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Trotskyist reverberations: antisemitism, Stalinism, liberalism (Preface to Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays)
This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator of Fathom ...
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Alan Johnson: In Appreciation
Fathom was created by BICOM in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting the demonising frameworks and ...
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The ‘Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’: A New Stage in the Degradation of the American University
New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...
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A filmmaker, a feminist, an Israeli, a Bedouin, a Palestinian. A conversation with Rana Abu Fraiha
Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...
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Iran under President Raisi: What should the region and the West expect? | An interview with Henry Rome
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 ...
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‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide
Families of civilians abducted by Hamas hold a press conference in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan, 8 October 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90 ...
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Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment
Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Antisemitic notions of Judaism and Jewish identity have often been shaped—and ...
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Rereadings | Demonopathy: Leon Pinsker’s Theory of Antisemitism
Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really be ‘the mother of Judeophobia’? Steele is the author of several ...
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Book Review | Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
In 2013, shortly after his nomination for US Defence Secretary, then Senator Chuck Hagel purchased three dozen copies of a book about President Dwight Eisenhower’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis. He ...
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Intersectionality and Antisemitism – A New Approach
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 ...
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Book Review | On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What could this possibly mean? As a matter of geography, it is obviously incorrect — Palestine is not everywhere ...
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Universities in Crisis | What three American University Presidents should have said to the US Congress about campus antisemitism
Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Photo by John Phelan, via Wikimedia. Licence available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ...