David Lloyd George, 1917. National Portrait Gallery, Creative Commons.
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 ...
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Mr. Viktor Orban seen at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on the last day of his 2-day official state visit in Israel. July 20, 2018.
Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, he asks, do we honour and preserve history, in the 21st century? Yom ...
Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...
Philip Mendes examines the conclusions of an inquiry held by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, detailing four principal manifestations of Antisemitism in Australian ...
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 – ...
Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements and Gil Troy on Zionism. Here, Dave Rich recommends his three fav ...
Samuel Nurding: Why did you create the Wasatia Initiative and what does the term mean? Mohammed S. Dajani-Daoudi: On a Friday morning during the month of Ramadan back in late 2006 I was standing on ...
‘The British Mandate in Palestine is now ended and the Jewish State of Israel has been proclaimed … this news will be acclaimed by friends of peace and progress the world over’. With these words, the ...
Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.
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 ...