On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice - Fathom
‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What could this possibly mean? As a matter of geography, it is obviously incorrect — Palestine is not everywhere; it is in the southern Levant. But I sensed (correctly) that the slogan was not a …
Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria
Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program on Channel 12, and one of the few Israelis to have traveled to Syria, where he visited five times between 2012-2019.
Fathom – The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, …
Lesley Klaff is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is, in the words of the late Manfred Gerstenfeld, ‘the portrayal of Israel, Israelis and Jews as modern-day Nazis, and Palestinians as the new Holocaust-era Jews.’ There is much very good ...
Fathom – TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Noga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same title, set in the Jerusalem of the 1920s and 1940s. She finds a ‘jousting between frivolous liberating modernity and rigid traditions of cultural convention’ that takes the viewer back to ‘a time and a place where every single aspect of life ...
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and ...
How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this article is blunt: not reliable at all. The authors are Tom Simpson, a generalist economis...
‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and ... - Fathom
In 2022 book-lovers celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, which tracks the peripatetic wanderings of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on 16 June 1904. Each year on that day ‘Bloomsday’ is celebrated by lovers of the novel. This year, Fathom is delighted to publish an essay by (Israeli-Canadian) Noga Emanuel that looks more closely at the ...
Rejecting IHRA: The Avoidable Debacle at the University of Toronto
David Matas is an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg. The author of several books, he is also co-author of the book Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs.Aurel Braun is a professor of political science and international relations at …
Fathom – Book Review | Bibi, My Story
The memoirs of politicians and public figures, it has been claimed, are among the most popular form of historical literature, although as the autobiography is both personal and political, one is – or should be – aware that he or she could reading a mixture of fiction and wishful-thinking.
Christians and the reconciliation route to resolving the Arab-Israeli ...
A few months ago, Presbyterians for Middle East Peace (PFMEP) published Peace And Faith: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a new interfaith collection coedited by Cary Nelson and Michael C. Gizzi, himself a long-time activist in PFMEP. It tracks debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in contemporary Christian churches, to analyse the …
‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide - Fathom
U is for Professor Usama Makdisi of Berkeley who retweeted ‘The Palestinians keep showing new forms of creative resistance & resilience’ on 7 October.(Slaughtering over 250 people at a music festival is indeed ‘new’.) And for The United States Council of Muslim Organisations (USCMO) which issued a statement reiterating its support for Palestinians, failed to …