The Pickle

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78 posts

Into the Menschosphere

Manosphere influencers think Jews are waging war on masculinity. But we have our own gender trouble.

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5 Min
By: Francesca Newton

Divestment, reviewed

The University of Oxford is failing in ethics.

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8 Min
By: Kendall Gardner

Two tracks of government repression: an explainer

On terror laws and the Crime and Policing Bill

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13 Min
By: Vashti Editors

Labour's runway to war

Starmer knows the Iran war is an illegal catastrophe. Of course he’s willing to help.

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4 Min
By: Evan Robins

The Board of Peace has a peace problem

Ceasefire has become just another word for genocide.

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6 Min
By: Hamza Yusuf

The embarrassing acrobatics of the Reform Jewish Alliance

A Jew joining an anti-migrant party sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. If only there were something to laugh about.

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5 Min
By: Francesca Newton

The campaign against the Jewish left

With aggressive tactics, double standards, and its charity status under investigation, the Campaign Against Antisemitism fails to live up to its name

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9 Min
By: Sasha Baker

Why does Israel want to further privatise the genocide?

An interview with political economists Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly.

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12 Min
By: Evan Robins

Things that should never be extinguished

A prose poem from Umm al-Khair.

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2 Min
By: Hanady Hathaleen, Kate Greenberg

Yes Pasaran

Our approach to tackling antisemitism is letting the fascists off the hook.

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11 Min
By: Joseph Finlay

One of the UK’s biggest corporations is profiting from ICE

With its contract due to end soon, we can put a dent in the US surveillance regime.

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4 Min
By: Evan Robins

If we are not to mourn

Chanukah instructs us not to grieve. Dedicating ourselves to wrestling with Judaism’s contradictions may redeem our relationship to tradition in more than one way.

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8 Min
By: Asha Lyons Sumroy

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