Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements and Gil Troy on Zionism. Here, Dave Rich recommends his three ...

Israel has been made an alibi for a new climate of antisemitism on the left. In Marx’s essay On the Jewish Question, written in 1844, there are two contrasting sets of themes vis-à-vis the Jews.In ...

When the UCU rejected the EUMC Working Definition of antisemitism which states that some kinds of criticism of Israel may be anti-Semitic while others are legitimate, it opened up a loophole in the ...

Ali Abu Awwad is a leading Palestinian activist and the founder of Roots – an Israeli-Palestinian project in the West Bank that works for co-existence by changing peoples’ narratives and by ...

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. For many years he was the co-editor of Dissent magazine. He responds here to Cary ...

This major Fathom report finds the Labour Party is now ‘institutionally antisemitic’ as the term is defined in the Macpherson Report: ‘the collective failure of an organisation to provide an ...

‘The Challenges of Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Dispute: An Impossible Peace?’ is published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. In this Fathom essay its author Bren Carlill presents the book’s ...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...

Richard L. Cravatts is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Last week in Jerusalem, as Jews celebrated Passover and Muslims observed Ramadan, violent images were broadcast of ...

A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...

In 1921 British politician Alfred Mond, visiting Palestine, said ‘our sanctuary, our Temple, we will construct as an everlasting building’. Yisrael Medad shows how, although Mond was plainly talking ...