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Chris McGreal

@chrismcgreal.bsky.social
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Journalist. London. Formerly New York, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Perranporth. Author of 'American Overdose, The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts'.

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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Threats by the Israeli military, government ministers and far-right activists have intensified against the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
Human rights organisations express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements. By Aamna Mohdin. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements
Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nesrine Malik excellent on the Israeli right's plans to escalate the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians: "The question now is, why are these people not being taken at their word? Why is there no sense of urgency and outrage?". @nesrinemalik.bsky.social . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The pro-Israel lobby is the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history. It has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump. By @eliclifton.com & Ian Lustick www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump | Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton
Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Led By Donkeys: “Palestine protests are treated differently in Britain to all other forms of activism. Direct action is regarded as terrorism and words on a placard are rendered illegal." @ledbydonkeys.org www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Led By Donkeys wins compensation over seizure of Gaza protest banner
Waste firm Veolia pays £27k after ‘Yes It’s A Genocide’ banner taken by Greater London Authority was destroyed
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So it turns out that the cause of decades of US political turmoil is.... Cuba! And it still threatens to bring down the republic. Which comes as a bit of a revelation to Cubans wondering when the power will be back on. Great read by Ruaridh Nicoll. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors is almost unrecognisable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli detention and faces “tangible danger to his life” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Israel’s defence minister said he is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory - Emma Graham-Harrison in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead
Human rights groups and lawyers say policy amounts to ethnic cleansing
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Rachel Shabi on the Maccabi Tel Aviv madness: the govt has turned against a police chief for the sake of an Israeli football club, stoking conspiracy about an Islamist plot in the police.. all out of a claimed concern for antisemitism. rachelshabi.substack.com/p/maccabi-te...
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Maccabi Tel Aviv - again
In which our politicians sided with football hooligans and against police chiefs
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"It’s time to start treating Israel like apartheid-era South Africa". Excellent column by Alan Rusbridger in which yours truly gets an honourable mention. @arusbridger.bsky.social alanrusbridger.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
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It’s time to start treating Israel like apartheid-era South Africa
Its government has shown that international condemnation of the horrors in Gaza carries no weight. It is time for action.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The BBC is now in a fight for its life. It enemies will be happy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The BBC is in a fight for its survival
The BBC only has itself to blame for its handling of a serious error in a documentary on Trump. But its demise—as the US media landscape shows—would l...
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Over the past 22 months, the war in Gaza has become the most deadly conflict for journalists in history. By @anniekelly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"Al Jazeera told me that he was sent a warning by Israeli intelligence and told to stop reporting." Chapter and verse from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social‬ on Israel's campaign of murder of Palestinian journalists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik
Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
In the UK you can be arrested for flying a Palestinian flag but it's fine to send millions of pounds to an illegal Jewish settlement responsible for racist violence & ethnically cleansing Palestinians. Story by the great Haroon Siddique. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
Charity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about £5.7m to high school in illegal village of Susya
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Israeli army and police protect Jewish settlers expelling Palestinians from their homes and land in latest bout of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. By @quiquek.bsky.social and Emma Graham-Harrison. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village
Two settlers under UK sanctions among those who carried out intimidation campaign under Israeli authorities’ watch
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Israeli lies and the Biden administration's craveness / collusion in the coverup of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Who killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – and why? | Dion Nissenbaum
You may think you know the story of the US citizen killed by Israeli forces, but you probably don’t
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How Israel lies and lies and lies about killing Palestinian civilians, by @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Gaza medic deaths just the latest in Israel’s long history of changing its story over civilian killings
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Israel's security service says Netanyahu paved way for Oct 7 attack by helping Hamas including in "acquiescence in the flow of funds from Qatar to Gaza, a policy designed to divide Palestinians by boosting Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian state". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel’s Shin Bet says Netanyahu policies helped pave way for 7 October
Report by security agency says ‘policy of quiet’ towards Hamas allowed it to build up resources for 2023 attack
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Important and insightful read by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The great Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman collaborate on Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...
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Two artists, one catastrophic war … Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman on Israel-Gaza and the ceasefire – cartoon
What happens when two comics artists ‘meet on the page’ to explore the tragedies of the Israel-Gaza war? Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, and Joe Sacco,...
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear & lobbying on behalf of Elon Musk's business interests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear
Trump’s asylum offer to South Africa’s white minority follows years of AfriForum lobbying on Elon Musk’s behalf
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Wonder if this will prompt the same revulsion, outrage and long BBC debates as the Hamas attack on Israel. Guessing not. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire
Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/01/2025
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the…
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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It's US publication day for my new book, Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-Wh...
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Off-White
Why can't we talk about antisemitism? 'I cannot wait for Off-White to be read, debated and put into practice.' Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger ...
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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Spurious claims of antisemitism are alarmingly used both to silence critics of Israel and to shore up support for the far right. I wrote on how this dangerous mix undermines our joint fight against all racism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The term ‘antisemitism’ has been weaponised and stripped of meaning – and that’s incredibly dangerous | Rachel Shabi
Israel uses it to silence critics of its Gaza war while the right uses it to attack opponents. Meanwhile, the issue itself goes unaddressed, says author Rachel Shabi
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter’s book on Israeli apartheid was called antisemitic – but was it prescient? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Carter’s book on Israeli ‘apartheid’ was called antisemitic – but was it prescient?
The ex-president was pilloried for his characterisation of the Palestinians’ plight but some say an apology is in order
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Gaza: ‘Everything is gone’, how Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Everything is gone’: how Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp
A chronicle of Jabaliya’s destruction, using eyewitness accounts, satellite imagery and video footage
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
BBC research finds Facebook "severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience" during Israel's war on Gaza & Instagram "increased its moderation of Palestinian user comment". www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids by @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/b...
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Drugmakers Paid PBMs Not to Restrict Opioid Prescriptions
Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I've joined other present and former Guardian and Observer foreign staff in signing this letter expressing "our alarm and dismay" at the planned sale of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, and the manner in which the Scott Trust has handled it. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | Letter
Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Brian Thompson’s killing inspired rage – against the healthcare industry: "... this isn’t to condone violence whatsoever. All I’m saying is that I do not doubt for a second what the motive of that suspect was.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Brian Thompson’s killing inspired rage – against the healthcare industry
Thousands of Americans go bankrupt, lose their homes or die every year due to medical insurer practices
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Israel's brand of apartheid has long been most evident in Hebron. But, as Bethan McKernan reports, there has been a sharp increase in Israeli military violence against Palestinian civilians in the city since Oct 7 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Israeli soldiers conducting campaign of ‘beatings and abuse’ in Hebron
Guardian findings back up research by rights group which reveals ‘shocking behavioural norms’ of Israeli soldiers
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Accused war criminal status will be hard stigma for Netanyahu to shrug off, by @julianborger.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Accused war criminal status will be hard stigma for Netanyahu to shrug off
Enormity of charges issued by ICC against Israeli prime minister and defence minister could grow heavier over time
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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Israeli troops and settlers are killing Palestinian children in the West Bank at a rate of one every other day. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate
Huge rise in attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 171 children in year after 7 October
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