As a resident of Birmingham, I would like to thank @rachelshabi.bsky.social for writing this balanced and clarifying piece about Birmingham's Macabi Tel Aviv fiasco.

"If you wanted seriously to tackle antisemitism, which is frighteningly on the rise globally, you would not go about it like this." Excellent from @rachelshabi.bsky.social on the political class's continued ignorant opportunism around Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv rachelshabi.substack.com/p/maccabi-te...

An excellent piece that acknowledges that the West Midlands Police made mistakes, that there was antisemitic violence in Amsterdam, and that despite both of these facts, the case for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was - to use a footballing term - very clear and very obvious.

Rachel Shabi bringing some vital common sense and perspective to the increasingly absurd and hysterical Maccabi furore

Thank god for @rachelshabi.bsky.social one of the few commentators with a consistent anti-racist voice - including a strong critique of the left's failures on anti-semitism - who I trust. You should sign up to her substack. rachelshabi.substack.com/p/maccabi-te...

Read here: rachelshabi.substack.com/p/maccabi-te...

Live at 7pm with the brilliant @rachelshabi.bsky.social youtu.be/gSO99OEHfO0?...

Latest post, a bit on how London hearts migrants - Merry Christmas! rachelshabi.substack.com/p/crowning-l...

Team Mamdani recognised that antisemitism claims could have serious repercussions and did not assume they would be irrelevant to his electability. This approach offers a compelling model for others to follow rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...

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. rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...

Brussels folks! I'll be speaking at the Ideas Festival this Sunday, come join us if you're around, full details: fullcircle.eu/event-6416147

UK government tried to override police assessments – thereby exposing British Muslims to racism – and made violently racist Israeli football fans synonymous with Jewish. If you wanted to tackle antisemitism, you sure as hell wouldn't go about it like this rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-maccab...

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

Its fragile and there are so many buts - but amid all that right now: huge relief

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...

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...

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.

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

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? inews.co.uk/opinion/ive-...

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-...

This is a moving and important read by @rachelshabi.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rachelsh...

UK media coverage of Gaza is a disgrace

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

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

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 www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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. rachelshabi.substack.com/p/finally-la...

New post: what prompted the UK’s change over Gaza? It’s not that the British government has suddenly found a conscience rachelshabi.substack.com/p/finally-la...

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

'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 rachelshabi.substack.com/p/gaza-and-t...

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

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" substack.com/home/post/p-...

New post: Gaza and the 'FAFO' factor rachelshabi.substack.com/p/gaza-and-t...

'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...

Netanyahu’s plan to seize Gaza has been the logical endpoint for a while and western leaders can’t pretend they didn’t know open.substack.com/pub/rachelsh...

‘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

'The BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An open letter from 36 members of Britain’s oldest Jewish representative body expressed deep criticism of Israel's war in Gaza, which led to a very unusual, public, internecine fight that raises the question: Who represents UK Jews anyway? By @rachelshabi.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...

Louis Theroux's The Settlers shows what all too often meets a wall of denialism both within and outside Israel: that the violent, extremist settler movement is not fringe. Rather, it is in Israel's driving seat and informing state policy. Has been for decades

Israel’s battering of Gaza is medieval in its savagery and barbaric violence but with the most modern and advanced weaponry in the world

'There is no law to turn to here and no government that will protect us, no international law and no international bodies that are pushing to stop this violence.' www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

Rachel Shabi: "With Gaza, we have a war that Western countries, including the UK, including the US, are facilitating, funding, enabling and giving diplomatic cover for"

Rachel Shabi highlights the double standards of our media when it comes their coverage of Ukraine and Gaza.

Beautiful piece Rachel. Must read

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... substack.com/home/post/p-...

New post: the 'unchilding' of Ahmad Manasra rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-unchil...

Latest episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - @rachelshabi.bsky.social speaks to @georginagodwin.bsky.social to discuss the complexities & exploitation of antisemitism, explored in her book "Off-White: The Truth about Antisemitism" (via @oneworldbooks.bsky.social) monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

You can fight against antisemitism and for Palestinian liberation at the same time, as part of the same struggle. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise