** 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,...
In response to a letter sent by ENGAGE to the BBC’s Head of News, Peter Horrocks, we have received this by way of reply (see below). ENGAGE’s response to Horrocks’ letter can be read here.
Bolton Council of Mosques will be running a seminar on funding advice for Muslim voluntary and community groups in Bolton on Wednesday 21st January. The Council will be offering helpful advice on ‘how to register as a charity’, ‘writing successful bids’ and useful information on sources...
The following joint open letter by a huge group of academics was published earlier today in the Guardian. Compare how clearly it is worded in contrast to the craven letter written to the government by Ed Husain and co last week. The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war that...
Geoffery Alderman in the Jewish Chronicle this week comments on the attitudes that have been displayed by politicians and others on Israel’s continuing assault on Gaza.
A marvellously critical piece on the BBC’s handling of the crisis in Gaza in The Guardian by John Kampfner, Chief Executive of Index on Censorship and former editor of New Statesman magazine. Kampfner lambasts the kid glove treatment that Israeli spokespeople have faced in BBC interviews when...
ENGAGE has today written to major mosques in Britain offering them useful resources to galvanise and direct the work of their local communities in support of the people of Gaza. The mosque pack includes notes for a Khutbah on Gaza; a sample letter to send to one’s MP and MEP; an A5 leaflet...
ENGAGE has written to the BBC’s Head of News, Mr Peter Horrocks, to question the disproportionate use of Israeli spokespeople in news reports on Gaza on BBC radio and television.
ENGAGE has today written an open letter to the Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, in response to the Government’s inaction and muted statements concerning the barbaric Israeli onslaught in Gaza, as well as Miliband’s statement delivered to the House, and subsequent...
On Monday January 12th 2009, the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband read out a statement in parliament about the Israeli invasion of Gaza. There then followed a short parliamentary debate. Below we reproduce the full text of Miliband’s statement together with the debate that...
Peter Kilfoyle MP is among readers of The Times that have written to the paper for printing a comment by Benny Morris, ‘Israel has no choice but to be tough on Hamas – and Iran’, without offering a counter view from a Hamas or Palestinian writer.
