For 50 years historians have debated the question of what motivated Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s disastrous drift towards a humiliating defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967.

Kathleen Hayes invites the ‘anti-Zionist’ Left to think again. For 25 years, I was a member of a small, insular, Trotskyist organisation. Periodically during some febrile internal dispute, our Great ...

Attorney Gilead Sher is a former Israeli senior peace negotiator and Chief of Staff to PM Ehud Barak. Formerly a peace negotiator under PM Rabin, he is a Rice University’s Baker Institute fellow and a ...

Sitting in the Green Room at JW3, the London Jewish Community’s cultural centre, a jetlagged Jake Witzenfeld, director of the documentary Oriented, ran his fingers through his hair and smiled. I had ...

The discrimination and injustice suffered by Mizrahi Jews in Israel has been used instrumentally by Rachel Shabi to attack Zionism itself. Lyn Julius of Harif argues that Shabi’s ideas are out-of-date ...

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep concern about its failure to deal appropriately with a formal complaint against Dr. Lara Sheehi, ...

When we launched Fathom the editors declared that the journal would be ‘a partisan and artisan of the two-state solution.’ That’s why we are pleased to publish this paper from Professor Manual ...

Samuel Nurding: Why did you create the Wasatia Initiative and what does the term mean? Mohammed S. Dajani-Daoudi: On a Friday morning during the month of Ramadan back in late 2006 I was standing on ...

Strand Building, King's College London. Photo by Shadowssettle via Wikimedia. Licence accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.

Meredith Rothbart is co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva. Here, she argues for a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, one in which the relationship between track one dialogue and civil ...

Earlier this year Fathom’s Grant Goldberg interviewed Lyn Julius about her new book, Uprooted, which documents 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world and explains how and why that ...

Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books about a subject. Here, Matthew Bolton recommends three on critical theory and antisemitism. A much longer piece than the norm, the ...