Noa Yachot
noayachot.bsky.social
Noa Yachot
@noayachot.bsky.social
senior editor at Guardian US
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We lived to see it: a richly reported piece filled with depth and nuance about New York Jews and Mamdani www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’
A tour of the mayoral hopeful’s Jewish outreach reveals an electorate fractured over Israel and grappling with his historic candidacy in radically different ways
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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New Yorkers get to make history next week. And as with all things on this particular point in history, it's complicated.

@noayachot.bsky.social masterfully presents the particular complexities for Jewish New Yorkers in the excellent long-read:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’
A tour of the mayoral hopeful’s Jewish outreach reveals an electorate fractured over Israel and grappling with his historic candidacy in radically different ways
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Israeli military’s own data indicates a civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza – a figure largely unmatched in modern times except in Srebrenica, Rwanda and Mariupol www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Tomorrow’s Guardian front page
July 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Mahmoud Khalil is free
Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.
June 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A beautiful, sad punch in the gut. How lucky we were to have had Bethan in the region to narrate this nightmare. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘I worried I might start finding it normal. But I never did’ – what I learned as the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent
After four years reporting from Israel and Palestine, our correspondent is returning to the UK. She reveals the grief, horror and hope that defined her time there
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.

That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”
Pope's frequent calls to a Catholic church made him a revered figure in war-battered Gaza
In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Editors at student newspapers are grappling with a deluge of requests from terrified students to pull their names from stories
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech
Newsrooms forced to adapt as writers resign and request takedown of stories to avoid potential repercussions
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"I am a political prisoner," Mahmoud Khalil says in his first statement since being detained
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs
Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Excellent, clarifying reporting from @alicesperi.bsky.social on how Gaza has rocked the genocide studies world.
A pair of reports published this month mark a significant contribution to the raging debate over how to characterize a war that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and decimated Gaza.

But the reports are unlikely to quell deep divisions in the academic field of Holocaust and genocide studies.
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Palestinians from Gaza are facing unprecedented violence yet are largely excluded from the international refugee system. @isabeau.bsky.social has a powerful investigation looking at how this can be

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Gaza has been besieged for 14 months. The US has hardly accepted any refugees
Palestinians seeking urgent protection in the US must navigate a Kafkaesque system that’s unique to them – and it could get worse under Trump
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Time to learn how to use this thing, I guess.

I'll start with a plug for this brilliant essay by @astra.bsky.social about how it's time to change what we mean by "ground game" to more meaningfully reach people and speak to their needs www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM