Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, ...

Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.

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 ...

Something extremely strange happened last week. Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organisation in the United States, endorsed the idea that there is a particular ethnic group ...

Meredith Rothbart is co-founder and CEO of Amal-Tikva. Here, she argues for a new paradigm in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, one in which the relationship between track one dialogue and civil ...

In his autobiography, Chaim Weizmann commented that Theodor Herzl was ‘not of the people’ despite being an inspiring leader and brilliant organiser. The author of this interesting book, the eminent ...

Writing from Jerusalem, Fathom editor Calev Ben-Dor examines the trends that have brought Israel to its current domestic crisis and expresses his fear that – unlike in March 2023 – public pressure may ...

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.

Former Chief of Staff Chaim Bar-Lev consults with a bandaged Major General Ariel Sharon during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. GPO / Flash 90.

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 ...