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Alona Ferber retweeted
21 May 2025
๐งGreat 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/5iWโฆ
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Alona Ferber retweeted
16 May 2025
300 people in 48 hours.
How can anyone let this go on
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16 May 2025
RT @MHPGroup_: Congratulations to this year's #30ToWatch Journalism Award winners in the Culture, Entertainment & Lifestyle category:
๐@daโฆ
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Alona Ferber retweeted
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
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Alona Ferber retweeted
7 May 2025
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.
7 May 2025
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.' ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7โฆ
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Alona Ferber retweeted
18 Mar 2025
Minister Smotrich kicks out families of hostages from Knesset meeting, and says โWeโve heard enough of you.โ
18 Mar 2025
ืืื ืืช ืืืฉืืช ืฉืืืชืจ ืืื ืื ืืืื ืืกืชืื ืคืืืช ืฉื ืืืจืื? ืฉืืขื ื ืืืชืื. ืืืืฆื. ืชืืื ืจืื. ืื ืื ืื ื ืฉืืืื ื. ืืฉ ืคื ืืฉืืจ ืืื ืกืช?... ืื ืื ืฆืจืื ืืืืืช? ืฉืืืขืื ืืืชืื ืืืชืจ ืืื ืืื ืืงืื. ืืื ืคื ืื ืจืืื ืืื ืกืช. ืฉืืื ืืื ืืืชืจืืืช.
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Alona Ferber retweeted
18 Mar 2025
๐จIsraeli 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
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Alona Ferber retweeted
18 Mar 2025
Yarden Bibas is begging the governmentโstop the war, youโre killing the
Hostages.
"Thatโs how I lost Shiri, Ariel, and little Kfir. The army pressure is putting the hostages in danger. A deal will bring them home. Iโm terrified for my friends, David and Ariel Cuneo. I already lost Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir, but David can still come back. We have to stop the fighting and bring everyone home. That has to come first.โ
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Alona Ferber retweeted
1 Mar 2025
Absolutely nuts. From a "buffer zone" three months ago to talking about an invasion of the Syrian capital
1 Mar 2025
๐จ๐จ #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 Islamic regime in Syria to harm the Druze. If the regime harms the Druze, it will be harmed by us."
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Alona Ferber retweeted
๐ฅAfter Netanyahu threw around details of the Bibas murders for a ๐๐ซ๐ 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."
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Alona Ferber retweeted
๐ฅHe 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.
23 Feb 2025
๐ฅDespite 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 himโsome yelling "why didn't you save them?!"
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Alona Ferber retweeted
๐ฅDespite 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 himโsome yelling "why didn't you save them?!"
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Alona Ferber retweeted
23 Feb 2025
Almost 50% of 18-24 year olds went for either the Left or the AfD according to ๐ฉ๐ช exit polls. Hyper polarisation.
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Alona Ferber retweeted
22 Feb 2025
The Bibas family has requested no government rep attend their funeral.
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Alona Ferber retweeted
20 Feb 2025
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.
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Alona Ferber retweeted
19 Feb 2025
Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why itโs NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcaโฆ
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Alona Ferber retweeted
16 Feb 2025
This is the key change in Israel since October 7
15 Feb 2025
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.
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Alona Ferber retweeted
7 Feb 2025
Since the start of the โceasefire,โ 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 found outside of Gaza.
40 per cent of the kidney patients died.
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Alona Ferber retweeted
Netanyahu says Trump proposal for ethnic cleansing of Gaza is the โday after plan.โ He says it can only come once Hamas is destroyed. So then, itโs not about removing Hamas. Itโs about disappearing Palestinians
6 Feb 2025
ื ืชื ืืื ืืืขืงื ืืจืืืื ืืจืืืื ืืขืจืืฅ 14: ืชืื ืืช ืืจืืืค ืืคืื ืื ืขืื ืืื ืชืื ืืช ืดืืืื ืฉืืืจืืด.
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