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Book Review| The CIA War in Kurdistan: The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War
Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...
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The ‘Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’: A New Stage in the Degradation of the American University
New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...
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Book Review | War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist, has spent years researching and writing this account of dramatic events in North Africa in the early stages of World War Two as German armies led by ...
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Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort: an interview with Raffi Berg
Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.
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‘Ars Poetica was the explosion of me writing poetry’: an interview with Adi Keissar
Photo by Leeor Ohayon taken at Adi Keissar home in Israel in 2015: https://www.leeorohayon.com/.
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Rereading Past Continuous: Revisiting Yaakov Shabtai’s ‘Revolution’ in Hebrew Prose
Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in ...
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‘Daddy, Daddy, God, why am I alive?’ | A harrowing report from a journalist who watched raw footage of the Hamas Pogrom of 7 October
Suzan Quitaz was among the international journalists invited to watch the raw footage of the atrocities committed by Hamas during the 7 October Pogrom. She reports here on what she saw. ‘I never in my ...
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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 the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...
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‘Israel Is Living On Borrowed Time’: Yossi Melman on Security Threats and Social Divisions
In early April, deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with Haaretz’s intelligence and security correspondent Yossi Melman and spoke about Israeli security ...
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Creating a Jewish Consciousness: Lessons from Black Consciousness as a Framework for Empowerment
Charles Asher Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Antisemitic notions of Judaism and Jewish identity have often been shaped—and ...
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Iran under President Raisi: What should the region and the West expect? | An interview with Henry Rome
On 13 July, Fathom’s deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with the Eurasia Group’s Henry Rome to discuss the state of play in the nuclear talks between the US and Iran in Vienna and to assess what ...
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‘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 grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...