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William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

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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Born March 20

Joined November 2012

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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
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New from @EmpirePodUK THE ORIGINS OF GOD Where did the idea of one God come from? Not the God of any particular faith — but the very concept that there is only one, that all others are false, that monotheism itself is possible? This week on Empire, we go looking for the answer.
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Feb 13, 2025
The 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.
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Globe Eye News
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Feb 12, 2025
BREAKING: China says Gaza belongs to the Palestinians and that it is against forced displacement.
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Mar 3, 2025
Brilliant, brilliant Banksy
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
May 6, 2024
And now Oxford too...
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Dec 27, 2023
So 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: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete eradication. Netanyahu says he has barely
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Bruno Maçães
@MacaesBruno
Dec 27, 2023
Northern Gaza is no more. An unspeakable crime
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Sep 29, 2025
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William Dalrymple
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Jul 7, 2025
"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"
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BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
From owenjones.news
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Mar 15, 2022
Love this.
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Jan 1, 2018
Israeli 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."
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Dec 23, 2023
This 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 villages & built settlements over the ruins. Then they denied the Palestinians had ever been there or
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Nour Naim| نُور
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Dec 22, 2023
Israel is demolishing what remains of the houses, so it can't be restored. This is a full-swing plan to destroy all houses in the north of #Gaza so that displaced people who were told to go to south TEMPORARILY can't return; this is same scenario as what happened in 1948 & after.
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William Dalrymple
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Nov 19, 2025
Why 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...
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The Palestinian
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Nov 17, 2025
“I was brutally tortured inside Israeli jails. They electrocuted my eyes so that I lost them,” Abu Fool says...Gaza
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William Dalrymple
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Aug 8, 2025
When 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 survives....
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
Aug 18, 2025
Its called ethnic cleansing, @Reuters, and its a war crime
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William Dalrymple
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Nov 17, 2023
I 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," as they passed along the outer walls, smashing windows and breaking into shops. Now the Settlers
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Bruno Maçães
@MacaesBruno
Nov 16, 2023
Christian presence in Jerusalem under “existential threat”
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