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.

79 posts

A fifth question

What future is there for the Jewish left?

•
7 Min
By: Asha Lyons Sumroy

Into the Menschosphere

Manosphere influencers think Jews are waging war on masculinity. But we have our own gender trouble.

•
5 Min
By: Francesca Newton

Divestment, reviewed

The University of Oxford is failing in ethics.

•
8 Min
By: Kendall Gardner

Two tracks of government repression: an explainer

On terror laws and the Crime and Policing Bill

•
13 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Labour's runway to war

Starmer knows the Iran war is an illegal catastrophe. Of course he’s willing to help.

•
4 Min
By: Evan Robins

The Board of Peace has a peace problem

Ceasefire has become just another word for genocide.

•
6 Min
By: Hamza Yusuf

The embarrassing acrobatics of the Reform Jewish Alliance

A Jew joining an anti-migrant party sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. If only there were something to laugh about.

•
5 Min
By: Francesca Newton

The campaign against the Jewish left

With aggressive tactics, double standards, and its charity status under investigation, the Campaign Against Antisemitism fails to live up to its name

•
9 Min
By: Sasha Baker

Why does Israel want to further privatise the genocide?

An interview with political economists Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly.

•
12 Min
By: Evan Robins

Things that should never be extinguished

A prose poem from Umm al-Khair.

•
2 Min
By: Hanady Hathaleen, Kate Greenberg

Yes Pasaran

Our approach to tackling antisemitism is letting the fascists off the hook.

•
11 Min
By: Joseph Finlay

One of the UK’s biggest corporations is profiting from ICE

With its contract due to end soon, we can put a dent in the US surveillance regime.

•
4 Min
By: Evan Robins

Showing 12 of 79 total posts