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Nov 12, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alex Joffe |Asaf Romirowsky |Jack Omer-Jackaman |David Hirsh
Fathom > November 2024 > Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence Fathom Long Read | Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence tweet share email print Scott Abramson is a historian of the modern Middle East and the senior research officer at the Center for Israel Education. A trend in Western discourse has developed in the past few years, observable in full vigour since 7 October, of presenting Islamophobia as the companion bigotry of antisemitism. Some...
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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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Dec 13, 2023 | 
persuasion.community | Jack Omer-Jackaman
“It is the object only of war that makes it honorable… We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”Thomas Paine, 1777“Justice requires the defeat of Hamas. No more, no less. Israel has no need for revenge against the people of Gaza.”Michael Walzer, October 2023Gaza City, the largest ever Palestinian urban center, is essentially no more. Tens of thousands of homes have been completely destroyed.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Luke Akehurst |Susie Linfield |Kathleen Hayes |Jack Omer-Jackaman
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 piece was delivered as a paper at the inaugural conference London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in September 2022.
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Nov 25, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Jack Omer-Jackaman |Calev Ben-Dor |John Ware
tweet share email print Ebook version available here: DOWNLOAD EBOOK For Jews everywhere – not just Israelis – the denial that Hamas committed atrocities on 7 October has a familiar historical ring. Yet it is a fact that Hamas and their supporters have insisted their ‘fighters’ did not massacre music festival goers, or rape women, or ill-treat hostages. Direct to camera, one Hamas Politburo member after another has flatly denied that the Qassam Brigades did any such things. Also direct to...
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Jack Omer-Jackaman
Alan Johnson and Jack Omer-Jackaman are editors of Fathom. Israel is at war. A war whose aims we support. A war for its survival. Never has the old line that there are not separate wars in Israeli history – only the one, the War of Independence – been so true. The cause, this time? A pogrom of such vicious savagery as to make the mind boggle; an orgy of violence that will live alongside Kishinev, alongside Khmelnytsky – seared into the Jewish memory.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Jack Omer-Jackaman
Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. What is meant by ‘proportionality’ in war? Let’s begin with Michael Walzer, author of the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, explaining what proportionality, in international law and in just war thinking, is not. Proportionality doesn’t mean ‘tit for tat,’ as in the family feud. The Hatfields kill three McCoys, so the McCoys must kill three Hatfields. More than three, and they are breaking the rules of the feud, where proportionality means symmetry.
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May 30, 2023 | 
algemeiner.com | Jack Omer-Jackaman
In 1952, Israel’s founding father and then-Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, was tempted to revisit his decision of three years earlier granting a portion of the new state’s ultra-Orthodox community exemption from the compulsory military draft. To test the waters on a potential reversal, Ben-Gurion visited Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, the fabled Chazon Ish.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Calev Ben-Dor |Toby Greene |Jack Omer-Jackaman
Last week, on the day a general strike was called in response to the sacking of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Chatham House hosted former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Fathom Deputy Editor Jack Omer-Jackaman reflects on what Barak had to say about the judicial reforms and the protest movement, his career, and his relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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Feb 22, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Jack Omer-Jackaman |Calev Ben-Dor |Jonah Naghi
Jonah Naghi is the Chair of Israel Policy Forum’s IPF Atid Steering Committee in the city of Boston. A frequent commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Middle Eastern affairs, Jonah has spent extensive time in the region and received his Masters in Social Work at Boston College (2020) and LCSW (2021). All the views expressed are his own.
