Yarden Gur

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.

Jan 17, 2025 | vashtimedia.com | Kate Greenberg |Yarden Gur |Francesca Newton |D. L. Katz

The Pickle — 3 min read “I don’t believe it. I can’t believe we’re still alive,” was the message I received from Hadeel Wael Qassem, a 22-year-old pharmacy student living in central Gaza with twelve members of her family. In the hours that followed, she sent me videos of celebrations in the streets.

Jan 10, 2025 | vashtimedia.com | Yarden Gur |Francesca Newton |D. L. Katz

Photographer and solidarity activist Tash “Trash” Lever and I never crossed paths in north-west London but found ourselves living together in a Jerusalem apartment in September 2022. We were both participating in Achvat Amim, an immersive political education programme aimed at bringing diaspora Jews into anti-occupation work and activism on the ground.