The 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 ...

Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.

In the second episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Ambassador Dennis Ross recalls his time as a negotiator at the very heart of the process which ...

Back in 2022, journalist and author Lihi Lapid signed what Haaretz described at the time as an ‘exceptional’ book deal for an Israeli writer. Harper Via won the right to translate and publish her ...

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

In early June 2026, Fathom editors Calev Ben-Dor and Andrew Apostolou spoke to Elliott Abrams. Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and has previously ...

This major Fathom report finds the Labour Party is now ‘institutionally antisemitic’ as the term is defined in the Macpherson Report: ‘the collective failure of an organisation to provide an ...

Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ he writes, ‘But those same politicians will not ...

Michael Harrington was America’s most eloquent voice for democratic socialism for decades. His great passion: to create a society that is both economically and politically democratic – a society freed ...

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 – ...

David Seymour offers a critical reading of ‘Facing Antisemitism: The Struggle for Safety and Solidarity’, a recent report on antisemitism from the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading anti-racist think ...

This year’s campaign has been all about Netanyahu (‘Bibi’ to his friends and detractors alike). In many ways, Israel has developed a love-hate relationship with him during his cumulative 13 years in ...