The Pickle

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61 posts

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

From the jaws of victory

The twentieth century’s lessons unlearned.

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4 Min
By: Francesca Newton

A Vashti trans rights reader

A collection of our work on trans rights and transphobia.

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11 Min
By: Vashti Editors
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The religious authorities we deserve

In choosing service, humility and compassion over deference to power and wealth, Pope Francis offers a model of what Jewish communities should expect from their institutions.

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6 Min
By: Matthew Gordon

Against destiny

On not doing what you’re supposed to.

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3 Min
By: Francesca Newton

Fascism's fanzines

America’s right-wing Jewish press is cheerleading genocide abroad and repression at home.

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5 Min
By: Evan Robins

‘An act of deeply structural state violence’

An interview with Hineinu activist Raviv Rose.

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6 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

Reeves's unrelenting austerity

Labour's welfare cuts will be catastrophic for millions.

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3 Min
By: Emily Coatman

Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion

This was the point all along.

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7 Min
By: Ben Reiff

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