“The actual asks of Chanukah invite a rededication to contradictions, to wrestling with them, and to a Judaism that knows itself well," reflects Vashti editor Asha Sumroy. www.vashtimedia.com/if-we-are-no...

Eli Cugini on the UK hunger strike that the government, its prisons, and the British media are doing their best to ignore. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

Jacob Lazarus reports from the field with a photo essay of this year's Palestinian olive harvest. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-ol...

Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.) How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

In an urgent piece for Vashti, contributing writer Eli Cugini analyses the web of intersecting struggles fuelling the biggest prisoner hunger strike in the UK since the 80s, and asserts how we need to respond. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

"The olives themselves seemed secondary to the imperative of holding onto their land." Jacob Lazarus documents this year's olive harvest in the West Bank, which unfolded amid exceptional levels of state and settler violence. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-ol...

Become a Vashti sustaining member now. For just £4 a month you will receive a limited edition A4 print Channukah comic, early access to events and 15% discount in the shop with new merch just released. www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

Mohammad Hesham Huraini (mohammadhesham.bsky.social) reports on the massive escalation of violence in the West Bank since the so-called ceasefire. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...

Vashti launches its new column in collaboration with Humans of Masafer Yatta. Subscribe via the links in our bio. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...

"It’s hard to talk about peace when we have never known peace". In the first instalment of our new Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column and newsletter, Mohammad Hesham Huraini (mohammadhesham.bsky.social) examines the post-ceasefire reality in the West Bank. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...

Direct comparisons between Jewish communities miss the point, argues contributing writer Joseph Finlay in this week's Pickle. www.vashtimedia.com/us-uk-jewish...

Across London, communities are showing what’s possible when people design the city for themselves. www.vashtimedia.com/urban-strugg...

To ruin everyone's day after Thanksgiving I thought I'd stoke some friendly arguments between British and US Jews for Vashti www.vashtimedia.com/us-uk-jewish...

In this week's Pickle, contributing writer Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social reflects on the limits of understanding Jewish life through borders and nation-states. www.vashtimedia.com/us-uk-jewish...

As gentrification engulfs London, working-class communities are pushing back with their own blueprints for the city. www.vashtimedia.com/urban-strugg...

From Haredi families in Hackney to Bangladeshi traders in Brick Lane, community-led design is fighting gentrification across London. Read Adam Almeida's piece in full on our website. www.vashtimedia.com/urban-strugg...

Vashti editor @evenrobins.bsky.social interviews Peter Oborne on the UK media's Gaza coverage. www.vashtimedia.com/uk-media-com...

In an article originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social, Vashti editor Kate Greenberg reflects on the impending demolition of the village of Umm al-Khair. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-al-khair...

In an interview previously published in The Nation, Vashti editor Evan Robins ( @evenrobins.bsky.social ) speaks with veteran journalist Peter Oborne about the right's takeover of British institutions, the rewriting of Gaza, and the future of UK media. www.vashtimedia.com/uk-media-com...

Editor Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin on Zack Polanski's decision to change his name at 18, and the roots of his political courage. www.vashtimedia.com/greens-zack-...

"It is no longer just Polanski’s policies – his support of trans rights, anti-Zionism, and a wealth tax – that are ruffling critics' feathers, but the notion that someone like him, who identifies with minority status, can still belong." www.vashtimedia.com/greens-zack-...

"By fashioning itself as a broker of peace and a force for future prosperity in Gaza, the government is working hard to convince the public that its complicity was just an illusion." Vashti contributing writer Hamza Yusuf on Labour's raging hypocrisy. www.vashtimedia.com/labour-sinis...

In this week's Pickle, editor Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin considers what's in a name – and the link between Greens leader Zack Polanski's Jewishness, progressive policies, and the antisemitism he has received from the British press. www.vashtimedia.com/greens-zack-...

"My feelings towards U.S. politics grew mostly cynical. But Mamdani’s victory reveals the myopia of cynicism. Change takes hope, and work, and years." This week’s Pickle on Mamdani’s election. www.vashtimedia.com/mamdani-new-...

After two years of complicity, Labour wants to be a peace-maker in Gaza. The British people won’t forget its crimes and see right through its performative concern for Palestinian prosperity, writes Vashti contributing writer Hamza Yusuf. www.vashtimedia.com/labour-sinis...

Excited to be one of these contributing writers, and hold British Jewish instituions to account

In our recent Pickle, everyday New Yorkers reflect on Mamdani’s historic election. www.vashtimedia.com/mamdani-new-...

In this week’s Pickle, editor Kendall Gardner speaks to the New Yorkers in her life and reflects on the city’s reaction to Mamdani’s victory. www.vashtimedia.com/mamdani-new-...

Read Ben Spratz' letter to the editor alongside Vashti editor Kendall Gardner's response. www.vashtimedia.com/anti-zionist...

Settler brutality is ubiquitous in Masafer Yatta, reports Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini. www.vashtimedia.com/settler-brut...

Contributing writers - @sasha98.bsky.social is an investigative journalist and a 2024 British Journalism Award finalist for their work on the anti-trans movement. 1/2

Contributing writers - @josephfinlay.bsky.social is an historian, writer, and musician, who specialises in British Jewish history and culture, issues of Jews and race, and Jewish engagements in empire. 1/2

Contributing writers - Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist based in London. His work has been published by outlets such as Declassified UK, Middle East Eye, The Nation, Mondoweiss, and others. 1/2

Contributing writers - Eli Cugini is a writer across media, culture, and politics, who has written for The Baffler, Dazed, Tribune, and Xtra Magazine, to name only a few of his bylines. 1/2

We're excited to announce the addition of four contributing writers, whose reporting and analysis will deepen our Jewish left, anti-Zionst commitments and will be essential reading for the left at large in this time of genocide and ascendent fascism. t.co/F8nQNtQY3m

"It does mean, however, that artists are workers, and therefore, we can withhold our labour for political causes." www.vashtimedia.com/anti-zionist...

"It is as if every moment our bodies expect to be brutalised", writes Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini in a dispatch from Masafer Yatta. www.vashtimedia.com/settler-brut...

For this week's Pickle, a Letter to the Editor from Ben Spatz, and a response from editor Kendall Gardner. Together, their letters examine the politics of cultural production, in particular in relation to anti-Zionist art, in a time of genocide. www.vashtimedia.com/anti-zionist...

Settler violence has flooded every corner of Masafer Yatta, reports activist and filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini in a dispatch for Vashti. www.vashtimedia.com/settler-brut...

If we are to be kept safe, it will be by further developing these coalitions with our “un-British” allies, and reclaiming the “un-British” within ourselves", writes Max Hammer. www.vashtimedia.com/on-being-un-...

⁠⁠“What difference can we make when we’re no longer recognised as a barrier to violence, but just another target?” Andrey X on the state of protective presence activism in the West Bank: www.vashtimedia.com/protective-p...

In this week’s Pickle, editor Kendall Gardner interrogates the ethics of producing art full stop in a world where culture is business, and more often than not, through one tie or another, in the business of genocide. www.vashtimedia.com/jazz-hands-h...

“From the moment the news of the attack in Manchester broke out, home secretary Shabana Mahmood pounced on the opportunity to reinstate her patriotism”, writes Max Hammer. www.vashtimedia.com/on-being-un-...

Journalist and human rights advocate Andrey X on protective presence activism’s existential crisis: www.vashtimedia.com/protective-p...

Journalist Gabriel Stewart dives into the women’s football scene in Palestine – where playing is not just about the game, but also resistance against genocide and occupation. Read the piece in full here:

“The traveling soldier strategy remains very important because these people are going to be moving around the world for decades to come." @aboujahjah.bsky.social on how the Hind Rajab Foundation is bringing the perpetrators of genocide in Gaza to justice. www.vashtimedia.com/hind-rajab-f...

Q: Could this really bring down the Starmer administration? A: Yes I think it could. I really do think it's enough. Paul Holden on the Labour party scandals exposed in his new book, The Fraud. www.vashtimedia.com/behind-the-c...

Journalist and human rights advocate Andrey X reflects on the current state of protective presence activism in the West Bank. www.vashtimedia.com/protective-p...

"Labour came into government constrained by their own methodology of achieving power: to empty social democracy of any substance, and then lie to people about what's going to happen. They're extremely vulnerable as a result, because people really genuinely hate them..."

“Either the Electoral Commission does its job, or I’ll do its job for it.” Paul Holden speaks with Vashti about the political scandals embroiling those at the top of Labour following revelations in his new book, The Fraud, from @orbooks.bsky.social. www.vashtimedia.com/behind-the-c...