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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
@ZsuzsannaUjj maps how in certain segments of academia Israel’s nature conservation efforts and measures to comply international environmental law are presented as green dispossession. The reintroduction of locally extinct native species is reframed as a hostile act, in which the Persian fallow deer is deployed as an ‘agent of normalization,’ used by the state to advance a ‘colonial conservation project.’ fathomjournal.org/when-natur…
@lahoare reviews Zeruya Shalev's newly translated book, 'Fate' translated by @joannachen1 Disappointment in Israel is also, as Amos Oz said, not in the nature of Israel but in the nature of dreams. Israel is a dream come true. As such, it is destined to be a disappointment to some extent’. Shalev’s work suggests that Israelis, no matter their dreams, are bound by this experience, and that that is their fate.’ fathomjournal.org/book-revie…
Saudi journalist and researcher Abdulaziz Alkhamis argues that Koby Huberman’s perspective - in his Security 2028 plan - underweights the Muslim Brotherhood axis relative to Iran - “Iran attacks states; the Brotherhood dissolves them” – & to treat Gulf hedging & Turkish revisionism as one bloc manufactures the very coalition Israel should work to prevent. fathomjournal.org/reading-se…
We are pleased to publish an extract from Polarized: Why American Jews are Divided and What to Do About It by @robertakwall (out today). She discusses the rise in what she calls gendered antisemitism in the aftermath of the Hamas October 7 attacks. fathomjournal.org/extract-po…
As we approach the third anniversary of October 7, I am delighted to publish After the Dust and Ashes: October 7, the Book of Job, and Journeys from Grief to Hope. (Fathom Journal Press)
Part literary reportage, part biblical commentary / Jewish theology, and part analysis of Israeli society, the book explores how to find meaning when our assumptions about the world collapse.
Details of how to purchase the book as well as launch events in the comments. Those who would like to organize a zoom event or in person, feel free to reach out.
Book events:
October 7 – Jerusalem (Begin Center, in conversation with Sarah Tuttle Singer)
October 12 – Tel Aviv (126 Ben Yehuda, with Rabbi Joe Wolfson)
November 3 – Jerusalem, (Shir Chadash, in conversation with Rabbanit Jen Raskas),
November 25 – Jerusalem (Pardes, TBD)
December* – Rananna (in conversation with Dr Tanya White TBD)
The book can be purchased in the US here amazon.com/dp/1066835802
and in the UK here amazon.co.uk/dp/1066835802
Those inside Israel who don’t want to order via Amazon can get the book directly at one of the launch events in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rananna (and hopefully other places) or via Bookpod tinyurl.com/afterthedust-il
Rafael Castro claims that antisemitism in the US is also about Americans falling out of love with their own country and that there is a Jewish crisis within the American crisis. “The deeper question is why a country that, until very recently, took pride in Jewish flourishing has begun to treat Jewish success, Jewish influence, and Jewish loyalty to Israel as objects of suspicion, resentment, and rage.” fathomjournal.org/how-to-sav…
@thelma_dr Amira Halperin and Stephen Sussman refer to the normalisation of antisemitic expression in British Academia. They argue that institutional neutrality within universities can function as a mechanism of avoidance, and how legal protections for speech are being invoked to justify inaction. fathomjournal.org/when-acade…
In the final @fathomjournal highlight until September, we publish four new pieces - about liberal Zionism, heroism, the Bund, and Gaza literature
Ralph Seliger reviews Molly Crabapple’s new book about the Bund "Had Crabapple been content with relating the history of the Bund through its courageous members...she would have produced an important & accessible contribution to the literature. The difficulty is...that Crabapple’s interest in the Bund has a purpose, to use the Bund to construct a philippic against Zionism.”
fathomjournal.org/jewish-bun…
Kile B. Jones reflects on his time within an anti-Zionist intellectual apparatus. Recent books on Gaza “decide in advance what the reader is allowed to see. Hamas recedes. Oct 7 is reduced to context. Jewish pain is a plot hole. Israel’s guilt is treated as the ground on which the book stands.” fathomjournal.org/gazology-a…
