Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements and Gil Troy on Zionism. Here, Dave Rich recommends his three ...

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, US. He published Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West ...

A former civil servant, Anna Stanley reports on a counter-terrorism course she attended which she found a deeply, existentially depressing experience.She argues that ‘prestigious’ educational ...

Historian Andrew Apostolou argues that despite its justified fear over antisemitism, American Jewry must not be seduced by President Trump’s apparent commitment to fight Jew-hatred. Such promises, he ...

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, ...

Jean Améry is best known as the author of At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities. Less well known are Améry’s writings from the 1960s and 1970s in which he ...

Your second difference between Israel and settler-colonialism, oppression of the Jews, is deeply flawed. You do an adequate job of describing European oppression of the Jews in a few paragraphs, but ...

In April 1949, what was then the New Statesman and Nation — at the time aligned with the left of the Labour Party under the stewardship of Kingsley Martin — came out against the internationalisation ...

Palestinian rejectionism or anti-normalisation goes back to the British Mandate, which the Arabs rejected along with the Balfour Declaration. They also rejected the White Paper of 1939, which gave ...

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 ...

In this meticulous rebuttal of the former Mayor of London’s charge that ‘you had right up until the start of the second world war real collaboration [between Nazis and Zionists]’, Paul Bogdanor, ...

Ronnie Fraser was working in the Israel State archives when he came across a lengthy and confidential document in English (partly reproduced below) describing a meeting that took place on 29 January ...