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 ...

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 ...

Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...

In this Fathom bitesize read, David Hirsh explains why he withdrew from the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, held under the auspices of Israeli Diaspora Minister Chikli ...

Yisrael Medad argues that Peter Beinart’s quoting of Ze’ev Jabotinsky in his recent essay, as in his earlier work, is misleading, being true to neither the original text nor its historical context. In ...

Writing from Jerusalem, Fathom editor Calev Ben-Dor examines the trends that have brought Israel to its current domestic crisis and expresses his fear that – unlike in March 2023 – public pressure may ...

The publication of this book could hardly be better timed. The disturbance at a Friends of Israel Society talk at University College London in October 2016, when Israeli speaker Hen Mazzig was ...

This is a very important book. Over the last decade or so, a sweeping ideology that looks much like a new religion has gained tremendous influence over Western governmental, educational, professional ...

Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World” be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. The prevailing paradigm ...

Nadav Eyal is the International Correspondent for Israel’s Reshet News, Op-Ed contributor for Yedioth Ahronoth, and author of the one of the bestselling non-fiction books in Israel in 2018, The Revolt ...

The late writings of Robert Fine, who died in 2018, can help us understand the manifold connections between the Enlightenment roots and the contemporary forms of left antisemitism. He understood that ...