A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...

This preface begins with a consideration of the common political heritage, in Trotskyism, of the editor and creator of Fathom ...

There are no experts on Jerusalem. The city is too complex, its history too long, too shrouded in the mists of time, and its conquerors almost too numerous to count. It’s a city that thrives on its ...

Each fortnight Fathom writers have been recommending Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This fortnight, the selections of Gil Troy, Shany Mor, Paul Gross ...

Professor Alan Johnson conceived and founded Fathom in 2012 to make a balanced and expert case for rejecting the demonising ...

Families of civilians abducted by Hamas hold a press conference in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan, 8 October 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90 ...

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 ...

Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh marching at the JNF Chicago protest, October 2015. Photo by Cody O'Rourke, Facebook.

Photo by Alex Chis via Flickr. Used under licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...

Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Creative Commons licence.

David Feldman and others have argued against the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism by universities on the grounds that the 2010 Equality Act and university harassment codes render it ...

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 ...