The members of the Royal Commission photographed in the garden of the King David Hotel immediately after their first official sitting, 11 November 1936. Third left is Lord Peel, chairman of the ...

James Joyce bust, Kielce, Poland. Photo: Staszek Szybki Jest / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original.

The Israeli historian Tom Segev’s books One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000) and A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (2018) have attracted critical ...

Ronnie Fraser was working in the Israel State archives when he came across a lengthy and confidential document in English (partly reproduced below) describing a meeting that took place on 29 January ...

Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...

Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, novelist, screenwriter, political ...

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 ...

Reverend William Hechler. Photo courtesy from David Pileggi, Christ Church Jerusalem Archives.

Dated: Approximately 1930–1933: Credit: Collection: Photographic Collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Photographer: Omar Oscar Marcus (born in Berlin, 12 Aug 1910; died in Mexico City, 11 Apr 1980) ...

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

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

In early June 2026, Fathom editors Calev Ben-Dor and Andrew Apostolou spoke to Elliott Abrams. Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and has previously ...