Dated: Approximately 1930–1933: Credit: Collection: Photographic Collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Photographer: Omar Oscar Marcus (born in Berlin, 12 Aug 1910; died in Mexico City, 11 Apr 1980) ...

This paper by Koby Huberman reflects his ongoing dialogue with Israeli, Palestinian, and regional experts. Huberman identifies current regional trends, presents worrying scenarios for Israel’s ...

How Israelis and Palestinians can have a serious... By Alex Stein Alex Stein argues that a recently discovered trove of documents from Israel’s War of Independence... Read more > Death to Terrorists ...

Before the revolution, before the coups, before the wars, there was a law. In the early twentieth century, Alexandria and Cairo were Egyptian cities that did not yet know they were temporary. If you ...

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 ...

In early June 2026, Fathom editors Calev Ben-Dor and Andrew Apostolou spoke to Elliott Abrams. Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and has previously ...

Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, he asks, do we honour and preserve history, in the 21st century? Yom ...

Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ he writes, ‘But those same politicians will not ...

Philip Mendes examines the conclusions of an inquiry held by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, detailing four principal manifestations of Antisemitism in Australian ...

Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Michael Walzer, the leading American public intellectual and author of Just and Unjust Wars. We discussed the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the charge of ‘genocide’ ...

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 ...

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