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Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, ...
Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.
Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.
In this impassioned opinion piece, Syrian-Lebanese peace activist Rawan Osman reflects on her journey from the antisemitism and unconditional anti-Israelism of her upbringing to her present ...
Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine as ideological as well as political. Bermant criticises what he ...
Joe Lockard argues that while there is a culture war underway in US higher education, one that contests vital DEI initiatives and racial and gender justice, the AAUP wants to fight the Gaza war, a ...
Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of Assad. The large number of Syrian families on the flight from Istanbul surely reflected the Turkish ...
Lesley Klaff is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is, in the words of the late Manfred Gerstenfeld, ‘the portrayal of Israel, Israelis and Jews as modern ...
In this Fathom Long Read, Daniel Szeftel traces the evolution of the settler colonial charge against Zionism through the thinking of Constantin Zureiq and Fayez Sayegh – both academics and diplomats – ...
The Abraham Accords are not simply a series of normalisation agreements between Muslim countries and Israel, motivated by a shared enemy or political dividends writes Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki. Instead ...
This is a very important book. Over the last decade or so, a sweeping ideology that looks much like a new religion has gained tremendous influence over Western governmental, educational, professional ...
Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this ...