The members of the Royal Commission photographed in the garden of the King David Hotel immediately after their first official sitting, 11 November 1936. Third left is Lord Peel, chairman of the ...

This major Fathom report finds the Labour Party is now ‘institutionally antisemitic’ as the term is defined in the Macpherson Report: ‘the collective failure of an organisation to provide an ...

The Israeli historian Tom Segev’s books One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000) and A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (2018) have attracted critical ...

James Joyce bust, Kielce, Poland. Photo: Staszek Szybki Jest / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original.

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 ...

This paper by Koby Huberman reflects his ongoing dialogue with Israeli, Palestinian, and regional experts. Huberman identifies current regional trends, presents worrying scenarios for Israel’s ...

Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, novelist, screenwriter, political ...

Ronnie Fraser was working in the Israel State archives when he came across a lengthy and confidential document in English (partly reproduced below) describing a meeting that took place on 29 January ...

Reverend William Hechler. Photo courtesy from David Pileggi, Christ Church Jerusalem Archives.

1920 anti-bolshevik propaganda poster from Poland. The text reads "Strike the Bolshevik".

William Blackstone - From the archives of Prof. Paul Rood: used with permission ...

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 ...