New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...

A Horse Walks Into a Bar, an opening line to many a haggard joke, is not necessarily what one would expect as the title of a new David Grossman novel. Yet here we are, at the tale’s beginning, inside ...

Cary Nelson is the author, most recently, of Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024). He argues that the latest document of the Nexus Task Force – a body ...

In Cape Town, protesters march against increased Israeli “security” measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in 2017. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.

Palestinians enjoy the sea in Gaza City, on a hot summer day, on 8 September 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 ...

A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...

Australian journalist Michael Gawenda reflects on tensions on the Australian Jewish left through the prism of 7 October. Recalling his days as a teenager in Bundist circles, Gawenda wonders of his ...

Karolina Placzynta is a researcher for the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin. She explains the methodology and the main findings of ...

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It is hard to imagine a more fitting time for a study of Abba Ahimeir, not only because his ideas may have been critical for the making of the Israeli far-right, but more importantly, because his ...

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 ...

Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really be ‘the mother of Judeophobia’? Steele is the author of several ...