Fathom Journal

1 month ago | fathomjournal.org | Daniel Taub

Many factors play a crucial role in a successful negotiation. One of these is the context in which the negotiation takes place. In this extract from his forthcoming book, Beyond Dispute: Rediscovering the Jewish Art of Constructive Disagreement, Israeli peace negotiator and former ambassador to the United Kingdom Daniel Taub draws from his diplomatic experience to consider how we might create environments more conducive to understanding and compromise.

1 month ago | fathomjournal.org | Noga Emanuel |Ittay Flescher |Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Noga Emanuel reviews the history of Israeli songs which resonate in times of war. What causes certain songs to seize the public’s imagination at times of national anxiety and grief, Emanuel asks, comparing songs which rose to prominence during previous conflicts with the contemporary anthem, ‘Blessed God Always Loves Me’.

1 month ago | fathomjournal.org | Alex Stein |Yossi Halevi

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, the new book by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson, enters the world at a time when, in the aftermath of 7 October and the war in Gaza, the Israel-Palestine debate is more polarised than ever. Israelis are accused of being settler colonisers, while Palestinians are accused of being a fictitious people.

1 month ago | fathomjournal.org | Elliott Abrams |Dennis Ross |Gidi Grinstein |Yair Hirschfeld

Attorney Gilead Sher is a former Israeli senior peace negotiator and Chief of Staff to PM Ehud Barak. Formerly a peace negotiator under PM Rabin, he is a Rice University’s Baker Institute fellow and a former senior fellow at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Studies INSS. In 2023, Sher co-founded the Central Resistance Headquarters for the pro-democracy struggle.

Mar 25, 2025 | fathomjournal.org | Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki

The Abraham Accords are not simply a series of normalisation agreements between Muslim countries and Israel, motivated by a shared enemy or political dividends writes Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki. Instead they reflect the arrival on the scene on an official level of an Islam that eschews replacement theology on – and this is critical – traditional grounds.