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Available now: PEACEBUILDING - a
@fathomjournal
Special Issue. A groundbreaking series of articles, interviews and podcasts curated by
@ALLMEP
's
@JohnLyndon_
.
All available to read on our website:
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Unfortunately, Alan Johnson is forced to continue adding shocking examples to '"Progressives" and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide'
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NEW: Peter Beinart and Palestinian Refugee ‘Return’: A Critique, by
@Adi_Schwartz
and
@EinatWilf
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NEW: Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir by Kathleen Hayes
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Fathom spoke to
@EinatWilf
about her essay ‘Zionism as Therapy’, which seeks to correct anti-Zionism’s success in divorcing Zionism from its intellectual and historical origins.
See the full interview here:
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"Labour responded to the report this morning, and the response symbolises everything that is wrong with the party... It says 'he belongs to BICOM'. You stop and think 'a major political party has just stopped and said 'don't trust him he's a Zionist'" - Professor Alan Johnson
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How did British academia get to a point where a uni professor can put at risk his own students? In our new Long Read, David Hirsh tries to explain, as straightforwardly as possible, the meaning of David Miller & what made him possible:
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Following the exposé in the
@JewishChron
on David Miller's comments over the Manchester bomber, our long-read by David Hirsh explains who David Miller is and what he really represents in British academia:
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"Faced with this plain-as-day antisemitic Hamas pogrom how have ostensible progressives in the West responded? In many cases, by cheering on the pogrom as ‘resistance’."
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Labour is guilty of failing to understand contemporary antisemitism, failing to develop truly independent structures to tackle antisemitism, and guilty of failing to root out a culture of antisemitism denial and victim-blaming. Read Alan Johnson's op-ed
1
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Michael Walzer,
@DissentMag
: The leftist claim that the occupation and right-wing nationalism of the
#Netanyahu
government reveal
#Israel
's ‘essential character’ is an essentialist argument reserved exclusively for the Jewish state:
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10
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Catch Fathom editor Alan Johnson's take on the leaked Labour
#antisemitism
report, which in his view demonstrates the Jewish community was right about 'real and widespread' antisemitism from the beginning. Read Alan's engaging and well-argued piece here:
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Antisemites have long depicted Jews as a perverse, predatory people. It is all over the internet, influencing even prominent members of American pop culture.
Jonah Cohen examines the history of the lust libel and its role in contemporary antisemitism.
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Recommended Reading: 'A pragmatic approach to solve Iran crisis', by
@HaBahrami
in
@Jerusalem_Post
:
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"Israel was founded as & became a refuge for Jews who had survived death camps or had their entire families extinguished. Holding this fact in mind I want you to really consider how obscene it is to claim Israel is a state of ‘white settler-colonialists’."
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In our latest essay,
@Adi_Schwartz
and
@EinatWilf
explain why
@PeterBeinart
's widely read
@guardian
essay calling for
#Israel
to accept the Palestinian 'Right of Return' is dangerous for Israel and peace.
1
9
28
Former Foreign Minister
@Tzipi_Livni
talks exclusively to Fathom about
#Israel
’s achievements over 70 years and the hard choices it will face over the next 70 years.
#Israel70
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12
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Is UNRWA preventing peace by perpetuating the Palestinian refugee problem? Read
@EWilf
's article 'UNRWA: an obstacle to peace?' in
#fathomjournal
2
18
24
"I'm sick of people saying 'I've been in the Labour Party for 50 years and I've never seen antisemitism'"
@JohnMannMP
on
#LabourAntisemitism
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9
22
How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry?
The answer offered in this article is blunt: not reliable at all.
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17
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#UNRWA
an obstacle to peace? Read our piece by
@EWilf
following
#NikkiHaley
's comments on Tuesday at the
#UN
-
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NEW:
@lukeakehurst
, a member of the Labour Party's NEC takes stock, taking justified pride in the changes made while urging eternal vigilance against those remnants of contemporary left antisemitism that are now descending into conspiracism.
Read:
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11
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Editor Alan Johnson explains why the
#Apartheid
smear on
#Israel
, recently adopted by
@btselem
's Hagai El Ad in the
@guardian
is wrong, political polarising and damages both the debate here and, more importantly, the peace process there:
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13
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If the blockade is lifted, Hamas will "bring in more of the weaponry it needs in order to pursue its declared goal of destroying us". Read
@davidhorovitz
article "Hamas, the murderous neighbor that demands Israel give it the gun" in
@TimesofIsrael
here:
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15
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NEW: Fathom Opinion | Jews are asking for protection from their universities from antisemitism. David Feldman’s ‘All Lives Matter’ response is not helpful, by
@DavidHirsh
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10
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In an interview about his book, ‘Spies of No Country’,
@MattiFriedman
says the story of
#Israel
is too euro-centric. Israel has been shaped by contract with
#Islam
and Jews who have lived there for centuries. Read the full interview in
#Fathom
:
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The
#EHRCReport
on
#LabourAntisemitism
says the problem was the leadership’s ‘lack of willingness’ to tackle
#antisemitism
. But what explains that ‘lack of willingness’? Read what our editor Alan Johnson thinks is the answer:
1
6
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To mark the release of the paperback version & on why you should buy it, read our piece by
@ShirazMaher
on his book
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9
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"the IHRA working definition is not a piece of magic which can tell you what is antisemitic and what isn’t. It is a much less ambitious document than that. It does not legislate anything as antisemitic," writes David Hirsh:
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10
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In 2015
@DavidHirsh
wrote that
#Corbyn
"paints himself as the innocent victim of unjust aggression" and "avoids responding to the detail of the challenge" More relevant than ever take a look at Hirsh’s paper for
@fathomjournal
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"The idea of Hamas will remain in place as long as the Palestinian issue burns heavy in the hearts and minds of millions of Palestinians."
Gaza After Hamas | The Fathom Interview:
@gershonbaskin
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11
19
Archive: Returning Jihadis: A Generational Threat - Professor Peter Neumann speaks to Fathom
1
24
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.
@simon_schama
to understand
@OxUniLabour
student antisemitism scandal, read Alan Johnson: 'The Left and the Jews'
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13
18
“From centre-right to hard-right, from secular to Orthodox, from Jew to Arab, the Likud's ideology is the consensus in the country,” Deputy Mayor
@FleurHassanN
writes in Fathom on her choice to vote Likud on 23 March:
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10
17
‘The Nazis despised Zionism and did all they could to defeat it' -
@JeffreyHerf
on the history of antisemitism
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6
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"But both Starmer and Ellman also recognised that, as the Labour leader put it, the task of tearing ‘antisemitism out by its roots’ is not by no means complete" writes
@_LFI
Director Michael Rubin
Read his full piece:
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9
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‘Looking ahead, telling
#Israel
’s story in the 21st century will have a lot less to do with the
#Warsaw
Ghetto than it will with
#Kurdistan
and
#Aleppo
’. Read
#Fathom
’s new interview with
@MattiFriedman
on his new book, ‘Spies of No Country’:
1
7
18
In his new essay,
@DavidHirsh
reviews and rejects the arguments made by the 40 UK-based Israeli academics to reject the
#IHRA
definition.
0
7
17
A former civil servant, Anna Stanley reports on a counter-terrorism course
@KingsCollegeLon
she attended which she found a deeply, existentially depressing experience.
Read her words here:
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11
15
"If you want to abolish just one state in the world, and it happens to be the Jewish one, then that's antisemitic" - Professor Alan Johnson, speaking at the launch of his new report on
#LabourAntisemitism
1
11
16
New: Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld's critique of Seth Anziska's 'Preventing Palestine',
1
10
16
Simon Gansinger tells the story of the left-wing anti-Zionist campaign that destroyed Poland’s Jewish community
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A reminder that you still have time to register for our upcoming Fathom Annual Lecture with
@EinatWilf
on Wednesday 7 December 👇
To mark our 10th birthday, we will be holding the inaugural Fathom Annual Lecture, 'Why we should all be Zionists if we want peace', on Wednesday 7 December (18:30-20:00 GMT), with
@EinatWilf
.
RSVP here:
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"The danger of understanding terrorism with cultural relativism is that it breeds moral apathy; the kind that says ‘Who are we, mere democratic, liberal Westerners to impose our morality onto others? Who are we to say our culture is superior to others?’"
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9
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"The Jewish future underwent a paradigm shift on and after 10/7 – it is incumbent upon us to face up to that fact and find a new way forward."
@SaraHirschhorn1
for Fathom:
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NEW: Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel’s Designations by
@GeraldNGOM
@NGOmonitor
0
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Albert Memmi audaciously and innovatively grappled with questions of Jewish identity, social justice, anti-colonialism and Zionism whilst rejecting either/or polarities including national liberation versus internationalism. Read Susie Linfield in
#Fathom
:
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NEW to Fathom: Author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism,
@DavidHirsh
, asserts political antisemitism has re-entered the British mainstream, and it is not going to just disappear, especially in a Britain being remade by Brexit populism:
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5
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New: “Antisemitism, in the figure of the ‘greedy Jew’, introduces a personalisation of what are in reality supra-individual, abstract, social processes.” Karin Stögner explores intersectionality frameworks and antisemitism in her contribution to Fathom:
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NEW: UK-Israel 2021 | Ambivalent Allies? Zionism, Israel and the Conservative Party from Balfour to Boris by
@EquusontheBuses
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4
15
New to Fathom: Israel70 | A Light Unto The Nations Once More? The renaissance in Israel’s international development assistance programme by Aliza Inbal Ophelie Namiech
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4
14
NEW: The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly distorting today’s debate about Middle East peace, writes Salo Aizenberg in Fathom
0
7
14
We are at Portcullis House for the launch event of editor of
@fathomjournal
Professor Alan Johnson's new report on antisemitism in the Labour Party
5
9
14
'I think it's clear that Israel is simply not going to be permitted to win a war.'
Journalist and Middle East analyst
@jonathan_spyer
talks to Fathom about the Iranian threat and the Western response to it. WATCH:
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6
15
The final part of John Ware's Fathom series 'Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years' tackles Al Jazeera's "Agenda Broadcasting"
2
12
15
Privileged to have such a prestigious panel to launch editor of Fathom, Alan Johnson's new report on
#LabourAntisemitism
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7
13
"one of the most troubling aspects of the Corbyn years was the obsessive focus by many on the actions of Israel while wilfully neglecting the suppression of activists by both Hamas and the PA," argues Gary Kent in Fathom:
1
10
14
To mark our 10th birthday, we will be holding the inaugural Fathom Annual Lecture, 'Why we should all be Zionists if we want peace', on Wednesday 7 December (18:30-20:00 GMT), with
@EinatWilf
.
RSVP here:
0
11
15
Yair Hirschfeld: ‘While both
@SethAnziska
and I seek to achieve a two state solution, for Seth it is a simple process: end occupation and permit the
#Palestinians
to take care of their own lives. Alas, I wish this was a realistic position’.
0
7
12
Are Palestinian hopes for a 'right of return' damaging their efforts for an independent and sovereign state? Read
@RaphaelAhren
's interview with
@TimesofIsrael
on her new book "The War of Return" here:
0
7
13
In our new essay, Joshua Brook critiques
@PeterBeinart
's recent adoption of anti-Zionism and the one-state solution as another of his 'good fights'.
3
7
14
Our fifth young Israeli leaders is Hen Mazzig, Israeli writer, speaker and activist. As a Mizrahi living in Israel, Hen longs for the day that a leader of Middle Eastern descent emerges to lead the Middle Eastern country of Israel.
1
6
13
"The course’s overriding emphasis was that Islamist extremism is exaggerated. Right-wing extremism was given more weight than is proportionate. This is in direct conflict with...the latest government commissioned review of its anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent."…
0
13
14
Matthew Bolton, co-author of ‘Pitts of Corbynism: A Critical Approach’, takes aim at
#Corbyn
's favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry and explains what they get wrong about contemporary
#antisemitism
:
0
4
13
"They have to know that this time the world is serious. We have to stop allowing people to say two state solution when they only recognise one of those states."
The Fathom Interview:
@gershonbaskin
Full video:
2
10
14
#Fathom23
Highlight: ‘By equalising Zionism with fascism and Nazism, Soviet propaganda architects sought to create a visceral reaction -of a kind that didn’t depend on fact but on a deep feeling'. Read
@IzaTabaro
's excellent essay on Soviet Judeophobia:
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10
14
NEW: The IHRA: A Reply to the Guardian Letter signed by Sir Stephen Sedley et al. by
@daverich1
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8
13
"We believe that this community...will be one of the most important assets that we all have...in trying to build something much more just and equal and peaceful and secure for Israelis and Palestinians."
@Fathom_Editor
and Jack Omer-Jackaman speak with
@JohnLyndon_
@ALLMEP
1
8
14
.
@NickCohen4
to understand
@OxUniLabour
student antisemitism scandal, read Alan Johnson: 'The Left and the Jews'
4
9
12
In the second part of his three-part Fathom exclusive series ‘Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years’, renowned BBC journalist John Ware reviews Asa Winstanley’s book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.
1
9
13
"We believe that this community...will be one of the most important assets that we all have...in trying to build something much more just and equal and peaceful and secure for Israelis and Palestinians."
@Fathom_Editor
and Jack Omer-Jackaman spoke with
@JohnLyndon_
@ALLMEP
0
9
13
In our new piece, Meron Medzini reveals the story behind this israeli solider in the Suez after the
#SixDayWar
0
8
10
The
#Left
view
#Palestinians
as wholly blameless victims that lack moral responsibility and agency say
@j4mi3p
0
7
12
Excellent interview with
@Charles_Lister
who talks about the complex situation in Syria & why al-Assad has to go:
1
13
12
New to
#Fathom
: leading foreign policy expert
@Doranimated
argues that
@realDonaldTrump
’s
#MiddleEast
policy is coherent, in contrast to the ‘Iran-friendly’ approach pursued by the
#Obama
administration:
0
4
10
NEW: It was the new phenomenon of Israel-focused antisemitism that required the new definition of
#Antisemitism
@DavidHirsh
responds to a recent ‘call to reject’ the
#IHRA
0
13
13
Today is the 26th anniversary of Rabin's assassination. In 2015 we published an eBook on why Rabin still matters. It's content as relevant as ever for Israel, Palestinians and the region:
0
11
11
Must read: Editor Alan Johnson pens an open letter to the 100 artists who see Israel as an illegitimate 'settler colonial' society:
0
2
12
NEW: Is Israel a ‘Settler-Colonial’ State? A debate between Alan Johnson and Leila Farsakh
1
2
10
"They have to know that this time the world is serious. We have to stop allowing people to say two state solution when they only recognise one of those states."
The Fathom Interview:
@gershonbaskin
Full video:
1
5
12
When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism?
Cary Nelson and Michael Saenger argue for understanding antisemitic anti-Zionism as ‘a prejudice with definable characteristics’ in this fortnight's
@fathomjournal
:
4
7
12
NEW:
@ICSR_Centre
Shiraz Maher breaks down ideology of
#IS
& shows how it’s radically different to normative Islam
0
10
11
New to
#Fathom21
: ‘I had planned to own a farm but I ended up in the Israeli political zoo’: an interview with MK
@SharrenHaskel
0
10
12
Our latest essay is
@JohnStrawson
telling the little-known history of British communist support for the Jewish state in 1948:
0
5
12
MUST READ: John Lyndon from
@ALLMEP
calls on the UK to seize the moment ahead of June’s G7 to join with others to turn the bi-partisan Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA) into a Global International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace:
1
7
12
Technology is radically transforming the battlefield, revolutionising doctrines of warfighting and counter-terrorism. These changes are bringing the UK & Israeli militaries closer together. Our new essay by
@sfrantzman
looks at this deepening relationship
1
10
11
‘David Miller’s description of how the world works is a fantasy of Zionist conspiracy, says David Hirsh in his new essay in Fathom. Read Hirsh’s take on the latest controversy surrounding Miller and what it means for British academia:
1
4
11
@richard_landes
argues in
@fathomjournal
“that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls the ‘global progressive left…acts as an enriching and disseminating agent for Jihadi Jew-hatred” - the global problem of antisemitism discussed
1
9
11
"Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation is perhaps the worst book I’ve ever read."
1
7
11
"At best, the present leadership is incapable of understanding the party's antisemitism. At worst, it is an enabler of it. The leadership’s time has run out: they have to be replaced."
Editor of Fathom, Professor Alan Johnson's verdict after
#BBCpanorama
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6
10
Professor David Miller refutes the common principle, derived from identity politics, that the people best qualified to judge when there has antisemitism are the victims of those aggressions themselves:
1
4
9
NEW: Don’t believe the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable
@GileadSher
1
16
10
In their new book,
@EinatWilf
and
@Adi_Schwartz
explain how 1948 has seared into the Palestinian national psyche as a means to exact their revenge on a people they considered loathsome and inferior:
1
4
8
New:
@_LFI
Director Michael Rubin reflects on his experience at the Labour Party Conference and the implications for the party's foreign policy towards Israel and the Two State Solution
5
11
11
The US budget bill includes $50m for the 2nd year of
#MEPPA
, supporting Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding. Read
@JohnLyndon_
into the importance of this initiative and why it should be turned into a Global International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace:
0
4
11
'There are hundreds of thousands of Yazidis still in IDP camps in northern Iraq and no one is helping them return to their homes.' Read
@sfrantzman
's take on why peace has not arrived in Iraq despite the defeat of ISIS:
0
9
11