"But if the gas station in question is fuelling the fighter jets dropping bombs on civilians, aren’t we just splitting hairs?" www.vashtimedia.com/spineless-st...

In this week's Pickle, editor Kendall Gardner on Starmer and the UK's pitiful response to the US-Israel war on Iran. www.vashtimedia.com/spineless-st...

I had a great time talking to Evan Robins at @vashtimedia.bsky.social about THE ASSET CLASS recently - you can read our interview here: www.vashtimedia.com/the-asset-cl...

Who owns our houses, hospitals, care homes, and even our water? Editor Evan Robins interviews journalist Hettie O'Brien (@hettieobrien.bsky.social) about the secretive world of private equity and her new book, The Asset Class.

In times like these, why should this night still be different from all other nights? asks editor Asha Sumroy in this week's Pickle – a lyrical meditation on the meaning of Passover, Jewishness, and true liberation. www.vashtimedia.com/a-fifth-ques...

Siofra Dromgoole reviews Jewish director Barrie Kosky's adaptation of Wagner's Siegfried, running until 6 April at the Royal Opera House, and screened in cinemas across the country from 31 March through to 8 April. www.vashtimedia.com/a-chord-cann...

Debbie Shamir on Na'amods disruption of the Reform Jewish Alliance launch, and the intensifying battle over Jews' political role in the UK. Read the piece in full on our website and subscribe to our newsletters. Images: Talia Woodin. www.vashtimedia.com/the-fight-is...

In this week's Pickle, editor Francesca Newton on men, muscles, fear and emptiness. www.vashtimedia.com/into-the-men...

In this week's Pickle, editor Kendall Gardner examines Oxford University's evasion of BDS, and the broader pattern of British complicity in Israeli war crimes. Read the piece in full on our website and subscribe to our newsletters. www.vashtimedia.com/divestment-r...

"Maybe these numbers will be higher when you read this. Maybe new numbers will not yet have been published ... I am trying to imagine a mourning tent for each." Read Sophie Druckman-Feldstein's new piece up on our website. Photograph: Yahel Gazit. www.vashtimedia.com/a-mourning-t...

A month after the high court ruled the proscription of Palestine Action unlawful, Vashti's editors have put together an explainer to help you keep track of the latest developments in the government’s attack on civil liberties. www.vashtimedia.com/government-r...

Keir Starmer knows that the Iran war is an illegal catastrophe. Of course he’s willing to help. @evenrobins.bsky.social on the the insulting fiction of "defensive strikes." www.vashtimedia.com/labour-runwa...

As attention shifts to the Israeli-US war on Iran, we must not lose sight of the massive escalation in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Read the latest installment of our Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column by @mohammadhesham.bsky.social www.vashtimedia.com/who-would-bu...

Excellent critique of recent books on antisemitism from @josephfinlay.bsky.social in @vashtimedia.bsky.social "If we adopt the frame of antisemitism orthodoxy we remain bound by its contours. As Audre Lorde taught us, the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house" shorturl.at/uNy60

"In reality, the only ceasing to which Israel subscribes is the cessation of Palestinian existence." In this week's Pickle, contributing writer Hamza Yusuf deconstructs the veneer of the so-called ceasefire. www.vashtimedia.com/board-of-pea...

After nearly ten years of lies, corruption, and cover-ups, the hammer is finally falling on Labour Together. Journalist Paul Holden speaks to Vashti about the end of the Starmer project. www.vashtimedia.com/labour-toget...

In this week's Pickle, editor Fran Newton on the direct contradiction in terms that is the Reform Jewish Alliance. www.vashtimedia.com/the-embarras...

From demonising left-wing Jews, to promoting emigration to Israel, contributing writer Sasha Baker probes what the Campaign Against Antisemitism is really campaigning against. www.vashtimedia.com/the-campaign...

I wrote about the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Jews it doesn't want you to hear from and the right-wing antisemitism it ignores for @vashtimedia.bsky.social www.vashtimedia.com/the-campaign...

Hanady Hathaleen traces Israel's violent campaign against a recently-erected children's football pitch in the village of Umm al-Khair. Read this latest installment of our Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column in full on our website. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-alkhair-...

“Venture capital and private equity represent another group of investors in today's global military industry that’s very powerful in the defence tech sector ... you often don’t know where the money is coming from.” Khem Rogaly speaks to @vashtimedia.bsky.social 👇 www.vashtimedia.com/israel-priva...

As Israel moves to privatise two major defence companies, editor Evan Robins unpicks the motivations and repercussions in an interview with Dr. Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly. Read the piece in full and subscribe to the Pickle via the links in our bio. www.vashtimedia.com/israel-priva...

"At the core of StH’s conduct is the belief that Jews critical of Israel are not Jews; StH’s commitment to defending Jews does not apply to them."

In this deep dive, Matthew Stone maps Stop the Hate and its network - their propaganda, comms, and vast video output - exposing the deepening reliance of Israel's aggressors on London's streets, and the mainstream pro-Israel movement on the fascist far right. www.vashtimedia.com/inside-stop-...

Six months since the murder of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, Vashti publishes a prose poem by his widow Hanady Hathaleen, translated by Kate Greenberg. www.vashtimedia.com/things-that-...

In this piece I try to connect the fascism of Farage, Trump and Islamic State and show why Jewish organisations remaining silent, focusing on irrelevancies or refusing to name the enemy for what it is all give the fascists a free pass. www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/

This, by Joseph Finlay is excellent, utterly on point and really informative. A call to all of us but especially Jewish communities: something to think about on Shabbat? (and maybe @vashtimedia.bsky.social could respond to the call to come off twitter/X?) www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/...

From Farage to Trump, contributing writer Joseph Finlay examines how Jewish communal institutions have made Israel advocacy their sole priority, and as a result, turned a blind eye to material threats against Jewish life, rooted in global fascism. www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/

In our latest installment of the Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column, resident of the village of Tuwani Shoug Al-Adara captures in crisp prose how Israel's occupation has turned what should be a simple walk across the street into a minefield. www.vashtimedia.com/how-to-cross...

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"With the UK and governments around the world laying out the red carpet to American military tech, we have to continue to insist on an internationalist understanding of resistance at each and every turn." www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...

In this week’s Pickle, editor Evan Robins (@evenrobins.bsky.social) unpacks the international networks and financial flows behind AI-powered mass surveillance and state terror. www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...

"This would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world." Catherine Kelly on the grave, lasting harm that the EHRC's new guidance threatens to inflict on trans people. www.vashtimedia.com/trans-rights...

The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."

With the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on the exclusion of trans people due to be published this week, now is the time to get organising, writes Catherine Kelly. www.vashtimedia.com/trans-rights...

“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...