by Rachel Shabi.
Rachel Shabi is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported extensively on Israel-Palestine and the wider Middle East, including the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Her recent book, Off-White: The Truth about Antisemitism, received widespread acclaim. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown praises her ‘unique sensibility, embodying multiple identities and universal, non-negotiable human rights’.
Rachel’s lecture looks at the West’s selective empathy and deeper ignorance of racism in all its forms and argues for a genuine universalism rooted in consistent, principled antiracism.
The lecture will be live at Friends House and will be online for all attending the Quaker 2026 Yearly Meeting.
N.B. To watch online, you must be registered for Yearly Meeting to receive the link. The lecture will be recorded as usual, and will be available for viewing on YouTube some days later.
Quaker Socialist Society 