** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail all cover Mondays’ discussion in the House of Lords over the delayed publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report with Lord Dykes asking whether the Government had plans to issue the report before ‘purdah’ sets in ahead of the next general election....
The Daily Mail draws attention to Leicester East MP, Keith Vaz’s question to the Attorney General in Parliament yesterday on whether the Government will meet with social media companies to encourage them to play a more active role in removing Islamophobic and racist material from social media...
The Independent and Daily Telegraph report on the Home Office consultation on the provision contained in the Counter terrorism and Security Bill, currently before Parliament, to introduce a statutory requirement on “named organisations” to “help prevent people from being drawn into...
The Essex Chronicle reports on the rallying of far right activists from Britain First in support of their leader, Paul Golding, as he prepares to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Monday. Golding is due to appear on charges of harassment and of “wearing uniform signifying...
The Scottish paper, Herald Scotland, reports on a call by human rights advocate Niall McCluskey to the newly elected Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, to end his association with the Henry Jackson Society. Herald Scotland reports that McCluskey, has asked Murphy to “consider his...
The Independent front page yesterday reports on the anti-Muslim abuse proliferating on social media platforms and the inadequate responses of social media companies to complaints about Facebook and Twitter users posting insulting and abusive messages online. Oliver Wright reports on some of the...
Muslim schools seem to be back in the news with the Independent front page yesterday featuring an interview with the chair of the Social Integration Commission, Matthew Taylor, discussing the commission’s most recent report, ‘Social integration: a wake-up call’. Taylor talks...
Al Jazeera and BBC News cover the UN Security Council vote yesterday on a resolution submitted by the Palestinian Authority calling for a peace settlement with Israel within a year and an end to Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian Territories by 2017. The vote required nine votes...
Randeep Ramesh in The Guardian reveals that the Henry Jackson Society has rescinded its secretariat role on the two all party parliamentary groups on which it serves, Homeland Security and Transatlantic Relations, after refusing to comply with new rules imposed by the parliamentary Standards...
Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, in a guest column in the Daily Express yesterday outlined the work being undertaken by the Department for Communities and Local Government to tackle anti-Semitism following an escalation in reported incidents in the last year. Pickles, referencing the DCLG...
