MEND is pleased to announce the release of a new and important briefing paper titled, No Race to the Bottom: Avoiding Further Curbs to Freedom of Speech Under Labour. The briefing argues that our democracy, and particularly freedom of speech, is being put at risk by government actors who...
Earlier this month, a 22-year-old student was assaulted while outside the library of Edinburgh University in what the police described as a “despicable” racist attack. The unnamed student was subjected to violence and a barrage of racial slurs, with one attacker even attempting to hit him over...
Accusations of institutional racism have been levied against the handling of the tragic case of Shukri Abdi, who died in 2019. The drowning of the 12-year old school-girl has been ruled accidental after the conclusion of a recent inquest. Shukri Abdi, who first came to the UK as a refugee with her...
Peter R. Neumann, a senior counter-terrorism professor at King’s College London (KCL), is currently under investigation after his Islamophobic encounter with Dr Tarek Younis, an early-career Muslim academic, during a Twitter exchange. Professor Neumann’s actions were unbefitting of an...
The extremely controversial David Goodhart, who has previously bemoaned that he has “grown used to being accused of racism” and a supporter of the Home Office’s “hostile environment” policy, has been appointed to the board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Indeed,...
Pressure mounts for the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester to step down after a student was racially profiled, amidst anger over the universities mishandlings of the Covid-19 lockdown. First-year student Zac Adan was pinned to the wall by a security officer and made to present ID...
It’s Anti-Bullying Week in the UK, an event which finds schools, workplaces, and organizations coming together in an effort to stop abusive behavior. This year’s awareness week theme is United Against Bullying, encouraging all to come together in solidarity to put an end to bullies in...
As part of Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM) the founder of MEND, Mr Sufyan Ismail was scheduled to speak at an event hosted by the Civil Service Muslim Network (CSMN) this coming Thursday on the topic of Islamophobia in the global context. This event was designed as a forum for...
A teenage neo-Nazi who was said to be “obsessed” with mass shootings has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for preparing acts of terrorism. Paul Dunleavy, who is 17, used online platforms to research how to convert a blank-firing gun into a live weapon and provided “advice and...
William Shawcross is the reported frontrunner for leading an independent review of PREVENT, casting concerns over the potential credibility of the review given his longstanding history of propagating Islamophobic views. The nomination of someone who has so prominently platformed anti-Muslim...
Two Black men were stopped and searched by Metropolitan police officers on suspicion of exchanging drugs simply because they had bumped fists; a tangible example of the flawed and discriminatory tactics that form the basis of stop and search. That a fist bump, deemed a “suspicious”...
