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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Israeli military’s own data indicates a civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza – a figure largely unmatched in modern times except in Srebrenica, Rwanda and Mariupol www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Jun 20

Mahmoud Khalil is free

Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · Jun 20

Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · May 29

A beautiful, sad punch in the gut. How lucky we were to have had Bethan in the region to narrate this nightmare. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

‘I worried I might start finding it normal. But I never did’ – what I learned as the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent

After four years reporting from Israel and Palestine, our correspondent is returning to the UK. She reveals the grief, horror and hope that defined her time there

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · Apr 21

“In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.

That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”

Pope's frequent calls to a Catholic church made him a revered figure in war-battered Gaza

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Apr 7

Editors at student newspapers are grappling with a deluge of requests from terrified students to pull their names from stories
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US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech

Newsrooms forced to adapt as writers resign and request takedown of stories to avoid potential repercussions

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Mar 23

A brilliant essay by @lihiyona.bsky.social and @itamann.bsky.social on what the project to redefine antisemitism is doing to America
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The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Mar 18

"I am a political prisoner," Mahmoud Khalil says in his first statement since being detained
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‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs

Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time

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Andy Brownstein @andybrownstein.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thanks to the great @noayachot.bsky.social and our friends at @us.theguardian.com for publishing this timely piece from @lrj417.bsky.social of @the74.bsky.social!

How Amy Coney Barrett’s close friendship could affect the future of this major supreme court case

Recusal from case with huge implications for education could tilt scales in cause her friend spent a career defending

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Dec 20

Excellent, clarifying reporting from @alicesperi.bsky.social on how Gaza has rocked the genocide studies world.

Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · Dec 20

A pair of reports published this month mark a significant contribution to the raging debate over how to characterize a war that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and decimated Gaza.

But the reports are unlikely to quell deep divisions in the academic field of Holocaust and genocide studies.

Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars

New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Dec 17

Palestinians from Gaza are facing unprecedented violence yet are largely excluded from the international refugee system. @isabeau.bsky.social has a powerful investigation looking at how this can be

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Gaza has been besieged for 14 months. The US has hardly accepted any refugees

Palestinians seeking urgent protection in the US must navigate a Kafkaesque system that’s unique to them – and it could get worse under Trump

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · Nov 27

Time to learn how to use this thing, I guess.

I'll start with a plug for this brilliant essay by @astra.bsky.social about how it's time to change what we mean by "ground game" to more meaningfully reach people and speak to their needs www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it

Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

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