The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) issued a fact sheet yesterday on the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla. While not as specious as an earlier fact sheet issued by RICU when the Viva Palestina convoy was violently halted by the Egyptian border police...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, spoke to BBC news today on Israeli commandos storming the Gaza aid flotilla on Monday killing 10 humanitarian activists, injuring dozens and currently deporting hundreds of others. Read the transcript on the FCO website here and remember, you can call or write...
The Guardian prints news of a further case of possible MI5 complicity in the torture of British Muslims abroad. From the paper: ‘A third UK citizen has been detained in Bangladesh and allegedly mistreated while being interrogated about his associates and activities in both countries, raising...
Louise Arbour (pictured), president of the International Crisis Group, reflects in The Independent on the assault on the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos on Monday and what might yet be done by the international community to see good come of this tragedy. She writes: ‘It is easy to...
The Guardian’s Comment is Free publishes an article by Sir Jeremy Greenstock (pictured), former British Ambassador to the UN, on the Gaza aid flotilla and the need for the international community to re-think its policies on locking Hamas out of peace talks in the Middle East. The article was...
ENGAGE has today written to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to condemn the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos in international waters yesterday and the killing of ten humanitarian activists on board one of the ships. Read the letter here.
The Times at the weekend carried a feature on the growth in the number of white British females converting to Islam: ‘It’s a controversial time for British women to be wearing the hijab, the basic Muslim headscarf. Last month, Belgium became the first European country to pass legislation to...
The newspapers today, understandably, cover at length the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos in the early hours of Monday 31st May, killing 10 humanitarian activists and injuring dozens. The Guardian editorial today ‘From blockade to bloodshed’ argues that ‘Nothing has...
In response to yesterday’s deadly attack by Israel on an international aid convoy heading to Gaza, a Parliamentary event is being convened by Conservative Muslim Forum, Labour Friends of Palestine, Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine and ENGAGE. This event is for MPs/Lord therefore we...
This briefing document lays forth the destructive impact of the blockade on Gaza, the many recommendations of international aid agencies and the House’s select committee
