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Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State: ...

Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really be ‘the mother of Judeophobia’? Steele is the author of several ...

Alexandra Fishman and Max Samarov take issue with what they see as ‘leading’ questions used in a recent and much-publicised opinion poll about US attitudes to Israel’s future. The editors have invited ...

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

On 13 July, Fathom’s deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with the Eurasia Group’s Henry Rome to discuss the state of play in the nuclear talks between the US and Iran in Vienna and to assess what ...

Netta Geist is a former Parliamentary Advisor to MK Stav Shaffir. She holds an MA in Public Policy from Oxford and has worked in both national and local government as a policy advisor. For many years, ...

Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World (Polity Books, June 2024). The past 6 months have been an ongoing nightmare for Israelis, ...

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 ...

Gen. Sir Nick Carter (left) is greeted by IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi in Israel, April 2019. Photo by: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this ...