Why Explain Antisemitism?
Having a blog addressing antisemitism is important for raising awareness and combating prejudice. It serves as an educational platform, dispelling misconceptions and promoting understanding. Providing links to resources about antisemitism helps readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this issue and encourages them to take informed action against discrimination and hatred.
International Psychoanalytic Study Group on Antisemitism
On this Yom HaShoah, we remember the millions of lives lost during the genocide of the Jewish people.
Saturday, January 31 2026
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 Franc…
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…
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 C…
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…
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.
The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False
It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.
Fathom – ‘When Iran says “death to Israel”, it means precisely what we saw on 7 October’
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a native Farsi speaker, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. He speaks here with BICOM Director Richard Pater about the role of Iran in supporting its proxies, Ham…
No More One or the Other
Yes, Ernst Jandl: Humanityyyyyy, we certainly could use a little bit of it. Since the attack of Hamas, I no longer know what this is supposed to be. It becomes a piece of paper on which many beautiful things have been written and then set on fire. And then the ashes, as…
Georges Bensoussan: “Let’s stop seeing the Arab-Israeli conflict through the Western prism of victimhood
(…) To everyone’s misfortune, this conflict is mired in what Wilhelm Reich called the “emotional plague”, the reign of labile emotion which, with no regard for truth, opens the way to passion, entirely devoted to the affirmation of convictions where Nietzsche saw the …
Musk and the marches
As if the world’s Jews don’t have enough problems right now. Still dealing with the aftershock of the worst slaughter of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, over 200 of us still held hostage by the same murderous fanatics who carried out that pogrom, and with …