Arifa

My new book is on radio this morning! 🌙 On @BBCRadio4 at 11.45am. It's being abridged all week. Tune in for all things night-time, folks! #BookOfTheWeek

Gaza is starving, and yes - Israel is responsible haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

Lammy "The grotesque spectacle of kids holding out their hand for food & being shot" Are you imposing sanctions on Israel? No Are you halting all arms sales? No Are you stopping all trade? No Are you ending all military assistance? No Are you expelling the Israeli ambassador? No

A tipping point has been reached. Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world. Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months. You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.

'What I learned from returning to my teen clubbing days' At 15, clubbing was a vital part of the Arifa Akbar's world. At 51, she heads to Berlin’s hottest club. bit.ly/4magmn9

Soldiers, pilots, conscripts, reservists — refuse. Refuse to kill, refuse to starve, refuse to annihilate. The price may be steep, but it's worth paying. I know—because I refused. More relevant and urgent than ever. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Netanyahu is laughing at us. Refusing to lift his despicable siege, he distracts by “offering” air drops. Europe plays along with his genocide while more Palestinians die of hunger. We cannot say we did not know” Stephen Bowen, Amnesty Ireland ACTION NOW amnesty.ie/taoiseach_tana…

You helped. You gave Israel military support and diplomatic cover. Your complicity in this horror is unspeakable and indefensible

Thank you @thetimes for this wonderful and perceptive review of Wolf Moon! 🌙🌒 thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Only slightly embarrassed by this photo 🤣 but thanks Observer newspaper for featuring this book extract about my night at Berghain in this coming Sunday's paper. Possibly the most exhilarating moment in my new book, Wolf Moon @SceptreBooks observer.co.uk/culture/music/…

A sober discussion about whether Israeli conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide, by ⁦@KenRoth⁩, one of the world’s leading human rights campaigners theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is one of those images you instantly know will appear in history books of the future. And people will wonder how we allowed this to happen.

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Even @nytimes is horrified Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Seeking Food Near Border nytimes.com/2025/07/20/wor…

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

We put the shocking photo of the father protecting his child on the front cover of Tribune 25 years ago. It didn’t all start on October 7th.

The Observer has now deleted the post, but shame on them for publishing such racist trash in the first place. The editor and “artist” still haven’t apologised. So much for accountability. Pathetic.

"The malnutrition I'm seeing is terrible and children and adults are dying as a result of it." British surgeon Nick Maynard speaks to @AyshahTull albout conditions in Nassar Hospital in Gaza, where he is currently working. Read and watch here: channel4.com/news/teenagers…

“Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

WFP Statement | #Gaza On the morning of 20 July, a 25 truck WFP convoy carrying vital food assistance crossed the Zikim border point destined for starving communities in northern Gaza. Shortly after passing the final checkpoint beyond the Zikim crossing point into Gaza, the…

‘Killed seeking aid.’ When did the world just sit back and let an increasingly rogue government do this to a civilian population, day after day?