Something extremely strange happened last week. Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organisation in the United States, endorsed the idea that there is a particular ethnic group ...

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 ...

Aaron MacLean: How is Israel’s war against Hamas proceeding and how do battlefield and diplomatic developments there fit into the broader regional competition with Iran? The Israelis took out a senior ...

Karolina Placzynta is a researcher for the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin. She explains the methodology and the main findings of ...

An Israeli Defence Force reservist recounts a day patrolling the southern Hebron hills of the West Bank. It’s Friday lunchtime in early summer, we are in the southern Hebron hills and it’s hot. I’m ...

Daniel Gordis’s We Stand Divided is the latest book on the growing rift between American Jews and Israelis. What distinguishes Gordis’s work is the way he locates the relationship, for him now at an ...

The media pitted one against the other. It was indeed a catchy story: two films from two sides of the border telling a rather similar tale. In the right-hand corner: Bethlehem, an Israeli film by ...

Fathom republishes a speech Andrew Fox prepared for a gathering outside the UK Foreign Office following David Lammy’s decision to ban a proportion of UK arms exports to Israel. Fox served for 16 years ...