Leading Corbynite Labour MP Diane Abbott has had the party whip withdrawn after writing in The Observer that antisemitism is not racism but only a prejudice, akin to that sometimes faced by ginger-hai.
Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books about a subject. Here, Matthew Bolton recommends three on critical theory and antisemitism. A much longer piece than the norm, the edit.
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 .
In the previous issue of Fathom we carried Sam Shube’s analysis of Israel’s ethno-political divide and a critical response by Lyn Julius. In this issue we carry Sam’s rejoinder and a second crit.
When Fathom launched we promised there would likely be a piece in every issue with which you would disagree. Though our centre of gravity remains the two-state paradigm, our ambition was always to mak.