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@ChrisMcGreal

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Reporter, The Guardian. US. Formerly Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Mexico City, London, Perranporth. Author of 'American Overdose, The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts'.

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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
2 months
This is why Israel kept journalists out of Gaza. It doesn't want the world to see what @UNICEF describes as ‘utter annihilation’. “The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it.” by @burke_jason
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4 years
Crowd now moved on Arby’s. “We’ve got the meats bitch” shouted the man who lobbed a chair through the window. It’s clear protesters feel have free hand because despite periodic cries that National Guard is coming, no sign at all of them or cops
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
6 months
Israeli diplomat tried to pressure Bard College in New York to drop course on Israel's brand of apartheid. Boston Celtic's co-owner Robert Epstein resigned from Bard's board over course. @NathanThrall @BardCollege @celtics
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Former head of Human Rights Watch, @KenRoth , tells me how he was blocked from Harvard Kennedy School fellowship over criticisms of #Israel : "I falsely assumed that the dean of the Kennedy School values academic freedom." @HRW @Kennedy_School
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7 months
Columbia university barring journalists from covering today's pro-Palestinian protest on campus claiming it is in order to maintain "a safe community and workplace". @columbia @columbiajourn
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8 years
96yo Jean Matthews first voted in 1938, for FDR. Now backing @BernieSanders . "I'll just be sick if Hillary gets in"
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30 years ago, I reported on the Rwandan genocide as the world stood by. Afterwards, governments made another promise of "never again". Now they are failing Gaza.
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Shireen Abu Aqleh's famiy accuses US of covering for Israel: “If Shireen was killed in Ukraine, I’m 100% sure the reaction would have been completely different. There would have been action taken from day one." #ShireenAbuAkleh @LinaAbuAkleh
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@ChrisMcGreal
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7 months
An update. @Columbia have a change of heart. Now saying "we will be accommodating outside press on campus". Waiting for details. Thanks to all who helped throw a spotlight on this.
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
9 months
Open letter signed by prominent Israelis: “American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s longstanding occupation that … has yielded a regime of apartheid”
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@ChrisMcGreal
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Palestinian American supermodel Bella Hadid denounces Israel's far-right national security minister @itamarbengvir for his claim that Jewish settlers have more rights than Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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There is growing evidence Israel is targeting Palestinian journalists in Gaza. That's a war crime. Why isn't there more outrage at this, including from news organisations? @pressfreedom
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1 year
Israeli and international civil society organisations ask the UN to reject the controversial @TheIHRA definition of antisemitism because it is being “misused” to protect #Israel from legitimate criticism. Signatories include @btselem @hrw @amnesty @ACLU
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
1 year
Biden drops leading lawyer James Cavallaro's nomination to human rights post over calling Israel an apartheid state: “My nomination would not have affected US policy on Israel. What has the withdrawal of my nomination achieved?" @JimCavallaro
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
2 years
Would this be the same @ADL that attacked Nelson Mandela and sided with South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1980s because of its military alliance with Israel? The same ADL that illegally spied on anti-apartheid activists in the US?
@LaraFriedmanDC
Lara Friedman
2 years
After @btselem @YeshDin @hrw & @amnesty all conclude “apartheid” is correct word to describe Israel today, ADL still attacks @RepRashida for saying so, & can’t bring itself to deal with Israeli policy that sees journos as “armed Palestinians. They’re armed with cameras.”
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8 months
Former head of Mossad spy agency joins growing band of prominent Israelis saying their country imposes apartheid on the Palestinians: “There is an apartheid state here,” he tells @AP .
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2 years
The problem of the Israeli army investigating itself over the killing of unarmed Palestinians, by @mck_beth : "The overall purpose of this system is not justice: it is to repel internal and international criticism."
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Chris McGreal
2 years
Me on the orchestrated outrage over the Amnesty report - outrage that not only denies what many prominent Israelis say is true but, in effect, denies their right to say it @amnesty @btselem @DanielSeidemann
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4 months
Israel has joined a notorious band of authoritarian states with a history of imprisoning journalists by detaining Palestinian reporters without trial since the beginning of the latest war in Gaza, according to new report from @pressfreedom
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My piece for Guardian Opinion on the mistake western governments made in writing a blank cheque for Israel's war on Gaza: Amid the slaughter and with famine looming, Israel’s allies must say enough is enough. If not now when?
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Chris McGreal
3 months
My review of 'Against Erasure', a photographic collection of Palestine before the Nakba. "The book stands as proof of life of a Palestine many in Israel want to pretend never existed". @haymarketbooks
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Leading civil rights organisations condemn Harvard Kennedy School’s denial of a position to Ken Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch, over criticism of Israel. @KenRoth @ACLU @PENamerica @HRW @TheFIREorg @thenation
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
6 months
I worked with Ghada Ageel in Gaza during the second intifada. She is a third generation Palestinian refugee. Last week, 36 members of her family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis refugee camp. She has written about it for the Guardian.
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Chris McGreal
1 year
American right-wing pressure group accuses Israeli combat veterans of lying for speaking out against abuses of military occupation. #IsraelPalestine @origivati @rebeccametzer @BtSIsrael
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Chris McGreal
8 years
In precinct covering downtown Vancouver, Washington appears Clinton did not win a single delegate. Sanders takes them all
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Chris McGreal
3 months
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’. @CNN insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives.
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
7 months
Me on a generation of young Palestinian adults in Gaza shaped by childhoods amid death and destruction
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
2 years
@MarinaHyde Meanwhile in America...
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
2 years
‘Obsession’ is a word #Israeli officials use to try and discredit reporting about the realities of 55 years of occupation with no end in sight. Field hospitals in #Ukraine do not take away from that reality.
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Ohad Zemet
2 years
With @ChrisMcGreal in the @guardian its always the same story! Israel obsession constantly from the same angle. I've yet to see a piece on 🇮🇱's orphan intake, Israeli unis offering to accept students or the planned field hospital 🇮🇱 is due to set up in 🇺🇦
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Chris McGreal
1 year
New bill before New York’s state assembly to stop registered charities from sending tens of millions of dollars a year to fund illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank #Israel #Palestine @ZohranKMamdani
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Chris McGreal
2 years
"Weeks before, a 13-year-old boy died alone in a London hospital, separated from his family, who were also unable to attend his funeral... Every single person at the Downing Street party would have known that story" devastating by @MarinaHyde
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Chris McGreal
5 months
The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza amid the highest death toll of media workers in any recent conflict @pressfreedom
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Chris McGreal
2 years
Members of Congress call for #Israel to end “onerous and discriminatory restrictions” against #Palestinian Americans. Also condemn “arbitrary” process against US citizens critical of Israeli policies @RepMarieNewman @RepDonBeyer
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Chris McGreal
1 year
The original article is here. You can decide who to believe. Israeli soldiers describing their experiences or a Boston-based organisation that serves as an apologist for occupation.
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Chris McGreal
6 months
New York civil liberties group sues Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza. @theCCR
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Chris McGreal
1 year
In speech to US Congress, Volodymyr Zelenskiy compares Ukrainian soldiers to American troops who resisted Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in Christmas 1944
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Chris McGreal
9 months
Democratic Senator @ChrisVanHollen calls on Joe Biden to “get more personally engaged” in stopping “racists” in Israeli government or risk damage to the US’s credibility. Says should set conditions for US's massive military aid. @POTUS
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
4 years
Angry African American man tells white protesters to stop provoking federal paramilitaries at Portland courthouse because it distracting from rally for #BlackLivesMatter . Calls white protesters behaviour “racist shit” #portlandprotests
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Chris McGreal
10 years
Amazing apartheid regime lasted 45 years given major foreign powers & much white South Africa seem to be Mandela devotees all along
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4 years
The 3rd precinct police station burns as protesters chant “no justice, no peace” #GeorgeFloyd
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Chris McGreal
7 months
Just been told by @Columbia press office that journalists are barred from this afternoon's pro-Palestinian protest on campus in order to "a safe community and workplace". Astonishing for university with one of the best journalism schools in the US. @columbiajourn
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Leading Jewish Americans urge Biden to block visit by "Jewish supremacist" Israeli minister who wants to "wipe out" a Palestinian town: “Welcoming Smotrich here will harm, rather than help, support for Israel.” @jstreetdotorg @ADL @AIPAC @Conf_of_Pres
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@ChrisMcGreal
Chris McGreal
4 months
Netanyahu says Israel will maintain permanent military occupation and there will not be a Palestinian state. Which leaves two options: equality for Palestinians with Israelis or perpetual apartheid. Guess which Netanyahu has in mind.
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Chris McGreal
5 years
Brilliant, by the man who evidently understands the English better than they understand themselves
@fotoole
Fintan O'Toole
5 years
An extract from my new book Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain is today's Long Read in The Guardian The paranoid fantasy behind Brexit | Fintan O'Toole
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Chris McGreal
9 years
Israeli PM #Netanyahu tells UN that when bad behaviour is rewarded, it only gets worse. No sense of irony.
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Chris McGreal
4 months
BBC: Israel accused of targetting and killing group of Palestinian civilians with no links to armed groups and who posed no threat to Israeli forces, according to witnesses in the occupied West Bank. By @LucyWilliamson .
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Spoke to filmmaker @juliabacha about her documentary @TheBoycottFilm on laws to punish boycotts of Israel: " There’s a growing attempt to shut down the conversation because if you can’t win a debate, you try to not allow the debate in the first place."
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Chris McGreal
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A public feud has broken out between the US’s leading pro-Israel lobby groups @aipac & @jstreetdotorg over who represents the true interests of the Jewish state in Washington under the most rightwing government in its history.
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Chris McGreal
4 years
The 3rd precinct police station burns #GeorgeFloydprotest
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Chris McGreal
10 years
Netanyahu says Mandela a "freedom fighter who rejected violence". Not true. Stuck by right to armed struggle until struggle won.
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Chris McGreal
3 months
My piece on calls for #Biden to use his executive order to sanction political and settler leaders behind West Bank violence against Palestinians, and to stop US groups funding settlements. @truahrabbis @DAWNmenaorg .
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Members of US Congress demand PayPal end a ban on doing business with Palestinians in the occupied territories while permitting Israelis in illegal West Bank settlements to use the digital payment platform. @RepMarkPocan @repblumenauer @RashidaTlaib
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Chris McGreal
4 years
Portland. The tear gas flows again. If the Feds are leaving, they are not going quietly #PortlandProtests #BlackLivesMatter
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4 years
Minutes before Howard County caucus began, Alexandra Frost and Alexandria Van den Heuvel arrived to register as Democrats in order to vote for Bernie Sanders. Van den Heuvel is 21 and a first time voter. @guardianUS #IowaCaucuses
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Chris McGreal
2 years
"France’s ambassador to Haiti said France and the United States had effectively orchestrated “a coup” against Mr. Aristide, and that his abrupt removal was “probably a bit about” his call for reparations from France, too".
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Israel votes to strip citizenship from Arabs but not Jews convicted of terrorism: “An Arab who commits an offence is a conditional citizen. If a Jew commits the same offence or a more serious one, they don’t even think of revoking his citizenship.” by @mck_beth
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Chris McGreal
7 months
Amid all the noise, this @LRB piece by the excellent @adamshatz is one of the best about the Hamas attack and Israeli response. Particularly if you haven't been paying attention to what else has been going on there over the years.
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Biden and Netanyahu's far right government: “No administration has ever encountered an Israeli government like this.... They are going to go to extreme lengths to avoid a sustained confrontation with the Israelis.” @aarondmiller2 @elgindy_
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As George Zimmerman said: "Fucking punks. These assholes, they always get away." They do indeed George.
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Chris McGreal
1 year
My review of the documentary 'Boycott' about the flood of US state laws to punish boycotts of Israel: “I regret not knowing more about the issue when I voted. Having heard from my constituents, I probably would have voted against it.” @juliabacha @TheBoycottFilm @ArkTimes
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Chris McGreal
4 years
Ayanle Hashi who spent Thursday night guarding his Minneapolis apartment building as crowds looted shops below and neighbouring stores. “There are disabled and old people in this building. If it was on fire we would never get them out”. #georgefloyd
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Chris McGreal
1 year
Israeli Knesset member @KarivGilad warns of “rightwing forces in the Jewish community in America and ultra-right players” in the US behind Netanyahu's assault on democracy and tightening grip on occupied Palestinian territories. #Israel #Palestine
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Chris McGreal
2 years
This is worth watching.
@frontlinepbs
FRONTLINE
2 years
Our 3-part docuseries “The Power of Big Oil” charts when the fossil fuel industry began researching climate change & investigates the lengths to which it went to cast doubt on the science & influence public perception. Part 2 premieres on @PBS 4/26.
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This is significant. For years, the highly respected South African and Israeli journalist Benjamin Pogrund defended Israel from charges of practicing apartheid. Now he's changed his mind: "It’s like watching the replay of a horror movie." #israelapartheid
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5 years
25 years after the genocide of Rwanda's Tutsis, France is finally promising to investigate its complicity in the mass killings
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Chris McGreal
2 years
The always excellent @chakrabortty on ailing Britain: "Cabinet ministers dare not call a halt to the entire farrago, perhaps realising that under another leader two-thirds of them would struggle to find gainful employment as milk monitors."
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Chris McGreal
4 years
Inside trashed 3rd precinct police station #GeorgeFloydprotest
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Biggest turnout in weeks at Portland protests, including this woman
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4 years
Police moved against entirely peaceful protesters at 5th precinct and it turned nasty very quickly. Rubber bullets, flash bangs, tear gas. #GeorgeFloydProtests
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Chris McGreal
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An American doctor in Gaza: “I asked the nurse, what’s the history? She said that they were brought in a couple of hours ago. They had sniper shots to the brain. They were seven or eight years old.”
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Chris McGreal
2 years
Borisland: "One of the biggest donors to Britain’s Conservative Party is suspected of secretly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party from a Russian account". By @jane__bradley in @nytimes
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Chris McGreal
9 months
Those who signed what @CAMERAorg calls an "extreme, antisemitic petition" include a former speaker of Israel’s parliament @Avrumburg , renowned Holocaust historian & @TheIHRA honorary chair Yehuda Bauer, and Benny Morris, one of Israel's most respected historians.
@CAMERAorg
CAMERAorg
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In his latest attack on Israel and its supporters, the @Guardian 's @ChrisMcGreal promotes an extreme, antisemitic petition signed by hundreds of academics titled "Elephant in the Room." It's difficult to overstate just how dishonest and ahistorical this petition is.
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Chris McGreal
2 years
Aipac money is being poured into a handful of Democratic primaries in an attempt to block female candidates aligned with “the squad” of progressive members of Congress critical of #Israel .
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Chris McGreal
7 years
April 7 is Remembrance Day for Rwanda's genocide.
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Chris McGreal
2 years
This poor, brave mother
@JamesAALongman
James Longman
2 years
You rarely hear from mothers of Russian soldiers. This lady came up to us at an anti-war protest in Moscow, desperate for the safety of her 22 yr old son. She told us there were only 10 men left in his regiment. If there are voices Putin fears, it’s these
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The great South African journalist @justicemalala casts his eye over America
@justice_am_show
Justice In America
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Midterms are coming, and so is a new voice on YouTube. Justice Malala. Politics. Injustices. The winners and losers in America - all in one place. Subscribe to Justice In America. #politics #midterms #newshow #justiceinamericashow @justicemalala
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