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Stability has a language: How the West learned to talk about Arab nationalism

From the hands of Jasem

Dastan Jassim argues that violence against Kurds by regimes, ideologies, and political movements in Arab countries reflects common points.

The Jewish Problem of National Conservatism

Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman reviews Jeremy Carl's confirmation hearing and his views on Jews, arguing that he…

"The time of great literary gurus is over" | Interview with Yishai Sarid

By Liam Hoare

Israeli author Yishai Charit writes about Israeli psychology and addressing the Israeli mind.Liam Hoare talks...

The Architecture of Paternalism: Why Diaspora is Failing in Iran

B Parween Mahasati

An Iranian woman studying abroad criticizes those in the Diaspora for promoting tolerance and dialogue with…

The fusion of the radical left with Islamist authoritarianism

Samuel Hyde

Samuel Hyde fused radical left-wing ideology with Islamism and his version of Iranian Islam…

Jerusalem Diary | Tzalev Ben-Dor | Through Historical Times

By Calev Ben-Dor

It was the 19th-century English novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton who allegedly said that the pen was mightier than ...

Tel Aviv Conservation Book |Dana KesslerUnder Rocket Fire

Written by Dana Kessler

Tel Aviv, March 2, 2026. In the morning.Two days ago, a siren woke us up at around 8am.that it...

Cultivating a sense of common Israelism

by Alexander Jacobson

In this talk at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute on February 22, 2026, Israeli scholar Alexander Yakobson discusses...

Bipolar Anti-Semitism: Conflicting Concepts of Jew Hatred

By Jonathan Myers

Jonathan Myers The way in which Jews were expelled from within and without, fell victim and...

Can not despair |Thoughts from the Gaza coverage

It would be a spear itself

Reflecting on the resignation of some Israelis and the Jewish Diaspora, Sam Shube, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Am, is...

The Crisis of European Jewry: Between Failing Liberal Democracies and Dangerous Authorities

Se Dov Maimon

Dov Maimon claims that Jews in Europe are among the liberal democracies that promised protection, but...

Jewish Council of Australia and political endorsement

By Adam Slonim

Adam Sloanem argues that the Jewish Council of Australia is exaggerating Jewish fears and treating Jewish martyrdom as...

Book reviewLihya Lapid himself

Enough Liam Hoare

In 2022, journalist and writer Lihi Lapid signed what Haaretz described at the time as "extraordinary" ...

How Syria's transition is going off the rails

Three Giron Ozcan

Giran Ozcan argues that it is simplistic and wrong to look for simplistic reasons for recent violence...

Russian lessons for Anglophone Jews

Nadam J. Sex

At a time of political crisis and uncertainty for Jews in the major Anglophone democracies, Adam J Sacks...

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Iran crisisConversation with Alireza Nader

Alireza Nader

With reports of thousands of deaths by the regime, Fathom spoke with Iran expert Alireza Nader about the uprising in...

Conversation with Students for Justice in Palestine

Von Brian Morton

In this talk - a simplified version of a panel presentation about the Middle East...

Israel | Shababnikim (The New Black) on Netflix

Noga Emmanuel

Nega Emanuel reviews the comedy drama "Shababnikim" (The New Black) which follows the lives, loves, adventures and trials of four...

Two Mirrors, Two Truths: Different Documentary Approaches in Holding Glass and Letters to David

From Atira Winchester

After October 7, 2023, an Israeli documentary faced an unprecedented challenge: how...

Beyond left and right: Israel's political renaissance after October 7

Author Daniel Goldman

In the darkness of a hideout in Gaza after another dangerous mission, Gen. (Res.) David Sharaz [1] sits down with...

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“Expelled from the community of which we were a part only yesterday,” Jean Amery said of the dilemma for left-wing Jews…

Marlene Gallner

Marlene Gallner explores the thoughts of Jean Améry about the Dilemma for Left-Wing Jewish Intellectuals, Sartre’s notion of...

What They Tried: Interviews with Peace Activists |Episode 9: Who asked me if I represent Oman or Israel?...

Ephraim Halevi

Efraim Halevi joined the Mossad in 1961 and was its director from 1998-2002.

Book Review |Real Chaos

Joan Chan

Jo-Ann Mort has been writing about the Middle East conflict for several decades, maintaining a relationship of the type ...

The Telos of Hate

per Adam Slonim

In a lengthy article, Adam Slonim provides a comprehensive survey of anti-Semitism. In Search of "One's Purpose"

Revisiting the Jewish Question: Tommy Robinson, Corbynist Populism and the Ideological Grammar of Anti-Semitism

By Raoul Wootliff

Anglo-Israeli Raoul Wootliff flatly rejected right-wing British politician Tommy Robinson's claims of turning from peddler of antisemitism to the next…

The Ground Game of Diplomacy: Why Women-Led Civil Society Must Be Central to Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Gan Rachael Liss

Rachael Liss of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) highlights the importance of women, peace and...

AI and fact-checking: when probability replaces evidence

Written by Tal Hagin

A detailed explanation that will be particularly informative to those aware of the growing influence of…

Difficult Conversations |What Israelis and Palestinians need to hear |Fania Oz-Salzberger

Miterus Penia Oz-Salzberger

Following the news of the ceasefire in Gaza and the return of 20 other hostages, Fathom asked…

Difficult conversations | What Israelis and Palestinians need to hear |Moah Hosseini

Nipa Mo Hussain

After the news about the ceasefire in Gaza and the return of 20 hostages released alive, Fatum from...

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Difficult Conversations |What Israelis and Palestinians need to hear |Kalev Ben-Dor and Paul Gross

Written by Paul Gross

Following news of a cease-fire in Gaza and the return of the remaining 20 hostages, Fathom asked...

Diary from Jerusalem |Calev Ben Dor |Laugh and cry with the same eyes

Van Kalev Ben-Dor

Tuesday, October 7 - Evening Three stars become visible in the cloudless sky of Tel Aviv.

Diary from JerusalemMeredith Rothbart |Making peace in times of war

By Meredith Rothbart

Dear Diary, I sit here writing in my coin, unable to concentrate as we anxiously await your return.

Insecurity: British Jewish Life after Manchester

By Greg Allon

Greg Allon reflects on the attack on Jewish worshipers at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on 2

The fight against anti-Semitism

Written by Cary Nelson and Joe Lockard

FOUNDING PANEL In a panel recorded on September 27, 2024 for YouTube, Nina Mehta, one of the co-organizers...

Book Review | Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Quest for Peace in Israel/Palestine

Par Yaïr Hirschfeld

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley's book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Quest for Peace in Israel/Palestine...

To defeat Netanyahu, Democratic Israel must leave Bibi alone

Variations in seed length

Gaza Envelope's Nir Am's Sam Shube argues that the prime minister is no longer a political figure…

Gulf mode

The Iain Fein

Open source intelligence analyst John Finn examines the Saudi Arabian Counter-Extremism Center's attempts to counter extremism online.Finn took this...

Tried: Talk to the Peacemakers |Episode 8: 'Here we have a biblical controversy.Bible...

Ni Hussein Agha

Fathom editors Jack Omar-Jackman and Kalev Ben-Dor talk to Hussein Agha about the failure of the peace process...

White Feminism - White Orientalism

By Dastan Jassim

Dastan Jasim offers a powerful and direct essay about her experiences as a Kurdish academic researching…

Book Review |Autocorrect by Edgar Kerret

Author: Liam Hoare

Etgar Kerret's new collection of short stories AutoCorrect is the right book at the right time - however...

On the edge of the abyss |Delivery from Israel

Author: Kalev Ben-Dor

Ruins at the site of the old Sderot police station - destroyed by Israeli tanks ...

Interview with Fahm |“The Gulf wants Gaza not allied with Iran” |Najwa Al-Saeed

Author: Najwa AlSaeed

Najwa al-Sayed speaks to Fathom about the Gulf states' desire to liberate post-Hamas Gaza from Iranian influence.Navigation...

Facing Despair: The Literary Legacy of A.B.Yehoshua

Omer-Sherman gets hurt

Ranen Omer-Sherman, JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville, examines the life and work...

Jewish indigenous people in the land of Israel

You Ben Freeman

Ben Freeman writes in his latest book, Jews: An Indigenous People, that the main concern of Jews is how...

Diary from Jerusalem |Sarah Tuttle-Singer |Eternity Day

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Ceasefire Declaration (January 15, 2025) Holding your breath since October 7, 2023. Tonight is the back...

The main problems of banking and delivery

By Cary Nelson et al.

The authors (Carrie Nelson, Suzanne Cavala, David Greenberg, Rebecca Leses, Jeffrey Mallow and Stan Nadel) on behalf of the…

Book review | Hasidim just laugh

Min Shall Judelman

It was with great trepidation and trepidation that I agreed to put aside my opinion…

Alan Johnson: Appreciated

By Fathom Editors

Professor Alan Johnson conceived and founded Fathom in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting…

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Trotskyist Echoes: Antisemitism, Stalinism, Liberalism (Preface to "Mapping New Left Antisemitism: Fathom Essays")

You are David Hirsch

This introduction begins by reflecting on the common political legacy, in Trotskyism, of the organizer and maker...

Communist's pro-Israel protest for the Polish Communist Party, September 1967

Nga Philip Earl Steele

There is a war going on between Israel and its neighbors.Much of European public opinion is turning against the Jewish state, and...

The London Initiative: Partnerships for Bridging Democracy, Justice and Peace for a Better Shared Future

Le Sir Mick Davis & Mike Prashker

Sir Mick Davies and Mike Prasheker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to...

We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

Ni Meredith Rothbart

Meredith Rothbart is the co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva.Here he defends a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding,…

The Nazism of the postmodernist left

Estus Shalom Lappin

In Shalom Lappin's book The New Anti-Semitism: The Revival of Ancient Hatred in the Modern...

Campus protests and maintenance delay

Author: Michael Feuer

Michael Feuer argues that the explosion of anti-Israel protests after October 7 has raised the alarm of resurrection…

Book Review |Forest of Noise

Spouse Joe Lockard

Mosab Abu Toha's new volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has attracted the attention of many…

'Anti-Zionism' has become the new anti-Semitism in Ireland

No Oliver Sears

Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland.'Irish politicians are drawn together with society...

Fathom Interview |The Fall of the Assad Regime in Syria

be jungle

Itai Anghel minangka Israeli journalist and documentary film producer, staff reporter for Kanggo Uvda, TV news program ...

Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West

Joanna Tokarska Bakir

Professor Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is Chair of Ethnic and National Relations at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of...

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Donald Trump 2: The historic peacemaker and unifier?

By Paul Gross

Paul Gross considers a seemingly unlikely but tantalizing possibility.Hearing some of the extremely enthusiastic responses to Donald…

Creating Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment

Yazan: Charles Usher the Younger

Charles Asher Small was an institute for the study of global antisemitism and politics...

Antisemitism in Academia: Analysis of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in Australian Universities

By Philip Mendes

Professor Philippe Mendes is the Director of the Research Unit on Public Engagement and Social Policy at the Department of...

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Fatum interview"The pager operation against Hezbollah was more targeted than against terrorists"

By Alexander Jacobson

Alan Johnson and Kalev Ben-Dor spoke with Alexander Jacobson, co-authors of Israel and the Family of Nations: The...

Fathom Interview |Hezbollah: The Global Ocean of Lebanon's Party of God

Autorius Matthew Levitt

Matt Levitt is director of the Reinhardt Program on Counterterrorism at the Near East Policy Institute in Washington.

A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...

By Marina Baratas

Marina Barats Recent MA International Political Economy Graduate King's College London Background President Joe Biden…

Book Review |On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence and Justice

According to Joshua A. Brook

Palestine is everywhere 'Palestine is everywhere' declared a window sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn.

The sea >

Towards the Realism of Peace: 13 Principles

by George Stevens

George Stevens is the co-founder of the 4MENA Network, the first network of organizations in Israel, Palestine, and around the world.

Opinion |The moral collapse of the American Association of University Professors

and Michael Yudkin

Michael Yudkin is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford.American Association of Univ...

Fathom Interview | Are Israel's Wars Justified?

Michael Walzer

Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor with Michael Walzer, America's leading public intellectual and author of Just...

Tracking the Evolution of Modern Education |"Study of Critical Evidence" and the Demons of Israel

Nee Valazz Verkovic

Somewhere near the center of the intellectual revolution of our time, and how it…

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No More Heroes: Contemporary Antisemitism and Western Victim Culture

Andres said quietly

Andres Spokojny is the president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not so long ago...

The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Investing, Recommended by Leslie Clough

Author: Leslie Clough

Leslie Cluff is editor-in-chief of Contemporary Antisemitism.The Reversal of the Holocaust, in later words...

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Fathom Long Read |Islamophobia and anti-Semitism: a false equivalence

By Scott Abramson

Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and a senior researcher at the Center...

Integrating the Radical Left with Islamic Authoritarianism

Stability Has a Language: How the West Learned to Speak Arab Nationalism

The question of Jewish national conservatism

The Architecture of Paternalism: Napa Diaspora Failed in Iran

Anti-Soviet Zionism and Contemporary Leftist Anti-Semitism

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You Alan Johnson

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De Susie Doring Preston

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Hussain Agha

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NguSusie Linfield

Philosophers of Hamas!

In Gabriel Noah Brahm

Albert Memie: Zionism is national liberation

Susie Linfield

Director, feminist, Israeli, Bedouin, Palestinian...

Author: Caleb Ben-Dor

A response to The Lancet's "Open letter to the people"...

Written by David Stone

'The genetic code was a balance between the liberal and the nationalist...'

By Dan Meridor

Oslo25 |Twenty five years from Oslo: an insider's account

By Joel Singer

Corbyn is a man.Left-wing anti-Semitism is a tradition

By Alan Johnson

Israel's Great Threat

Michael Walzer

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Author: Nathan Sharansky aka Gil Troy

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by eve garrard

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By Michael Walzer

The Three Best Books on Antisemitism, natolotr'i Dave Rich

By Dave Rich

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Jean Améry as a critic of the anti-Israel left wing

Na Alvin Rosenfeld

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