In this week’s Pickle, Vashti’s editors provide an overview of the impending devastation of Gaza’s last remaining hospitals. vashtimedia.com/israel-is-ra...

"Apart, Corbyn and Sultana have long demonstrated their commitment to the political principles that Your Party was meant to stand for. But together they’ve created a mess. Enough." vashtimedia.com/your-party-d...

Originally published in @derspekter.bsky.social , this week's Pickle lets @jewitches.bsky.social imploring of the Left to claim back Judaism from the far right, resonate across the Atlantic in time for the High Holidays. vashtimedia.com/why-the-left...

"As the forces of capital and geopolitical influence converge on world football, the sport has become a symbol of the changing locus of power in the international system." Matthew Gordon with a parable in today's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/a-parable-of...

"I keep thinking that there must have been a mistake, or that Awdah will show up at a protest demanding the return of his own body." Rabbi Aron Wander writes in memory of Awdah Hathaleen. vashtimedia.com/solidarity-c...

"In other words: Palestinians will only be granted the right to self-determination if they also continue to be blown up. They must buy statehood with their lives." @francescanwtn.bsky.social on the conditions of Keir Starmer's plans in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/conditional-...

We are devastated and enraged by the murder of Awdah Hathaleen by Israeli settler Yinon Levi earlier today. Awdah was a writer, teacher, and activist in his village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, and a friend of Vashti Media. May his words resound through the entire world:

“From weapons to pensions to charities to the stock exchange to the media, there is no part of this society … not completely enmeshed in and profiting from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza”, writes Vashti editor Evan Robins in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/trading-with...

"Civic participation is a way to be counted but not, anymore, enough to be heard." Vashti editor Asha Sumroy on 16 and 17 year-olds in England being awarded suffrage in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/the-youth-sh...

Read BISA's David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social‬, @bengidley.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social in @vashtimedia.bsky.social ‬on how Jewish politics is in flux and why Jewish people and Jewish organisations should build the widest possible anti-racist coalition.

Great piece and glad Vashti has published this exchange

“We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed.” Brilliant Left meditation on fighting antisemitism in Britain vashtimedia.com/against-poli...

"We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed." @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social, and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social reply. vashtimedia.com/against-poli...

“The importance of all this spreads far beyond New York City. Worldwide, the false invocation of 'antisemitism' to throttle pro-Palestine voices as well as the left generally has put the entire notion of free speech in crisis” writes Ari Paul. vashtimedia.com/zohran-mamda...

In this week's Pickle, editor Kate Greenberg discusses the UK government's endless hypocrisy when it comes to Gaza. vashtimedia.com/no-bad-words...

"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes @eliacugini.bsky.social, uncovering the right's co-option of the Oxford Literary Festival and the free speech industrial complex pumping its festering heart. vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...

Our explainer, updated today, available below

At this terrifying juncture, our editors provide a comprehensive explainer of the UK government’s plans to proscribe Palestine Action. Vashti stands with @palaction.bsky.social in the battle against proscription and the struggle for Palestinian liberation. vashtimedia.com/palestine-ac...

Some reflections on the politics of 'anti-antisemitism' in Britain. An interview with David Feldman, Ben Gidley and me for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...

My review of Gavin Schaffer's new book, with reflections on the practice of writing British-Jewish history.

"Let historians be historians," writes @josephfinlay.bsky.social in his review of Gavin Schaffer's An unorthodox history: British Jews since 1945

The state of anti-antisemitism An interview with @dmf101.bsky.social, @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me in @vashtimedia.bsky.social about our recent report on antisemitism for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...

It’s published alongside a critique of our report by Eli Machover. @vashtimedia.bsky.social have kindly offered us the opportunity to respond to this in a future issue. vashtimedia.com/response-to-...

Eli Machover responds to the authors of Facing antisemitism with a critique of the report’s underlying conceptualisation of antisemitism, its treatment of the left, and its discussion of Zionism and anti-racism. vashtimedia.com/response-to-...

The authors of Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity speak to Vashti about their report, the “the reservoir of antisemitism”, and address possible points of contention in their analysis of the relationship between Zionism and anti-racism. vashtimedia.com/state-of-ant...

The naming of finite scholarships as for Palestinians students is tokenistic finds @sasha98.bsky.social as Ibrahim Abusaker and his siblings tell them of the relentless prejudicial barriers to accessing the remainder of their severed higher education in Gaza. vashtimedia.com/they-did-not...

After an "unprecedented" and "bespoke attack" on 36 elected Deputies, there is diminishing time for Phil Rosenberg's Board of Deputies to attempt to right this transparent marshalling, Gabriel Kanter-Webber urges. vashtimedia.com/in-the-name-...

In the already violent wake of last week's transphobic Supreme Court ruling, @francesca__newton implores that such a curation of already marginalised people into 'threat' is a repeated end, that is in our hands to change. vashtimedia.com/against-dest...

As the saucy Jewish panto finishes its March run, Hannah Davis takes a seat amongst a, perhaps unexpectedly, older audience to see if she, too, is “[left] gagging… for Pickles, of course!” vashtimedia.com/yankl-and-th...

Aleph Ross takes us to the immersive performance of Machloket - Tash Hyman and Nick Cassenbaum’s most recent offering. Could it lead the way to undercutting the hegemonies of the Jewish mainstream? Or, at least, lead some of us, closer together? vashtimedia.com/machloket-li...

It’s all in our name until it’s over, insists Asha Sumroy in a drash for Purim. Learning from queerness what it might truly mean to observe Purim’s obligation, they remind us we cannot, and must not, party a-politically. vashtimedia.com/purim-to-dri...

Exploring the evolution of the diasporic language and the symbiosis necessary to its survival, Aleph Ross writes on the newly released The Cockney Yiddish Podcast. vashtimedia.com/cockney-yidd...

Britain’s Jewish theatre scene too often consists of star vehicles or work designed to educate non-Jews. Director Emma Jude Harris makes the case for a different kind of show. vashtimedia.com/diaspora-dra...

"This relationship threatens to only get stronger in the years ahead, benefitting from a new formal partnership to fight a global forever war on antisemitism." Evan Robins on growing ties between the ADL and Board of Deputies in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/adl-board-of...

Review essay by @josephfinlay.bsky.social of @parkesinstitute.bsky.social on this and other “heterodox” accounts of antisemitism, including by @rachelshabi.bsky.social, @benlorber8.bsky.social and @shaneburley.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/vash...

Some thoughts on remembering vs talking to the dead and how old Ashkenazi rituals of ancestral connection might serve us in a time of genocide – a new essay for @vashtimedia.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...

Deeply moving fascinating piece by @annsplaining.bsky.social for @vashtimedia.bsky.social Mir veln zey iberlebn innit vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...

An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead by @annsplaining.bsky.social for the week of Holocaust Memorial Day. vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...

"Do we need to keep doing anti-racism in silos, with antisemitism terminologically separated from other racisms?" To answer this question, @josephfinlay.bsky.social argues that we must move beyond antisemitism and towards collective liberation. vashtimedia.com/beyond-antis...

I wrote a review essay on recent books and reports on antisemitism for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. vashtimedia.com/beyond-antis...

What lurks beneath Israeli wellness tourism in the northern rolling hills? Yarden Gur examines the history and hypocrisy of the Gailee's "spiritual settlements". vashtimedia.com/galilee-gasl...

Join us for a comic about Khanike, darlinks. vashtimedia.com/khanike-o-kh...

Fascinating piece by Matt Syd Rosen in @vashtimedia.bsky.social on a British-Jewish poet who I had never come across, and I know A LOT of British-Jewish trivia vashtimedia.com/strange-loop...

This reluctant beat poet's diasporic writing could guide us through our winding lineage and inspire Anglo-Jewish futures. M. Syd Rosen traces Harry Fainlight's winding life and words. vashtimedia.com/strange-loop...