Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist, has spent years researching and writing this account of dramatic events in North Africa in the early stages of World War Two as German armies led by ...

Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was published in the November-December 2015 issue of New Left Review, the ‘flagship journal of the Western ...

On 13 July, Fathom’s deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with the Eurasia Group’s Henry Rome to discuss the state of play in the nuclear talks between the US and Iran in Vienna and to assess what ...

Each fortnight Fathom writers have been recommending Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This fortnight, the selections of Gil Troy, Shany Mor, Paul Gross ...

Sir Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government, King’s College London and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Israel Democracy Institute. His most recent book is The Strange Survival ...

Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.

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 ...

Palestinians enjoy the sea in Gaza City, on a hot summer day, on 8 September 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 ...

Richard L. Cravatts is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. The Boston ‘Mapping Project’ proves conclusively that many anti-Israel activists inhabit an ideological universe of ...

Gen. Sir Nick Carter (left) is greeted by IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi in Israel, April 2019. Photo by: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World” be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. The prevailing paradigm ...

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 ...