Kendall Gardner

Jan 22, 2025 | vashtimedia.com | Kendall Gardner |Kate Greenberg |Yarden Gur |Francesca Newton

Of the writing of books on antisemitism there is no end, as Kohelet might have said had he lived in the 2020s. And verily, there has been an enormous outpouring of words on the subject in the last decade or so. Many of those words have been journalistic, ephemeral and not very analytic. But in recent years, quite a few have made it into book and report form, making it easier to examine them for their positions, assumptions and approaches. Such writing can be divided into three broad categories.

Dec 10, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Kendall Gardner |Francesca Newton |Jacob E. Lazarus |M. Rosen

When discussed at all today, the poet Harry Fainlight is remembered as a countercultural casualty par excellence. As noted in one of the only critical appraisals of his work to date, "both the avant-garde and the establishment championed" Fainlight, and from a distance it is easy to see why. By the age of thirty, he had cruised with Allen Ginsberg, boozed with Jack Kerouac, and posed for Andy Warhol, as well as managing to feud with everyone from Robert Graves to Ted Hughes.

Dec 6, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton |Jacob E. Lazarus |Joana Cavaco |Kendall Gardner

The Pickle — 5 min read After bombing Lebanon for thirteen months and killing over 4,000 people, Israel is finally allowing Lebanese refugees to . On Wednesday of last week, Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, promising to withdraw its forces from the country within 60 days. Historically, Israel has ignored numerous promising ceasefire agreements, and, so far, this deal has proven no exception.

Jun 28, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Daniel Lewis |Kate Greenberg |Kendall Gardner |Aron Keller

Ahead of the general election next week, a new survey conducted by the Jewish Policy Research institute (JPR) suggests that Labour now leads the Conservatives among UK Jews. The poll, which covered over 2,700 respondents, shows that 46% of Jews in the UK intend to vote for Starmer’s party on 4 July, compared to 30% who plan to vote Conservative.

Jun 26, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Kate Greenberg |Kendall Gardner |Anna Lippman |Daniel Lewis

Since assuming leadership of the Labour Party in 2020, Keir Starmer has gone to great lengths to emphasise his support for the State of Israel. One incident which showed just how far he would go took place in February 2024 when, more than four months into Israel’s bloody invasion of Gaza, Starmer resisted a bill calling for an immediate ceasefire, defying “long-established conventions” in parliament to ensure the substance was watered down.