Against political purity: A reply to Eli Machover
The authors of Facing antisemitism argue for embracing the shifting ground of the Jewish community.
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The pro-Israel establishment couldn't tarnish Zohran Mamdani. Will this time be different from all other times?
A tidal wave of abuse is in motion. Mamdani can still prevail.
No bad words, and no good deeds
Banning direct action won’t make anger at genocide disappear – no wonder people are chanting.
How the Oxford Literary Festival became a haven for the right
Behind the liberal festival facade, the OLF is providing a platform for the right-wing Free Speech Union and cashing in on culture wars – and it's not alone.
The proscription of Palestine Action: An explainer
Vashti stands with PA.
Impunity is fuelling Israel’s spiralling aggression
Israel attacked Iran not out of fear but out of hubris.
Memorial Gestures exhibition review: a sensitive interweaving of past and present
The dark depths of the archive are transformed into art, in Sunny Bank Mills' latest show.
Starmer’s politics of the ‘intolerable’
Every day he fails in his duty to Palestinians.
On writing British Jewish history
Joseph Finlay reviews An unorthodox history: British Jews since 1945, Gavin Schaffer's new book that tells British Jewish stories from the position of the fringes rather than the mainstream
What happened at Mount Sinai?
This is what we think we know: the poorest people of many ethnicities came together at a mountain.
Bubble Schmeisis review
Bubble Schmeisis takes its final schvitz.
‘The choice is one between anti-racism and Zionism as such’
A response to the authors of Facing antisemitism.
Antisemitism and Anti-Racism
The state of anti-antisemitism
An interview with the authors of a new Runnymede Trust report.
The Pickle
A diary entry
"You wonder what you are doing there, with your bloody grammar exercises, with your godforsaken vocabulary sheets."
Palestine-Israel
‘They did not want me’: UK universities refuse to help Gaza’s students
The naming of finite sholarships as for Palestinian students is tokenistic. Ibrahim and his siblings' experiences uncover the relentless and prejudicial barriers to accessing the remainder of their severed higher education.
The Pickle
From the jaws of victory
The twentieth century’s lessons unlearned.
Palestine-Israel
The land tells the truth
The Jerusalem Hills wildfires were settler-colonialism-made.
The Pickle
A Vashti trans rights reader
A collection of our work on trans rights and transphobia.
Palestine-Israel
The impossibility of Israeli grief
Zionism has long made an enemy of mourning, preventing Israeli society from sitting with loss before it is once again time to take aim and kill.
The Pickle
The religious authorities we deserve
In choosing service, humility and compassion over deference to power and wealth, Pope Francis offers a model of what Jewish communities should expect from their institutions.
International Affairs
Ashrams for war criminals
In a rebuke of its anti-colonial past, India’s pursuit of Israel normalisation knows no bounds
The Jewish Left
In the name of faux ‘unity’, the Board is punishing progressives
It’s Phil’s way or the highway.
The Pickle
Against destiny
On not doing what you’re supposed to.
Culture
Treyf review
Part political diary, part love letter to messy Jewishness, Treyf is the radical film exploring what it means to be an outsider.