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The Scope of Hamas’ Campaign of Rape Against Israeli Women Is Revealed, Testimony After Testimony
The aggregation of evidence collected by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy and her Civil Commission presents a horrifying picture that leaves no room for doubt: On October 7, Hamas terrorists systematically carried out acts of rape and sexual abuse. She has discovered, however, that there is no rush to acknowledge this abroad.
Philip Spencer: ‘Britain’s Jews feel isolated and under siege’
An interesting interview with Philip Spencer, who in the past was a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. Originally in French, translated by google.
Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals | The Free Press (thefp.com)
Niall Ferguson is a trustee of the University of Austin, as well as Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of, among many works, The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (Penguin).
Interview with P.-A. Taguieff by Giulio Meotti, about his book The New Opium of the Progressives. Radical Anti-Zionism and Islamo-Palestinism.
Pierre-André Taguieff is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris Laboratoire. He is one of France’s leading writers about racism and on the ideology of the contemporary extreme right.
Philippe Sands & Helena Kennedy in Conversation – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75
A René Cassin event on Monday 4 December 2023 at West London Synagogue, to mark the 75th anniversary of the UDHR.
Sen. Chuck Schumer decries alarming rise in antisemitism in U.S. | full video
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday addressing the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. Schumer, the nation's highest-ranking Jewish elected official, described the recent spike in antisemitic incidents as a "crisis" and a...
Opinion | I am a Zionist because I am a leftist, not in spite of that commitment
Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Zionism, Israel and Anglo-Jewry’s Identity, 1948-1982 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019) and deputy editor of Fathom. This opinion piece was delivered as a paper at the inaugural conference London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in September 2022.
Charging Jews with genocide is to declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them
Israel’s response to the 7 October Hamas attacks has emboldened many to say the once unsayable.
Fathom Long Read | Political Antisemitism Explained
Bernard Harrison’s book Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion (Indiana University Press, 2020) is, we believe, a vital text. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, it demonstrates that when allowed to go unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all.
A Rise in Antisemitism; and a Conversation with the A.I. Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
The State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, the historian Deborah Lipstadt, says the prejudice is coming “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies.