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The rubble at the site of the former Sderot police station – destroyed by an Israeli tank on the evening of 7 October – has been cleared and grass planted in its place. Now encircled by wrought iron, ...
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.
President Joe Biden hoped to build on President Trump’s legacy by expanding the Abraham Accords to secure the ‘crown jewel’ of US foreign policy in the Middle East – normalisation between Israel and ...
In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through the thinking of Constantin Zureiq and Fayez Sayegh – both academics and diplomats – ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this Fathom bitesize read, David Hirsh explains why he withdrew from the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, held under the auspices of Israeli Diaspora Minister Chikli ...
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 ...
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, ...
Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World (Polity Books, June 2024). The past 6 months have been an ongoing nightmare for Israelis, ...
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 ...