The Pickle

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93 posts

The Wartime Erasure of Palestine: A Vashti x Equator Event

Join us online on 7 May.

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1 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Spineless Starmer

In the midst of global crisis, the UK’s biggest concern remains arresting its own pensioners.

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4 Min
By: Kendall Gardner

A fifth question

What future is there for the Jewish left?

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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.

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5 Min
By: Francesca Newton

Divestment, reviewed

The University of Oxford is failing in ethics.

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8 Min
By: Kendall Gardner

Two tracks of government repression: an explainer

On terror laws and the Crime and Policing Bill

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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.

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4 Min
By: Evan Robins

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

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