Rachel Shabi
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Journalist. Politics and sometimes food, but only for geopolitical point-scoring https://t.co/NbW4kUgNrT
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2 weeks ago |
rachelshabi.substack.com | Rachel Shabi
Finally, they noticed. It seems that the emaciated bodies of Palestinian children – including babies – is what made our government pay attention. Over the past few weeks, horrendous images across international media have shown starved Palestinians in Gaza, crying and desperately crowding around inadequate deliveries of food cooked by charity kitchens. The warnings of a man-made famine, caused by Israel blocking food aid into Gaza, grew more urgent by the day. And so the damn of indifference broke.
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3 weeks ago |
rachelshabi.substack.com | Rachel Shabi
Throughout Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, there has been an extra cruel twist. We have seen an additional, mind-breaking component to the endless death, decimation and terror inflicted on the over two million Palestinian people who live in the Gaza Strip. It comes on top of the horrifying nature of Israel’s assault, a kind of medieval savagery carried out with the most advanced modern weaponry.
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1 month ago |
rachelshabi.substack.com | Rachel Shabi
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1 month ago |
newlinesmag.com | Rachel Shabi
The contrast between the moderately worded letter and the extreme response it received could hardly have been more striking. In a rare move, 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews — the largest and oldest body representing Jews in the U.K. — published an open letter in the Financial Times, criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza.
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1 month ago |
rachelshabi.substack.com | Rachel Shabi
Ahmad Manasra’s story is not exceptional, but it is exceptionally harrowing. Just released from Israeli prison, the Palestinian from East Jerusalem served nine-and-a-half years after being arrested at 13 and convicted of attempted murder a year later. It was a shocking verdict, even by the standards of an Israeli legal system notoriously stacked against Palestinians.
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'What does it say about a society that sells eclairs inciting destruction while children in Gaza wait in lines at community kitchens, holding empty pots and plastic tubs for their allocation of one meal for the day... unable to enjoy even one cookie?' https://t.co/19EZFEHfwN
RT @MosabAbuToha: Today is a blood day in Gaza. In the past 24 hours, over 100 people were killed. How can we just read and continue doing…
Total destruction of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, shouted from the rooftops by Israeli ministers. None of this would be possible without western support, obfuscation and cover https://t.co/QJ75VypmW8