There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...

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 ...

Dave Rich’s book on that thorniest of subjects, anti-Semitism, has already received many plaudits including glowing testimonials from several Anglo-Jewish luminaries. It does indeed merit much praise, ...

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‘Palestine is everywhere’ proclaimed a window-sign I saw on a recent visit to Brooklyn. What could this possibly mean? As a matter of geography, it is obviously incorrect — Palestine is not everywhere ...

Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...

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 ...

Hajj Amin al-Husseini and the Waffen SS. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-041-50 / Mielke / CC-BY-SA 3.0 ...

Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara Hirschhorn on settlements. Here, Gil Troy discusses three books on Zionism. There are many ...

Book covers of The Tunnel and The Memory Monster.

Yisrael Medad spent many hours with the poet and Revisionist Zionist Uri Tzvi Greenberg (1896-1981) at Greenberg’s Ramat Gan home in the decade prior to his death. ‘He prayed wrapped in tallit and ...

Neil Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at University College London (UCL). He has served as an advisor to political and economic leaders from both ...