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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
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Jun 10
Today's @fathomjournal highlight features two voices from the Middle East and expert opinion from Elliott Abrams
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Maxine Haddad reflects upon growing up in Syria and events of recent decades She describes how the Assad regime manipulated international isolation and in particular the fears of Syrian minorities to maintain their loyalty. She also details the uncertainty that Syrians confronted during the civil war and since the fall of the Assad regime fathomjournal.org/when-hambu…
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Haroun Elias argues that we can only understand the departure of Egypt’s minorities through laws that made life impossible for these groups & through the buildings that remain & testify to their presence. ‘Over three decades, the state’s definition of belonging shifted from a fluid, pluralistic model, inherited from the imperial era, to a centralised, nationalistic framework that increasingly tied citizenship to a narrower national identity’ fathomjournal.org/the-mechan…
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@goldman1007 details what he terms the cynicism behind Israel's new death penalty law & maps how the Talmudic tradition and mainstream religious Zionist broadly opposes the death penalty. ‘The real story is not the gallows,’ he adds, ‘It is the mechanism by which a culture-war manoeuvre was laundered through the language or perversion of Jewish law, national security, and the grief of bereaved families.’ fathomjournal.org/death-to-t…
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May 27
David Stromberg explores his bond with Israel in relation to that of the writer Jean Améry. Like Améry, he feels alienated by aspects of Israeli politics. Unlike Améry, however, Stromberg’s bond with Israel is that of an Israeli and not of a Diaspora Jew. ‘I can relate to the ineffable nature of this connection – to the sense that something that can’t be put into words but that can be experienced in extremely powerful ways binds you to this country.’ fathomjournal.org/jean-amery…
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May 13
Published three new pieces in today's Fathom Highlight
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In his essay, Conflation! Conflation! David Seymour contends that a frequent means of avoiding the antisemitism that hides under apparent criticism of Israel is to claim that hostility to Israel is legitimate and accusations that it could be antisemitic are an unfair conflation. fathomjournal.org/conflation…
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Dotan Rousso maps how following the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, Diaspora Jews experienced considerable pressure within their personal, professional, and social spaces to distance themselves from Israel. "In these settings, nuance did not soften the accusation; it merely complicated its delivery.” fathomjournal.org/the-moral-…
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Andrew Apostolou argues that the Green Party has allowed antisemitism in its ranks and fails to grasp the seriousness of recent violence against synagogues and Jewish institutions. “Polanski is certain there was a genocide in Gaza,” Apostolou notes, “but unsure that firebombing synagogues is a real form of unsafety.” fathomjournal.org/britains-s…
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Joanne Strasser examines why discussions about antisemitism are so fraught. She argues 3 factors prevent an actual exchange of views about facts: people confuse what is the case, what social conventions allow them to say, and what appears to be the moral urgency. fathomjournal.org/restoring-…
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Mar 17
TO DANCE WAS FORBIDDEN. TO SING WAS FORBIDDEN. TO LOVE WAS FORBIDDEN
سی صد گل سرخ و یک گل نصرانی –ما را ز سر بریده میترسانی؟
Three hundred red roses and one wild rose – and you think a severed head frightens me?
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Mar 17
New @fathomjournal highlight dropping today with 3 pieces related to the Israel-US-Islamic Republic of Iran war
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Samuel Hyde maps the merging of the radical Left’s ideology with Islamism and its lionisation of Iran’s Islamic revolution arguing that the demonstrations after Khamenei’s death and the pledges of allegiance to the Iranian regime represent the continuation of this intellectual inheritance fathomjournal.org/the-radica…
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@Fathom_Editor reflects on living in historic times while dealing with prosaic challenges of daily life with missiles and safe rooms. For Yehuda Amichai, the real miracles happen at the next table of a restaurant in Albuquerque, where two women are sitting and the other said, I kept it together and didn’t cry. For us, they happen when Israelis run with children to shelters at 4.10 am, or sleep in metro stations. fathomjournal.org/diary-from…
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