Starmer’s talk of the “intolerable” conditions in Gaza reveals the UK has no intention of taking accountability for its own culpability, argues Vashti editor Evan Robins in this week’s Pickle. vashtimedia.com/starmer-politi…

At this terrifying juncture, our editors provide a comprehensive explainer of the UK government’s plans to proscribe Palestine Action. Vashti stands with Palestine Action in the battle against proscription and the struggle for Palestinian liberation. vashtimedia.com/palestine-acti…

.Vashti stands with @Pal_action and I stand with them both. vashtimedia.com/palestine-acti… #SafetyInSolidarity

Excellent article on government’s plans to proscribe Palestine Action by Vashti

In an email to Vashti , Tasnima from the (ELSC) explains: “Legal resistance is a critical tool in the broader movement resisting the proscription of Palestinian organising, but it is not the only one. To prevent the proscription from taking place, what’s most needed

...Legal resistance may help carve space for organising or buy time for political mobilisation. But history shows us that unjust laws are defeated through coordinated defiance and sustained public challenge. That’s why, while we pursue legal avenues, we’re under no illusions: it

We've updated our Palestine Action proscription explainer with the latest developments, including yesterday's House of Commons vote and the legal challenge and protests scheduled for the days ahead.

"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes night gardener uncovering the right's co-option of the Oxford Literary Festival and the free speech industrial complex pumping its festering heart. vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxford…

In this week's Pickle, editor Kate Greenberg discusses the UK government's endless hypocrisy when it comes to Gaza. vashtimedia.com/no-bad-words-a…

crucial piece from night gardener about the oxford literary festival, alt-right “free speechers”, & the attack on trans rights

“The importance of all this spreads far beyond New York City. Worldwide, the false invocation of 'antisemitism' to throttle pro-Palestine voices as well as the left generally has put the entire notion of free speech in crisis” writes Ari Paul. vashtimedia.com/zohran-mamdani/

"We are in a historical moment in which key parts of the Jewish community are shifting: a moment in which the possibility of a politics of horizontal solidarity can be glimpsed." David Feldman, Ben Gidley, and Brendan McGeever reply to Eli Machover. vashtimedia.com/against-politi…

"Civic participation is a way to be counted but not, anymore, enough to be heard." Vashti editor Asha Sumroy on 16 and 17 year-olds in England being awarded suffrage in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/the-youth-shal…

“From weapons to pensions to charities to the stock exchange to the media, there is no part of this society … not completely enmeshed in and profiting from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza”, writes Vashti editor Evan Robins in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/trading-with-i…

"Outside of small networks of Jewish radicals, the Bund and its ideals were relegated to history. Yet here, in Medway, that radically local Jewish way of being continues to take shape." Ella Halpern-Matthews on doikayt in Medway: vashtimedia.com/medway-kent-je…

"In other words: Palestinians will only be granted the right to self-determination if they also continue to be blown up. They must buy statehood with their lives." Francesca Newton on the conditions of Keir Starmer's plans in this week's Pickle. vashtimedia.com/conditional-hu…

"I keep thinking that there must have been a mistake, or that Awdah will show up at a protest demanding the return of his own body." Rabbi Aron Wander writes in memory of Awdah Hathaleen. vashtimedia.com/solidarity-com…