Fathom Journal

"IT'S RADICALLY UNFAIR": Michael Walzer on the 'genocide' charge against Israel. 📺 WATCH 👉 Part of 'Are Israel's Wars Just? An interview with Michael Walzer' available here: fathomjournal.org/the-wars-in-le…

Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria Itai Anghel speaks to Calev Ben-Dor about the Assad regime's collapse, the blow to the Iranian sponsored regional axis, and Israel’s opportunity to ally with the Kurds. WATCH/LISTEN 📺: fathomjournal.org/fathom-intervi…

My @fathomjournal journal article is still “most read”, no doubt in part due to the unfortunate rhetoric still coming out of Ireland. fathomjournal.org/anti-zionism-h…

‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed... on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ Oliver Sears writes, ‘those same politicians will not stand up publicly now to denounce the explosion of antisemitic rhetoric that has spilled into the public arena’ 👇 fathomjournal.org/anti-zionism-h…

My latest for @fathomjournal. Why Israeli right-wingers ecstatic about Trump will probably end up very disappointed - and why Trump-critics (like me) may well have cause to eat our words. fathomjournal.org/donald-trump-2…

Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria Itai Anghel speaks to Deputy Ed @CalevBenDor about the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, the blow to the Iranian sponsored regional axis, and Israel’s opportunity to ally with the Kurds👇 fathomjournal.org/fathom-intervi…

Here are the 6 new articles and interviews in this fortnight's @fathomjournal. It's our final issue of 2024 and my final issue, period. I am retiring at year's end after founding the journal 12 years ago and serving as editor since. Read 'em here fathomjournal.org

🗓 From the Archives: Aziz Abu Sarah is a National Geographic Explorer and Cultural Educator. A Palestinian from Jerusalem, Aziz has pioneered and managed many projects in conflict resolution and community relations. He spoke to @Fathom_Editor fathomjournal.org/for-peace-we-n…

🧵The crazies don't want you to know that the pro-Israel journal I edit @fathomjournal publishes and interviews Palestinian writers and activists as well as radical left Israelis. It doesn't fit their demonising frame-up. But for the record, a thread 1/ fathomjournal.org/for-peace-we-n…

"The attacks aren’t directed at ‘Jews’, but rather at Israel and Zionists... And if the vast majority of Jews are Zionists, well then that’s a voluntary abdication of victimhood throne." Andres Spokoiny writes for Fathom: fathomjournal.org/no-more-heroes…

🗓️ From the Archives: John Ware has investigated how the alt-media has helped fuel ‘Atrocity Denialism’ and the journalistic scruples – or the lack of them – that these outlets have deployed in making their case. 👇 fathomjournal.org/7-october-and-…

The Three Best Chapters on Holocaust Inversion, as recommended by Lesley Klaff 📖 🔍 💭 fathomjournal.org/the-three-best…

🦋 We're on BlueSky! Follow us on the new social media network as we seek to provide expert analysis, informed opinion, and genuine debate about Israel and the region. 🇮🇱 bsky.app/profile/fathom…

'Holocaust inversion' is the portrayal of Israel, Israelis and Jews as modern-day Nazis, and Palestinians as the new Holocaust-era Jews. @KlaffLesley introduces 3 of the best sources on the subject in @fathomjournal. @DavidHirsh @centre_as @daverich1 fathomjournal.org/the-three-best…

Our Weekly Suggested Reading 📚 ➡️At @INSSIsrael, Nitsan Yasur and @citrinowicz analyse ‘Iranian Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference During the Swords of Iron War’. ➡️At @Israel_Alma_org, Boaz Shapira reports on the ‘Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC-ASF)’. ➡️@palwatch explains why the headline to a recent BBC report is misleading. ➡️At @jerusalemcenter, @ShorrTirza discusses ‘UNRWA’s “Palestine Refugee” Hoax’. ➡️@terrorisminfo reports on ‘Antisemitism in the Arab-Muslim World during the Gaza Strip War’. ➡️At @fathomjournal, @Fathom_Editor sits down with Balázs Berkovits to discuss ‘“Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Demonisation of Israel’.

Balázs Berkovits in @fathomjournal: Academic 'Whiteness Studies' denies contemporary antisemitism by ideological fiat, granting it no place in the related meta-theory of ‘intersectionality’. @hopenothate @lowles_nick @Searchlight_mag fathomjournal.org/fathoming-the-…

Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki in @fathomjournal on how antisemitism, past and present, involves the psychological dynamic of projection. 1 "As the Frankfurt School among other scholars have convincingly argued antisemitism is a projection. Far-left/Islamist anti-Zionism and far-right antisemitism share the same dynamic: they project what they think is evil onto ‘Global Zionism’ or ‘the Jews’ and claim therefore that the destruction of the Jews or the Zionist entity/Israel is a key measure for ‘redemption’ or ‘justice’." 2 This is why their projections look different but function in the same way. ➡️In the 1930s the far right projected everything they detested onto the Jews as a race: cowardice, greed, pollution etc and sought to destroy Jewish men women and children across Europe as well as the Jewish community in Palestine (yes the Nazis were anti-Zionist too). ➡️Today the far-left projects everything they hate onto the Jewish state: colonialism, capitalist exploitation, incarceration etc., and call for the destruction of Israel. ➡️Islamist antisemitism is likewise a projection of what Islamists hate the most heresy, godlessness, etc. Their solution: the destruction of Israel and Judaism. 3 In each case the projection is obvious for two simple reasons: (i) its claims are contradicted by reality and (ii) the destruction of the Jews or Israel, as discussed above, can’t deliver on its redemptive promises precisely because they are baseless ... the thesis that Zionism is the source of global evil [i]s nothing more than antisemitic lies." @antisemitism @centre_as @TheFP @mishtal fathomjournal.org/anti-zionism-i…

"The Message, a rendition that casts history as a grotesquely distorted—often-intertwined—cascading series of dancing Rorschach-like shadows on a wall." Barry Finger writes about Ta-Nehisi Coates's new book for Fathom. Read here: fathomjournal.org/the-incurious-…

Matthias J. Becker presents some results of deeply worrying primary research into online reactions in Europe to the events of 7 October. ‘The massive antisemitic violence of 7 October was frequently met with direct affirmation, justification, relativisation, or even denial in online comments,’ he writes, while ‘in response to Israel’s subsequent military actions, classic or updated stereotypes and demonising analogies were added’. fathomjournal.org/antisemitism-o…

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 4: ‘The only agreement Barak could go for [end of conflict], Arafat could not sign, and the agreement Arafat could sign [interim], Barak could not pursue’: A conversation with Gidi Grinstein. WATCH: fathomjournal.org/those-who-trie…