Categories
Event The Jewish Left UK

Where next for the Jewish left?

Vashti launched a year ago at a more innocent time. On the eve of her 1st birthday, she asks: where next for the Jewish left?

Categories
Interview Jewish Culture The Jewish Left UK

Vashti meets Pink Peacock, the world’s first queer Yiddish cafe

The founders of the Glasgow establishment, due to open later this year, share their vision of luxury for all.

Categories
Antisemitism & Antiracism Report UK

“I don’t think he would have the boldness to stand up in shul and say that”

In private messages to his former congregants, a leading British rabbi sounds off on race, gender and sexuality.

Categories
Antisemitism & Antiracism Essay UK

How not to tackle antisemitism on the left

Zero tolerance plus zero discretion equals zero results.

Categories
Israel & Palestine Opinion UK

If Black lives matter to us, Palestinian lives should too

George Floyd and Eyad Hallaq were killed in the same week. The British Jewish press has spilt much ink on the former – and barely a drop on the latter.

Categories
Antisemitism & Antiracism Interview The Jewish Left UK

Vashti speaks to Michael Rosen

A few months ago, Aron Keller spoke to the author and broadcaster Michael Rosen about his new book, ‘The Missing’, and much else besides.

Categories
Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Jewish antiracism must start at home

#JewsForBlackLivesMatter risks reinscribing Ashkenormativity.

Categories
Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Stop calling Cummings a ‘svengali’ – and not just because it’s an antisemitic trope

We’re raging against the man, not the machine.

Categories
Israel & Palestine Opinion UK

The Board of Deputies’ neutrality on annexation will doom it

The Board gained prominence through its forthright stance on Labour antisemitism. Its mealy-mouthed response to annexation will condemn it to irrelevance.

Categories
Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Starmer is serious about antisemitism – but not other racisms, it seems

Starmer has adopted the Board of Deputies’ Ten Pledges and with them, the Board’s disregard for forms of racism beyond Jew-hatred.