Karen E. H. Skinazi discusses the renaissance and new wave of Sephardic culture in the UK and reflects on Birmingham Jewish ...

Focusing on the example of football and his new book, Digging Deep: Unearthing the Stories of Eleven Murdered Jewish Footballing Greats, David Bolchover argues that much Holocaust memorialisation ...

This paper by Koby Huberman reflects his ongoing dialogue with Israeli, Palestinian, and regional experts. Huberman identifies current regional trends, presents worrying scenarios for Israel’s ...

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 ...

Author and journalist James Bloodworth argues that the Manosphere, the online collection of male supremacists and misogynists that target women, rests upon the older bigotry of antisemitism. When one ...

In early June 2026, Fathom editors Calev Ben-Dor and Andrew Apostolou spoke to Elliott Abrams. Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and has previously ...

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Mr. Viktor Orban seen at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on the last day of his 2-day official state visit in Israel. July 20, 2018.

In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through the thinking of Constantin Zureiq and Fayez Sayegh – both academics and diplomats – ...

Dastan Jasim offers a powerful and forthright essay on her experiences – as a female Kurdish academic researching the Middle East – of white feminist approaches to the region. Jasim, a Fellow for the ...

Joanne Strasser examines why discussions about antisemitism are so fraught. She argues that three factors prevent an actual exchange of views about facts: people confuse what is the case, what social ...

Hajj Amin al-Husseini and the Waffen SS. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-041-50 / Mielke / CC-BY-SA 3.0 ...

Israeli author Yishai Sarid writes about what he terms Israel’s psychology and the Israeli mind. Liam Hoare speaks to Sarid to discuss his books, writing in general, and Israeli society after October ...