** 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,...
For those who missed the Dispatches programme on Monday ‘Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby’ on Channel 4, you can catch it again on Youtube here. The programme will also be repeated on Channel 4 tomorrow, Friday 20th November, at 3am.
The JC last Friday carried an article by Martin Bright (pictured) on reactions to changes in personnel at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Bright wrote that ‘A series of recent changes of personnel and promotions at key departments has led to concerns that the government is...
Paul Goodman MP (pictured), the member of the House who has been assiduous in questioning CLG ministers on the allocations of Prevent funding to Muslim groups continues his probing with questions over allocations for the period 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. From Hansard we learn the names of groups...
Read the transcript of the speech given by Press Complaints Commission Chairman, Baroness Peta Buscombe, at the Society of Editors annual conference here. Excerpts from the speech: ‘[L]et me make sure you know exactly who I am and what I am going to do at the PCC. ‘My attitude...
The Sunday Herald covers the demonstration organised by the Scottish Defence League in Glasgow last Saturday and the anti-racist counter-demonstration of Scotland United. The paper reports that the racists of the SDL were hugely outnumbered by the Scotland United anti-fascist coalition as...
Peter Oborne, presenter of tonight’s Dispatches documentary on the UK’s pro-Israel lobby writes in the Guardian today, with James Jones, on issues that prompted the Dispatches investigation and what they learned. Oborne and Jones ask: ‘What are the rules of British political...
The Press Complaints Commission’s Governance Review, announced earlier in the year by Baroness Buscombe, has issued its consultation paper and call for evidence today. The governance review panel is to look into: “[M]atters relating to the governance of the Press Complaints...
An article by Gwynne Dyer (pictured) in Wednesday’s edition of the New Zealand Herald examines some of the speculation concerning the motive behind the Fort Hood killings last week. Dyer asks why the most likely motive is hardly ever mentioned. He writes: ‘The one explanation...
The Guardian on Monday reported about a series of verbal and serious physical assaults on Muslim students at City University in London. According to the paper ‘a mob of 30 white and black youths are said to have surrounded Asian students near City University in central London and...
The Jewish Chronicle on Friday also featured a story on the BBC Trust’s decision to defend the right of reply offered to Hamas on the BBC’s Panorama programme, ‘Return to Gaza’. The BBC’s editorial complaints unit rejected a complaint lodged by Andrew White that the website...
