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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 ...

I believed a lot of antisemitic garbage for many years. (I wrote about it for Fathom, here.) This is a huge source of shame, but it gives me one advantage over most opponents of antisemitism: I know ...

Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Zionism, Israel and Anglo-Jewry’s Identity, 1948-1982 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019) and deputy editor of Fathom. This opinion ...

Arthur Henderson, who served as a member of the small War Cabinet with the post of Minister without Portfolio until August 1917.

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 ...

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 ...

Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements, Gil Troy on Zionism, Dave Rich on antisemitism, Liam Hoare on ...

Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly distraction for all people everywhere today. ‘We simply do not have time to lose with such a pointless ...

From the cover of Chaim Gans's book 'A Political Theory for the Jewish People' (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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 ...

Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding spoke with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy about Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People. The book tells the life story of Sharansky and sets out the evolution of ...