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.

74 posts

The Board of Peace has a peace problem

Ceasefire has become just another word for genocide.

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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.

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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

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9 Min
By: Sasha Baker

Why does Israel want to further privatise the genocide?

An interview with political economists Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly.

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12 Min
By: Evan Robins

Things that should never be extinguished

A prose poem from Umm al-Khair.

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2 Min
By: Hanady Hathaleen, Kate Greenberg

Yes Pasaran

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

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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.

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4 Min
By: Evan Robins

If we are not to mourn

Chanukah instructs us not to grieve. Dedicating ourselves to wrestling with Judaism’s contradictions may redeem our relationship to tradition in more than one way.

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8 Min
By: Asha Lyons Sumroy

The US and us

“The idea that British Jews hide their Jewishness behind closed doors is long out of date, to the extent it was ever true.”

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8 Min
By: Joseph Finlay

The death that keeps on going

Months after the murder of activist Awdah Hathaleen, Israel's plan to demolish Umm al-Khair exposes a ruthless new level of impunity in the West Bank.

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7 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

A Green by any other name

Zack Polanski couldn't have foreseen the antisemitism he'd experience in politics. But his name change at 18 shows his lifelong commitment to standing as himself, and with minorities everywhere.

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin

Jazz hands and hollow gestures — watching a play is not political action

On the emptiness of art in the shadow of genocide.

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8 Min
By: Kendall Gardner

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