Rachel Shabi

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Early life

Born in Israel to Iraqi Jewish parents[1] in Ramat Gan,[2] Shabi grew up in the UK. She studied politics and literature at the University of Edinburgh.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Career

Shabi is a journalist based in the UK, having also reported from the Middle East including on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and from Tunisia and Egypt. As well as focusing on the Middle East, she writes about progressive politics, the far right, counter-extremism and migration. She is also the author of We Look Like the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, and appears as a commentator on international news channels.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Shabi has written for publications including The Guardian,[3] The New York Times,[4] the London Times, The Independent,[5] Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy, Prospect and the New Statesman.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Her book, We Look Like the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, was published in 2009. In the work, Shabi argued that Israel has discriminated against and culturally stripped its population of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries. The book received a National Jewish Book Award.[6]

Shabi was shortlisted for the 2011 Orwell journalism prize[7] and was a joint winner in the Press Category of the Anna Lindh Journalist Award for reporting across cultures (for her article "We were looking for a nice, peaceful place near Jerusalem", published by The Guardian) the same year.[8] In 2013, Shabi won the International Media Awards' Cutting Edge Media award.[9]

In September 2017, Iain Dale placed Shabi at No. 30 on his list of 'The 100 Most Influential People on the Left', up sixty places on his previous listing, noting that, "Omnipresent on our screens, the redoubtable Shabi is one of the few Corbyn supporting commentators to be taken seriously by the media. Thoughtful and fluent, she deserves her massive rise in this year's list."[10]

Shabi identifies as an Arab Jew and has lamented the stigmatisation of Arab-Jewish culture in Israel.[11]

In March 2025, Shabi signed an open letter to British Secretary of State David Lammy, asking him and the British government to pressure Israel into ending the Gaza war following a second raid on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, denouncing Israel's actions as "genocidal violence".[12]

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