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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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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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A filmmaker, a feminist, an Israeli, a Bedouin, a Palestinian. A conversation with Rana Abu Fraiha
Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...
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Beyond Liberal Peacemaking: New Initiatives in Israel
The 'Women Wage Peace' movement take part in a march in support of peace in Jerusalem, 19 October 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush, Flash90.
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Book Review | Challenging the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Twenty Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns
This collection of essays prepared by Ronnie and Lola Fraser, veteran British anti-BDS activists, assesses how friends of Israel have responded over two decades to efforts by the international boycott ...
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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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Al-Wasatia: Reviving the Palestinian Peace Camp | an interview with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi
Samuel Nurding: Why did you create the Wasatia Initiative and what does the term mean? Mohammed S. Dajani-Daoudi: On a Friday morning during the month of Ramadan back in late 2006 I was standing on ...
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Yet again, the Courts find for John Ware and his BBC Panorama documentary ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’
Documentary maker John Ware explains why he has brought three successful court cases against those who he believed had defamed him and the BBC Panorama programme he made about antisemitism in Corbyn’s ...
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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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Rasmea Odeh: How an unrepentant Palestinian terrorist became a political hero of the anti-Zionist left
Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh marching at the JNF Chicago protest, October 2015. Photo by Cody O'Rourke, Facebook.
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Israel, Ukraine and the Right Side of History
Dahlia Scheindlin, writing from Tel Aviv on 15 March, critically assesses the three reasons the Israeli government has given for its neutrality in the war between Russian and Ukraine Within the first ...
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Justifying Israel: An interview with Chaim Gans
From the cover of Chaim Gans's book 'A Political Theory for the Jewish People' (Oxford University Press, 2016).