Karolina Placzynta is a researcher for the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin. She explains the methodology and the main findings of ...

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...

Liam 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 ...

Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Photo by John Phelan, via Wikimedia. Licence available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ...

Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State: ...

Vivian Silver was a universally admired Israeli peace activist who advocated for Palestinian rights. She was murdered by Hamas during the massacre of her kibbutz, Be’eri, on 7 October. Amal Elsana Alh ...

Yisrael Medad spent many hours with the poet and Revisionist Zionist Uri Tzvi Greenberg (1896-1981) at Greenberg’s Ramat Gan home in the decade prior to his death. ‘He prayed wrapped in tallit and ...

Yossi Kuperwasser argues that President Biden’s Middle East policy reflects the tension between his understanding that the region has gone through dramatic changes during the Trump years that give the ...

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 ...

Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to assess what has been achieved in the 40 years since its signing. Susser also ...

Documentary maker John Ware explains why he has brought three successful court cases against those who he believed had defamed him and the BBC Panorama programme he made about antisemitism in Corbyn’s ...

Dahlia Scheindlin, writing from Tel Aviv on 15 March, critically assesses the three reasons the Israeli government has given for its neutrality in the war between Russian and Ukraine Within the first ...