Marina Barats is a recent MA International Political Economy graduate from King’s College London . Background. President Joe Biden hoped to build on President Trump’s legacy by expanding the Abraham ...

Sam Shube critiques French President Macron’s recent foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Attempts to kickstart two state negotiations, Shube argues, are both doomed to failure and dangerous, ...

The members of the Royal Commission photographed in the garden of the King David Hotel immediately after their first official sitting, 11 November 1936. Third left is Lord Peel, chairman of the ...

S. Yizhar ignored the fact that Jabotinsky wrote about the Arabs in Palestine – and said that all the citizens of the future Jewish state will have equal rights, regardless of their religion, gender ...

Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom, He writes here in a personal capacity. Against the Tyranny of the Majority. In his wonderful little book Liberalism and Democracy (1988), in a chapter titled ‘The ...

One glaring omission from this essay is the Phased Plan. For background, the Phased Plan was developed during the 1970s by the PLO, which declared that their strategy would be to get what they can get ...

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. For many years he was the co-editor of Dissent magazine. He responds here to Cary ...

Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books about a subject. Here, Matthew Bolton recommends three on critical theory and antisemitism. A much longer piece than the norm, the ...

Ali Abu Awwad is a leading Palestinian activist and the founder of Roots – an Israeli-Palestinian project in the West Bank that works for co-existence by changing peoples’ narratives and by ...

Alan Johnson, editor of Fathom and author of our 2019 Report Institutionally Antisemitic Contemporary Left Antisemitism and the Crisis in the British Labour Party says it is right that Corbyn has been ...

‘I swam in a sea of antisemitism for years and didn’t notice the water was filthy,’ writes Kathleen Hayes in a memoir of her life in the revolutionary left. The beliefs that give our lives meaning are ...

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 ...