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1 month ago | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Matti Friedman |Susie Linfield |John Strawson
Ben Freeman writes about his recent book, The Jews: An Indigenous People. While our primary concern is how we understand ourselves, Freeman writes, indigeneity also offers a way for the wider world to comprehend our experience and identity. The Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel. My new book, The Jews: An Indigenous People (released on February 27, 2025), presents the first-ever scholarly work to conclusively prove this.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
hymans.co.uk | Alan Johnson
We're delighted to be launching our 2024 National Knowledge Assessment (NKA). The benchmark assessment will help you demonstrate that you're meeting the requirements of the Pensions Regulator's General Code of Practice, by ensuring you're assessing and reporting on the knowledge and skills of your Committee and Board members. The assessment provides a unique insight into the knowledge levels of your key decision-makers and will help identify future training needs.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Izabella Tabarovsky |Jeffrey Herf |Alan Johnson
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute and a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and ISGAP. Follow her on X @IzaTabaro. Her Fathom essay ‘Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism’ is one of our most read. 7 October brought on an explosion of vicious, conspiratorial propaganda about Israel and Zionism.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |John Strawson |Susie Linfield |Joshua Brook
Palestine is Everywhere‘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; it is in the southern Levant.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Calev Ben-Dor |Jack Omer-Jackaman |Suzan Quitaz |Alan Johnson
Calev Ben-Dor reviews three new books published to mark the anniversary of the brutal Hamas attack on Israel. As the anniversary of that unimaginably terrible day approaches, we, those who are alive, need to live. That’s not always such an easy taskThe October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza, Seth J.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Cary Nelson |Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz was among the international journalists invited to watch the raw footage of the atrocities committed by Hamas during the 7 October Pogrom. She reports here on what she saw. ‘I never in my life attended a press briefing where journalists looked so shocked, in horror, tears streaming, some cries could be heard throughout the big auditorium, others shouted “please stop” and some had to leave because it became too much for them’.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Shany Mor |Alan Johnson |Barry W. Finger
Barry Finger reviews Ta-Nahesi Coates’ book The Message. Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former shop steward and activist with the Public Employees Federation. What happens when a widely acclaimed talent commits himself to an all-encompassing gospel of American racial oppression and projects it onto the African continent and the Middle East?
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Calev Ben-Dor |Michael Walzer |Andrés Spokoiny
Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long ago, when societies built their stories around heroes. Now, the victim has dislodged the hero as the center of society’s focus of admiration and desire. We dreamed of being heroes, now we yearn to be considered victims. Heroes and victims are very different. The hero sacrifices herself for the common good. She goes ‘out of herself’ and towards the other. The victim, however, withdraws into herself.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |David Hirsh
This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator of Fathom, and the Academic Director and founder of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism; and more widely of some more of the people who have been key to constructing Jewish communal and democratic responses in Britain to 21st century antisemitism.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Craig |Alan Johnson |Calev Ben-Dor |George Stevens
George Stevens is co-founder of the 4MENA Network, the first network of organisations from Israel, Palestine and across the MENA region devoted to a more inclusive, interconnected and peaceful future for all, and director of partnerships for NOAL, Israel’s largest Jewish-Arab youth movement.
