Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist, has spent years researching and writing this account of dramatic events in North Africa in the early stages of World War Two as German armies led by ...

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 ...

The late Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaking at 'TED2017 - The Future You' in Vancouver, Canada, April 2017. Photo by Ryan Lash. Flickr.

Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...

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 ...

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

Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of Mossad (National Israeli Intelligence Agency) and the fourth head of the Israeli National Security Council, 27 January 2015. Photo by Yaakov Naumi. Flash90.

The Director of the Mossad has to think geopolitically. He (and so far it has always been a ‘he’) has to focus not merely on regional issues, but on developments further afield, in particular how they ...

Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World” be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. The prevailing paradigm ...

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this ...

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