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Book Review | My Life as a Jew

By Philip Mendes
Michael Gawenda is a well-known Australian journalist. He was editor of the centre-left Melbourne Age for seven years... Read more > March 2024

Why the Israeli Left needs a New Alliance with Religious Voters

By Sam Shube
Israeli democracy requires a shift from the politics of selective exclusion to one of strategic inclusion that embraces... Read more > February 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

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

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

On the Palestinianisation of Israel Studies

By Alex Stein
Alex Stein argues that by imposing a rigid ideological standard for scholarship on Israel-Palestine, the new journal Palestine/Israel Review... Read more > February 2024

Opinion | Saudi normalisation now. A Palestinian state later

By Paul Gross
With reports suggesting the Biden White House is considering unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, Paul Gross argues... Read more > February 2024

Post-Bibi: Aligning two-state hopes with Israeli fears after 7 October

By Michael Rubin
After 7 October the idea that any Palestinian actor can be trusted to control territory on Israel’s borders... 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

Faculty for Academic Freedom and Against Antisemitism: Mission Statement and Background Information

By Cary Nelson and Brett Kaufman
‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’, has been formed and is growing fast on campuses in the US. Cary... Read more > February 2024

Resilience, Social Cohesion and Democracy: The Three Keys to Rebuilding Israel After 7 October

By Mike Prashker
Mike Prashker founded MERCHAVIM: The Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel in 1998 and directed... Read more > February 2024

Hamas Exploitation of Hospitals for Hostage Taking: The Legal Imperative to Investigate Aiding and Abetting of War Crimes

By Anne Herzberg
Gaza’s hospitals were used to conceal hostages. Who knew what and when? Whether hospital staff were involved, and... Read more > February 2024

Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre

By Philip Mendes
Following 7 October the Greens were the only Australian political party that refused to support a federal parliamentary... Read more > February 2024

Arabs and Jews: The Holocaust and its Aftermath

By Sabrina Soffer
Sabrina Soffer is former Commissioner of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism at the George Washington University and... Read more > February 2024

"We didn't understand Hamas at all" | Fathom Interview: Michael Milshtein

By Michael Milshtein
On 25 January 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Calev Ben-Dor and Jack Omer-Jackaman interviewed Michael Milshtein, a leading expert... Read more > February 2024

“Even Jews themselves often hear about Zionism through its detractors” | Fathom Interview: Einat Wilf

By Einat Wilf
On 22 January 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor interviewed Einat Wilf. They discussed Wilf's... Read more > February 2024

A Response to The Jewish Chronicle’s review of 'Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays' (Routledge, 2023)

By Alan Johnson
David Hirsh and I have been reading, researching, writing and politically organising to counter left antisemitism for around... Read more > 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... Read more > February 2024

Denying 7 October: The Case of Former ANC Minister Ronnie Kasrils

By David Benatar
David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He examines the... Read more > 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... Read more > February 2024

Antizionism at the Modern Language Association

By Cary Nelson
After nearly two decades of trying, on 6 January the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting finally succeeded in... Read more > February 2024

Peacebuilding Special Issue | A Multilateral and Bottom-Up Approach to End the Israeli-Palestinian Tragedy

By John Lyndon
John Lyndon is the CEO of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). Since 7 October, violence and... Read more > January 2024

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Why it's time for the UK to lead multilateral support for Israeli-Palestinian civil society peacebuilding

By Rachael Liss
Rachael Liss is the European Policy and Development Coordinator for ALLMEP, working on the design and implementation of ALLMEP's European and... Read more > January 2024

Peacebuilding Special Issue | Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders: The Intersection of Youth, Political Engagement, and Intergenerational Responsibility

By Wasim Almasri
Wasim Almasri is the Director of Programs for the Alliance of Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), a coalition of... Read more > January 2024

Universities in Crisis | What three American University Presidents should have said to the US Congress about campus antisemitism

By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson is emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His Hate Speech and Academic Freedom... Read more > January 2024

Autumn / 2024

The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nehisi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine

2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah

‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking

The Uses of ‘Litvak’: On the Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews

Opinion | How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large

7 October and After: An Open Letter to Afzal Khan MP

Antisemitism Online Since 7 October: European Observations

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: 'The only agreement Barak could go for [end of...

Opinion | ‘Outsiderism’ and Academic Freedom: The Case of Raz Segal

The Three Best Books on the Farhud, Recommended by Lyn Julius

Antisemitism and the Crisis in Social Psychology

Review Essay | Israel is not a Post-Heroic Society

The Left That Doesn’t Learn: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen (Part 2): Omri Boehm’s ‘One-State Solution’ and the Will to...

The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative

Exonerating anti-Zionism by any means necessary: the Nexus Task Force does it again

How Oslo could solve Gaza

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Day 332

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

Opinion | The British Government Must Not Abandon Israel

Opinion | Labour is trying to appease the unappeasable, deserting our true friends in the process

The Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes

Summer / 2024

7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination

‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels': On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report

Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

Justice is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer

Opinion | Israel is self-destructing, but can still save itself

The Three Best Books on Soviet Anti-Zionism, recommended by Izabella Tabarovsky

The Three Best Books by David Grossman, recommended by Liam Hoare

Known to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 3: The Gradualist Approach - A conversation with Yair Hirschfeld

‘Little Short of Lunatics’: Post-Trotsky Trotskyism and the Radical Left’s Degenerate Response to 7 October

Imperial Rollback in the Middle East: A Necessity for Regional Peace

Podcast: Escalation from Lebanon

Book Review | The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation

‘Zionists have no right to cultural safety’: The Australian BDS movement’s transition from racist ‘anti-Zionism’ to xenophobic anti-Semitism

What Does Hamas Want? - An Interview with Matthew Levitt

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

Dispatch from the scene of a massacre

Infection and Addiction: Metaphors for Antisemitism

Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’

Opinion | Haredi Conscription: Lessons for Israel from Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Spring / 2024

American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique

Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk, Jean Améry, and the anti-Zionist left

Opinion | Hamas as a Millennial Movement

Book Extract | Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it

Why 7 October must not become Palestinian Independence Day

Book Review | Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists

The ‘Takeoff to 100’ Plan - Proposal for the Next Government of Israel

The meaning of Israeli Independence Day after 7 October

Podcast: Understanding Hamas

Opinion | Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

Opinion | Is It Time to Leave? The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the Modern World

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Three

The Iran-Israel War and Learning from Frogs: An Interview with Jonathan Spyer

Opinion | From Little Rock to Columbia

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

David Grossman’s war

Opinion | The Balkanisation of the IDF: A Looming Danger?

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

Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to...

Iran's 'successful' attack vs Israel - a blessing very effectively disguised

Is Hamas Winning? An Interview with Michael Doran

‘Hamas must be defeated, not only for Israelis’ sake, but for the chance of peace in our part of the...

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Rage, Fury and Helplessness

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

From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn't Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part Two

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

Opinion | Yes to recognising a Palestinian state now

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

Soundtrack of my life in Israel – Part One

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

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

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

Winter / 2023

Book Review | My Life as a Jew