Alona Ferber
@paperdispatch
Senior editor @Prospect_UK ex-@NewStatesman @Haaretz @InstituteGC | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism | Sign up to my Substack: http://thebacklash.substack.com
This is an absolutely stinging rebuke of anyone and everyone that has turned a blind eye to what the Israeli government is doing to Gaza and the hostages. '...the more those who remain silent or cowed from speaking out will be complicit.' The @FT is correct.
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.'…
🎧Great to be this week's guest on @prospect_uk's podcast discussing my book, the immigration white paper, UK-EU reset talks and why I left the Home Office to report on it. Thanks to @paperdispatch and @EllenHalliday for having me on. open.spotify.com/episode/5iWLFi…
"MAGA meets the Middle East" - my latest for @prospect_uk on Trump, MENA --- and Netanyahu. What does America First transactionalism actually mean for MENA - Syria, GCC, and Israel/Palestine? prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-e…
300 people in 48 hours. How can anyone let this go on
Congratulations to this year's #30ToWatch Journalism Award winners in the Culture, Entertainment & Lifestyle category: 🏆@dansajose, @itvnews 🏆@emilylawford, @prospect_uk 🏆@sophiepeachey1, @thenewsmovement 🏆@AmirRazavi19, @TheSun Thanks to our category judges -…
US Amb to Israel Mike Huckabee made official visit Israeli settlement Shilo and met with head of Yesha council Israel Ganz, who is openly pushing for Israeli annexation of entire West Bank. I believe this is a first for a US official. Courtesy @arik3000
Minister Smotrich kicks out families of hostages from Knesset meeting, and says “We’ve heard enough of you.”
למה את חושבת שמותר לכם כל הזמן לסתום פיות של אחרים? שמענו אותכם. החוצה. תודה רבה. גם אנחנו שילמנו. יש פה משמר הכנסת?... מה זה צריך להיות? שומעים אותכם יותר מדי בכל מקום. אין פה אנרכיה בכנסת. שלום ולא להתראות. ככה עונה שר האוצר לאילה מצגר ומשפחות חטופים שהתפרצו לעברו בכנס-
🚨Israeli hostage families are trying to make a human chain around Gaza to physically block a ground incursion.
Now: Einav Zangauker and other relatives of hostages march towards Gaza calling to end the war
Yarden Bibas is begging the government—stop the war, you’re killing the Hostages. "That’s how I lost Shiri, Ariel, and little Kfir. The army pressure is putting the hostages in danger. A deal will bring them home. I’m terrified for my friends, David and Ariel Cuneo. I already…
Absolutely nuts. From a "buffer zone" three months ago to talking about an invasion of the Syrian capital
🚨🚨 #BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz have instructed the IDF to prepare to defend the Druze village of Jaramana, located on the outskirts of Damascus, which is currently under attack by Syrian regime forces: "We will not allow the extremist…
💥After Netanyahu threw around details of the Bibas murders for a 𝟑𝐫𝐝 time, this time to @AIPAC, ignoring the family's supplications, Ofri Bibas Levy, Yarden's sister: "We are learning new details via the media and the prime minister. This is pure torture for the family."
💥He doesn't hide it. For Netanyahu the Bibas family are not real people, they're useful props. It's a lesson some 75% of Israelis have taken to heart.
💥Despite the Bibas family begging him not to use the family's tragedy, Netanyahu brandished their picture at the IDF officers graduation ceremony & repeated details of their killing. Members of the public stood & turned their back to him–some yelling "why didn't you save them?!"
💥Despite the Bibas family begging him not to use the family's tragedy, Netanyahu brandished their picture at the IDF officers graduation ceremony & repeated details of their killing. Members of the public stood & turned their back to him–some yelling "why didn't you save them?!"
Almost 50% of 18-24 year olds went for either the Left or the AfD according to 🇩🇪 exit polls. Hyper polarisation.
The Bibas family has requested no government rep attend their funeral.
Remember that there were more IDF troops protecting illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank on Oct. 7 than there were in southern Israel near Gaza. Those reckless, expansionist policies have not changed, in fact they have accelerated.
Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why it’s NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/prosp…
This is the key change in Israel since October 7
The speed at which Israel went from "The Nakba never happened, it is a lie" to "Shut up or we will Nakba you again" to "Nakba here, Nakba there, Nakba, Nakba everywhere!" is pretty astonishing and, well, revealing.
Since the start of the “ceasefire,” israel allowed only 120 patients to leave Gaza. Israel is not allowing field hospitals to enter Gaza. Only 76 medical trucks entered Gaza. The medicine in them is not the most needed. There is a list of 35,000 patients who need treatment only…