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Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays)
This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator of Fathom ...
Fathom13h
Alan Johnson: In Appreciation
Professor Alan Johnson conceived and founded Fathom in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting the demonising ...
Fathom15h
Iran under President Raisi: What should the region and the West expect? | An interview with Henry Rome
On 13 July, Fathom’s deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with the Eurasia Group’s Henry Rome to discuss the state of play in the nuclear talks between the US and Iran in Vienna and to assess what ...
Fathom15h
The ‘Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’: A New Stage in the Degradation of the American University
New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...
Fathom19h
Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment
Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Antisemitic notions of Judaism and Jewish identity have often been shaped—and ...
Fathom19h
Book Review | Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
In 2013, shortly after his nomination for US Defence Secretary, then Senator Chuck Hagel purchased three dozen copies of a book about President Dwight Eisenhower’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis. He ...
Fathom19h
A filmmaker, a feminist, an Israeli, a Bedouin, a Palestinian. A conversation with Rana Abu Fraiha
Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...
Fathom20h
Book Review | Social Justice and Israel/Palestine
In the introduction to Social Justice and Israel/Palestine, Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov reflect on their pedagogic principles and purposes in presenting this original and powerful book: The ...
Fathom20h
Book Review | Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East tells the story of an important but largely unknown chapter of Middle Eastern history. It focuses on the concerted drive by Nazi Germany to promote anti ...
Fathom20h
1967 | Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel
Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...
Fathom20h
Rereadings | Demonopathy: Leon Pinsker’s Theory of Antisemitism
Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really be ‘the mother of Judeophobia’? Steele is the author of several ...
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Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What could this possibly mean? As a matter of geography, it is obviously incorrect — Palestine is not everywhere ...