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Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, ...
Stephen de Wijze is senior lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Manchester and the co-editor with Thomas Nys of The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Evil. So much has been ...
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 ...
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that President Biden’s Middle East policy reflects the tension between his understanding that the region has gone through dramatic changes during the Trump years that give the ...
In this forceful opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman argues for rejecting and opposing President Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’ as an unvarnished attempt at ethnic cleansing and dispossession and as ...
Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.
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 ...
Strand Building, King's College London. Photo by Shadowssettle via Wikimedia. Licence accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.
Michael Harrington was America’s most eloquent voice for democratic socialism for decades. His great passion: to create a society that is both economically and politically democratic – a society freed ...
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 ...
Arthur Henderson, who served as a member of the small War Cabinet with the post of Minister without Portfolio until August 1917.