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In this impassioned opinion piece, Syrian-Lebanese peace activist Rawan Osman reflects on her journey from the antisemitism and unconditional anti-Israelism of her upbringing to her present ...
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that President Biden’s Middle East policy reflects the tension between his understanding that the region has gone through dramatic changes during the Trump years that give the ...
In this Fathom bitesize read, David Hirsh explains why he withdrew from the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, held under the auspices of Israeli Diaspora Minister Chikli ...
Joe Lockard argues that while there is a culture war underway in US higher education, one that contests vital DEI initiatives and racial and gender justice, the AAUP wants to fight the Gaza war, a ...
Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.
Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ he writes, ‘But those same politicians will not ...
Photo by Alex Chis via Flickr. Used under licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...
Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Creative Commons licence.
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 ...
Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, ...
Arthur Henderson, who served as a member of the small War Cabinet with the post of Minister without Portfolio until August 1917.