‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris
WEBNov 7, 2015 · Options. In this in-depth interview, Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks with Professor Gabriel Noah Brahm about his work, his critics and his regrets. He also charges Western academics with dishonesty about the Middle East, gives his prognosis for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and outlines his view of Israel’s place in the ‘Clash of ...
Fathom - For a deeper understanding of Israel, the region, and …
WEBKnown to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. By Philip Earl Steele. On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book... Read more > July 2024.
Fathom – Paul Iddon
WEBPaul Iddon is a freelance journalist based in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan who writes about Middle East affairs
Fathom – Leon Trotsky’s Long War Against Antisemitism
WEBMar 5, 2019 · Options. All his life Trotsky was a consistent fighter against antisemitism. – Joseph Nedava, Trotsky and the Jews, 1971. Of course we can close our eyes to the facts and limit ourselves to vague generalities about the equality and brotherhood of all races. But an ostrich policy will not advance us a single step ….
Fathom – Rereading Past Continuous: Revisiting Yaakov Shabtai’s ...
WEBLiam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts.Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in 1977 as one continuous 280-page paragraph. (Breaks were mercifully inserted in the English translation.) Hoare makes the case that the novel created a rupture in the world of Israeli literature and ...
The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and ...
WEBThe weight of evidence of Zionist/Israeli willingness to cede territory for peace is overwhelming. It goes well beyond 2000-8 starting with the Faisal-Weizmann agreement 1919, and the subsequent the partition plans of Peel (1937), UNSCOP (1947), UNSC resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the Camp David agreements (1978) and of course Oslo (1993-95).
Fathom – TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
WEBNoga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same title, set in the Jerusalem of the 1920s and 1940s. She finds a ‘jousting between frivolous liberating modernity and rigid traditions of cultural convention’ that takes the viewer back to ‘a time and a place where every single aspect of life ...
Fathom 16 | Editorial
WEBOn its 50 th anniversary, this special issue of Fathom maps the causes, courses and consequences of a watershed event in Middle East History: the Six-Day War of June 1967.. Michael Walzer, one of America’s foremost political thinkers, wrote his seminal book Just and Unjust Wars in 1977. He recalls that the book was born a decade earlier when, as an anti-Vietnam war activist, he found himself ...
Fathom – The Meaning of Shahd Abusalama
WEBShahd Abusalama is a Palestinian PhD student recently taken on as an assistant lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Originally from Gaza, Abusalama moved to the UK where she studied for a Masters at the School of Oriental and African Studies and then a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University. Abusalama has written about her experiences in Gaza ...
“Even Jews themselves often hear about Zionism through its
WEBOn 22 January 2024, Fathom Deputy Editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor interviewed Einat Wilf. They discussed Wilf’s essay ‘Zionism as Therapy’, which seeks to correct anti-Zionism’s success in divorcing Zionism from its intellectual and historical origins. Wilf is a leading thinker on Israel, Zionism, foreign policy and education.