President Reagan in a staff briefing with Paul Nitze, Donald Regan, George Shultz, Ken Adelman, John Poindexter, Richard Perle (hand in pocket) and Max Kampelman in Hofdi House during the Reykjavik ...
James Joyce bust, Kielce, Poland. Photo: Staszek Szybki Jest / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original.
Before the revolution, before the coups, before the wars, there was a law. In the early twentieth century, Alexandria and Cairo were Egyptian cities that did not yet know they were temporary. If you ...
Calev Ben-Dor (CB-D): Your new book Spies of No Country tells the story of four young Jewish men from the Arab world who form the beginnings of Israel’s spy network. What drove you to focus on this?
In June 2026, Fathom published a paper by Koby Huberman that identified current regional trends, and presented worrying scenarios for Israel’s national security. In this essay, Bahraini writer and ...
Qasem Soleimani’s ‘ring of fire’ strategic concept envisioned surrounding Israel with IRGC units—in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen—that are steadily equipped with better and better missiles to ...
Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly distraction for all people everywhere today. ‘We simply do not have time to lose with such a pointless ...
BICOM and Fathom have published a new research report, A future for Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding. It has been written by Ned Lazarus, visiting Professor at George Washington University and before ...
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 ...
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 ...
The impact of George Eliot’s 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was central to the coalescence of the first Zionist movement, Hovevei Zion, in the early 1880s. Later, pioneer Zionist Nahum Sokolow wrote: ‘ ...