Calev Ben-Dor

Editor of @Fathomjournal. Views mine.
(took over twitter account 1/1/25 from previous editor Alan Johnson)

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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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@pauldgross details why he is voting for one of the Zionist opposition parties. https://t.co/0qzVdpU8P5

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Three new pieces discussing the Israeli elections from different perspectives

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@HeTows explains his preference for a Netanyahu led coalition without the Haredi parties https://t.co/1Vgti8mpTO

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@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.’ https://t.co/IGd0BkIjb2

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Four new pieces in Fathom

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@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.’ https://t.co/seT0njB08G

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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. https://t.co/DhQFiLWEcc

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Three great pieces in our new @Fathom_Editor Fathom Highlight

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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. https://t.co/OKR4Xb5vpP

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The book can be purchased in the US here https://t.co/3Ug2mHTvty
and in the UK here https://t.co/Z1bOS2a4pg

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 https://t.co/FMhtEVGr3Y

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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.

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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)

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@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. https://t.co/LWRzHBdQXi

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Four new pieces in our new @fathomjournal Highlight

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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.” https://t.co/7lExxE0N8x