Jewish Identity
'Even now, I’m unpicking the indoctrination': Growing up in a Zionist youth movement
Vashti speaks to former Jewish youth leaders who have struggled to reconcile their values with their Zionist education.
Jewish Identity
Vashti speaks to former Jewish youth leaders who have struggled to reconcile their values with their Zionist education.
The Pickle
An exhibition reminds us that with every Palestinian life lost, there were mothers who cooked, students who learned and children who swam.
The Pickle
"We camp to show the world that we will not accept business as usual."
Palestine-Israel
An interview with Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram.
The Pickle
Vashti speaks to activists fighting detentions, deportations, and the wider “hostile environment”.
Palestine-Israel
In supporting Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza's civilians for the heinous acts perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th, Western powers have brazenly dispensed with key pillars of the very same liberal world order they purport to uphold.
The Pickle
Through a British legacy of financial secrecy, the Israeli settler movement has a way to avoid international regulation and sanction.
‘By my death I wish to make the strongest possible protest against the passivity with which the world is permitting the extermination of the Jewish people.’
As some Israeli soldiers light Hanukkah candles on the ruins of Palestinian homes in Gaza, we must look to the rich Jewish tradition of opposing tyranny.
Last weekend’s March Against Antisemitism was in fact a march against solidarity with Palestinians.
Moshé Machover assesses Israel’s Gaza war in its historical context – and offers a stern warning.
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The Exodus story teaches us that we must never lose sight of our ability to create a better world, no matter how impossible that may seem.
For Israel and its allies, Iran’s attack has ushered in a new political reality in which Palestinians once again fade from view.
Since 7 October, the principal dividing line on Israel-Palestine has been supporting or opposing a ceasefire. For a faction accustomed to taking the middle ground, that has posed a unique dilemma.
Artist, poet and writer Joshua Leon speaks to Vashti about his first solo exhibition on the construction of British Jewish identity.
What a reductive analogy can tell us about the unfolding catastrophe.
The Jewish feminist movement in the UK has left a complicated and contested legacy.
The UN Security Council’s first call for an immediate ceasefire is little more than a nod.
Across the West Bank, Hamas’ 7 October attack has become the latest pretext for accelerating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Portraits of the activists defying repression and persecution to protest Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
Transness implores us to know each other again, and again.
A new literary form emerges under genocide.
The materials helping us understand the situation on the ground and the world letting it happen.