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1 week 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.
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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.
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1 month ago | 
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.
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2 months 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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Dec 4, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Shalom Lappin
Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World(Polity) which won the 2024 LCSCA Book PrizeSince the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, Diaspora Jews have found themselves under sustained assault on a variety of fronts, from much of the radical left, and its Islamist allies.[1] People who pose as guardians of equality and anti-racism are leading violent demonstrations praising mass murder attacks against Israelis.
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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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Sep 3, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Calev Ben-Dor
Deputy Editor of Fathom Calev Ben-Dor shares reflections from Jerusalem after six hostages are executed by Hamas. “There have been many days since October where the contours of the journey from grief to hope have lacked clarity and direction. But Monday, Day 331, was one of the worst.”It’s Monday September 2, Day 331, and this level of unbridled rage, anger and frustration in the air hasn’t been felt for months.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Liam Hoare
Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David Grossman is Israel’s foremost living writer. Often lumped together in the Western imagination with Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua as one of the ‘three tenors’ of Israeli literature, Grossman in fact comes from a younger generation of writers, breaking onto the literary scene in 1983 with The Smile of the Lamb at a time when Oz and Yehoshua were already well-established.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Lyn Julius |Noga Emanuel
Lyn Julius is the author of Uprooted: how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight, published by Vallentine Mitchell in 2018. The Farhud is the name given to the Nazi-inspired massacre of Jews in Iraq in June 1941.