Lev Taylor

Aug 2, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Martin Saps |Evan Robins |Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin |Lev Taylor

There’s no corporation or big advertisers behind Vashti – we're a workers' cooperative and rely on small donations to keep running. Support our journalism to help break the consensus. To donate once, click here. To donate monthly, click here. In 2018, the simmering row over antisemitism in the Labour Party reached a boiling point.

Jul 29, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Evan Robins |Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin |Lev Taylor |Aaron Grant

“It is up to you to be our soldiers abroad” – says Miriam Adelson to a conference of starry-eyed young Jews at the annual Taglit Birthright convention in Jerusalem – “swaying public opinion in Israel’s favour.”  This speech from the film Israelism, which chronicles the culture of unwavering support for Israel in much of the American Jewish community, fittingly captures how Zionists are educated on Israel: a religious duty to unconditionally advocate for the self-proclaimed Jewish state.

Jul 19, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Lev Taylor |Aaron Grant |Alice Austin |Francesca Newton

This week, the Royal Academy of Art (RA) removed selected artwork from its Young Artists’ Summer show under pressure from the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Feb 9, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin |Lev Taylor |Aaron Grant |Alice Austin

The Jewish Left — 7 min read Less than two weeks after the horrific Hamas-led 7 October attack on southern Israel and the beginning of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, the Instagram account Torah Judaism posted a video of one of the two grand rebbes of Satmar Judaism, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, speaking to a crowd of thousands at a gathering in New York. “We have to understand by ourselves and we have to know it: We have no part in Zionism. We have no part in their wars.