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Historian Andrew Apostolou argues that despite its justified fear over antisemitism, American Jewry must not be seduced by President Trump’s apparent commitment to fight Jew-hatred. Such promises, h ...
In the March 2020 elections Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party was shunned by other right wingers and managed 0.42 per cent of the total votes. Vetoing him was so self-evident, Naftali Bennett wro ...
‘ There are few greater injustices than to say about something that happened, that it did not happen’ wrote the late Norman Geras. Lyn Julius has established herself as a leading voice, at once ...
In recent days the US polemicist Norman Finkelstein has injected a crude claim into the debate about antisemitism in the UK Labour Party: ‘the brouhaha is a calculated hoax — dare it be said, plot?’ ...
Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...
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 ...
In this scholarly analysis, Eva Ilouz, Directrice d’Etudes at France’s École des hautes études en sciences sociales, probes the attempts of the anti-Zionist left to separate its ideas and attitudes ...
David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He examines the denialism of Ronnie Kasrils, a former minister in South Africa’s African National Cong ...
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 ...
Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi antisemitism on the development of Islamic antisemitism and the Arab ...
A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...
Jeffrey Herf, author of the award winning book ‘Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust’, and Professor of History at the University of Maryland, examines the historical ...