UK Politics
Why we’re still fighting antisemitism on the right’s terms
The controversy at the NUS shows we must fight antisemitism within a broader anti-racist struggle that combats the right’s attempts to rule through division.
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The Jewish Left
A flash of messianic time
Vashti meets the Queer Yeshiva.
History
Leaving Lviv
A writer shares her experience of welcoming two refugees from Lviv, the town in which her great-grandparents lived.
History
Sanctuary in the sewers
How one family survived the Lviv ghetto, with the help of a Catholic sewer worker and occasional burglar who knew the underground labyrinth like the back of his hand.
Culture
Playing the Jew
is Jewface a thing?
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.