For a deeper understanding of Israel, the region, and global antisemitism (2025)

Dispatch from Damascus By Kyle Orton Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of... Read more > March 2025 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 Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 5: A conversation with Koby Huberman By Koby Huberman Veteran peace practitioner Koby Huberman shares with Fathom his experiences on both the bilateral level – between Israel... Read more > March 2025 Opinion | Israel's futile policy towards Russia By Azriel Bermant Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in... 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 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... Read more > February 2025 Jewish Indigeneity to the Land of Israel By Ben Freeman Ben Freeman writes about his recent book, The Jews: An Indigenous People. While Jews' primary concern is how... Read more > February 2025 Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | An Eternity of Days By Sarah Tuttle-Singer Ceasefire Announced (15 January 2025) I’ve been holding my breath since 7 October 2023. Tonight, in the back... Read more > February 2025 The Core Problems with Boycott and Divestment By Cary Nelson et al The authors (Cary Nelson, Susana Cavallo, David Greenberg, Rebecca Lesses, Jeffry Mallow, and Stan Nadel) on behalf of... Read more > February 2025 Book Review | Chasidim Just Laugh By Shaul Judelman It is with great awe and trepidation that I agreed to put on the page my reflections on... Read more > February 2025 Alan Johnson: In Appreciation By Fathom Editors Professor Alan Johnson conceived and founded Fathom in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting... Read more > January 2025 Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays') By David Hirsh This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator... Read more > January 2025 A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist Party, Sept. 1967 By Philip Earl Steele War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and... Read more > January 2025 We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking By Meredith Rothbart Meredith Rothbart is co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva. Here, she argues for a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding,... Read more > January 2025 The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left By Shalom Lappin Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern... Read more > January 2025 Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance By Michael Feuer Michael Feuer argues that the eruption of protests against Israel after 7 October sounded the alarm of resurgent... Read more > January 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 ‘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 photographedwith the community... Read more > December 2024 Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria By Itai Anghel Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program... 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 Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier? By Paul Gross Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald... Read more > December 2024 Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment By Charles Asher Small Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy... 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 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 Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God By Matthew Levitt Matt Levitt is the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.... Read more > November 2024 A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi... By Marina Barats Marina Barats is a recent MA International Political Economy graduate from King’s College London Background President Joe Biden... Read more > November 2024 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... Read more > November 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 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 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 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 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 The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, recommended by Lesley Klaff By Lesley Klaff Lesley Klaff is Editorin Chief of theJournalof Contemporary Antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is, in the words of the late... Read more > November 2024 Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence By Scott Abramson Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center... Read more > November 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 2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah By Kyle Orton Kyle Orton argues those drawing parallels to Israel’s 2006 are radically mistaken. In 2024 Israel intelligence, planning and... 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 The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews By Adam J. Sacks Opened in 2024, the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews is the largest branch of the... Read more > October 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 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 Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of... By Gidi Grinstein Gidi Grinstein was intimately involved in the negotiations during the Oslo years and served as secretary of the... 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 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... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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... Read more > September 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 ‘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 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 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 Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer By Stephen de Wijze Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. He writes in praise... Read more > July 2024 Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself By Dan Perry Dan Perry was the Cairo-based Middle East Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. He also... Read more > July 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... Read more > 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... Read more > July 2024 Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine By Philip Earl Steele On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book... Read more > July 2024 Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld By Yair Hirschfeld In the third episode of theFathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Yair Hirschfeld recalls... 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 Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki is a co-founder and editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books and a visiting fellow... Read more > June 2024 Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon By BICOM In this podcast from BICOM, Richard Pater speaks to Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi about the situation on... Read more > June 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... Read more > June 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 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 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 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 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 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 Opinion | Haredi Conscription: Lessons for Israel from Pre-Revolutionary Russia By Brian Horowitz Brian Horowitz holds the Sizeler Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he teaches Jewish history,... Read more > June 2024

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