Rachel Shabi
Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
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- Read here: rachelshabi.substack.com/p/maccabi-te...
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- Latest post, a bit on how London hearts migrants - Merry Christmas! rachelshabi.substack.com/p/crowning-l...
- Team Mamdani recognised that antisemitism claims could have serious repercussions and did not assume they would be irrelevant to his electability. This approach offers a compelling model for others to follow rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
- 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...
- Brussels folks! I'll be speaking at the Ideas Festival this Sunday, come join us if you're around, full details: fullcircle.eu/event-6416147
- UK government tried to override police assessments – thereby exposing British Muslims to racism – and made violently racist Israeli football fans synonymous with Jewish. If you wanted to tackle antisemitism, you sure as hell wouldn't go about it like this rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-maccab...
- I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...
- Its fragile and there are so many buts - but amid all that right now: huge relief
- A quick post to my Substack last week, about the Manchester synagogue attack and the way the far-right uses Jewish communities to push its own noxious ideology rachelshabi.substack.com/p/manchester...
- I took part in this devastating episode on how Israel has targeted and killed journalists in Gaza - the most courageous professionals who carried on working in the most impossible conditions www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUSx...
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- The paperback is out today! www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Off-Wh...
- How do I preserve the spirit of my Iraqi-Jewish mum’s life and the land that produced her, in a political climate determined to vanquish not just the reality of her world, but the idea that it could ever have existed in the first place? inews.co.uk/opinion/ive-...
- Will be in Sydney tonight and Melbourne on Tuesday in conversation with the Jewish Council of Australia, looking at the country’s authoritarian moves to crush free speech on Gaza and conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and much more: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/07/off-...
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- UK media coverage of Gaza is a disgrace
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- Shameful behaviour: the BBC won't air the documentary, Gaza: Medics Under Fire - but refuses to release the rights so another broadcaster or platform can air it www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
- The failure of western politicians to act, to stop a genocidal war, to halt the catastrophic damage this has caused – to Palestinians in Gaza, primarily, but also to the region, to international law and to our humanity itself – will follow them forever. rachelshabi.substack.com/p/finally-la...
- New post: what prompted the UK’s change over Gaza? It’s not that the British government has suddenly found a conscience rachelshabi.substack.com/p/finally-la...
- People looking back on this period will never understand, because there is no way to understand, how Israel deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, how food aid piled up at every border of the Gaza strip and the entire world could not compel Israel to let it through
- 'FAFO' is the Israel right-or-wrong crew saying that the slaughter in Gaza is the ‘finding out’ bit of Hamas ‘fucking around’ on October 7. And it is jaw-dropping in its humanity-stripping callousness rachelshabi.substack.com/p/gaza-and-t...
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- 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-...
- New post: Gaza and the 'FAFO' factor rachelshabi.substack.com/p/gaza-and-t...
- 'What does it say about a society that sells eclairs inciting destruction while... children in Gaza wait in lines at community kitchens, holding out empty pots and plastic tubs for their allocation of one meal for the day... unable to enjoy even one cookie?' www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
- Netanyahu’s plan to seize Gaza has been the logical endpoint for a while and western leaders can’t pretend they didn’t know open.substack.com/pub/rachelsh...
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- 'The BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Louis Theroux's The Settlers shows what all too often meets a wall of denialism both within and outside Israel: that the violent, extremist settler movement is not fringe. Rather, it is in Israel's driving seat and informing state policy. Has been for decades
- Israel’s battering of Gaza is medieval in its savagery and barbaric violence but with the most modern and advanced weaponry in the world
- 'There is no law to turn to here and no government that will protect us, no international law and no international bodies that are pushing to stop this violence.' www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
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- 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...
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- 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...
- You can fight against antisemitism and for Palestinian liberation at the same time, as part of the same struggle. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
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- If Israel’s allies don’t act now, Gaza will be lost as Palestinians are killed – directly or through starvation and disease – or forced onto a patch of the strip, a process the Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport summed up in two words: ‘concentration camp’ rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
- 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
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- I'm now on Substack and this is my first post, on Gaza rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
- “A lot of us went there, I went there, because they killed us and now we’re going to kill them... We’re not only killing them ... we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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- I’m on Substack, finally - come join me there! First post on Gaza coming…. rachelshabi.substack.com
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- Beautiful piece about passing on Iraqi Jewish cooking by @samanthaellis.bsky.social - although I cannot get past the lack of love for Iraqi pickled turnips, champions of the pickle world www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
- Exactly why the Israeli government has best-friended antisemitic far-right politicians across Europe: they give Israel cover, all the way, and in return get image rehabilitation along the lines of: 'We can't be antisemitic! Look, we love Israel!' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
