Julian Borger

Washington, D.C.

World Affairs Editor at The Guardian

Guardian's world affairs editor, author of The Butcher's Trail and I Seek a Kind Person, out in January. DMs open.

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Articles

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Malak A Tantesh |Julian Borger

Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year.
New film claims to identify Israeli killer of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

A new US-made documentary has produced evidence pointing to the identity of an Israeli soldier who shot dead the Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, in 2022. The documentary, Who Killed Shireen?, concludes that a member of Israeli special forces unit Duvdevan (Cherry) shot Abu Akleh while she was reporting for Al Jazeera in Jenin, on the West Bank.
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

1 week ago | defenddemocracy.press | Jason Burke |Julian Borger

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansingBy Jason Burke in Tel Aviv and Julian BorgerTue 6 May 2025An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, raising fears of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory.
Anti-immigrant Reform UK makes broad gains in English local elections

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

Britain’s anti-immigrant and Trump-aligned Reform UK party has made sweeping gains in English local elections, challenging the traditional political dominance of the country’s two main parties, Labour and the Conservatives.
'Cafodd fy nhad loches rhag y Natsïaid yng Nghaernarfon'

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Julian Borger

Ffynhonnell y llun, Y Teulu BorgerDisgrifiad o’r llun, Robert Borger yn fachgen bach gyda rieni Erna a Leo yn hapus eu byd yn nechrau'r 1930auYn gynharach eleni bu Julian Borger yng Nghaernarfon i siarad am ei lyfr I Seek a Kind Person sy'n dweud hanes ei dad, Robert, a phlant eraill o Awstria a wnaeth ddianc rhag yr Holocost drwy hysbysebion papur newydd ym Mhrydain yn gofyn am help.
'Cafodd fy nhad loches rhag y Natsïaid yng Nghaernarfon'

3 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Julian Borger

Ffynhonnell y llun, Y Teulu BorgerDisgrifiad o’r llun, Robert Borger yn fachgen bach gyda rieni Erna a Leo yn hapus eu byd yn nechrau'r 1930auYn gynharach eleni bu Julian Borger yng Nghaernarfon i siarad am ei lyfr I Seek a Kind Person sy'n dweud hanes ei dad, Robert, a phlant eraill o Awstria a wnaeth ddianc rhag yr Holocost drwy hysbysebion papur newydd ym Mhrydain yn gofyn am help.
Israeli minister met David Lammy on ‘private’ visit to UK, Foreign Office says

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that the foreign secretary, David Lammy, met his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar, while Sa’ar was on an unannounced visit to London. The Foreign Office described Sa’ar’s visit as “private”, though it said Lammy had discussed a full range of Middle East issues with the Israeli foreign minister.
‘Keeping people alive’: Gaza’s last working bakery forced by Israel to keep on moving

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

Palestinians witnessed a large white trailer being laboriously towed through the bomb-pitted roads of southern Gaza by a red tractor earlier this month, though it is unclear how many realised it was one of their last humanitarian lifelines in the face of a total Israeli blockade. The trailer contained Gaza’s last working bakery, forced by Israeli evacuation orders to move around the territory so it can keep functioning.
Gaza’s last working bakery forced by Israel to keep on moving

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Julian Borger

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I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

1 month ago | jewishbookcouncil.org | Julian Borger

Review By – April 7, 2025 In August, 1938, a classified ad in The Manchester Guardian read: “I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent Boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family.”The ad — and others like it, which ran alongside the crossword puzzle, radio programming and competing pitches for stamps and musical instruments — was placed in the British newspaper by Leo Borger, a Viennese Jew.