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. The authors are Tom Simpson, a generalist ...

Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, he asks, do we honour and preserve history, in the 21st century? Yom ...

Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...

William Blackstone - From the archives of Prof. Paul Rood: used with permission ...

This paper by Koby Huberman reflects his ongoing dialogue with Israeli, Palestinian, and regional experts. Huberman identifies current regional trends, presents worrying scenarios for Israel’s ...

Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, novelist, screenwriter, political ...

Philip Mendes examines the conclusions of an inquiry held by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, detailing four principal manifestations of Antisemitism in Australian ...

Ronnie Fraser was working in the Israel State archives when he came across a lengthy and confidential document in English (partly reproduced below) describing a meeting that took place on 29 January ...

David Lloyd George, 1917. National Portrait Gallery, Creative Commons.

Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements and Gil Troy on Zionism. Here, Dave Rich recommends his three fav ...

1920 anti-bolshevik propaganda poster from Poland. The text reads "Strike the Bolshevik".

In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through the thinking of Constantin Zureiq and Fayez Sayegh – both academics and diplomats – ...