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A magazine covering the politics, ideas, and culture of the Jewish left and the left at large. Based in London. | Subscribe to our newsletters, The Pickle and New, From Vashti: https://vashtimedia.com/#/portal/signup
Ahmed Jundeya reports on how five Palestinian families have begun to rebuild their lives after Israeli bulldozers demolished their homes earlier this month. www.vashtimedia.com/after-the-de...
After the demolition
Five Palestinian families struggle to rebuild their lives in the occupied West Bank.
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In last week's Pickle, contributing writer Joseph Finlay on how Starmerism has harmed us all. www.vashtimedia.com/toxic-legacy...
The toxic legacy of Starmerite philosemitism
Goodbye to our biggest fan and worst enemy.
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Goodbye to our biggest fan and worst enemy. Read this week's Pickle by contributing writer Joseph Finlay in full on our website. www.vashtimedia.com/toxic-legacy...
The toxic legacy of Starmerite philosemitism
Goodbye to our biggest fan and worst enemy.
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The alliance between big tech and the US military isn't a recent development, but has always been part of the plan, writes Jacob Keesing Ostfeld in a new piece for Vashti. www.vashtimedia.com/partners-by-...
Partners by design
The AI platforms now being taken up by the NHS started out as, and remain essential tools of US warfare.
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In this week's Pickle, contributing writer Sasha Baker examines how the toxic combination of far-right media and a government crackdown led to the targeting and eventual emptying of a hotel in London housing migrants. www.vashtimedia.com/fascists-v-t...
Fascists v the Thistle
The butterfly effect of one anti-migrant tweet.
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In the latest instalment of our Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column, we publish a poem by activist and writer Ahmed Jundeya. www.vashtimedia.com/the-caravan-...
The Caravan Never Arrives Alone
A poem from Masafer Yatta.
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"And as someone who has been 498 before, let me tell you with absolute certainty: Amir is not ok." www.vashtimedia.com/type-1-apoca...
Type 1 apocalypse
Israel's inhumane blockade of Gaza is killing sick children.
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In this week's Pickle, editor Evan Robins examines how the destruction of medical infrastructure, Israel's blockade, and resultant insulin shortages have impacted the lives and life expectancy of diabetics in Gaza. www.vashtimedia.com/type-1-apoca...
Type 1 apocalypse
Israel's inhumane blockade of Gaza is killing sick children.
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"Qibya was not the first nor the last massacre committed by Israel in those years. But it was the first time that mass murder had been perpetrated by Israel’s official armed forces following an explicit order from the political leaders of the state." www.vashtimedia.com/the-qibya-bl...
The Qibya blueprint
Israel has been massacring civilians, and lying about it, since its inception.
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Writer and activist Raphael Mimoun examines how a long-forgotten massacre in the Palestinian town of Qibya established a template for the violence, denialism and deception characteristic of Israel's strategy in Gaza today. www.vashtimedia.com/the-qibya-bl...
The Qibya blueprint
Israel has been massacring civilians, and lying about it, since its inception.
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Editor Kendall Gardner interviews Matan Kaminer and Ben Schuman-Stoler, the co-hosts of Bad Cousins – a new podcast exploring the geopolitics of the Middle East through the lens of religion, and specifically, the patriarchal figure of Abraham. www.vashtimedia.com/abraham-issu...
Abraham issues
An interview with Matan Kaminer and Ben Schuman-Stoler, hosts of the new podcast Bad Cousins.
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A week ago, four Palestine Action activists became the first people in Britain sentenced as terrorists for damaging property through direct action. Editor Asha Lyons Sumroy documents solidarity outside their sentencing, in photos and words. www.vashtimedia.com/photos-filto...
PHOTOS: The day direct action became terrorism
Documenting solidarity outside Woolwich Crown Court
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"We are seeing the emergence of what some critical observers are calling an Arab or Muslim Zionism, centred around these Gulf countries and their apparatuses of intellectual production." www.vashtimedia.com/abraham-issu...
Abraham issues
An interview with Matan Kaminer and Ben Schuman-Stoler, hosts of the new podcast Bad Cousins.
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Kendall Gardner interviews Matan Kaminer and Ben Schuman-Stoler, co-hosts of the new podcast Bad Cousins, on the possibilities and risks of bringing a religious lens to the geopolitics of the Middle East. www.vashtimedia.com/abraham-issu...
Abraham issues
An interview with Matan Kaminer and Ben Schuman-Stoler, hosts of the new podcast Bad Cousins.
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"The “facts of the ground” were established and genocide was inevitable." Read contributing writer Hamza Yusuf's interview with media analyst Adam H. Johnson, up now on our website. www.vashtimedia.com/centre-left-...
How the centre-left media legitimised a genocide
An interview with journalist and media analyst Adam H. Johnson.
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In this week's Pickle, contributing writer Hamza Yusuf speaks with journalist and media analyst Adam H. Johnson about his new book, How to Sell A Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza. www.vashtimedia.com/centre-left-...
How the centre-left media legitimised a genocide
An interview with journalist and media analyst Adam H. Johnson.
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Jessie Sumroy traces the lineage of Ashkenazi assimilation into whiteness, from the blackface minstrelsy of early Hollywood to the launch of the Reform Jewish Alliance in the UK today. www.vashtimedia.com/a-pattern-th...
A pattern that must be broken
Jewish assimilation at the expense of other minorities continues to threaten an anti-racist future.
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"That day was one of the few times in my life when I was delighted to be reproached by a security guard. He had reminded me of what I believed in and what I stood for, and of why I wore that badge in the first place." www.vashtimedia.com/everyday-dis...
Everyday dissent
Becoming a British citizen in a time of overwhelming repression.
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"What is the point of having the privilege to express yourself politically if that freedom is not used well?" Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social on becoming a British citizen and the duty to stand up for Palestine at all times and in all places. www.vashtimedia.com/everyday-dis...
Everyday dissent
Becoming a British citizen in a time of overwhelming repression.
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"Thirty-six years after his death, Kahane’s extremism has returned to the diaspora and warped our reality." Read David Renton's piece in full on our website. www.vashtimedia.com/kahane-in-ou...
Kahane in our communities
Mainstream Zionist groups may condemn the demagogue’s name, but they embrace his racist politics.
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Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini describes Israel's attempt to drive an existential wedge between Palestinians and their land in our newest installation of the Vashti x Humans of Masafer Yatta column. www.vashtimedia.com/biological-t...
Biological terrorism runs rampant in Masafer Yatta
The occupation tries to turn the land and natural world against us.
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“In the UK, only the BBC and the Guardian have reported the story. Yet here, too, Kahane’s influence is pervasive, from far-right street groups to mainstream Zionist organisations. And it’s only getting stronger...” www.vashtimedia.com/kahane-in-ou...
Kahane in our communities
Mainstream Zionist groups may condemn the demagogue’s name, but they embrace his racist politics.
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The legacy and influence of Meir Kahane's far-right, ultranationalist movement extends beyond the West Bank – it's here in the UK too, writes David Renton (bsky.app/profile/davi...). Read the piece in full and subscribe to our newsletters via the links in our bio.
Kahane in our communities
Mainstream Zionist groups may condemn the demagogue’s name, but they embrace his racist politics.
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"Progressive Judaism must mean something more than gutless desperation to fall in with the mainstream, no matter how despicably the mainstream is behaving. Progressive Judaism means doing justly, even if we end up on our own." www.vashtimedia.com/rallying-wit...
Rallying with racists
A message to the Movement for Progressive Judaism.
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good piece. recommend following @vashtimedia.bsky.social if you want genuinely progressive, thoughtful Jewish perspectives on current events
Rallying with racists
A message to the Movement for Progressive Judaism.
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We cannot condemn Jew-hatred when standing alongside founts of Muslim-hatred, insists Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber in a reflection on the Progressive Movement for Judaism's decision to participate in last week's cynical rally against antisemitism. www.vashtimedia.com/rallying-wit...
Rallying with racists
A message to the Movement for Progressive Judaism.
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really enjoyed this @vashtimedia.bsky.social interview with @sasha98.bsky.social, especially the bit where they give me vietnam-esque flashbacks to the miliband years! www.vashtimedia.com/the-go-to-co...
'The go-to conspiracy narrative of right-wing intellectuals'
An interview with historian of fascism A.J.A. Woods on their new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy.
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I spoke to the historian @ajawoods.bsky.social about their new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. www.vashtimedia.com/the-go-to-co...
'The go-to conspiracy narrative of right-wing intellectuals'
An interview with historian of fascism A.J.A. Woods on their new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy.
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