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Opinion | An Elementary Truth: Gaza is Palestinian

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
In this forceful opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman argues for rejecting and opposing President Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’... Read more > March 2025

From the Edge of the Abyss | Dispatch from Israel

By Calev Ben-Dor
The rubble at the site of the former Sderot police station – destroyed by an Israeli tank on... Read more > February 2025

Fathom Interview | 'The Gulf wants a non-Iranian aligned Gaza' | Najwa AlSaeed

By Najwa AlSaeed
Najwa AlSaeed talks to Fathom about Gulf states' desire for a post-Hamas Gaza freed from Iranian influence; navigating... Read more > February 2025

Book Review | Forest of Noise

By Joe Lockard
Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as... Read more > January 2025

Fathom Interview | 'The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than is usually possible against terrorists'

By Alexander Yakobson
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Alexander Yakobson, co-author of Israel and the Family of Nations: The... 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

Towards Peace Realism: 13 Principles

By George Stevens
George Stevens is co-founder of the 4MENA Network, the first network of organisations from Israel, Palestine and across... Read more > November 2024

Fathom Interview | Are Israel's Wars Just?

By Michael Walzer
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Michael Walzer, the leading American public intellectual and author of Just... 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

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

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.... Read more > October 2024

Opinion | It is never a good idea for British foreign policy to be dictated by domestic political concerns, as...

By Alan Mendoza
Alan Mendoza argues that the new Labour government has set a tone on relations with Israel that can... Read more > September 2024

Opinion | The British Government Must Not Abandon Israel

By Andrew Fox
Fathom republishes a speech Andrew Fox prepared for a gathering outside the UK Foreign Office following David Lammy’s... Read more > September 2024

How Oslo could solve Gaza

By Gidi Grinstein
Gidi Grinstein, who served as secretary of the Israeli delegation for the Camp David negotiations, argues that the... Read more > September 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

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Day 332

By Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Editor of Fathom Calev Ben-Dor shares his anguished reflections from Jerusalem after six hostages were executed by... Read more > September 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

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
Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas... 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

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