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 ...

Each fortnight Fathom writers have been recommending Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This fortnight, the selections of Gil Troy, Shany Mor, Paul Gross ...

Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published in the November-December 2015 issue of New Left Review, the ‘flagship journal of the Western ...

Sir Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government, King’s College London and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Israel Democracy Institute. His most recent book is The Strange Survival ...

The Director of the Mossad has to think geopolitically. He (and so far it has always been a ‘he’) has to focus not merely on regional issues, but on developments further afield, in particular how they ...

Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World” be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. The prevailing paradigm ...

Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.

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 ...

The 'Women Wage Peace' movement take part in a march in support of peace in Jerusalem, 19 October 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush, Flash90.

Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh marching at the JNF Chicago protest, October 2015. Photo by Cody O'Rourke, Facebook.

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 ...

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 ...