Fathom - For a deeper understanding of Israel, the region, and …
Kyle Orton argues those drawing parallels to Israel’s 2006 are radically mistaken. In 2024 Israel intelligence, planning and... Read more > October 2024. ‘Anti-Zionism’ is a distraction from, not a solution to, the existential global challenges we face. And the clock is ticking.
Fathom – Book Review | Jews Don’t Count
108) Jews Don’t Count is a powerful and personal contribution to the debates around antisemitism on the left. It’s often witty, but also furiously forensic in the way it nails its targets. I hope that Baddiel’s public profile, as well as the book’s accessible style (and price), encourages more people to think about these issues. The ...
Fathom – About us
Fathom welcomes fully edited submissions about all aspects of Israeli politics, culture, society and security; the peace process and peacebuilding; Israel’s diplomatic relations with regional states, world powers, and international bodies; trends and challenges within the Middle East; developments in UK-Israel relations; and the nature of contemporary or …
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and ...
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...
IHRA and JDA: Examining Definitions of Antisemitism in 2021
Seeking to acquit themselves of that sin, on March 25, 2021, a group of liberal and left-leaning scholars in Jewish history, Holocaust studies and research on the Middle East, mostly in the United States, Israel, and Germany posted ‘The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.’ [Mathias Kuentzel has made this point effectively.
‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris
Nov 7, 2015 · Options. In this in-depth interview, Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks with Professor Gabriel Noah Brahm about his work, his critics and his regrets. He also charges Western academics with dishonesty about the Middle East, gives his prognosis for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and outlines his view of Israel’s place in the ‘Clash of ...
Fathom – TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Noga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same title, set in the Jerusalem of the 1920s and 1940s. She finds a ‘jousting between frivolous liberating modernity and rigid traditions of cultural convention’ that takes the viewer back to ‘a time and a place where every single aspect of life ...
Universities in Crisis | Glorifying Atrocities: The Case of Brown ...
Violence, including terrorism, is justified as a legitimate measure against that evil. It’s thus no surprise that university students, including those at Brown, responded to the 10/7 massacre by justifying and even glorifying Hamas’s barbarity. Given that much of the horrendous rhetoric in CMES programming comes from guest speakers and ...
Fathom – Holocaust Inversion and contemporary antisemitism
What has been called ‘Holocaust Inversion’ involves an inversion of reality (the Israelis are cast as the ‘new’ Nazis and the Palestinians as the ‘new’ Jews), and an inversion of morality (the Holocaust is presented as a moral lesson for, or even a moral indictment of ‘the Jews’). More: those who object to these inversions are ...
Why I Signed the Jerusalem Declaration: A Response to Cary Nelson
Apr 20, 2021 · I share Cary Nelson’s concerns about rising antisemitism and about how hostility to Jews and Israel can be intertwined. It is precisely because of these concerns that I support the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA). In recent years, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism has been enshrined ...