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“Venture capital and private equity represent another group of investors in today's global military industry that’s very powerful in the defence tech sector ... you often don’t know where the money is coming from.”
Khem Rogaly speaks to @vashtimedia.bsky.social 👇
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Khem Rogaly speaks to @vashtimedia.bsky.social 👇
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Why does Israel want to further privatise the genocide?
An interview with political economists Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
“Venture capital and private equity represent another group of investors in today's global military industry that’s very powerful in the defence tech sector ... you often don’t know where the money is coming from.”
Khem Rogaly speaks to @vashtimedia.bsky.social 👇
www.vashtimedia.com/israel-priva...
Khem Rogaly speaks to @vashtimedia.bsky.social 👇
www.vashtimedia.com/israel-priva...
As Israel moves to privatise two major defence companies, editor Evan Robins unpicks the motivations and repercussions in an interview with Dr. Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly. Read the piece in full and subscribe to the Pickle via the links in our bio. www.vashtimedia.com/israel-priva...
Why does Israel want to further privatise the genocide?
An interview with political economists Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly.
www.vashtimedia.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
As Israel moves to privatise two major defence companies, editor Evan Robins unpicks the motivations and repercussions in an interview with Dr. Shir Hever and Khem Rogaly. Read the piece in full and subscribe to the Pickle via the links in our bio. www.vashtimedia.com/israel-priva...
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"At the core of StH’s conduct is the belief that Jews critical of Israel are not Jews; StH’s commitment to defending Jews does not apply to them."
In this deep dive, Matthew Stone maps Stop the Hate and its network - their propaganda, comms, and vast video output - exposing the deepening reliance of Israel's aggressors on London's streets, and the mainstream pro-Israel movement on the fascist far right. www.vashtimedia.com/inside-stop-...
Inside Stop the Hate: the pro-Israel street movement’s convergence with the far-right
Mapping the mainstream British Jewish community's close ties to Tommy Robinson and his circles.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
"At the core of StH’s conduct is the belief that Jews critical of Israel are not Jews; StH’s commitment to defending Jews does not apply to them."
In this deep dive, Matthew Stone maps Stop the Hate and its network - their propaganda, comms, and vast video output - exposing the deepening reliance of Israel's aggressors on London's streets, and the mainstream pro-Israel movement on the fascist far right. www.vashtimedia.com/inside-stop-...
Inside Stop the Hate: the pro-Israel street movement’s convergence with the far-right
Mapping the mainstream British Jewish community's close ties to Tommy Robinson and his circles.
www.vashtimedia.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
In this deep dive, Matthew Stone maps Stop the Hate and its network - their propaganda, comms, and vast video output - exposing the deepening reliance of Israel's aggressors on London's streets, and the mainstream pro-Israel movement on the fascist far right. www.vashtimedia.com/inside-stop-...
Six months since the murder of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, Vashti publishes a prose poem by his widow Hanady Hathaleen, translated by Kate Greenberg. www.vashtimedia.com/things-that-...
Things that should never be extinguished
A prose poem from Umm al-Khair.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Six months since the murder of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, Vashti publishes a prose poem by his widow Hanady Hathaleen, translated by Kate Greenberg. www.vashtimedia.com/things-that-...
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In this piece I try to connect the fascism of Farage, Trump and Islamic State and show why Jewish organisations remaining silent, focusing on irrelevancies or refusing to name the enemy for what it is all give the fascists a free pass.
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Yes Pasaran
Our approach to tackling antisemitism is letting the fascists off the hook.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM
In this piece I try to connect the fascism of Farage, Trump and Islamic State and show why Jewish organisations remaining silent, focusing on irrelevancies or refusing to name the enemy for what it is all give the fascists a free pass.
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/
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This, by Joseph Finlay is excellent, utterly on point and really informative. A call to all of us but especially Jewish communities: something to think about on Shabbat?
(and maybe @vashtimedia.bsky.social could respond to the call to come off twitter/X?)
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/...
(and maybe @vashtimedia.bsky.social could respond to the call to come off twitter/X?)
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/...
Yes Pasaran
Our approach to tackling antisemitism is letting the fascists off the hook.
www.vashtimedia.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:24 PM
This, by Joseph Finlay is excellent, utterly on point and really informative. A call to all of us but especially Jewish communities: something to think about on Shabbat?
(and maybe @vashtimedia.bsky.social could respond to the call to come off twitter/X?)
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/...
(and maybe @vashtimedia.bsky.social could respond to the call to come off twitter/X?)
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/...
From Farage to Trump, contributing writer Joseph Finlay examines how Jewish communal institutions have made Israel advocacy their sole priority, and as a result, turned a blind eye to material threats against Jewish life, rooted in global fascism.
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/
Yes Pasaran
Our approach to tackling antisemitism is letting the fascists off the hook.
www.vashtimedia.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:03 PM
From Farage to Trump, contributing writer Joseph Finlay examines how Jewish communal institutions have made Israel advocacy their sole priority, and as a result, turned a blind eye to material threats against Jewish life, rooted in global fascism.
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/
www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/
In our latest installment of the Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column, resident of the village of Tuwani Shoug Al-Adara captures in crisp prose how Israel's occupation has turned what should be a simple walk across the street into a minefield. www.vashtimedia.com/how-to-cross...
How to cross a road under apartheid
The army’s new gates outside my village are a catastrophe.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:06 PM
In our latest installment of the Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column, resident of the village of Tuwani Shoug Al-Adara captures in crisp prose how Israel's occupation has turned what should be a simple walk across the street into a minefield. www.vashtimedia.com/how-to-cross...
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In this week’s Pickle, editor Evan Robins (@evenrobins.bsky.social) unpacks the international networks and financial flows behind AI-powered mass surveillance and state terror. www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...
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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January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
for people in the library world, RELX is the parent company of Elsevier and LexisNexis
"With the UK and governments around the world laying out the red carpet to American military tech, we have to continue to insist on an internationalist understanding of resistance at each and every turn." www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...
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.
www.vashtimedia.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM
"With the UK and governments around the world laying out the red carpet to American military tech, we have to continue to insist on an internationalist understanding of resistance at each and every turn." www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...
In this week’s Pickle, editor Evan Robins (@evenrobins.bsky.social) unpacks the international networks and financial flows behind AI-powered mass surveillance and state terror. www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...
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.
www.vashtimedia.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
In this week’s Pickle, editor Evan Robins (@evenrobins.bsky.social) unpacks the international networks and financial flows behind AI-powered mass surveillance and state terror. www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...
"This would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world." Catherine Kelly on the grave, lasting harm that the EHRC's new guidance threatens to inflict on trans people. www.vashtimedia.com/trans-rights...
As the government stalls, TERFs are removing trans people from British life
It’s time for the left to build a culture of noncompliance.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"This would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world." Catherine Kelly on the grave, lasting harm that the EHRC's new guidance threatens to inflict on trans people. www.vashtimedia.com/trans-rights...
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The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."
As the government stalls, TERFs are removing trans people from British life
It’s time for the left to build a culture of noncompliance.
www.vashtimedia.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."
With the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on the exclusion of trans people due to be published this week, now is the time to get organising, writes Catherine Kelly. www.vashtimedia.com/trans-rights...
As the government stalls, TERFs are removing trans people from British life
It’s time for the left to build a culture of noncompliance.
www.vashtimedia.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:23 PM
With the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on the exclusion of trans people due to be published this week, now is the time to get organising, writes Catherine Kelly. www.vashtimedia.com/trans-rights...
“The actual asks of Chanukah invite a rededication to contradictions, to wrestling with them, and to a Judaism that knows itself well," reflects Vashti editor Asha Sumroy. www.vashtimedia.com/if-we-are-no...
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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December 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“The actual asks of Chanukah invite a rededication to contradictions, to wrestling with them, and to a Judaism that knows itself well," reflects Vashti editor Asha Sumroy. www.vashtimedia.com/if-we-are-no...
Eli Cugini on the UK hunger strike that the government, its prisons, and the British media are doing their best to ignore. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
The hunger strikers are in mortal danger. But the conditions they’re being kept in are already critical.
How the government and its prisons ignore strikers' basic rights and demands.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Eli Cugini on the UK hunger strike that the government, its prisons, and the British media are doing their best to ignore. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
Jacob Lazarus reports from the field with a photo essay of this year's Palestinian olive harvest. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-ol...
The hardest season yet
Documenting this year's exceptionally violent olive harvest in the West Bank.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Jacob Lazarus reports from the field with a photo essay of this year's Palestinian olive harvest. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-ol...
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Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.)
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
The hunger strikers are in mortal danger. But the conditions they’re being kept in are already critical.
How the government and its prisons ignore strikers' basic rights and demands.
www.vashtimedia.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.)
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
In an urgent piece for Vashti, contributing writer Eli Cugini analyses the web of intersecting struggles fuelling the biggest prisoner hunger strike in the UK since the 80s, and asserts how we need to respond. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
The hunger strikers are in mortal danger. But the conditions they’re being kept in are already critical.
How the government and its prisons ignore strikers' basic rights and demands.
www.vashtimedia.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In an urgent piece for Vashti, contributing writer Eli Cugini analyses the web of intersecting struggles fuelling the biggest prisoner hunger strike in the UK since the 80s, and asserts how we need to respond. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
"The olives themselves seemed secondary to the imperative of holding onto their land." Jacob Lazarus documents this year's olive harvest in the West Bank, which unfolded amid exceptional levels of state and settler violence. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-ol...
The hardest season yet
Documenting this year's exceptionally violent olive harvest in the West Bank.
www.vashtimedia.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The olives themselves seemed secondary to the imperative of holding onto their land." Jacob Lazarus documents this year's olive harvest in the West Bank, which unfolded amid exceptional levels of state and settler violence. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-ol...
Become a Vashti sustaining member now. For just £4 a month you will receive a limited edition A4 print Channukah comic, early access to events and 15% discount in the shop with new merch just released.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Become a Vashti sustaining member now. For just £4 a month you will receive a limited edition A4 print Channukah comic, early access to events and 15% discount in the shop with new merch just released.
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Mohammad Hesham Huraini (mohammadhesham.bsky.social) reports on the massive escalation of violence in the West Bank since the so-called ceasefire. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...
The world thinks Israel's violence has ceased. In the West Bank, it is more relentless than ever.
While the international community sits back and breathes a sigh of relief at the so-called ceasefire, the situation on the ground is deteriorating.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Mohammad Hesham Huraini (mohammadhesham.bsky.social) reports on the massive escalation of violence in the West Bank since the so-called ceasefire. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...
Vashti launches its new column in collaboration with Humans of Masafer Yatta. Subscribe via the links in our bio. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...
The world thinks Israel's violence has ceased. In the West Bank, it is more relentless than ever.
While the international community sits back and breathes a sigh of relief at the so-called ceasefire, the situation on the ground is deteriorating.
www.vashtimedia.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Vashti launches its new column in collaboration with Humans of Masafer Yatta. Subscribe via the links in our bio. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...
"It’s hard to talk about peace when we have never known peace". In the first instalment of our new Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column and newsletter, Mohammad Hesham Huraini (mohammadhesham.bsky.social) examines the post-ceasefire reality in the West Bank. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...
The world thinks Israel's violence has ceased. In the West Bank, it is more relentless than ever.
While the international community sits back and breathes a sigh of relief at the so-called ceasefire, the situation on the ground is deteriorating.
www.vashtimedia.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"It’s hard to talk about peace when we have never known peace". In the first instalment of our new Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column and newsletter, Mohammad Hesham Huraini (mohammadhesham.bsky.social) examines the post-ceasefire reality in the West Bank. www.vashtimedia.com/west-bank-vi...