"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...

"People will only really understand what’s happened in Gaza after the genocide stops; it is far beyond what we know, both in terms of the casualties and the atrocities committed." The Hind Rajab Foundation on the long road ahead for accountability. www.vashtimedia.com/hind-rajab-f...

In this week’s Pickle, editor Evan Robins sits down with @aboujahjah.bsky.social, chairman of the @hindrajabfoundation.be , to hear about the organisation’s efforts to prosecute individual perpetrators of genocide. vashtimedia.com/hind-rajab-f...

Israel targeted Al-Helou hospital in Gaza City with two missiles. "Its forces are targeting the region’s remaining healthcare infrastructure", Vashti writes. Read the full article, including recent updates from Doctors Against Genocide, here: vashtimedia.com/israel-is-ra...

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...

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