A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist Party, Sept. 1967 By Philip Earl Steele War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, 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...

Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center for Israel Education.. Introduction. A trend in Western discourse has developed in the past few years, observable in full vigour since 7 October, of presenting Islamophobia as the companion bigotry of antisemitism.

Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World (Polity) which won the 2024 LCSCA Book Prize. Since the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, Diaspora Jews have found themselves under sustained assault on a variety of fronts, from much of the radical left, and its Islamist allies. ...

Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements. Here, Gil Troy discusses three books on Zionism. There are many academic books on the history of Zionism, the …

Alvin Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University and is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. In this essay he argues that w...

Most read; The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left By Shalom Lappin; Alan Johnson: In Appreciation By Fathom Editors; Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to ‘Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays’)

Reading this is breakthtaking. The sheer intellectual dishonesty stands out. Is this the best that Zionism can offer? If you want to know how the IHRA is used everyday to try and suppress speech look no further than the Campaign Against Antisemitism which uses the 11 examples as a means of branding their opponents with calls for their dismissal..

Eve Garrard’s 2013 ‘The Pleasures of Antisemitism’, argued that not merely cognitive errors but also deep emotional satisfactions were at stake in the spread of antisemitism.The essay has been one of the most read pieces in Fathom’s first decade.

Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly distraction for all people everywhere today. ‘We simply do not have time to lose with such a pointless projection’ she argues. ‘Our young people deserve a world where they can breathe, earn a …