In a comment piece published in The Guardian on Wednesday, Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, denounced the Government’s silence in the face of the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza and urged the UK and the EU to ‘stop arming Israel’.
Mary Riddell’s column in the Daily Telegraph today criticises the Manichean worldview that has characterised the Bush administration, and is strongly supported by the British government, which she says has led us to a point where ‘we have forgotten how to condemn’.
Oxford University Islamic Society and a number of Oxford academics, and those of other prestigious universities from around the world, have issued a statement against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Gloucestershire County Council has teamed up with Gloucester City Council, Gloucestershire Police and the Friendship Café to launch Discover Islam Week. Running from January 10 to 17, the council and its partners will be helping people to find out more about Islam; the culture, the people and...
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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...
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...
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 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.
