Vashti @_VashtiMedia

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Vashti @_VashtiMedia

a week ago

Originally published in @DerSpekter, this week's Pickle lets @TheJewitches 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-s…

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a week ago

"The Board’s commitment to its status as the representative body of British Jewry has been questionable since at least the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Ralph Jeffreys enters the Board of Deputies' archives. vashtimedia.com/a-voice-for-so…

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2 weeks ago

"Despite whispers to the contrary, Somaliland will not be accepting displaced Palestinians in exchange for recognition." In today's Pickle, Matthew Gordon writes against the possibility of using Somaliland’s territory to aid in Israel's ethnic cleansing vashtimedia.ongloat.com/no-the-future-…

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4 weeks ago

"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-t…

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a month ago

"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 @AronWander writes in memory of Awdah Hathaleen. vashtimedia.com/solidarity-com…

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a month ago

"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 on the conditions of Keir Starmer's plans in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/conditional-hu…

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a month ago

"Outside of small networks of Jewish radicals, the Bund and its ideals were relegated to history. Yet here, in Medway, that radically local Jewish way of being continues to take shape." Ella Halpern-Matthews on doikayt in Medway: vashtimedia.com/medway-kent-je…

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a month ago

“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-i…

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2 months ago

"Civic participation is a way to be counted but not, anymore, enough to be heard." Vashti editor @ashalyons17 on 16 and 17 year-olds in England being awarded suffrage in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/the-youth-shal…

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2 months ago

"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." David Feldman, @bengidley, and @BrendanMcGeever reply to Eli Machover. vashtimedia.com/against-politi…

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2 months ago

“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-mamdani/

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2 months ago

crucial piece from @uncanny_eli about the oxford literary festival, alt-right “free speechers”, & the attack on trans rights

Vashti @_VashtiMedia

2 months ago

crucial piece from @uncanny_eli about the oxford literary festival, alt-right “free speechers”, & the attack on trans rights

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2 months ago

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-a…

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2 months ago

"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes @uncanny_eli 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-oxford…

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2 months ago

We've updated our Palestine Action proscription explainer with the latest developments, including yesterday's House of Commons vote and the legal challenge and protests scheduled for the days ahead.

Vashti @_VashtiMedia

2 months ago

We've updated our Palestine Action proscription explainer with the latest developments, including yesterday's House of Commons vote and the legal challenge and protests scheduled for the days ahead.

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European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal

2 months ago

...Legal resistance may help carve space for organising or buy time for political mobilisation. But history shows us that unjust laws are defeated through coordinated defiance and sustained public challenge. That’s why, while we pursue legal avenues, we’re under no illusions: it…

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European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal

2 months ago

In an email to @_VashtiMedia , Tasnima from the (ELSC) explains: “Legal resistance is a critical tool in the broader movement resisting the proscription of Palestinian organising, but it is not the only one. To prevent the proscription from taking place, what’s most needed…