Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...

Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David Grossman is Israel’s foremost living writer. Often lumped together in the Western ...

In this forceful opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman argues for rejecting and opposing President Trump’s ‘Gaza ...

Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of Assad. There was something ...

Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression ...

Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.

Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...

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, ...

Strasbourg, January 2011. Members of the European Parliament condemn violence against Christians in the Middle East. PE-EP / Pietro Naj-Oleari.

Strand Building, King's College London. Photo by Shadowssettle via Wikimedia. Licence accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.

Toby Greene is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, and former deputy-editor of Fathom. His publications include: ‘The Israelization of British Jewry‘ (with Yossi Shain). We invite ...