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The Jewish Left
Pink Peacock faces criminal charges over “F*** the police” tote bag
Britain’s police power trip continues apace as the co-owner of the Glasgow café is charged with a breach of the peace.
Culture
Yiddish for the 21st century
A new Duolingo course is training a small army to demand babka. Can it also heal communal divisions?
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
Four antisemites won’t stop me supporting Palestine
If Jewish solidarity withers in the face of the few bigots who drove down Finchley Road on Sunday, it is no solidarity at all.
Palestine-Israel
Israel is an apartheid state – and South Africans agree
Using Black oppression to exonerate Israel isn’t just immoral, it’s ahistorical.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
If I am only for myself, who am I? Professor David Feldman on the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
A new document attempts to put right what the IHRA got wrong. Vashti interviews one of its authors.
History
Why is the Jewish Chronicle whitewashing Britain's antisemitic history?
Vernon Bogdanor’s recent op-ed is consistent with the paper’s long history of placating the British establishment, even in its anti-Jewish prejudice.
Jewish Identity
Access to puberty blockers is a Jewish issue
The UK’s ban is transphobic, unscientific, and in opposition to core Jewish values.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
Antisemitism isn't a set of tropes – and thinking about it that way helps nobody
The outrage over Michael Che’s SNL joke is everything that’s wrong with our fight against antisemitism.
The Jewish Left
Meet Yuval Gal, the anti-Zionist Israeli running in the Dutch elections
Gal left Israel aged thirty, appalled by the country’s trajectory. Now he’s continuing the fight against injustice from the Netherlands.
Culture
Homos, Houmous and Hamantaschen: Vashti Meets Chanukah Lewinsky
On the eve of Purim, Vashti speaks to drag artist and queer cabaret creator Dex Grodner about Judaism and genderfuckery.
The Jewish Left
The romance of American Jewish anarchism
A nostalgic portrait of America’s oldest Yiddish anarchist newspaper, and the community that coalesced around it, is recounted in a recently restored documentary.