The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World ... - Fathom
Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi antisemitism on the development of Islamic antisemitism and the Arab world’s 1948 war against the Jewish State. Here, he introduces the book’s central discoveries and arguments.
'There is a clash of civilisations': An interview with Benny ...
Nov 7, 2015 · Options. In this in-depth interview, Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks with Professor Gabriel Noah Brahm about his work, his critics and his regrets. He also charges Western academics with dishonesty about the Middle East, gives his prognosis for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and outlines his view of Israel’s place in the ‘Clash of ...
1967 | How Nasser's vendetta against America led to the ... - Fathom
May 23, 2017 · For 50 years historians have debated the question of what motivated Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s disastrous drift towards a humiliating defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967. Gabriel Glickman argues that the archives suggest we have underestimated the pivotal role of Nasser’s vendetta against America in driving Nasser’s ...
Fathom – TV Review: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Noga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same title, set in the Jerusalem of the 1920s and 1940s. She finds a ‘jousting between frivolous liberating modernity and rigid traditions of cultural convention’ that takes the viewer back to ‘a time and a place where every single aspect of life ...
IHRA and JDA: Examining Definitions of Antisemitism in 2021
Seeking to acquit themselves of that sin, on March 25, 2021, a group of liberal and left-leaning scholars in Jewish history, Holocaust studies and research on the Middle East, mostly in the United States, Israel, and Germany posted ‘The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.’ [Mathias Kuentzel has made this point effectively.
Fathom – Leon Trotsky’s Long War Against Antisemitism
Trotsky as Revisionist (1) Rethinking Antisemitism. Like other Marxists, Trotsky had long conceptualised antisemitism as an essentially pre-modern phenomenon; a hangover from feudalism which would disappear as capitalism advanced. However, in 1937 Trotsky acknowledged that capitalism was having no such effect.
Mandate100 | 'A Clean Cut' for Palestine: The Peel ... - Fathom
Mar 31, 2020 · In this fascinating dive into the archives Oren Kessler reveals the dramatic exchanges that shaped Lord Peel’s 1936 proposal to partition Mandate Palestine. Kessler examines testimony given to the Royal Commission, to which Peel lent his name, from Chaim Weizmann, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, George Antonius, Winston ...
Why the 2010 Equality Act does not make the IHRA definition of ...
David Feldman and others have argued against the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism by universities on the grounds that the 2010 Equality Act and university harassment codes render it redundant. This is to seriously misunderstand the 2010 Equality Act. The Act itself offers no guidance as to what constitutes antisemitism, so it is ...
Fathom – Book Review | Bibi: My Story
Netanyahu’s autobiography is more Hollywood than history. The book is ‘Bibi-lite’, stripped of ideology and inconvenient facts — and made palatable for a diaspora audience. It is a stream of consciousness rather than a factual, informed life story. The book opens heroically with Netanyahu’s time in the Sayeret Matkal — Israel’s ...
Fathom – The political odyssey of Ayman Odeh
What took him on a journey from championing cooperation to the steps of Damascus Gate. In order to answer this question, it’s worth viewing Odeh’s political career through three distinct phases. Phase 1: 2015 – 2019: Fresh face emphasising Jewish-Arab cooperation. The first phase began prior to the 2015 elections, when Odeh was elected as ...