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@fathomjournal published over 130 pieces in 2024. There was hopefully something for everyone (we used to promise that there would be one essay in every issue that someone wouldnt like!). Here are 13 of my favorites - a thread
Calev Ben-Dor
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Calev Ben-Dor
@Fathom_Editor
Editor of @Fathomjournal. Views mine.
(took over twitter account 1/1/25 from previous editor Alan Johnson)
Joined October 2023
- Sam Harris: "Of course, the boundary between Anti-Semitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern—and I’m not sure that it is always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t distinguish between collateral damage in a necessary war and
- I'm 61. I've been of the left since I was 16 (that's me and the great Michael Foot in my X pic). But one of the things I am most proud of is playing a small role in 2015-2019 in stopping this man becoming Prime Minister of my country.Corbyn: 'The idea that an organisation [Hamas] which is dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people, bringing about long-term peace and social justice... should be labelled a terrorist organisation... is really a big, big historical mistake.'
00:00 - The first line of the #Amnesty report reads "On 7 October, Israel embarked on a military offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip.' That's all you need to know about their 'report' really.
- In 2021 a group of men drove 200 miles from Bradford to a Jewish community in North London and yelled: 'F*** the Jews... F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters.' They were filmed doing all this in their cars. Number plates visible. The Crown ProsecutionPut simply: If you engage in violent protests, you will face the full force of the law.
- I am ashamed of our media. *Everything* is inverted to blame Israel. Just listen to this jaw-dropping question from Sky. @EylonALevy does well to control his fury.The first question that left me speechless (but only for a second):
00:00 - This is why I left the Left. Steve North, ("pronouns: He / Him") the male president of UNISON, a 70% female union, says women workers have to accept it is progressive, inclusive and caring (and, er, compulsory) for women to accept mixed-sex changing rooms and toilets in the
- *Everybody* mentioned them before, Diane Abbott. You are race-baiting again.With the other hostages Hamas has also released 10 Thai men and 1 Filipino. Strange that nobody mentioned them before. But all human life is valuable #HostageRelease
Readers added contextDiane Abbot MP is incorrect in stating that the 11 foreign nationals of Thai and Filipino nationalities were not mentioned. They were mentioned in various news sources. Further to this they appeared on the "Bring Them Home" Posters. gov.il/en/departments… legacy.senate.gov.ph/press_release/… reuters.com/world/fourteen… - 🧵The ‘settler colonialism’ paradigm erases everything one needs to know to properly understand the I-P conflict. It misses everything that distinguishes the Jewish return to Palestine from White European Settler Colonialism. Here are the four key differences. (1/10)
- This is where we are at in the UK. The July 2024 riot by Romanians in Harehills, Leeds - a bus was set alight, Police cars were bricked, etc - has been redefined by the Police as "a Romanian vigil", while a local woman - Nicky Wilcox had lived there for 16 years, she was very
- 🧵Framing Israel as a ‘settler colonialism’ erases everything you need to know to understand the I-P conflict. Why? Because it ignores everything that distinguishes the Jewish return to Palestine from White European Settler Colonialism. Here are 4 key differences. (1/10)
- 1. Islam is a religion founded in 610 by the Prophet Muhammad. 2. Islamism is an ideological and political movement which arose upon the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 ("Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in
- Dear Journalists, @DavidLammy took £10,000 from Muddassar Ahmed shortly before becoming Foreign Secretary. The same Muddassar Ahmed was a leading figure in the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC UK), an extremist and antisemitic militant Islamist organisation banned from many
- Tom Gross: "A few months before I graduated from Oxford, I was interviewed for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious two-year journalist trainee course. This was the best way at the time to secure a job at Britain’s most respected news broadcaster. A committee of
