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One of the cruellest aspects of the new antisemitism is its perverse use of the Holocaust as a stick to beat ‘the Jews.’ Lesley Klaff explains the phenomenon of ‘Holocaust Inversion.’ In 20 ...
Jeffrey Bernstein reviews a new translation of Theodor Adorno’s 1962 lecture, Fighting Antisemitism Today. What did antisemitism look like in Adorno’s ‘today’; how does it look different in ours; and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, the new book by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson, enters the world at a time when, in the aftermath of 7 October and the war in ...
40 UK-based Israeli academics, broadly from the anti-Zionist left, have issued a ‘call to reject’ the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism. David Hirsh, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism, ...
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and ISGAP. Follow her on X @IzaTabaro. Her Fathom essay ...
Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to reframe the Israel-Diaspora relationship through support for liberal forces in ...
In the March 2020 elections Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party was shunned by other right wingers and managed 0.42 per cent of the total votes. Vetoing him was so self-evident, Naftali Bennett wro ...
In recent days the US polemicist Norman Finkelstein has injected a crude claim into the debate about antisemitism in the UK Labour Party: ‘the brouhaha is a calculated hoax — dare it be said, plo ...
Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays (Routledge 2023) Originally published on 9 October, two days after the 7 ...
Chaim Gans is a political philosopher and Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience (Cambridge University Press, 1992), The Limits ...