Calev Ben-Dor
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Co-Editor of @Fathomjournal. Views mine. (took over twitter account 1/1/25 from previous editor Alan Johnson)
Joined October 2023
@fathomjournal published over 130 pieces in 2024. There was hopefully something for everyone (we used to promise that there would be one essay in every issue that someone wouldnt like!). Here are 13 of my favorites - a thread
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Information Warfare Analyst @talhagin details the problematic role of AI’s Large Language Models (LLMs) in media fact-checking
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In a detailed explainer which will prove especially informative for those aware of the increasingly dominant influence of AI but not how it actually works, Information Warfare Analyst Tal Hagin...
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Rachael Liss of @ALLMEP outlines the importance of the Women, Peace, and Security #WPS agenda in the Israeli-Palestinian context
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Rachael Liss of the Alliance for Middle East Peace’s (ALLMEP) outlines the importance of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda in the Israeli-Palestinian context. In the wake of the UK’s com...
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@RaoulWootliff comprehensively dismantles British far-right agitator Tommy Robinson’s professed reformation from peddler of antisemitism to staunch ally of the Jewish people
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In a comprehensive dismantling, Anglo-Israeli Raoul Wootliff rebuts British far-right agitator Tommy Robinson’s professed reformation from peddler of antisemitism to staunch ally of the Jewish...
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These discussions are incredibly difficult. And as Fathom promised when it began over a decade ago, you will almost certainly find something in these you disagree with.
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Sam Shube from Kibbutz Nir Am uses the weekly anti-govt protests through which to examine Israel’s Netanyahu fixation. ‘We must leave Bibi alone once & for all and allow Netanyahu’s politics of polarisation to collapse under its own dead weight.’
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Sam Shube of Nir Am in the Gaza Envelope argues the prime minister has become less a political figure than an identity marker, and that to unseat him at the next election, Bibi’s political opponent...
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Yair Hirschfeld reviews Agha & Malley’s new book. Hirschfeld was Agha’s Israeli counterpart during negotiations for the Oslo process. ‘We witnessed the same developments, although from very different vantage points’ he writes
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Hussein Agha and Robert Malley’s book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine is the story of how the 13 September 1993 ceremony at the White House lawn...
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Liam Hoare @lahoare beautifully reviews Etgar Keret's new book Autocorrect
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Etgar Keret’s new short story collection Autocorrect is the right book at the right time – though that, in part, may be pure coincidence. The moment of its publication and the darkness and pessimi...
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@DastanJasim offers a powerful essay on her experiences - as a female Kurdish academic researching the Middle East - of white feminist approaches to the region
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Dastan Jasim offers a powerful and forthright essay on her experiences - as a female Kurdish academic researching the Middle East - of white feminist approaches to the region. Jasim, a Fellow for the...
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Hussein Agha is one of the most thoughtful analysts of the Palestinian National Movement and rarely gives interviews https://t.co/2ymI6lfJ7T
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Fathom editors Jack Omer-Jackaman and Calev Ben-Dor speak to Hussein Agha about the failure of the peace process in the 1990s, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian National Movement, the future of the two...
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Written before impeachment failed to get the requisite votes, Omer-Jackaman argues the process represented a political witch-hunt and the disenfranchisement of @AyOdeh's voters
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In this impassioned opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman protests the campaign to impeach MK Ayman Odeh, instigated by the Israeli right and thus far supported by much of the liberal...
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Ilouz asks why, when the left generally upholds the principle of empowering minority groups with the right to determine what constitutes abuse of or discrimination against its members, it singularly refuses to do so in the case of antisemitism
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In this scholarly analysis, Eva Ilouz, Directrice d'Etudes at France's École des hautes études en sciences sociales, probes the attempts of the anti-Zionist left to separate its ideas and attitudes...
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Long but important thread about what went on in the ground in Iran during the war
Why didn’t Iranians rise up during Israel’s war with the regime?🇮🇷🇮🇱 It wasn’t lack of dissent. It was control — a suppressive apparatus embedded in every layer of society. @SaeidGolkar & I expose the regime’s vast security web silencing Iranians. What the world missed🧵👇1/
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(if I wanted to channel Jonathan’s Jewish guilt I’d ask why no mensch of the week for previous articles…but that would be harsh)
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A very well deserved unholy podcast ‘mensch of the week’ for @goldman1007 who wrote this interesting piece in https://t.co/xKNaaYHy2p. Thank you to @leviyonit and @freedland
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