Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in ...

Dan Perry was the Cairo-based Middle East Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. He also served as AP’s bureau chief and chairman of the Foreign Press Association in ...

Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...

In the wake of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a variety of complaints have been made about the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Two of the critics’ principal claims are first, ...

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Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas in Gaza, gestures on stage during a rally in Gaza City, 24 May 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed, Flash90.

Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...