Albert Memmi, who died recently, was a Jew, an Arab, a Zionist, an anti-colonialist, a secularist, a socialist, a nationalist, and a universalist. Whitman’s expression ‘I contain multitudes’ might ...

Michael Yudkin is an emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915, and one of its first acts was to ...

Supporting feminist causes in Israel has been a major focus of my professional work for more than 15 years as a founder and Executive Director of the Dafna Fund, Israel’s first and only feminist fund ...

Mosab Abu Toha’s recent volume of poetry, Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024), has excited much complimentary attention as a representative voice from Gaza’s destroyed streets. It has inspired immoderate ...

Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust argues that while IS has the support of only small minorities amongst Muslim populations in the Middle East and Europe, it has a clear political genealogy ...

Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief of Haaretz newspaper spoke to Fathom Editor Alan Johnson about the politics and the personality of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Alan Johnson: Benjamin ...

Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...

Palestinians enjoy the sea in Gaza City, on a hot summer day, on 8 September 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 ...

Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in ...

In early April, deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with Haaretz’s intelligence and security correspondent Yossi Melman and spoke about Israeli security ...

Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to assess what has been achieved in the 40 years since its signing. Susser also ...

One of the best-known antisemitic slogans of the August 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has come to be ‘Jews will not replace us’. But this is not where ...