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Yossi Kuperwasser argues that President Biden’s Middle East policy reflects the tension between his understanding that the region has gone through dramatic changes during the Trump years that give the ...
Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.
In this forceful opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman argues for rejecting and opposing President Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’ as an unvarnished attempt at ethnic cleansing and dispossession and as ...
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 – ...
Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ he writes, ‘But those same politicians will not ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michael Harrington was America’s most eloquent voice for democratic socialism for decades. His great passion: to create a society that is both economically and politically democratic – a society freed ...
Families of civilians abducted by Hamas hold a press conference in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan, 8 October 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90 ...
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...
Reverend William Hechler. Photo courtesy from David Pileggi, Christ Church Jerusalem Archives.
John Lyndon is the CEO of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). Since 7 October, violence and injustice at an unprecedented scale have been – even by the grim standards set in recent decades – ...