The world has reached a saturation point with Israel 101 books. We have enough options to guide readers through basic information about contemporary Israel’s history, politics, culture, population, ...
Ernest Bevin (left) in 1942. Photo by Howard Coster, National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons.
While many look to the rise of both Bolshevik Russia and Nazi Germany to understand the Left’s evolution on the Jewish question, one period of time that is often overlooked is that of fin de siècle ...
There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...
British Christian Zionism (Part 3): Reverend William Hechler – from Hovevei Zion to Herzl and beyond
Reverend William Hechler. Photo courtesy from David Pileggi, Christ Church Jerusalem Archives.
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 ...
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 ...
Something extremely strange happened last week. Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organisation in the United States, endorsed the idea that there is a particular ethnic group ...
‘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 ...
‘The Challenges of Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Dispute: An Impossible Peace?’ is published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. In this Fathom essay its author Bren Carlill presents the book’s ...
Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David Grossman is Israel’s foremost living writer. Often lumped together in the Western ...
Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements. Here, Gil Troy discusses three books on Zionism. There are many ...
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