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 ...

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.

Hajj Amin al-Husseini and the Waffen SS. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-041-50 / Mielke / CC-BY-SA 3.0 ...

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 ...

Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, he asks, do we honour and preserve history, in the 21st century? Yom ...

The impact of George Eliot’s 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was central to the coalescence of the first Zionist movement, Hovevei Zion, in the early 1880s. Later, pioneer Zionist Nahum Sokolow wrote: ‘ ...

Chaim Weizmann during his formal address at the opening of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, 2 November 1949. National Photo Collection. Government Press Office.

Arthur Henderson, who served as a member of the small War Cabinet with the post of Minister without Portfolio until August 1917.

Alan Johnson and Calev Ben-Dor spoke to Michael Walzer, the leading American public intellectual and author of Just and Unjust Wars. We discussed the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the charge of ‘genocide’ ...