Rachel Shabi
@rachelshabi
Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Latest post - The elephant in the room: antisemitism in the shadow of Israel's wars rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
Apparently our calcified, disconnected and incompetent political class is not to blame for this crisis. Oh no, it is the public’s fault for being “ungovernable”
Latest post, a bit on how London hearts migrants - Merry Christmas! rachelshabi.substack.com/p/crowning-l...
Team Mamdani’s strategy over antisemitism was smart, sensitive and effective. It was grounded in universalism and a shared humanity. It worked. And it could work elsewhere too. rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...
Gaza and the 'FAFO' factor Write about starvation in Gaza and you get: "Tell them to release the hostages." Write that Palestinian children were incinerated by an Israeli airstrike and it’s: "Who cares? Hamas started this" substack.com/home/post/p-...
It's hard to write about one Palestinian child in Israel’s prisons, trapped in a multi-layered network of impenetrable laws, whereby the occupier judges the occupied. It’s hard because there are so many young Palestinians suffering similar treatment... substack.com/home/post/p-...
New post: the 'unchilding' of Ahmad Manasra rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-unchil...
From Ha’aretz yesterday, foretold in my substack last week rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
Palestinian Ahmad Manasra was today released after ten years in prison, where he faced ill-treatment and abuse, according to Amnesty. He was arrested at the age of 13. I wrote about his shocking story as featured in the film Advocate in this Guardian piece www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
First proper substack post, Israel will seize and settle Gaza if western allies don’t act now (and should have long before, but also: right now) rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
When Israeli police shamefully raided East Jerusalem's much loved Educational Bookshop - yes, a bookshop, yes, that's where we are - and detained its Palestinian Jerusalemite owners, one of the books they took was mine www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
On LBC talking about my book Off-White with Iain Dale: how politicised definitions of antisemitism curtail the rights of Palestinians to describe their own experiences of Israel's oppression, ethnic cleansing and military rule
Free Palestine = antisemitism Nazi salute = just fine As clear as day that the ADL is undermining the fight against antisemitism
‘Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23 'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23 Israel did exactly what it said it would do, with full support from western allies