** 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 is to be highly commended for its publication today of a comment piece by Khalid Mish’al, the head of Hamas’ political bureau. It is immensely important that a major broadsheet has published this piece by a representative of the democratically mandated government of the Gazan...
The Young Muslim Advisory Group, (YMAG) which was set up by the Government last October to advise on British Muslim youth affairs, has branded Israel’s actions in Gaza as ‘state terrorism’, the Muslim News reports. In a letter sent by the YMAG to the Prime Minister and seen by the Muslim...
In yet another low for Zionist crimes at least 13 Palestinians including 6 children were killed on Saturday 3rd January in just one Israeli raid when a missile struck the Ibrahim al-Maqadna mosque in Gaza during evening prayers. Another 60 people were wounded, 16 of them critically, on the...
The Jewish Chronicle reports that officials in the Israeli government believe they are winning the ‘hasbara’ (Hebrew: propaganda) battle. ‘The Gaza attack is the first major demonstration of Israel’s total overhaul of its ‘hasbara’ operation following the Second...
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has been speaking to various media outlets on the crisis in Gaza and explaining the Government’s position. Five days into Israel’s bombing campaign, and hundreds of Palestinian deaths later, the Foreign Secretary still could not find the words...
The Foreign Press Association in Israel has written an open letter to the Israeli authorities demanding that journalists from around the world be allowed independent access to Gaza to go in for themselves and report on events.
ENGAGE has obtained an email from the Director of Forward Thinking, Oliver McTernan, in which he reveals the truth behind allegations that Hamas are preventing injured Gazans from getting treatment in Egypt. You can read the email here. Please contact the Foreign Secretary by calling the FCO on...
What can YOU do to help the Palestinian people of Gaza? Read the ENGAGE 10 Point Guide and get working TODAY! ‘During the last seven years, 14 Israelis have been killed by mostly homemade rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, while more than 5,000 Palestinians were killed by Israel with some...
ENGAGE has written to the editor of BBC News Online concerning a story that appeared on the news site on the Israeli attack on Gaza on December 25th. ENGAGE’s Advisor on Research and Policy wrote to the online news editor to question why the news item, whilst heavily focusing on Hamas,...
Anyone will know that wars are not won on battlefields alone. To win a decisive victory aggressors must also win over the minds of those that would otherwise criticise their belligerence and question its morality. No surprise then that Israel has unleashed an assault in the media to dominate the...
