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

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 ...

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.

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...

Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief of Haaretz newspaper spoke to Fathom Editor Alan Johnson about the politics and the personality of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Alan Johnson: Benjamin ...

Neil Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at University College London (UCL). He has served as an advisor to political and economic leaders from both ...

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

Brian Horowitz holds the Sizeler Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he teaches Jewish history, Zionism, and the Jews of Eastern Europe. He is the author of six books. and has ...

Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Photo by John Phelan, via Wikimedia. Licence available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ...

Philip Earl Steele rereads Autoemancipation! author Leon Pinsker’s theory of antisemitism. Could our innate ‘fear of ghosts’ really be ‘the mother of Judeophobia’? Steele is the author of several ...

Samuel Nurding: Why did you create the Wasatia Initiative and what does the term mean? Mohammed S. Dajani-Daoudi: On a Friday morning during the month of Ramadan back in late 2006 I was standing on ...

From the cover of Chaim Gans's book 'A Political Theory for the Jewish People' (Oxford University Press, 2016).