[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@DalrympleWill](/creator/twitter/DalrympleWill) "How did tensions between Zionist settlers and Arab Palestinians begin to rise in Mandate Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979799312734486983) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T06:38Z 1.3M followers, 13.5K engagements "Trump got the Israeli hostages back and Netanyahu is now free to bomb what's left of Gaza flat" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979962107647975692) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T17:25Z 1.3M followers, 329.6K engagements "Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on: OTTOMAN GAZA: From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza With the great Eugene Rogan author of The Fall of the Ottomans & Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at theUniversity of Oxford" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976911910676447335) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-11T07:25Z 1.3M followers, 172.5K engagements "In Sweden a Man Digging for Earthworms Unearths One of the Largest Medieval Treasures Worth Thousands via @defencereview" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980551034390082022) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T08:25Z 1.3M followers, 4333 engagements "In this episode @tweeter_anita and I are joined once again by Eugene Rogan Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford to discuss the War of 1948 which led to the creation of Israel dozens of massacres the bulldozing of around XXX Palestinian villages and the ethnic cleansing of 750000 Palestinians" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980694248220680548) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T17:54Z 1.3M followers, 14.8K engagements "These two men look like bit-part actors from a Dickens adaptation- perhaps the lawyers from Bleak House. In fact they were the world's most successful ever drug-runners. Discover the world of Jardine & Matheson as our @EmpirePodUK miniseries VICTORIAN NARCOS reaches its climax" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1918092599870812226) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-05-01T23:58Z 1.3M followers, 22.1K engagements "In this episode @tweeter_anita & I tell the story of how Charles Elliot "Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China" was so hopelessly outwitted by Commissioner Lin that he landed Queen Victoria with a $XX million owed to Jardine Matheson and the other Victorian Narcos for all the Opium the Commissioner demanded be destroyed" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1919721289662791823) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-05-06T11:49Z 1.3M followers, 18.5K engagements "Anyone wishing to learn more about the background of Zohran Mamdani the brilliant new progressive Democrat Mayor of New York can listen to his father Mahmood talk about his family's migrations @EmpirePodUK" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1937789770748362875) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-06-25T08:27Z 1.3M followers, 197.6K engagements "@togo_miles @HarrisRichard77 Those nationalistic myths were blown away by the Israeli New Historians thirty years ago. Here is some reading to catch up on some real history not patriotic mythology" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1962601218062090709) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-09-01T19:39Z 1.3M followers, XXX engagements "When the lunatics have taken over the PR for the asylum" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1971577023375212806) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-09-26T14:06Z 1.3M followers, 25.4K engagements "Our @EmpirePodUK HISTORY OF GAZA SERIES CONTINUES. ☪ Episode 4: Gaza & The Islamic Conquest ☪ @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita are joined by Professor @peter_sarris to discuss how the Arabs rapidly conquered vast territories in the seventh century including the prosperous Byzantine port city of Gaza" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1973014831851565436) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-09-30T13:19Z 1.3M followers, 234.4K engagements ""At least XX Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1973895705946435966) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-02T23:39Z 1.3M followers, 259.9K engagements "@lost140089 @ABymps1 @davidgmwilson A total myth disproved by all the Israeli New Historians including Benny Morris more than forty years ago. Here is some reading to bring you up to speed" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1974599021890240994) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-04T22:14Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements "This largely forgotten World War One campaign that did far more than Lawrence of Arabia to defeat the Ottoman army on Palestine. but the promise of freedom for the Arabs was shortlived" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976299971940078040) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-09T14:53Z 1.3M followers, 15.5K engagements "In 1516 the Ottomans under Selim the Grim defeated the mighty Mamluk Empire in the Middle East taking control of Gaza. How did Ottoman forces punish Gaza for rebelling against them How was Gaza and Palestine ruled from Istanbul What was the status of Palestinian Arabs under Turkish rule" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976918564520005715) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-11T07:51Z 1.3M followers, 16.2K engagements "After the heyday of Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th centuries the power of Istanbul weekened and local autonomy became a reality. Economic growth driven by exports of cotton wheat and citrus fruits boosted the population in the coastal cities and widened the gap with the countryside. Farmers in Gaza grew barley for the breweries of Europe and their counterparts in the Galilee grea rich on exports of cotton" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976919683061174408) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-11T07:55Z 1.3M followers, 14.7K engagements "On X November 1917 only two days after Allenby's forces entered Gaza in London the Jewish Chronicle published a new British policy on Palestine. In a brief letter dated X February Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the declaration that would come to bear his name. The British victory at Gaza which brought with it the occupation of Palestine and the thirty year-long British Mandate would prove a huge opportunity for the Zionist movement. but usher in a catastrophe for the XX% of Palestinians who in 1917 were Christian or Muslim and begin a nightmare who repercussions are still being felt" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976927686783103482) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-11T08:27Z 1.3M followers, 9189 engagements "@MickeySchneider So have a read of the Israeli New Historians who will explain it all you very clearly. Ian Black is excellent too. You're welcome🙏" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1977058560631545957) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-11T17:07Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements "In May 1920 the San Remo conference granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under the Covenant of the League of Nations. The intention was to govern these former Ottoman territories until such time as they are able to stand alone. Instead the British worked to lay the foundations for the State of Israel in a country that had been until that point XX% Muslim & Christian Palestinian" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1978216330110095625) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-14T21:48Z 1.3M followers, 27.5K engagements "Insightful look at how the Pakistanis have successfully played Trump- one of the least expected developments in Indo-Pak relations Trump's puzzling Pakistan pivot" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1978730923664302559) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-16T07:53Z 1.3M followers, 16.6K engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK Our Gaza series reaches its climax with the outbreak of THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT 1936 How the Palestinians rose up for freedom against the British occupation of their land and how they were brutaly crushed 1936 now the subject of a major new movie is a vital piece of forgotten colonial history without which we cannot understand the modern Middle East" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1978776174856704293) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-16T10:52Z 1.3M followers, 78.9K engagements "Why were the notorious Black and Tans sent from Ireland to Palestine and what extra-judicial methods did they develop to enforce order and punish resistance" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979798315735855292) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T06:34Z 1.3M followers, 13.2K engagements "Who was Bomber Harris and why did he bomb and machine gun Palestinian villages in the 1930s And what were the radical new Night Squad techniques that Orde Wingate developed to crush the resistance of the Palestinians" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979806594037842304) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T07:07Z 1.3M followers, 15.3K engagements "William and @tweeter_anita are joined once again by Caroline Elkins author of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire to discuss how unexpected characters from the web of British imperial repression appear in Palestine during the Revolt of 1936-1939 using torture and violence to intimidate the Palestinians" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979809017846501567) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T07:17Z 1.3M followers, 18K engagements "One of the oldest urban centres on the planet: Gazas rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses learning about its past can help us better understand the present" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979166246504407401) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-17T12:42Z 1.3M followers, 202.9K engagements "If only @Keir_Starmer & his government had done everything to stop the genocide how many innocent lives could have been saved Instead they sold arms & provided cover & intelligence Government 'doing everything' to overturn Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979282967601254543) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-17T20:26Z 1.3M followers, 41K engagements "These findings corroborate what Physicians for Human Rights Israel has exposed over the past two years about conditions inside Israeli detention facilities particularly at the Sde Teiman camp where Palestinians have been subjected to systematic torture and killings by soldiers and prison guards. PHR said: The unprecedented number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli custody together with verified evidence documented of deaths resulting from torture and medical neglect and now the findings on the returned bodies leave no doubt: an independent international investigation is urgently needed" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980457816239554855) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T02:15Z 1.3M followers, 23.4K engagements "Fascinating 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 space this has created for other sources of news" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980922575686648155) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T09:02Z 1.3M followers, 282.7K engagements "Why 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 fear detailed accounts emerging about their war crimes against Palestinian doctors. But the truth will out" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976904949209743585) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-11T06:57Z 1.3M followers, 627.4K engagements "Those casualty numbers are going to carry on escalating" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1977292662450307400) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-12T08:38Z 1.3M followers, 94.3K engagements "Have you seen this @holland_tom Next Summer's Scottish trip we need to venture into @oliviafraserart's Highland clan lands and go Loch Ness monster spotting First Loch Ness Monster Sighting of 2025 Is Pretty Convincing" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980268761317003756) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-20T13:43Z 1.3M followers, 6446 engagements "Odd 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 Israelis weren't blocking aid and it was all the fault of the UN" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1976633950295765483) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-10T13:00Z 1.3M followers, 334.1K engagements "Which shows that by Israeli standards these days Netanyahu is relatively moderate. a horrifying reflection on the rest of the spectrum" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1981139737584030005) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T23:24Z 1.3M followers, 8396 engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK The Final Tragic Episode in our History of Gaza: GAZA & THE NAKBA" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1981194790969758175) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-23T03:03Z 1.3M followers, 5379 engagements "How did neighbouring Arab nations respond to the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 Why was the future Egyptian prime minister General Nasser stationed in Gaza in 1948 Did Jordanian Arab Legion collude with Ben Gurion" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1981198219305766932) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-23T03:17Z 1.3M followers, 1207 engagements "The trade connections of ancient Gaza It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices. From the exhibition Trsors sauvs de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe Paris" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1953401017908830266) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-08-07T10:21Z 1.3M followers, 365.9K engagements "New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1968665041281966495) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-09-18T13:14Z 1.3M followers, 1.2M engagements "Well done @guardian for having the guts to publish this Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18457 children on Gazas list of war dead" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1975841066655096905) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-08T08:29Z 1.3M followers, 723.9K engagements "My brave friend @NoaAvishag Schnall talks about her ordeal at the hands of the IDF kidnapped in international waters beaten (just look at her black eye) and threatened with rape: "I was hung from metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach back face ear and skull by a group of men and women guards. One of them sat on my neck and face blocking my airways. During the evening the men were tormented by the guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened by pepper spray. Our cell was awoken by threats of rape. We were put in wrist and ankle shackles."" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1978091056827666892) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-14T13:30Z 1.3M followers, 134.2K engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK The History of Gaza Part 8: The British Mandate & the Occupation of Palestine" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1978215443656548779) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-14T21:44Z 1.3M followers, 41.1K engagements "The history of Gaza is full of surprises: I had no idea it was home to a Christian Byzantine school of rhetoric "an important library that could compete with Athens Alexandria Beirut andConstantinople" and also an Festival of Roses that celebrated "the arrival of Spring and the workings of Eros" at which poetry was read- in other words a sort of erotic Gaza Litfest" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979286152617312366) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-17T20:39Z 1.3M followers, 54.5K engagements "One of the oldest urban centres on the planet: Gazas rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses learning about its past can help us better understand the present" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979437290846826642) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-18T06:40Z 1.3M followers, 171.5K engagements "On the Sadruddin Aga Khan pictures going on sale @ChristiesInc - possibly my favourite collection of Late Mughal and Company pictures in the world" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979569805473845522) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-18T15:26Z 1.3M followers, 30.4K engagements "Its like a nuclear bomb has hit: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation. All our memories were gone' Families are going back to Gaza City to find their neighbourhoods obliterated with many forced to camp in the ruins" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979648039796211825) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-18T20:37Z 1.3M followers, 33.8K engagements "Why are these major Israeli violations of the ceasefire not your lead headline @BBCNews" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979768464689754332) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T04:35Z 1.3M followers, 211K engagements "How is this a ceasefire if the IDF is still killing large numbers of Palestinians If it had been XX Israelis killed yesterday Trump would be authorising Netanyahu to unleashed the Apocalpyse. But because it's Palestinians he says nothing nor does his poodle @Keir_Starmer" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979770844747608066) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T04:45Z 1.3M followers, 79.2K engagements "New from @EmpirePodUK Our Gaza series reaches its climax with a double bill: THE BRITISH MANDATE & THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE and THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT 1936" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979795311066562587) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T06:22Z 1.3M followers, 74.3K engagements "In May 1920 the San Remo conference granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under the Covenant of the League of Nations. The intention was to govern these former Ottoman territories until such time as they are able to stand alone. Instead the British laid the foundations for the State of Israel in a country that had been until that point XX% Muslim & Christian Palestinian. By 1949 XX% of those Palestinians were homeless stateless refugees" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979797171211034947) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T06:30Z 1.3M followers, 15.1K engagements ""When Did Firecrackers Become a Diwali Tradition for Indians A Surprising Mughal Connection"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979905324418052120) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T13:39Z 1.3M followers, 100.1K engagements ""Israel has violated ceasefire XX times and killed XX Palestinians. Authorities urge UN to intervene to protect unarmed civilian populations after attack on bus that killed 11"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1979967460746096685) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-19T17:46Z 1.3M followers, 38.5K engagements "I've spent time in the wonderful Christian village of Taybeh on the West Bank which was again attacked by Israeli Settlers this weekend. This was my report for @nybooks: Disappearing Christians William Dalrymple The New York Review of Books" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980091579772907844) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-20T01:59Z 1.3M followers, 90.6K engagements ""At least XXX mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail. Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths"" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980320872377512306) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-20T17:11Z 1.3M followers, 136.9K engagements "Bringing Anarchy to Trinity College Dublin" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980432762105655474) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T00:35Z 1.3M followers, 2833 engagements "One 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 Palestinians @Keir_Starmer I hope you will be raising this at the UN" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980457330488824232) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T02:13Z 1.3M followers, 674.4K engagements "What was the UN Partition Plan for Palestine and why did the Zionist leadership accept it whilst the Arab Higher Committee rejected it" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980691820742078861) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T17:45Z 1.3M followers, 13.1K engagements "How did the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the War of 1948 affect Gaza" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980692285986881820) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T17:46Z 1.3M followers, 12.5K engagements "In this episode @tweeter_anita and I are joined once again by Eugene Rogan Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford to discuss the War of 1948 which led to the creation of Israel dozens of massacres the bulldozing of around XXX Palestinian villages and the ethnic cleansing of 750000 Palestinians" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980694331158925729) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-21T17:55Z 1.3M followers, XXX engagements "As soon as Trump is distracted by Vlad Netanyahu reverts to form and begins work again on Project Starve Palestine" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980808089084580090) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T01:27Z 1.3M followers, 14K engagements "These trophy pictures of captured Gazans which young IDF soldiers share for their friends to admire on tiktok remind me of the B&W shots taken by Belgian colonial officers in the Congo after cutting the hands off young plantation workers for failing to make their rubber quota" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980895977985962470) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T07:16Z 1.3M followers, 61.5K engagements "Trump's ceasefire applauded by "Where's Great Britain"'s @Keir_Starmer is completely meaningless as Israel continues to merrily demolish the remaining houses of Gaza. Netanyahus goal is clearly still to make life so impossible for the Palestinians both in Gaza & The West Bank that they will have no alternative but to leave" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980896655823237472) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T07:19Z 1.3M followers, 33.5K engagements "This sort of thing" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1980910228205105522) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T08:12Z 1.3M followers, 5727 engagements "With all due respect your comments reek of bigotry ignorance and Islamophobia. You need look no further than the Book of Genesis for an answer to your assertion: Genesis 21:34 explicitly states that the patriarch Abraham resided in "the land of the Philistines." In reality the Philistine Pentapolis and the Israelite kingdoms crystalise about the same time the late Bronze Age. Here is a list of pre-Roman references for you so you don't continue to propagate this politicized misinformation which robs the Palestinians of their history and attempts to erase their ancient claim to the land:" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1981107331053342960) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-22T21:16Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements "How did the population of Gaza double almost overnight with the influx of Palestinian refugees who had lost everything and what conditions did they face" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1981199240656494799) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-23T03:21Z 1.3M followers, XXX engagements "William and @tweeter_anita are joined once again by Eugene Rogan Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at The University of Oxford to discuss the Nakba the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948 and the creation of the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip" [X Link](https://x.com/DalrympleWill/status/1981201151770186238) [@DalrympleWill](/creator/x/DalrympleWill) 2025-10-23T03:28Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements
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"How did tensions between Zionist settlers and Arab Palestinians begin to rise in Mandate Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T06:38Z 1.3M followers, 13.5K engagements
"Trump got the Israeli hostages back and Netanyahu is now free to bomb what's left of Gaza flat"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T17:25Z 1.3M followers, 329.6K engagements
"Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on: OTTOMAN GAZA: From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza With the great Eugene Rogan author of The Fall of the Ottomans & Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at theUniversity of Oxford"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-11T07:25Z 1.3M followers, 172.5K engagements
"In Sweden a Man Digging for Earthworms Unearths One of the Largest Medieval Treasures Worth Thousands via @defencereview"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T08:25Z 1.3M followers, 4333 engagements
"In this episode @tweeter_anita and I are joined once again by Eugene Rogan Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford to discuss the War of 1948 which led to the creation of Israel dozens of massacres the bulldozing of around XXX Palestinian villages and the ethnic cleansing of 750000 Palestinians"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T17:54Z 1.3M followers, 14.8K engagements
"These two men look like bit-part actors from a Dickens adaptation- perhaps the lawyers from Bleak House. In fact they were the world's most successful ever drug-runners. Discover the world of Jardine & Matheson as our @EmpirePodUK miniseries VICTORIAN NARCOS reaches its climax"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-05-01T23:58Z 1.3M followers, 22.1K engagements
"In this episode @tweeter_anita & I tell the story of how Charles Elliot "Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China" was so hopelessly outwitted by Commissioner Lin that he landed Queen Victoria with a $XX million owed to Jardine Matheson and the other Victorian Narcos for all the Opium the Commissioner demanded be destroyed"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-05-06T11:49Z 1.3M followers, 18.5K engagements
"Anyone wishing to learn more about the background of Zohran Mamdani the brilliant new progressive Democrat Mayor of New York can listen to his father Mahmood talk about his family's migrations @EmpirePodUK"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-06-25T08:27Z 1.3M followers, 197.6K engagements
"@togo_miles @HarrisRichard77 Those nationalistic myths were blown away by the Israeli New Historians thirty years ago. Here is some reading to catch up on some real history not patriotic mythology"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-09-01T19:39Z 1.3M followers, XXX engagements
"When the lunatics have taken over the PR for the asylum"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-09-26T14:06Z 1.3M followers, 25.4K engagements
"Our @EmpirePodUK HISTORY OF GAZA SERIES CONTINUES. ☪ Episode 4: Gaza & The Islamic Conquest ☪ @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita are joined by Professor @peter_sarris to discuss how the Arabs rapidly conquered vast territories in the seventh century including the prosperous Byzantine port city of Gaza"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-09-30T13:19Z 1.3M followers, 234.4K engagements
""At least XX Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza""
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-02T23:39Z 1.3M followers, 259.9K engagements
"@lost140089 @ABymps1 @davidgmwilson A total myth disproved by all the Israeli New Historians including Benny Morris more than forty years ago. Here is some reading to bring you up to speed"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-04T22:14Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements
"This largely forgotten World War One campaign that did far more than Lawrence of Arabia to defeat the Ottoman army on Palestine. but the promise of freedom for the Arabs was shortlived"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-09T14:53Z 1.3M followers, 15.5K engagements
"In 1516 the Ottomans under Selim the Grim defeated the mighty Mamluk Empire in the Middle East taking control of Gaza. How did Ottoman forces punish Gaza for rebelling against them How was Gaza and Palestine ruled from Istanbul What was the status of Palestinian Arabs under Turkish rule"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-11T07:51Z 1.3M followers, 16.2K engagements
"After the heyday of Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th centuries the power of Istanbul weekened and local autonomy became a reality. Economic growth driven by exports of cotton wheat and citrus fruits boosted the population in the coastal cities and widened the gap with the countryside. Farmers in Gaza grew barley for the breweries of Europe and their counterparts in the Galilee grea rich on exports of cotton"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-11T07:55Z 1.3M followers, 14.7K engagements
"On X November 1917 only two days after Allenby's forces entered Gaza in London the Jewish Chronicle published a new British policy on Palestine. In a brief letter dated X February Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the declaration that would come to bear his name. The British victory at Gaza which brought with it the occupation of Palestine and the thirty year-long British Mandate would prove a huge opportunity for the Zionist movement. but usher in a catastrophe for the XX% of Palestinians who in 1917 were Christian or Muslim and begin a nightmare who repercussions are still being felt"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-11T08:27Z 1.3M followers, 9189 engagements
"@MickeySchneider So have a read of the Israeli New Historians who will explain it all you very clearly. Ian Black is excellent too. You're welcome🙏"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-11T17:07Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements
"In May 1920 the San Remo conference granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under the Covenant of the League of Nations. The intention was to govern these former Ottoman territories until such time as they are able to stand alone. Instead the British worked to lay the foundations for the State of Israel in a country that had been until that point XX% Muslim & Christian Palestinian"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-14T21:48Z 1.3M followers, 27.5K engagements
"Insightful look at how the Pakistanis have successfully played Trump- one of the least expected developments in Indo-Pak relations Trump's puzzling Pakistan pivot"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-16T07:53Z 1.3M followers, 16.6K engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK Our Gaza series reaches its climax with the outbreak of THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT 1936 How the Palestinians rose up for freedom against the British occupation of their land and how they were brutaly crushed 1936 now the subject of a major new movie is a vital piece of forgotten colonial history without which we cannot understand the modern Middle East"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-16T10:52Z 1.3M followers, 78.9K engagements
"Why were the notorious Black and Tans sent from Ireland to Palestine and what extra-judicial methods did they develop to enforce order and punish resistance"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T06:34Z 1.3M followers, 13.2K engagements
"Who was Bomber Harris and why did he bomb and machine gun Palestinian villages in the 1930s And what were the radical new Night Squad techniques that Orde Wingate developed to crush the resistance of the Palestinians"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T07:07Z 1.3M followers, 15.3K engagements
"William and @tweeter_anita are joined once again by Caroline Elkins author of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire to discuss how unexpected characters from the web of British imperial repression appear in Palestine during the Revolt of 1936-1939 using torture and violence to intimidate the Palestinians"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T07:17Z 1.3M followers, 18K engagements
"One of the oldest urban centres on the planet: Gazas rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses learning about its past can help us better understand the present"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-17T12:42Z 1.3M followers, 202.9K engagements
"If only @Keir_Starmer & his government had done everything to stop the genocide how many innocent lives could have been saved Instead they sold arms & provided cover & intelligence Government 'doing everything' to overturn Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-17T20:26Z 1.3M followers, 41K engagements
"These findings corroborate what Physicians for Human Rights Israel has exposed over the past two years about conditions inside Israeli detention facilities particularly at the Sde Teiman camp where Palestinians have been subjected to systematic torture and killings by soldiers and prison guards. PHR said: The unprecedented number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli custody together with verified evidence documented of deaths resulting from torture and medical neglect and now the findings on the returned bodies leave no doubt: an independent international investigation is urgently needed"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T02:15Z 1.3M followers, 23.4K engagements
"Fascinating 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 space this has created for other sources of news"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T09:02Z 1.3M followers, 282.7K engagements
"Why 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 fear detailed accounts emerging about their war crimes against Palestinian doctors. But the truth will out"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-11T06:57Z 1.3M followers, 627.4K engagements
"Those casualty numbers are going to carry on escalating"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-12T08:38Z 1.3M followers, 94.3K engagements
"Have you seen this @holland_tom Next Summer's Scottish trip we need to venture into @oliviafraserart's Highland clan lands and go Loch Ness monster spotting First Loch Ness Monster Sighting of 2025 Is Pretty Convincing"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-20T13:43Z 1.3M followers, 6446 engagements
"Odd 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 Israelis weren't blocking aid and it was all the fault of the UN"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-10T13:00Z 1.3M followers, 334.1K engagements
"Which shows that by Israeli standards these days Netanyahu is relatively moderate. a horrifying reflection on the rest of the spectrum"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T23:24Z 1.3M followers, 8396 engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK The Final Tragic Episode in our History of Gaza: GAZA & THE NAKBA"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-23T03:03Z 1.3M followers, 5379 engagements
"How did neighbouring Arab nations respond to the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 Why was the future Egyptian prime minister General Nasser stationed in Gaza in 1948 Did Jordanian Arab Legion collude with Ben Gurion"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-23T03:17Z 1.3M followers, 1207 engagements
"The trade connections of ancient Gaza It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices. From the exhibition Trsors sauvs de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe Paris"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-08-07T10:21Z 1.3M followers, 365.9K engagements
"New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-09-18T13:14Z 1.3M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Well done @guardian for having the guts to publish this Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18457 children on Gazas list of war dead"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-08T08:29Z 1.3M followers, 723.9K engagements
"My brave friend @NoaAvishag Schnall talks about her ordeal at the hands of the IDF kidnapped in international waters beaten (just look at her black eye) and threatened with rape: "I was hung from metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach back face ear and skull by a group of men and women guards. One of them sat on my neck and face blocking my airways. During the evening the men were tormented by the guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened by pepper spray. Our cell was awoken by threats of rape. We were put in wrist and ankle shackles.""
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-14T13:30Z 1.3M followers, 134.2K engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK The History of Gaza Part 8: The British Mandate & the Occupation of Palestine"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-14T21:44Z 1.3M followers, 41.1K engagements
"The history of Gaza is full of surprises: I had no idea it was home to a Christian Byzantine school of rhetoric "an important library that could compete with Athens Alexandria Beirut andConstantinople" and also an Festival of Roses that celebrated "the arrival of Spring and the workings of Eros" at which poetry was read- in other words a sort of erotic Gaza Litfest"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-17T20:39Z 1.3M followers, 54.5K engagements
"One of the oldest urban centres on the planet: Gazas rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses learning about its past can help us better understand the present"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-18T06:40Z 1.3M followers, 171.5K engagements
"On the Sadruddin Aga Khan pictures going on sale @ChristiesInc - possibly my favourite collection of Late Mughal and Company pictures in the world"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-18T15:26Z 1.3M followers, 30.4K engagements
"Its like a nuclear bomb has hit: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation. All our memories were gone' Families are going back to Gaza City to find their neighbourhoods obliterated with many forced to camp in the ruins"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-18T20:37Z 1.3M followers, 33.8K engagements
"Why are these major Israeli violations of the ceasefire not your lead headline @BBCNews"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T04:35Z 1.3M followers, 211K engagements
"How is this a ceasefire if the IDF is still killing large numbers of Palestinians If it had been XX Israelis killed yesterday Trump would be authorising Netanyahu to unleashed the Apocalpyse. But because it's Palestinians he says nothing nor does his poodle @Keir_Starmer"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T04:45Z 1.3M followers, 79.2K engagements
"New from @EmpirePodUK Our Gaza series reaches its climax with a double bill: THE BRITISH MANDATE & THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE and THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT 1936"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T06:22Z 1.3M followers, 74.3K engagements
"In May 1920 the San Remo conference granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under the Covenant of the League of Nations. The intention was to govern these former Ottoman territories until such time as they are able to stand alone. Instead the British laid the foundations for the State of Israel in a country that had been until that point XX% Muslim & Christian Palestinian. By 1949 XX% of those Palestinians were homeless stateless refugees"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T06:30Z 1.3M followers, 15.1K engagements
""When Did Firecrackers Become a Diwali Tradition for Indians A Surprising Mughal Connection""
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T13:39Z 1.3M followers, 100.1K engagements
""Israel has violated ceasefire XX times and killed XX Palestinians. Authorities urge UN to intervene to protect unarmed civilian populations after attack on bus that killed 11""
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-19T17:46Z 1.3M followers, 38.5K engagements
"I've spent time in the wonderful Christian village of Taybeh on the West Bank which was again attacked by Israeli Settlers this weekend. This was my report for @nybooks: Disappearing Christians William Dalrymple The New York Review of Books"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-20T01:59Z 1.3M followers, 90.6K engagements
""At least XXX mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail. Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths""
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-20T17:11Z 1.3M followers, 136.9K engagements
"Bringing Anarchy to Trinity College Dublin"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T00:35Z 1.3M followers, 2833 engagements
"One 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 Palestinians @Keir_Starmer I hope you will be raising this at the UN"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T02:13Z 1.3M followers, 674.4K engagements
"What was the UN Partition Plan for Palestine and why did the Zionist leadership accept it whilst the Arab Higher Committee rejected it"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T17:45Z 1.3M followers, 13.1K engagements
"How did the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the War of 1948 affect Gaza"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T17:46Z 1.3M followers, 12.5K engagements
"In this episode @tweeter_anita and I are joined once again by Eugene Rogan Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford to discuss the War of 1948 which led to the creation of Israel dozens of massacres the bulldozing of around XXX Palestinian villages and the ethnic cleansing of 750000 Palestinians"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-21T17:55Z 1.3M followers, XXX engagements
"As soon as Trump is distracted by Vlad Netanyahu reverts to form and begins work again on Project Starve Palestine"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T01:27Z 1.3M followers, 14K engagements
"These trophy pictures of captured Gazans which young IDF soldiers share for their friends to admire on tiktok remind me of the B&W shots taken by Belgian colonial officers in the Congo after cutting the hands off young plantation workers for failing to make their rubber quota"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T07:16Z 1.3M followers, 61.5K engagements
"Trump's ceasefire applauded by "Where's Great Britain"'s @Keir_Starmer is completely meaningless as Israel continues to merrily demolish the remaining houses of Gaza. Netanyahus goal is clearly still to make life so impossible for the Palestinians both in Gaza & The West Bank that they will have no alternative but to leave"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T07:19Z 1.3M followers, 33.5K engagements
"This sort of thing"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T08:12Z 1.3M followers, 5727 engagements
"With all due respect your comments reek of bigotry ignorance and Islamophobia. You need look no further than the Book of Genesis for an answer to your assertion: Genesis 21:34 explicitly states that the patriarch Abraham resided in "the land of the Philistines." In reality the Philistine Pentapolis and the Israelite kingdoms crystalise about the same time the late Bronze Age. Here is a list of pre-Roman references for you so you don't continue to propagate this politicized misinformation which robs the Palestinians of their history and attempts to erase their ancient claim to the land:"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-22T21:16Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements
"How did the population of Gaza double almost overnight with the influx of Palestinian refugees who had lost everything and what conditions did they face"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-23T03:21Z 1.3M followers, XXX engagements
"William and @tweeter_anita are joined once again by Eugene Rogan Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at The University of Oxford to discuss the Nakba the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948 and the creation of the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip"
X Link @DalrympleWill 2025-10-23T03:28Z 1.3M followers, XX engagements
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