Fathom – Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of …
Matt Levitt is the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He and Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor talked about the second edition of his book Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God.They discuss Hezbollah’s role as a regional actor throughout the Middle East, …
Fathom – Opinion | The war in Israel/Palestine
The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL), a UK radical socialist organisation, posted this statement on 8 October 2023. Fathom is reposting it here, with permission, not because we agree with every word, but because the AWL shows how a properly democratic socialist movement ought to react to the mass slaughter of civilians, ‘carried out by partisans of …
Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria
Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program on Channel 12, and one of the few Israelis to have traveled to Syria, where he visited five times between 2012-2019.
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and ...
How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this article is blunt: not reliable at all. The authors are Tom Simpson, a generalist economis...
‘What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and ... - Fathom
In 2022 book-lovers celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, which tracks the peripatetic wanderings of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on 16 June 1904. Each year on that day ‘Bloomsday’ is celebrated by lovers of the novel. This year, Fathom is delighted to publish an essay by (Israeli-Canadian) Noga Emanuel that looks more closely at the ...
How To Install And Use Yt-dlp [2024] [Quick And Easy!] [4 Minute ...
A quick straightforward guide on how to manually install yt-dlp. yt-dlp is a completely free open source software that is easy to install and useyt...
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 ...
Fathom – Book Review | Zionism During the Holocaust: The …
Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation is perhaps the worst book I’ve ever read. It has little narrative flow, doesn’t consist of a full review of the work undertaken by the Zionist movement against the Nazis, offers little to nothing in the way of context for the actions described by the author and is filled with contradictions and ...
Remembering Robert Fine - Fathom
The late writings of Robert Fine, who died in 2018, can help us understand the manifold connections between the Enlightenment roots and the contemporary forms of left antisemitism. He understood that a form of universalism that did not care …
Fathom – Book Review | Bibi, My Story
The memoirs of politicians and public figures, it has been claimed, are among the most popular form of historical literature, although as the autobiography is both personal and political, one is – or should be – aware that he or she could reading a mixture of fiction and wishful-thinking.