‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and ... - Fathom
In 2022 book-lovers celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, which tracks the peripatetic wanderings of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on 16 June 1904. Each year on that day ‘Bloomsday’ is celebrated by lovers of the novel. This year, Fathom is delighted to publish an essay by (Israeli-Canadian) Noga Emanuel that looks more …
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...
Fathom – February 2024
“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.
Fathom – Fathom Interview | Are Israel’s Wars Just?
Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Michael Walzer, the leading American public intellectual and author of Just and Unjust Wars. We discussed the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the charge of ‘genocide’ against Israel, the question of whether Israel is facilitating enough humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, as well as the pager attacks against Hezbollah operatives, …
Fathom – Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani …
In this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy Editor Jack Omer-Jackaman re-reads Jean Améry on left anti-Zionism. He surveys the celebratory responses t...
Fathom – 7 October and the Alt-Media: a critical examination
Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas committed atrocities on 7 October has a familiar historical ring. Yet it is a fact t...
Fathom – Understanding the recent terror attacks in Israel
Israeli undercover police officers arrest a man during clashes with protesters at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on 3 April 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi, Flash90.
Fathom – The Meaning of Shahd Abusalama
Marc Goldberg of the Community Security Trust, writing in a personal capacity, casts a concerned eye over some astonishing reactions to a student complaint about the Sheffield Hallam University lecturer Shahd Abusalama.
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 ...
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. Is there any connection between the Nazi war of extermination …