Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...
Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Emirita Professor of Government at Smith College. The Idea of the Jewish State by Ben Halpern (her teacher at Brandeis) ...
In Cape Town, protesters march against increased Israeli “security” measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in 2017. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.
‘The ultimate insider’s account’ wrote George Gruen on the release of Yehuda Avner’s book The Prime Ministers in 2010. In his usual limpid prose, Fathom’s literary critic Liam Hoare gives us a ...
Richard Landes argues that the claim made by the signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration that – in the face of the eliminationist antisemitism of the Global Jihad, no less – it is acceptable to call ...
Special Issue of Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture and society. Marxist Perspectives on Palestine/Israel, Vol.30, Issue 3, Taylor Francis Online. 2018.
Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...