The Pickle

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55 posts

Conditional humanity

Making two of the necessary steps towards justice mutually exclusive is strange politics.

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4 Min
By: Francesca Newton

Trading with impunity

The Israeli stock market is at historic highs as the country enacts forced starvation. The UK wants its share of the profits.

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3 Min
By: Evan Robins

The youth shall see visions

Good thing they know that direct action, not just a vote, brings visions about.

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4 Min
By: Asha Sumroy

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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7 Min
By: David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever
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No bad words, and no good deeds

Banning direct action won’t make anger at genocide disappear – no wonder people are chanting.

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3 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

The proscription of Palestine Action: An explainer

Vashti stands with PA.

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14 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Impunity is fuelling Israel’s spiralling aggression

Israel attacked Iran not out of fear but out of hubris.

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4 Min
By: Ben Reiff

Starmer’s politics of the ‘intolerable’

Every day he fails in his duty to Palestinians.

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5 Min
By: Evan Robins

What happened at Mount Sinai?

This is what we think we know: the poorest people of many ethnicities came together at a mountain.

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6 Min
By: Lev Taylor

A diary entry

"You wonder what you are doing there, with your bloody grammar exercises, with your godforsaken vocabulary sheets."

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3 Min
By: Kate Greenberg

From the jaws of victory

The twentieth century’s lessons unlearned.

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4 Min
By: Francesca Newton

A Vashti trans rights reader

A collection of our work on trans rights and transphobia.

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11 Min
By: Vashti Editors

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