A shorter version of this talk was delivered as a contribution to a panel discussion on ‘The Left and Jews in Britain Today’ held at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, on 3 ...

In April 2024 Fathom published an interview with Mitchell Cohen entitled ‘From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that doesn’t Learn.’ The Austrian journal Zwischenwelten (Intermediate Worlds), ...

One glaring omission from this essay is the Phased Plan. For background, the Phased Plan was developed during the 1970s by the PLO, which declared that their strategy would be to get what they can get ...

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11.In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both Nasser ...

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. For many years he was the co-editor of Dissent magazine. He responds here to Cary ...

‘There are few greater injustices than to say about something that happened, that it did not happen’ wrote the late Norman Geras. Lyn Julius has established herself as a leading voice, at once ...

Noor A’wad joined Roots, a Palestinian-Jewish peacebuilding organisation, in 2016 after meeting Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Ali Abu Awwad in 2016.He organises joint Palestinian-Israeli activities and ...

Some authors are unwilling to dispense with unsubstantiated stories, opting instead to put scholarly standards aside in their attempts to advance anti-Zionist arguments.Shai Afsai looks at one case in ...

This major Fathom report finds the Labour Party is now ‘institutionally antisemitic’ as the term is defined in the Macpherson Report: ‘the collective failure of an organisation to provide an ...

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep concern about its failure to deal appropriately with a formal complaint against Dr. Lara Sheehi, ...

The acclaimed book City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa has been published in a new edition with a major new afterword.Fathom spoke to its author Adam LeBor about his ...

‘The Challenges of Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Dispute: An Impossible Peace?’ is published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. In this Fathom essay its author Bren Carlill presents the book’s ...