Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center for Israel Education.. Introduction. A trend in Western discourse has developed in the past few years, observable in full vigour since 7 October, of presenting Islamophobia as the companion bigotry of antisemitism.

How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this article is blunt: not reliable at all. The authors are Tom Simpson, a generalist economis...

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...

“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.

War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and antisemitism resurfaces across the continent in force.

I met with this in London, in 1972, when a former girlfriend (a lonely Ivy junior-year-abroad) joined the International Marxist Group and suddenly was denying Israel any legitimacy.

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, pays moving tribute to Primo Levi, the Auschwitz survivor and writer, on the 100 th anniversary of his birth. Rosenfeld takes issue with Judith Butler and other neo-diasporists who have used some of …

Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David Grossman is Israel’s foremost living writer. Often lumped together in the Western imagination with Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua as one of the ‘three tenors’ of Israeli literature, Grossman ...

On 25 January 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Calev Ben-Dor and Jack Omer-Jackaman interviewed Michael Milshtein, a leading expert on the Palestinian arena. They discussed the failures which led to 7 Octo...

Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements. Here, Gil Troy discusses three books on Zionism. There are many academic books on the history of Zionism, the …