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 ...

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 ...

Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.

A Palestinian man holds a key to symbolise the homes Palestinian refugees left during the 1948 War of Independence, Khan Younis 15 May 2016. Photo by Abed Rahim ...

Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. Read previous recommendations here. Jo-Ann Mort recommends Emile Habibi’s ...

Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor critiques the assessment – widespread in western analytic circles – that the Iranian attack was precisely designed to pose no threat to life and to inflict minimal ...