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WEBThe Three Best Books for Someone Rethinking Anti-Zionism, recommended by Kathleen Hayes. By Kathleen Hayes. Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara... Read more > September 2024.
Leon Trotsky’s Long War Against Antisemitism - Fathom
WEBAll his life Trotsky was a consistent fighter against antisemitism. – Joseph Nedava, Trotsky and the Jews, 1971. Of course we can close our eyes to the facts and limit ourselves to vague generaliti...
Zeruya Shalev: On ‘Pain’ And Her Role As Israel’s ... - Fathom
WEBShalev was born in May 1959 in Kvutzat Kinneret, one of Israel’s first kibbutzim founded in 1913 on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The Shalev family is a storied literary dynasty, its best-known member being her cousin, Meir, whose extensive back catalogue of novels and essays, columns and short stories includes Four Meals (1994) and The ...
‘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 ...
Fathom – TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
WEBNoga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same title, set in the Jerusalem of the 1920s and 1940s. She finds a ‘jousting between frivolous liberating modernity and rigid traditions of cultural convention’ that takes the viewer back to ‘a time ...
Revisiting Isaac Deutscher - Fathom
WEBThe Polish historian and socialist Isaac Deutscher coined the term ‘the non-Jewish Jew’ to celebrate the tradition of Spinoza, Heine, Marx, and Trotsky. But he argued that internationalists must c...
The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?
WEBMatthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi antisemitism on the development of Islamic antisemitism and the Arab world’s 1948 war against the Jewish State. Here, he introduces the book’s central discoveries and arguments.
WEBLorin Bell-Cross, assistant editor of Fathom The weeks and months building up to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin saw widespread incitement against the Prime Minister. Rallies against the prime minister and peace process regularly featured screams of ‘traitor’ and ‘murderer’. This peaked at an opposition rally in Zion Square in Jerusalem, where banners from the crowd depicted Rabin ...
IHRA and JDA: Examining Definitions of Antisemitism in 2021
WEBSeeking to acquit themselves of that sin, on March 25, 2021, a group of liberal and left-leaning scholars in Jewish history, Holocaust studies and research on the Middle East, mostly in the United States, Israel, and Germany posted ‘The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.’ [Mathias Kuentzel has made this point effectively.
Book Review | Bibi, My Story - Fathom
WEBIndeed, the Netanyahu of Bibi, My Story is both political and principled, pragmatic and philosophical, polemical and platitudinal. We follow him through his life, that of his family and forbearers and that of his and his brothers’ childhood, experiences in America as a youngster as well as in Jerusalem, army and diplomatic service.