Book Review | Breaking History: A White House Memoir
By Colin Shindler
Jared Kushner's account of his four years in the Trump White House produces several interesting revelations. It is...
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September 2022
Book Review | Peace and Faith: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Jonathan G. Campbell
This lengthy edited volume contains an introduction, sixteen chapters (organized into Parts I-III), appendix (on the history of...
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September 2022
Book Review | Israel’s Moment: International Support and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949
By John Strawson
Herf’s book forensically demolishes the myth that the West set out to create Israel to promote its interests....
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July 2022
Book Review | The Wealthy: Chronicle of a Jewish Family (1763-1948)
By Liam Hoare
At the age of 40, having worked as a teacher and an official in the Israeli education ministry...
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July 2022
‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and Zionism in James Joyce’s Ulysses
By Noga Emanuel
In 2022 book-lovers celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, which tracks the...
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June 2022
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Book Review | Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning’
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The AAUP and the BDS Black Hole
