🧵The excellent @rachelshabi.bsky.social in piece explaining that antisemitism is, actually, and always has been, a term that describes Jew-hating specifically, despite the term 'Semite' being in there: rachelshabi.substack.com/p/no-its-not...
Re point in background to 105A motion to #GreenParty conf
‘You have a credibility problem if you’re falling at this first hurdle. Put simply: potential allies won’t trust you as reliable narrators on what antisemitism is not, if they cannot trust you to know what antisemitism actually is.’
This is so spot on
Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat
Latest post: rachelshabi.substack.com/p/no-its-not...
Claiming Gaza is a 'sectarian' issue is both blatantly racist & blind to why we all care about Gaza. As new Green MP Hannah Spencer said last night 'Whether its on our doorsteps or across the world, if somebody is being oppressed or suffering an injustice, I will always speak up'
I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye
"Starmer promised stability, service over spectacle and a government of national renewal. Instead, we got the muddle of endless U-turns, persistent stagnation in the absence of joined-up, large-scale strategy and now, a full-blown crisis"
- @rachelshabi.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
It took just 18 months for the Labour government to sink into the sand of its own morally adrift vacuity.
My piece for @thenation.com on Starmer, Mandelson and more
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Woah congrats!
Thanks for reading!
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.
Thank you!
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...
Once the Israeli hostages are out, Netanyahu and his far right coalition will absolutely want to resume their assault on Gaza. Will Israel’s Western backers and facilitators stop him? Will Israelis mount mass protests? Because that’s what it will take
Israel's genocidal war on Gaza - two years of hell on earth for Palestinians - could have ended at any time with pressure from the US president. There is no safe and peaceful future without justice, without accountability, without freedom for Palestinians
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...
Thanks so much for reading Paul
