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‘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

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

By Seth Frantzman
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on Wednesday, July 17, setting off alarms in the coastal city of Nahariya... Read more > July 2024

7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination

By John Ware
For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas committed atrocities on 7 October has... Read more > July 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

What kind of victory does Israel need? - An Interview with Azar Gat

By Azar Gat
Azar Gat, Ezer Weizman Chair for National Security at Tel Aviv University, speaks to Calev Ben-Dor about the... 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

Dispatch from the scene of a massacre

By Calev Ben-Dor
Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor reflects on his visit to Israel’s south, and the sites of the 7... Read more > June 2024

What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt

By Matthew Levitt
Counter-terror expert Matthew Levitt speaks to Fathom about Hamas’s vision and strategy. What is Hamas's strategy for the... Read more > June 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

Why 7 October must not become Palestinian Independence Day

By Russell A. Shalev
Perversely, the atrocities of 7 October, have achieved their goal of reviving Palestinian statehood. The Western world seems... 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

Podcast: Understanding Hamas

By BICOM
In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Jacky Hugi, an expert on regional affairs. Hugi analyses... Read more > May 2024

The meaning of Israeli Independence Day after 7 October

By Toby Greene
The following is a slightly edited version of remarks given by Toby Greene at the Yom Ha’atzmaut &... 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

‘None of the options are good, but if you don’t want Hamas or endless Israeli occupation, you need something else’:...

By Toby Greene
Fathom speaks to Toby Greene about two articles co-authored with Professor Jonathan Rynhold and dealing with the political... Read more > May 2024

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 2: ‘Arafat could never end the conflict… his identity was...

By Dennis Ross
In the second episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Ambassador Dennis... Read more > April 2024

Is Hamas Winning? An Interview with Michael Doran

By Michael Doran
Michael Doran is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle... Read more > April 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

Opinion | As government institutions fail in Israel and Palestine, civil society organisations are working tirelessly to sustain their communities

By John Lyndon
John Lyndon is CEO of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). The news of a devastating IDF... Read more > April 2024

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor

By Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Editor of Fathom Calev Ben-Dor shares reflections from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Israel marks 6 months... Read more > April 2024

‘We can have a debate about whether Hamas did the right thing’: Judith Butler’s Moral Relativism

By Cary Nelson
Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed... Read more > March 2024

Opinion | Yes to recognising a Palestinian state now

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
Fathom Deputy Editor Jack Omer-Jackaman, writing in a personal capacity, argues in favour of the US unilaterally recognising... Read more > March 2024

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 1: ‘Focus on institution-building not dramatic diplomatic breakthroughs’: A Conversation...

By Elliott Abrams
This new Fathom podcast series is called Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors. We will seek... Read more > March 2024

Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures

By Tom Simpson, Lewi Stone and Gregory Rose
How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this... Read more > March 2024

‘Reactionary Anti-Imperialism’ as the new Totalitarian Temptation, from Foucault to 7 October

By Karl-Markus Gauß
Karl-Markus Gauß is editor in chief of the literary magazine Literatur und Kritik. This article first appeared in... Read more > March 2024

The Peace Process, Past and Future: An Insider’s Reflections and Advice

By Yair Hirschfeld
Yair Hirschfeld was one of two Israeli academics (alongside the late Ron Pundak) who began unofficial and secret... Read more > March 2024

‘Eat Their Skulls’: The Pleasures of Antisemitism, revisited after 7 October

By Eve Garrard
Eve Garrard’s 2013 'The Pleasures of Antisemitism', argued that not merely cognitive errors but also deep emotional satisfactions... Read more > February 2024

After the Pogrom: An Australian Journalist Reflects

By Michael Gawenda
Australian journalist Michael Gawenda reflects on tensions on the Australian Jewish left through the prism of 7 October.... Read more > February 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

‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no word of empathy’: Reactions from European club culture to the Supernova Festival...

By Tanja Ehmann
Tanja Ehmann asks why, despite the massacre at the Supernova music festival, parts of the European club culture... Read more > February 2024

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