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.

66 posts

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

To party until we cannot discern good from evil

A Purim drash

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8 Min
By: Asha Lyons Sumroy

Poetic justice is just the start

We must make Masafer Yatta's victory a reality.

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4 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

‘There is going to be a big, big redrawing of the map…where it ends up is anybody’s guess.’

Vashti speaks to Moshé Machover about the latest geopolitical manoeuvres encircling Palestine.

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8 Min
By: Eli Machover

Dual-use incitement

A new nightmare world is taking shape.

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4 Min
By: Evan Robins

Same old strange new world

You can hate the box and fear what Trump will find by thinking outside it.

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3 Min
By: Francesca Newton

The ADL is at the gates, courtesy of the Board of Deputies

A concerning partnership is developing between the ADL and the BoD.

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6 Min
By: Evan Robins

Abraham’s Sacrifice: A Tale of Sudan and ‘Normalisation’

What to expect from the impending revival of the Abraham Accords.

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3 Min
By: Matthew Gordon

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