Fathom – The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left
Jan 14, 2025 · Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World (Polity) which won the 2024 LCSCA Book Prize. Since the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, Diaspora Jews have found themselves under sustained assault on a variety of fronts, from much of the radical left, and its Islamist allies. ...
Fathom – Campus Protests and Deferred Maintenance
When Otto Feuer, of blessed memory, was liberated from Buchenwald in April 1945, he made his way to Paris. A border guard generously advised: ‘vous savez, en France on n’aime pas les Juifs’ [you know, in France we don’t like the Jews.] In sharing the memory later my dad quipped, ‘I had ...
Fathom – Book Review | Forest of Noise
Jan 14, 2025 · Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as a representative voice from Gaza’s destroyed streets. It has inspired immoderate praise such as, ‘Books are immortal, Palestine is immortal, and I found both aspects of immortality here because these pages capture the resilience and strength of …
A Communist’s Pro-Israel Protest to the Polish Communist
6 days ago · War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and antisemitism resurfaces across the continent in force.
Fathom - For a deeper understanding of Israel, the region, and …
The London Initiative: Partnering to Re-Connect Democracy, Fairness and Peace for a Better Shared Future By Sir Mick Davis & Mike Prashker Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to...
Fathom – Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?
Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald Trump’s election victory by the most messianic, annexationist members of the Israeli right, my first thought was that they need to read Barak Ravid’s Trump’s Peace for a reality check. First published in Hebrew less than a year after Trump’s departure ...
Fathom – We tried to make peace without knowing how: Towards …
Jan 14, 2025 · Meredith Rothbart is co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva. Here, she argues for a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, one in which the relationship between track one dialogue and civil soci...
‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland
Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ he writes, ‘But those same politicians will not stand up publicly now to denounce the explosion of antisemitic rhetoric that has spilled into the public arena, including both houses of parliament.’
Fathom – Book Review | Bibi: My Story
As he did in his review of Jared Kushner’s book, the honorable Mr. Schindler again supplants facts with his wishful biases. “Over 70 per cent of the Diaspora’s most pro-Israel community voted for Obama in 2008 and again in 2012”?
Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir - Fathom
I met with this in London, in 1972, when a former girlfriend (a lonely Ivy junior-year-abroad) joined the International Marxist Group and suddenly was denying Israel any legitimacy.