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 ...

Secretary General of Amnesty International Agnes Callamard (right) and Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director Philip Luther (centre) attends a press conference in East Jerusalem, ...

The late writings of Robert Fine, who died in 2018, can help us understand the manifold connections between the Enlightenment roots and the contemporary forms of left antisemitism. He understood that ...

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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 ...

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

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In the wake of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a variety of complaints have been made about the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Two of the critics’ principal claims are first, ...

Women sitting among ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the front of a gender-segregated bus as part of a protest against the exclusion of women in the public sphere, 1 January 2012. Miriam Alster. Flash90.

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 ...

Dan Perry was the Cairo-based Middle East Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. He also served as AP’s bureau chief and chairman of the Foreign Press Association in ...

Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh marching at the JNF Chicago protest, October 2015. Photo by Cody O'Rourke, Facebook.