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Centrism is ‘the antidote to the extremism and sustained attacks on liberal democracy that are sweeping much of the democratic world.’ So writes Yair Zivan, the editor of this timely volume, setting ...
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and ISGAP. Follow her on X @IzaTabaro. Her Fathom essay ...
Arthur Henderson, who served as a member of the small War Cabinet with the post of Minister without Portfolio until August 1917.
In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through the thinking of Constantin Zureiq and Fayez Sayegh – both academics and diplomats – ...
Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...
Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this ...
Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a military correspondent. In this article he discusses what the Israeli defence establishment calls the ‘war ...
There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...
Yisrael Medad argues that Peter Beinart’s quoting of Ze’ev Jabotinsky in his recent essay, as in his earlier work, is misleading, being true to neither the original text nor its historical context. In ...
Writing from Jerusalem, Fathom editor Calev Ben-Dor examines the trends that have brought Israel to its current domestic crisis and expresses his fear that – unlike in March 2023 – public pressure may ...
President Joe Biden hoped to build on President Trump’s legacy by expanding the Abraham Accords to secure the ‘crown jewel’ of US foreign policy in the Middle East – normalisation between Israel and ...
A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...