On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice - Fathom
‘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; it is in the southern Levant. But I sensed (correctly) that the slogan was not a …
‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and ... - Fathom
In 2022 book-lovers celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, which tracks the peripatetic wanderings of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on 16 June 1904. Each year on that day ‘Bloomsday’ is celebrated by lovers of the novel. This year, Fathom is delighted to publish an essay by (Israeli-Canadian) Noga Emanuel that looks more closely at the ...
Fathom – TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Noga 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 ...
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and ...
How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this article is blunt: not reliable at all. The authors are Tom Simpson, a generalist economis...
The ‘Ben Gurion Canal’: A new crazy anti-Israeli ... - Fathom
Jonas Hessenauer is a social scientist and researcher on antisemitism. He is currently working at the Tikvah Institute in Berlin on a study of German press coverage of Israel. On 16 November 2023,...
Rejecting IHRA: The Avoidable Debacle at the University of Toronto
David Matas is an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg. The author of several books, he is also co-author of the book Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs.Aurel Braun is a professor of political science and international relations at …
Fathom – Fathom Long Read: A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani …
In this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy Editor Jack Omer-Jackaman re-reads Jean Améry on left anti-Zionism. He surveys the celebratory responses t...
Fathom – The Meaning of Shahd Abusalama
Marc Goldberg of the Community Security Trust, writing in a personal capacity, casts a concerned eye over some astonishing reactions to a student complaint about the Sheffield Hallam University lecturer Shahd Abusalama.
Fathom – Book Review | Bibi, My Story
The memoirs of politicians and public figures, it has been claimed, are among the most popular form of historical literature, although as the autobiography is both personal and political, one is – or should be – aware that he or she could reading a mixture of fiction and wishful-thinking.
The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?
Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi antisemitism on the development of Islamic antisemitism and the Arab world’s 1948 war against the Jewish State. Here, he introduces the book’s central discoveries and arguments. Is there any connection between the Nazi war of extermination against the Jews that ...