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Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Lord Caradon (UK) and Arthur J. Goldberg (US), attending the UN Security Council meeting on 7 June 1967. UN photo by Teddy Chen.
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 ...
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 ...
What has happened to the secular and democratic left? It would be an exaggeration to say that everywhere it is in retreat, but it is assailed by a resurgent religiosity allowed an increasingly free ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oren Kessler’s new book Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) argues powerfully that events in Mandatory Palestine between 1936 and ...