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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 – 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 …
‘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 – 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 ...
Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism
May 7, 2019 · Options. For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the entire shameful story of Soviet Judeophobia but shows us that, to quote William Faulkner, ‘the past is not dead, it is not even past ...
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 ...
Fathom – Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation
Memmi reversed the terms of religious Zionism. Israel was the endpoint, not the realization, of chosenness. In The Liberation of the Jew, Memmi presents himself as an unwavering Left Zionist. He views Zionism as neither more nor less than the …
1967 | How Nasser’s vendetta against America led to the Six-Day …
May 23, 2017 · For 50 years historians have debated the question of what motivated Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s disastrous drift towards a humiliating defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967. Gabriel Glickman argues that the archives suggest we have underestimated the pivotal role of Nasser’s vendetta against America in driving Nasser’s ...
The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?
Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi antisemitism on the development of Islamic antisemitism and the Arab world’s 1948 war against the Jewish State. Here, he introduces the book’s central discoveries and arguments.
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.