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"IT'S RADICALLY UNFAIR": Michael Walzer on the 'genocide' charge against Israel. 📺
WATCH 👉 Part of 'Are Israel's Wars Just? An interview with Michael Walzer' available here: fathomjournal.org/the-wars-in-le…
Today our entire issue is given over to John Ware.
Ware has investigated how the alt-media has helped fuel ‘Atrocity Denialism’ and the journalistic scruples – or the lack of them – that these outlets have deployed in making their case. 👇
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Fathom spoke to @EinatWilf about her essay ‘Zionism as Therapy’, which seeks to correct anti-Zionism’s success in divorcing Zionism from its intellectual and historical origins.
See the full interview here: fathomjournal.org/even-jews-them…
"Labour responded to the report this morning, and the response symbolises everything that is wrong with the party... It says 'he belongs to BICOM'. You stop and think 'a major political party has just stopped and said 'don't trust him he's a Zionist'" - Professor Alan Johnson
Fathom republishes a speech @Mr_Andrew_Fox prepared for a gathering outside the UK Foreign Office following David Lammy’s decision to ban a proportion of UK arms exports to Israel.
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How did British academia get to a point where a uni professor can put at risk his own students? In our new Long Read, David Hirsh tries to explain, as straightforwardly as possible, the meaning of David Miller & what made him possible:
Following the exposé in the @JewishChron on David Miller's comments over the Manchester bomber, our long-read by David Hirsh explains who David Miller is and what he really represents in British academia:
"Faced with this plain-as-day antisemitic Hamas pogrom how have ostensible progressives in the West responded? In many cases, by cheering on the pogrom as ‘resistance’."
Labour is guilty of failing to understand contemporary antisemitism, failing to develop truly independent structures to tackle antisemitism, and guilty of failing to root out a culture of antisemitism denial and victim-blaming. Read Alan Johnson's op-ed independent.co.uk/voices/labour-…
Michael Walzer, @DissentMag: The leftist claim that the occupation and right-wing nationalism of the #Netanyahu government reveal #Israel's ‘essential character’ is an essentialist argument reserved exclusively for the Jewish state: fathomjournal.org/anti-zionism-a…