Ruth Michaelson
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Ruth Michaelson
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Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.

Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.

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Also isn't this just...grifting on people's fears? Maybe the realtors are friends of whoever runs this account etc– sounds like an easy way to profit off the fears they've spent months fuelling with their Islamophobic posts.
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"While his opponents described New York as broke, dysfunctional, and crime-ridden, Mamdani talked about the city as a lovely, if chaotic, place—full of tumult and injustices, yes, but also of life and possibilities."
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Turmus Ayya suffered a particularly brutal attack by masked settlers this week. When I asked the Israeli military if the attacker was arrested, they said the case was given to the Israeli police: Evidence of Israeli institutions working deep in Palestinian territory. De-facto annexation in action.
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
That Trump administration officials spoke out today about Israel's parliament voting on annexing the WB means nothing: De-facto annexation is happening on the ground, with US backing. I have never seen as much settlement construction as I did during this recent visit.
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Palestinian-American residents of Turmus Ayya do everything possible to document the attacks and send reports to the US embassy – these go ignored.

Instead US House speaker Mike Johnson + ambassador Mike Huckabee recently visited neighbouring Shiloh, where the settlers attacking them live.
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Worth noting: Robinson wanted to spread the message that his visit and talk are part of a great "battle for Western civilisation."

Yet a striking amount of his stage time involved him playing videos of himself, and insisting that he is "an investigative journalist." Fragile ego on full display.
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Quite possible, but the vibe last night was very much that there are "the good Jews" who are on board with what Robinson and the Israeli government see as their project, and then there are the bad Jews (or even, non-Jews) like the BoD or leftists or Jews critical of their project.
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Have you read Naomi Klein's Doppleganger? She refers to "the mirror world", this alternate reality that a lot of this exists in – and unfortunately that is a reality now forced on the rest of us.
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM