William Dalrymple

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Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. 2024 Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.

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1Nov 17, '23I stayed in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem for several weeks in 1994, while writing From the Holy Mountain. I regularly used to hear armed Settlers shouting "Death to the Arab,"31.2×4.5M21k12k2.5k
2Feb 13, '25The US is behaving so monstrously under Trump that they've allowed China to replace them on the moral high ground of international law and human rights. It's that bad.28.6×4.2M173k17k3.9k
3Nov 10, '23It is open to debate whether Israel's massacre of ten of thousand innocent Gaza civilians constitutes genocide, at least yet. But as these clips from Netanyahu's civil and military24.5×3.6M16k7.7k3.7k
4Dec 27, '23So all you cheerleaders for "the most moral army in the world" with your claims of "pinpoint accuracy." Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: 19.6×2.9M28k12k1.4k
5Nov 10, '23I'm appalled by how many otherwise decent people see nothing wrong with this mediaeval slaughter of a trapped and penned civilian population- even as both the IDF and the Biden adm16.7×2.4M17k5.6k849
6Dec 23, '23This is what happened at the Nakba in 1948. Its exactly the same playbook. First the Israelis drove out the Palestinians with atrocities & mass murder. Then they demolished the vil15.9×2.3M23k13k1.8k
7Aug 8, '25When the Macedonian soldiers of Alexander the Great first broke into Gaza after the siege of 332BCE, they recorded what they saw and left the first eyewitness account of Gaza that 15.2×2.2M24k4.7k5.4k
8Jan 6, '24UN warns Gaza is now ‘uninhabitable’ as war continues Humanitarian chief fears ‘famine is around the corner’ with 85% of population displaced and more than 20,000 dead14.5×2.1M5.6k3.2k340
9Nov 3, '23A horrifying and blood-chilling compilation of clips and verified quotes from the current Israeli civil and military leadership calling for the levelling of Gaza and/or the extermi14.4×2.1M14k7.9k2.4k
10Mar 3, '25Brilliant, brilliant Banksy13.2×1.9M45k7k1.2k
11Sep 15, '24Just to put this out there with clarity: Robbie Gibb, who is responsible for turning the disgraced JC into a right-wing Pro-Netanyahu propaganda rag, is one of five people - includ12.4×1.8M8.2k4.6k440
12Oct 13, '23The most impressive politician in the United Kingdom in the last week of horror and crisis in the Middle East has been, without exception, @HumzaYousaf. While @RishiSunak, @Keir_St12.3×1.8M9.6k1.9k220
13Oct 30, '23Braverman doesn't even once mention the fact that nearly 9,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last two weeks: around three times the number of Americans killed in 9/11. It is11.9×1.7M12k3.9k398
14Oct 11, '23I am a life-long supporter of the Palestinian search for freedom and statehood , but this morning am feeling only utter revulsion, horror and depression at the press descriptions o11.9×1.7M8.2k1.2k427
15Jul 7, '25"BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our age"10.8×1.6M28k12k1.9k
16Nov 20, '23According to the translation, these kids are singing: "Planes are bombing, destruction, destruction... In a year there will be nothing there, And we will safely return to our homes10.3×1.5M6.4k3.5k995
17Dec 19, '23The UK Tory government has completely lost any moral compass it ever had. How could a sniper shooting Catholic civilians within a church possibly be justified as legitimate self de10.2×1.5M8k2.5k411
18Nov 8, '23Utterly unacceptable. We are watching ten of thousands of innocents being slaughtered with no escape. Our leaders have completely lost their moral bearings.10.1×1.5M20k9.4k527
19Nov 5, '23Important: Max Hastings overhearing the young Benjamin Netanyahu dreaming of a war when, "if we get it right, we'll have a chance to get all the Arabs out... We can clear the West 8.3×1.2M5.6k3.4k778
20Dec 16, '22Nalanda, the greatest centre of learning in ancient India.7.9×1.1M8k1.2k466
21Feb 5, '24Exactly what Israel did to 530 Palestinian villages in 1948 "so that they would have nothing to come back to." Everything the IDF do every day in Gaza is a reminder that Israel is 7.2×1.1M18k10k1.5k
22Nov 8, '23"Israelis marked a month since Hamas killed 1,400 people and kidnapped 240, starting a war in which 10,300 Palestinians are said to have died." Nothing at all biased about this des7.1×1M9.8k3k372
23Nov 3, '25Possibly the most shameful @BBCNews act of cowardice yet- a report about IDF guards raping Palestinian prisoners which doesn't dare use the word 'rape' Israeli military's ex-top la6.3×920k9.9k3.7k396
24May 6, '24And now Oxford too...5.6×821k31k11k595
25Nov 19, '25So many British people simply have not the slightest awareness of how much damage colonialism did to the societies that were colonised- because their education system teaches them 5.3×778k13k2.9k1.2k
26Nov 28, '23Very Important... Netanyahu explaining how he succeeded in wrecking the Oslo Peace Accords, neutering for Palestinian Authority and doing his best to stop a Two State Solution5.3×772k10k6.7k1.7k
27Oct 8, '25Well done @guardian for having the guts to publish this Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead5.2×756k13k4.9k951
28Nov 19, '25Why is the well-documented torture and rape of Palestinians being ignored by most of the media? @thetimes, @Telegraph, @BBCNews @nytimes have said not a word...5.1×746k28k10k801
29Jul 15, '25Not Gaza 2025, but Jaffa 1948, after the Nakba #ThisDidntBeginonOct7 #HistoryRepeating5.1×744k9.1k3.9k1.2k
30Jan 16, '24The UK Conservative Party is sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of Islamophobia.5.1×741k16k4.4k301
31Jan 26, '24The most heartbreaking photograph... The bare feet, the entwined bodies of two small kids... Take a moment to consider what the IDF sniper has done... This is a massacre of innocen4.9×719k10k5.3k388
32Jan 1, '18Israeli judge asked the Palestinian girl Ahd al-Tamimi: "How did you slap our soldier?" She answered : "Remove the handcuffs so I can show you how."4.8×023k11k8
33Oct 21, '25One of the most horrifying articles I have ever read in a British newspaper. "Israel carried out acts of murder, summary executions and systematic torture against many Palestinians4.8×695k13k6.3k1.1k
34May 21, '25View post on X4.8×693k19k3.4k484
35Feb 17, '25Over 200,000 tons of volcanic basalt was removed to carve the Kailasa Temple at Ellora...4.7×681k15k1.4k855
36Jan 11, '24This appalling @nytimes headline, which in an instant erases the 23,000 Palestinian dead in Gaza & the flattening of a metropolis as populous as South London, may win the Gold 4.7×681k18k5.7k615
37Aug 5, '19Let the Kashmiris be heard...4.5×021k9.3k64
38Apr 6, '24The worst Prime Minister of Britain since Anthony Eden, the man whose long series of lies & lazy misjudgements has done more damage to this country than anyone else in modern histo4.3×632k7.4k2.1k192
39Oct 11, '25Why would Israel refuse to release a respected surgeon? There have been reports from his lawyer than Dr. Abu Safiya has been severely tortured & presumably the Israelis now fea4.1×598k20k9.3k455
40Jan 5, '24Textbook case of the extreme prejudice Palestinians face in so much of the Western media. Horrible to watch this combination of bigotry, Islamophobia and ignorance being played out4.0×588k11k3.2k447
41May 11, '23I am very happy to say that on Thursday afternoon, at around 2.30pm, after four years work and 120,000 words, I finally finished The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the 4.0×584k7.2k528166
42Sep 29, '25Love this4.0×578k31k3.8k471
43Jan 2, '24Bullshit. It was a choice. No modern professional military HAS to bomb indiscriminately with dumb bombs and random barrages. No modern professional military HAS to murder civilians4.0×576k8.9k2.7k248
44Jan 24, '24I have rarely felt more ashamed of my country, both government and opposition, not just for tolerating but for actively enabling this daily mass-murder of terrified, trapped, unarm3.9×569k9k3.5k339
45Nov 3, '25Imagine the reputational damage Israel would have suffered had the mainstream media actually reported this story....3.9×566k18k5.9k808
46Jun 15, '25A reminder that even now, at the peak of Iran's attack, many more innocent people are being killed in Gaza than in Israel, and that you won't read a word about them in any Western 3.8×548k12k5.7k297
47Jul 10, '24Not just senile, but stupid, shameless, amoral and evil.3.8×547k14k3.5k249
48Mar 15, '22Love this.3.7×025k4.9k383
49Oct 3, '25I am in Italy & can confirm that the entire country seems united behind the slogan 'Viva La Palestina' "Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni. Strikes & demonstrat3.5×513k12k3.4k345
50Feb 7, '24Surprise! Half of Israelis don't want Palestinians to live as normal human beings, as citizens in their own state, but would prefer to keep them as stateless serfs sweeping Israeli3.5×511k7.6k2.8k523
51Jun 1, '24Hamas has accepted Biden peace proposal. Netanyahu has turned it down. But you'd wouldn't know this from reading the BBC's headline, which yet again seems to have been written by t3.4×500k8.9k3.5k410
52Sep 10, '25Completely dystopian & utterly outrageous. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, responsible for daily massacres, needs to be immediately closed & its staff put on trial for mu3.4×496k7.5k3.8k1k
53Feb 15, '24Here is the heart of the problem. It is not just the Israeli President who believes that all Palestinians in Gaza are guilty, as @CIJ_ICJ noted, many many Israelis agree with him, 3.3×487k6.3k3.1k663
54May 21, '24View post on X3.3×485k15k7k862
55Nov 1, '24This woman is a complete hero, as courageous as she is persistent and persuasive. In years to come, when a free Palestinian state sits alongside Israel and Netanyahu sits in a cell3.3×475k13k3.6k525
56Jul 23, '25To put this in context, the terrible 1929 Hebron Massacre, one of the worst tragedies suffered by the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine, resulted in 69 innocent deaths. It has 3.1×456k6.6k2.1k604
57Aug 18, '25Its called ethnic cleansing, @Reuters, and its a war crime3.1×449k23k5.2k268
58Jun 9, '24How can a massacre that kills 200 and leaves 600 wounded possibly be called 'a surgical strike' @thetimes ? Or does the Murdoch group not regard the Palestinians as human beings?3.1×446k7k2.8k178
59Mar 2, '24You need to learn some history, Anton. Like many Arab-speaking peoples, the Palestinians are a rich mixture of all the peoples whose genes have passed through the Levant over the c3.1×445k5.6k1.4k649
60Jul 8, '24Why does a terrible attack on Ukrainian children bring about an immediate response from our new Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer while he has said nothing about the horrible slaughter 2.8×403k7.7k2.8k212
61Jan 6, '24He deserves to end up in the Hague, getting the full Milošević2.8×401k8k1.6k141
62Jan 28, '25The words "ethnic cleansing", "international law," and "war crimes" are oddly missing in this article which is about all three.2.7×393k14k2.8k224
63Jun 21, '25Why is @BBCNews not asking this question?2.6×383k18k6.3k330
64Oct 22, '25Fascinating drop in traffic of the traditional media. I wonder how much this has to do with their clearly biased Gaza coverage destroying trust in traditional media, and the new sp2.5×364k7.4k2.4k610
65Feb 9, '24Sinn Fein making more sense, and speaking with more humanity, than all the pathetic English politicians put together2.4×352k7k2.2k277
66Feb 17, '24This image is so very telling of current attitudes in the IDF, whose soldiers are clearly unable to treat Palestinians with even a modicum of decency, humanity, or even to imagine 2.4×350k5.8k2.5k312
67Oct 23, '24Of all the propagandists out there delighting in the mass slaughter of Palestinians and Lebanese over the last months, few are more irredeemably vile than Douglas Murray2.4×348k5.9k1.4k498
68Jun 29, '16Farage spot on as ever (With thanks to @tweeter_anita )2.4×07.5k7.5k1
69Oct 10, '25Odd, given that the IDF, and their lickspittle lackeys in the UK press, and willing social media Genocide Fanclub members, (you know who you are) spent months telling us that the I2.2×325k6.9k2.7k281
70Oct 19, '25Trump got the Israeli hostages back and Netanyahu is now free to bomb what's left of Gaza flat2.2×321k6.8k3.3k158
71Sep 27, '25Netanayahu's government is trying to drive the Christian Armenians out of their quarter of Jerusalem2.2×319k8.3k4.1k600
72Mar 24, '24This2.1×312k7.2k2.6k486
73Aug 9, '19Nehru on Kashmir, Jan 1952, for anyone interested in a little historical context to recent developments... (via @PriyamvadaGopal )2.1×08k4.8k106
74Feb 20, '24Shameful, immoral and bafflingly irresponsible behaviour from @RishiSunak's dying government. So ashamed for Britain2.0×294k8.3k2.6k70
75Feb 11, '24Well cut off arms sales then, and show these war criminals that you're serious1.9×277k6.5k1.4k46
76Mar 21, '25Yet again, @haaretzcom states clearly what no British or American media outlet would dare to publish1.8×266k7.9k3.1k300
77Mar 7, '24Time for sanctions on Israel. Enough of breaking every tenet of international law. Israel already stands condemned in no less than 45 resolutions of the UN for building settlements1.8×263k7.8k2.8k236
78Sep 27, '25Astonishing that @BBCNews can relay the entirety of Netanyahu’s speech to the UN, without once mentioning that the world’s top war crimes court has issued warrants for his arrest f1.8×258k12k4.2k209
79Jan 9, '25The Quakers were among the first to mobilise against the Slave Trade. Good to see their moral compass is still working three hundred years later.1.8×257k11k2.8k456
80Mar 31, '21The Starving Buddha- Lahore Museum, c400 CE Arguably the greatest of all Gandharan sculptures1.8×012k2.1k334
81Aug 31, '25Israel doing its ethnic cleansing thing yet again1.7×243k9.8k3.4k194
82Mar 31, '24Corrected1.6×234k6.8k2.3k163
83Mar 2, '25Perfect1.4×209k7k1.1k268
84Jan 3, '21"Nationalism,” John Le Carre once said, is “quite different from patriotism. For nationalism you need enemies.”1.4×08.5k2.2k255
85Nov 3, '24My admiration for this extraordinary woman grows every day. She makes @DavidLammy & @Keir_Starmer, and most other W politicians, look like equivocating moral pygmies with their1.4×201k6.1k2.2k273
86Aug 21, '25No, pathetic, spineless, disgraceful @BBCNews - this is not a "controversial" project- it is an illegal war crime, designed to make a Palestinian state Impossible & ignores 47 1.3×184k8.2k3.6k239
87May 16, '21For anyone who wants to know more about the roots of the conflict between Palestinians & Israelis, I recommend these two excellent books: Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Pa1.2×06k1.9k939
88Jul 20, '25No Western newspaper has the spine to publish headlines as stark and tragic as those @haaretzcom1.2×178k7.1k3.8k295
89Jul 3, '25After watching a screening of @BasementFilms' remarkable documentary, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a profoundly moved @GaryLineker says, "The @BBC should hang its head in shame" for1.2×171k8.5k2.9k397
90Jul 10, '25Thank you, @PrivateEyeNews1.1×164k7.4k2k196
91Jun 15, '24Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan raises $1.2m for Palestine1.1×163k7.9k1.2k77
92Mar 5, '22Sadly true...1.1×07.1k1.8k49
93Sep 13, '25I'm old enough to remember when attacks on UN schools used to make the front page of the British press1.1×158k7.8k2.5k174
94May 24, '20"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Cicero1.1×07.7k1.1k77
95Sep 28, '19Some guy in a salvar kemise reading the Anarchy...1.1×06.9k1.3k43
96Sep 20, '25The words you are looking for @Reuters are 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide'. What is the point of being a news agency if you're too scared to speak the truth clearly and honestly?1.0×146k6.3k2.2k131
97Dec 23, '23Hear, hear!1.0×146k6k1.3k55
98Apr 21, '25Pity you ignored his pleas for the innocents of Gaza1.0×145k7.6k1.4k59
99Mar 7, '25"I was at the BBC for five years... It was in covering Gaza that I saw a shocking level of editorial inconsistency. Journalists were actively choosing not to follow evidence – out 1.0×144k6.8k3.3k415
100Jul 30, '24Stop Arming Israel NOW @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy0.9×132k7.2k2k57
101Oct 11Our @EmpirePodUK series on The Norman Conquests continues Part 2: ENGLAND IN 10660.1×13k821811

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