Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly distraction for all people ...

Adam Gregerman is Professor of Jewish Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He examines four parallels between centuries-old demonising historical views of ‘the Jew’ rooted in the ...

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 ...

In the wake of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a variety of complaints have been made about the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Two of the critics’ principal claims are first, ...

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 ...

Noor A’wad joined Roots, a Palestinian-Jewish peacebuilding organisation, in 2016 after meeting Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Ali Abu Awwad in 2016. He organises joint Palestinian-Israeli activities and ...

Yadgar’s book was born out of a difficulty he found while teaching at Berkeley of recommending reading that made explicit the link between Israel’s internal sociology, culture and politics, and the ...

Hamutal Gouri is the former executive director of the Dafna Fund and the founder of consult4good, a feminist activist and storyteller for social change. She argues here that too much of the Israeli ...

Gen. Sir Nick Carter (left) is greeted by IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi in Israel, April 2019. Photo by: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

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

NILI – an acronym for the biblical Hebrew phrase, Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker, meaning ‘The Eternal One of Israel will not Lie’ – was the World War One Jewish spy network in Palestine. In this ...