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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Manchester attack, antisemitism and the far-right outrage machine

The attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur was bad enough - and then came the far-right's noxious political appropriation of it

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much for reading Paul

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Smear. Kill. Repeat. Israel’s playbook for journalists in Gaza | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 19d

Shanice Octavia McBean and @rachelshabi.bsky.social join us for our final episode of Lifting the Curtain On Antisemitism. Listen in as we explore how progressives can build alliances, challenge false framings around antisemitism, and deepen their understanding of the issue: ow.ly/k56950WZ1m1.

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · Sep 4

The paperback is out today!
www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Off-Wh...

Off-White

Why can't we talk about antisemitism? 'I cannot wait for Off-White to be read, debated and put into practice.' Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger ...

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · Aug 18

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?

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I’ve lost my mum. Now I’m fighting to keep hold of her Iraqi-Jewish identity

My parents told the story of how Jews were treated in the Middle East, before and after the creation of the state of Israel

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · Aug 16

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-...

Off White: The Truth about Antisemitism - a Jewish Council Conversation with Rachel Shabi

As authoritarian ‘antisemitism’ plans and envoys continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become difficult to […]

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks Hannah x

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is a moving and important read by @rachelshabi.bsky.social

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On losing a mum and keeping a culture

Now they are gone, how do I hang on to the erased identity of my Iraqi-Jewish parents?

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 26

UK media coverage of Gaza is a disgrace

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · May 24

Outrage after an Israeli attack kills nine of a Gaza doctor’s children while she was at work, aged seven months to 12 years, with two still under the rubble aje.io/i7m1nb

Outrage, horror after Israeli attack kills nine children of Gaza doctor

The young victims, two of whom remain under the rubble, range in age from seven months to 12 years old. .

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · May 22

If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 23

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
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Doctors and whistleblowers in delayed Gaza film threaten to pull out

Exclusive: Contributors to Gaza: Medics Under Fire may withdraw consent due to BBC’s delays to broadcast it

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 23

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.
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Finally, Labour noticed the agony in Gaza

What the hell took them so long?

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 21

New post: what prompted the UK’s change over Gaza? It’s not that the British government has suddenly found a conscience
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Finally, Labour noticed the agony in Gaza

What the hell took them so long?

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 16

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

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 15

'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
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Gaza and the 'FAFO' factor

On the callous responses to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · May 15

Hotovely "Every school, every mosque, every second house has an access to tunnels"

Iain Dale "Thats an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza"

Hotovely "Do you have another solution?"

People can't pretend they didn't know what was going to happen. This clip is from Jan 2024

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 13

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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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 12

New post: Gaza and the 'FAFO' factor
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Gaza and the 'FAFO' factor

On the callous responses to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 9

'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...

'Let the IDF mow them down!": In Israel, violence saturates everyday life | Opinion

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 7

Netanyahu’s plan to seize Gaza has been the logical endpoint for a while and western leaders can’t pretend they didn’t know
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End Point

Israel’s reckoning for Gaza is here and it has been clear all along

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · May 2

Thanks so much Natalie!

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · May 1

‘Far from being an unrepresentative fringe, the letter-writers echo a sizable constituency of British Jews.
And that constituency is not served, or even acknowledged, by the body that claims to speak for it.’
Great piece by @rachelshabi.bsky.social and comment by @naamoduk.bsky.social

Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · May 1

Na'amod spoke to @rachelshabi.bsky.social about the Board of Deputies suppressing dissent over Israel:

"This is an organization that chooses the project of defending the Israeli right over the project of representing Jewish communities in Britain, where the two conflict.”

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A Public Letter Criticizing Israel Reveals a Schism Among Britain’s Jews

The statement in the Financial Times has opened a rift in the UK diaspora’s oldest communal organization over the war in Gaza, and poses questions about the body’s fundamental purpose

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