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.
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I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
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UK media coverage of Gaza is a disgrace

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"
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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...
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New post: the 'unchilding' of Ahmad Manasra
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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
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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)

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I mean look at him

Looking after this one for a week, so I guess there’ll be a few pics

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
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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

Palate cleanser

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

Every life, a universe

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