The Pickle

The Pickle is Vashti's weekly newsletter looking at domestic and international news stories from a Jewish leftist perspective. Subscribe to get the Pickle in your inbox every Friday.

57 posts

No, the future of the Palestinians is not in Somaliland

Israel’s proposal to outsource responsibility for the Palestinians onto Somaliland is not only morally objectionable but practically and politically untenable.

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5 Min
By: Matthew Gordon

A parable of the Magpies

How Saudi investment in Newcastle football club might teach Britons to let go of their main character syndrome

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5 Min
By: Matthew Gordon

Conditional humanity

Making two of the necessary steps towards justice mutually exclusive is strange politics.

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4 Min
By: Francesca Newton

Trading with impunity

The Israeli stock market is at historic highs as the country enacts forced starvation. The UK wants its share of the profits.

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3 Min
By: Evan Robins

The youth shall see visions

Good thing they know that direct action, not just a vote, brings visions about.

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4 Min
By: Asha Sumroy

Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover

The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.

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7 Min
By: David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
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No bad words, and no good deeds

Banning direct action won’t make anger at genocide disappear – no wonder people are chanting.

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3 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

The proscription of Palestine Action: An explainer

Vashti stands with PA.

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14 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Impunity is fuelling Israel’s spiralling aggression

Israel attacked Iran not out of fear but out of hubris.

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4 Min
By: Ben Reiff

Starmer’s politics of the ‘intolerable’

Every day he fails in his duty to Palestinians.

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5 Min
By: Evan Robins

What happened at Mount Sinai?

This is what we think we know: the poorest people of many ethnicities came together at a mountain.

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6 Min
By: Lev Taylor

A diary entry

"You wonder what you are doing there, with your bloody grammar exercises, with your godforsaken vocabulary sheets."

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3 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

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