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 ...

Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany from 3 May 1971 to 18 October 1989, and Yasser Arafat, 10 March 1982. Photo by Rainer Mittelstädt. Wikipedia.

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

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, he ...

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, ...

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 ...

Peter Gabriel at the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards at The Brewery, London, 2007. Photo by Brian Ledgard, Wikimedia.

In April 1949, what was then the New Statesman and Nation — at the time aligned with the left of the Labour Party under the stewardship of Kingsley Martin — came out against the internationalisation ...

Ben-Dror Yemini argues that media, academia, and the Israeli and global left have committed a huge deception in hiding the fact that the Palestinians have consistently rejected every serious Israeli ...

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 ...

Ken Livingstone speaking at an Overseas Development Institute's event on local government, 11 September 2008. Photo by Antony Robbins. Flickr.

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 ...