Fathom – The Meaning of Shahd Abusalama
WEBShahd Abusalama is a Palestinian PhD student recently taken on as an assistant lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Originally from Gaza, Abusalama moved to the UK where she studied for a Masters at the School of Oriental and African Studies and then a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University. Abusalama has written about her experiences in Gaza ...
‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny Morris
WEBNov 7, 2015 · Options. In this in-depth interview, Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks with Professor Gabriel Noah Brahm about his work, his critics and his regrets. He also charges Western academics with dishonesty about the Middle East, gives his prognosis for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and outlines his view of Israel’s place in the ‘Clash of ...
Antisemitism and the University of London: Statement by David …
WEBA debate is raging at Goldsmiths, University of London after the President of the Student Union tweeted that David Hirsh – a senior lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, a Jew, a lifelong anti-racist, an expert on antisemitism, author of Contemporary Left Antisemitism, and an advisory editor of this journal – is a ‘far right white supremacist’.
Mandate100 | ‘People say I am a post-Zionist, but I am a non
WEBThe Israeli historian Tom Segev’s books One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000) and A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (2018) have attracted critical acclaim, controversy and wide readerships in equal measure. In this wide-ranging interview that kicks off Fathom’s Mandate100 series, BICOM CEO James Sorene talks to Segev about the British ...
Fathom - For a deeper understanding of Israel, the region, and …
WEBKnown to Theodor Herzl after all: The late 19th-century American and British bids to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. By Philip Earl Steele. On the 120th anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death, Fathom publishes an extract from Philip Earl Steele's recent book... Read more > July 2024.
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort: an ...
WEBSo suddenly they had to go from their villages and walk into the belly of a Hercules C-130 aircraft. One described it as like being the Prophet Jonah in the belly of a whale, others spoke of an alien craft landing. Mossad agents pictured on board a boat with tourists staying at the Arous resort. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.
Fathom – Dave Rich | ‘The Left’s Jewish problem’
WEBOct 20, 2016 · Options. Dave Rich is deputy director of communications at the Community Security Trust (CST), associate research fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, and author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism, which was reviewed in Fathom 14. Rich spoke to Fathom on 20 October about antisemitism ...
Fathom – Leon Trotsky’s Long War Against Antisemitism
WEBOptions. All his life Trotsky was a consistent fighter against antisemitism. – Joseph Nedava, Trotsky and the Jews, 1971. Of course we can close our eyes to the facts and limit ourselves to vague generalities about the equality and brotherhood of all races. But an ostrich policy will not advance us a single step ….
IHRA and JDA: Examining Definitions of Antisemitism in 2021
WEBSeeking to acquit themselves of that sin, on March 25, 2021, a group of liberal and left-leaning scholars in Jewish history, Holocaust studies and research on the Middle East, mostly in the United States, Israel, and Germany posted ‘The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.’ [Mathias Kuentzel has made this point effectively.
Fathom – The right to democracy
WEBAs the death-toll in Damascus rises, it is time for a global ‘Helsinki Accord’ to recognise the right to democracy. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights conventions should be amended to incorporate an explicit, uninhibited human right to participate in determining one’s fate through authentic multi-party elections.