A few months ago, Presbyterians for Middle East Peace (PFMEP) published Peace And Faith: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a new interfaith collection coedited by Cary Nelson ...

‘The Challenges of Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Dispute: An Impossible Peace?’ is published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. In this Fathom essay its author Bren Carlill presents the book’s ...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...

Something extremely strange happened last week. Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organisation in the United States, endorsed the idea that there is a particular ethnic group ...

Book covers of The Tunnel and The Memory Monster.

This is a very important book. Over the last decade or so, a sweeping ideology that looks much like a new religion has gained tremendous influence over Western governmental, educational, professional ...

Essayist and critic Liam Hoare suggests three books you have to read by Israeli novelist David Grossman. David Grossman is Israel’s foremost living writer. Often lumped together in the Western ...

Dave Rich’s book on that thorniest of subjects, anti-Semitism, has already received many plaudits including glowing testimonials from several Anglo-Jewish luminaries. It does indeed merit much praise, ...

Daniel Gordis’s We Stand Divided is the latest book on the growing rift between American Jews and Israelis. What distinguishes Gordis’s work is the way he locates the relationship, for him now at an ...

US President Donald Trump holds up a presidential proclamation officially recognising the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, Washington DC, 25 March 2019. Image from Twitter.

Ernest Bevin (left) in 1942. Photo by Howard Coster, National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons.

Philip Mendes is Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Australia. Since the 7 October Islamo-fascist death squad ...