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- 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...
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- 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-...
- Reposted by Vashti MediaIn 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/
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- 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...
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- 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...
- Reposted by Vashti MediaEight 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
