Fathom – The Netanyahu Years: an interview with Ben Caspit
WEBIn this exclusive interview, Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sits down with Ben Caspit, a senior columnist for the leading Israeli daily Ma’ariv and is a regular TV commentator on politics and Israel, to talk about his new book The Netanyahu Years and what he sees as the future for the Israeli Prime Minister. Israeli journalist Ben Caspit, author of a new book The Netanyahu Years has been ...
Book Review: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
WEBShlomo Avineri’s research casts a new light on the short, troubled and driven life of Theodor Herzl. This will become an important work for all students of Zionist history. In his autobiography, Chaim Weizmann commented that Theodor Herzl was ‘not of the people’ despite being an inspiring leader and brilliant organiser.
Fathom - For a deeper understanding of Israel, the region, and …
WEBKnown to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. By Philip Earl Steele. On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book... Read more > July 2024.
‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris
WEBNov 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 ...
Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 1): What ... - Fathom
WEBJohn Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? He explains here why he believes parts of The Forde Report, and Forde’s statements in a subsequent interview to Al Jazeera, are badly misleading people about his documentary.Noting that Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters and Al Jazeera have had a field day exploiting Forde’s confusions and misunderstandings ...
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and ...
WEBHow 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...
An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left
WEBKathleen Hayes invites the ‘anti-Zionist’ Left to think again. For 25 years, I was a member of a small, insular, Trotskyist organisation. Periodically during some febrile internal dispute, our Great Leader would invoke Oliver Cromwell. ‘I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ’, he’d howl, ‘to think it possible that you may be ...
Why I Signed the Jerusalem Declaration: A Response to Cary Nelson
WEBApr 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) …
Haredi Feminism: an interview with Pnina Pfeuffer - Fathom
WEBPnina Pfeuffer is a leading figure in Haredi feminism and a regular columnist for Ha’aretz, Jerusalem Post, and many other publications.An activist with Darkenu: the Moderate Majority, and its outreach coordinator for the ultra-Orthodox community, Pfeuffer spoke to Fathom interns Gabrielle Ritzer and Jack Agnew about her journey to activism, the tensions between Haredi feminism and ultra ...
Fathom – Learning the Lessons of the Oslo Peace Process
WEBWe often speak of the four-pillars of the peace process: Palestinian state-building, more security, support from regional actors, and taking care of the spoilers. Achieving progress on all four pillars can create the enabling conditions to reach a final agreement. But Kerry turned this all upside down.