Representing the Trial: Judith Butler Reads Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann Judith Butler is one of the world’s most influential academics and public intellectuals and a leading supporter of the BDS… Read more > ‘We can have a debate about whether Hamas did the right thing’: Judith Butler’s Moral Relativism Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson.   When Judith Butler expressed something approximating… Read more > Archive | Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the Anti-Zionist Subject (2015) Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. He published this chapter in 2015 in The Case Against… Read more > Book Review: Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism The cultural theorist Judith Butler has written what she intends as a critique of Zionism derived from Jewish sources. Her… Read more > Primo Levi and Israel Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Irving M. Glazer Chair in… Read more > The Corbyn left: the politics of position and the politics of reason Abstract This paper is about a preference within contemporary left-wing culture for defining opponents as not belonging rather than seeking… Read more > Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Time (1) | ‘Punch a Terf’ and ‘Smash the Zionists’: Misogyny and Antisemitism in the Contemporary Western Left Series Introduction: Huge waves of intellectual change are sweeping the Western world at an astonishing speed. Liberal democratic societies are… Read more > The Re-emergence of the Jewish Question The Jewish communities of Europe and the US increasingly find themselves caught between the rising forces of the far right… Read more > Philosophers For Hamas! A leading European philosopher has declared for killing ‘Zionists’ and arming Hamas. Gabriel Brahm asks what it all means. The Haaretz headline… Read more > Book Review | Marxist Perspectives on Palestine/Israel ‘A totalising perspective that can grasp the [Israeli] violence as an expression of the capitalist world... an analysis [which] has… Read more > From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn’t Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College… Read more > A Response to The Jewish Chronicle’s review of ‘Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays’ (Routledge, 2023) David Hirsh and I have been reading, researching, writing and politically organising to counter left antisemitism for around half a… Read more > The Philosophy behind ‘BDS’: a review of ‘Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics’ What is one to make of a volume of specialised essays in contemporary philosophy – a compilation including some of… Read more > Fathom Long Read | Accommodating the New Antisemitism: a Critique of ‘The Jerusalem Declaration’ Download and print a PDF version here.  In this comprehensive critique Cary Nelson argues that the recent ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ on… Read more > Book Review | The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel The editors deserve major kudos for having compiled an impressive anthology featuring contributions in opposition to the deeply sordid, yet… Read more > Opinion | After the Hamas Pogrom, we can see what American Universities have become Gabriel Noah Brahm is Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University and Visiting Researcher in the Department… Read more > Book Review | Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State This is a horrifying book. Not because it's a bad book – on the contrary, Cary Nelson has written a… Read more > Book Review | Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel 700 British artists have announced that they are boycotting Israel until the ‘colonial oppression of Palestinians’ ends. In an open… Read more > The Modern Language Association, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism  The MLA Executive Council have hit a new low by acting in secret, without notice and without membership approval, to… Read more > Opinion | I am a Zionist because I am a leftist, not in spite of that commitment Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Zionism, Israel and Anglo-Jewry’s Identity, 1948-1982 (Vallentine Mitchell,… Read more > Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred In this bracing polemic, the US academic Richard Landes argues that the demonising anti-Zionism of what he calls the ‘global… Read more > ‘Reactionary Anti-Imperialism’ as the new Totalitarian Temptation, from Foucault to 7 October Karl-Markus Gauß is editor in chief of the literary magazine Literatur und Kritik. This article first appeared in the Austrian… Read more > Zionism and the Left: an interview with Susie Linfield Susie Linfield is the author of The Lions' Den. Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky, published… Read more > The ‘Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’: A New Stage in the Degradation of the American University The members of the Alliance for Academic Freedom Executive Committee – Cary Nelson (Chair), Susana Cavallo, David Greenberg, Rebecca Lesses,… Read more > Once Again on the Jerusalem Declaration: A Rejoinder to Derek Penslar and Michael Walzer Cary Nelson’s responds to replies by Derek Penslar and Michael Walzer to his Fathom article ‘Accommodating the New Antisemitism: A… Read more > Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the Crisis: (1) IfNotNow and The Dyke March Controversy IfNotNow’s support for barring the Jewish Pride flag from the Dyke March was another example of its failure to distinguish… Read more > The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink A shorter version of this talk was delivered as a contribution to a panel discussion on ‘The Left and Jews… Read more > Universities in Crisis | ‘We need to reckon with how horrific liberation can be’: How Lara Sheehi Rationalised the Hamas Pogrom Cary Nelson argues that Lara Sheehi’s comments over recent weeks have provided a roadmap for rationalising the nightmare events of… Read more > Israel and the Left: Three Studies of the Crisis: (3) Israel Denial and the University A system is now in place to grant inaccurate and exaggerated ‘anti-Zionist’ claims credibility by giving them a university press… Read more > An Open Letter from Jewish Scholars about Today’s Intellectual Environment A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern 'about the current ideological environment in… Read more > Israel’s Jane Austen: Irit Linur’s all too normal Israel In 2002 the Israeli novelist Irit Linur wrote an open letter to the editor of Haaretz announcing that she had… Read more > ‘Progressives’ and the Hamas Pogrom: An A-Z Guide Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom… Read more > Communists for the Jewish State: British Communists and the Daily Worker in 1948 'The British Mandate in Palestine is now ended and the Jewish State of Israel has been proclaimed … this news… Read more > The Collective Impact Forum and Arab Employment: an interview with Yifat Ovadia Yifat Ovadia established the Collective Impact Forum (CIF) to increase the employment of the Arab population in Israel’s private sector… Read more > Open letter to The George Washington University regarding allegations of antisemitism Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep concern about its failure to… Read more > A Call to Faculty Unions to Restore Civility and Respect for the Jewish People on Canadian Campuses This call is authored by the Steering Committee for the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics. Inspired by the success of the… Read more > IsraelVotes2019 | The country where the centre can hold Pinchas Landau argues that the emergence of the new centrist party ‘Blue and White’ as the main rival to Netanyahu’s… Read more > From Stephen De Wijze to Matthew Levitt, Fathom writers share their favourite books and films (Week 3) Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. Earlier… Read more > Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor, Deputy Editor of Fathom Calev Ben-Dor reflects from Jerusalem on a week that has left Israel ‘on the edge of the abyss’ according to… Read more > The IHRA Definition, Institutional Antisemitism, and Wittgenstein In the wake of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a variety of complaints have been… Read more >