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...
In an Express and Star article littered with inaccurate accusations against a former MEND employee and purposeful misconstruing of a speech by the MEND head of policy, Mr Sohal is quoted furthering Islamophobic tropes about MEND (Muslim Engagement & Development) How can Mr Sohal hope to be a...
In September, an individual entred a London law firm and carried out a “violent, racist” knife attack on an immigration lawyer, an act which the law firm believed to be inspired by Priti Patel’s comments days earlier that “removals [of migrants] continue to be frustrated by activist...
MEND is shocked by reports of the appalling knife attack in a church in Nice that has left three people dead. Our thoughts remain with the victims and their families. We now call for calm as the details of the event continue to unfold. It is for political leaders in both France and around the...
In light of rising hate crime in Scotland, the Scottish government recently announced that it is making amendments to its proposed hate crime legislation in a bid to ease concerns over its alleged impact on free speech. Initially, the bill, which was introduced in response to Lord Bracadale’s...
Reports of right-wing figures being offered senior jobs within the British TV industry has sparked criticism concerning the growing oligarchy of the right-wing over UK media and its subsequent threat to media diversity and independence. It has been recently announced that Andrew Neil, chairman of...
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) has always been guided by a neoconservative Islamophobic agenda. It should come as no surprise then that when claims by HJS were challenged through legal proceedings by a Muslim organisation, HJS was forced to apologise and retract their baseless commentary. The...
Last month, more than 30 organisations and academics with a track record of campaigning against violence against women and girls wrote an open letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to express concerns about the PREVENT strategy and its infiltration into domestic violence services. The letter...
MEND is proud to be a signatory to the Traveller Movement’s open letter to Priti Patel condemning her criminalisation of communities. Criminalising minority groups on the basis of protected characteristics such as race or religion can only serve to demonise communities and further entrench...
Earlier this month, it was revealed that a top pro-Israeli lawyer faked a vandalism attack at his home last year in a plot to smear the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC). Unfortunately, such disreputable campaign tactics have often been routinely utilised by pro-Israel groups to smear...
MEND Press Release: Over 40 faith-based, community, and equalities organisations have signed an open letter to Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) following serious allegations of racism. According to Azeem Rafiq, who played for the club between 2008 and 2018, his experiences of racism at the club...
