"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes @uncanny_eli uncovering the right's co-option of the Oxford Literary Festival and the free speech industrial complex pumping its festering heart.

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.

RT @elsclegal: . Legal resistance may help carve space for organising or buy time for political mobilisation. But history shows us that un….

RT @elsclegal: In an email to @_VashtiMedia , Tasnima from the (ELSC) explains: . “Legal resistance is a critical tool in the broader mov….

RT @NoraInPalestine: .@_VashtiMedia stands with @Pal_action and I stand with them both. #SafetyInSolidarity.

RT @TomLondon6: Excellent article on government’s plans to proscribe @Pal_action by @_VashtiMedia.

At this terrifying juncture, our editors provide a comprehensive explainer of the UK government’s plans to proscribe Palestine Action. Vashti stands with @Pal_action in the battle against proscription and the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

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.

"Let historians be historians," writes @joseph_finlay in his review of Gavin Schaffer's An unorthodox history: British Jews since 1945.

RT @Hamza_a96: On Nakba Day, I’m resharing my @_VashtiMedia article from 2023 — and remembering my grandparents and great-grandparents, exp….

The naming of finite scholarships as for Palestinians students is tokenistic finds @sashabaker98 as Ibrahim Abusaqer and his siblings tell them of the relentless prejudicial barriers to accessing the remainder of their severed higher education in Gaza.

In this week's Pickle, Vashti editor Francesca Newton writes about our lessons unlearned from the twentieth century.

Zionism has long made an enemy of mourning, writes Michael Sappir, now up on our website.

"[ . ] India has capitulated itself in striving to become a regional economic power-house. Instead of submitting to the Zionist Raj, the country must reclaim its historic anti-imperial course, stand with its people and hold Israel accountable.".

After an "unprecedented" and "bespoke attack" on 36 elected Deputies, there is diminishing time for Phil Rosenberg's Board of Deputies to attempt to right this transparent marshalling, @gabrielquotes urges.

In the already violent wake of last week's transphobic Supreme Court ruling, @francesca__newton implores that such a curation of already marginalised people into 'threat' is a repeated end, that is in our hands to change.

Georgina (Gigi) Daniels reviews Treyf – the radical film about the intimate lives of two Jewish lesbians:

In this week's Pickle, Vashti editor Evan Robins examines the right-wing Jewish press in the US cheerleading genocide abroad and repression at home.

As the saucy Jewish panto finishes its March run, Hannah Davis takes a seat amongst a, perhaps unexpectedly, older audience to see if she, too, is “[left] gagging… for Pickles, of course!”.

Labour's welfare cuts will be catastrophic for millions, writes @Emily_Coatman, member of the Vashti Cooperative and welfare rights worker, in this week's Pickle.