Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Lord Caradon (UK) and Arthur J. Goldberg (US), attending the UN Security Council meeting on 7 June 1967. UN photo by Teddy Chen.

Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to reframe the Israel-Diaspora relationship through support for liberal forces in ...

Since 2000 the city of Sderot has been a target of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. British academic Dr Alan Craig visited its Media Centre and heard a message of civilian suffering and ...

Kathleen Hayes invites the ‘anti-Zionist’ Left to think again. For 25 years, I was a member of a small, insular, Trotskyist organisation. Periodically during some febrile internal dispute, our Great ...

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep concern about its failure to deal appropriately with a formal complaint against Dr. Lara Sheehi, ...

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 ...

Oren Kessler’s new book Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) argues powerfully that events in Mandatory Palestine between 1936 and ...

Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements and Gil Troy on Zionism. Here, Dave Rich recommends his three ...

Jean Améry is best known as the author of At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities. Less well known are Améry’s writings from the 1960s and 1970s in which he ...

Russell Shalev argues that human rights movements cannot adequately address anti-Jewish discrimination, harassment or violence without recognising the mutual connection between Judaism and Zionism, ...

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 ...

Ronnie Fraser was working in the Israel State archives when he came across a lengthy and confidential document in English (partly reproduced below) describing a meeting that took place on 29 January ...