Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this ...

Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...

Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a military correspondent. In this article he discusses what the Israeli defence establishment calls the ‘war ...

Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and ISGAP. Follow her on X @IzaTabaro. Her Fathom essay ...

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...

Families of civilians abducted by Hamas hold a press conference in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan, 8 October 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90 ...

Reverend William Hechler. Photo courtesy from David Pileggi, Christ Church Jerusalem Archives.

For 50 years historians have debated the question of what motivated Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s disastrous drift towards a humiliating defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967.

The gates of a Jewish refugee camp in Cyprus are eventually opened by British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, 1 January 1949. Photo by GPO, Israel.

Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of Assad. The large number of Syrian families on the flight from Istanbul surely reflected the Turkish ...

Adam Gregerman is Professor of Jewish Studies at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He examines four parallels between centuries-old demonising historical views of ‘the Jew’ rooted in the ...