The BBC has received more than a 1000 complaints over its coverage of the war Gaza with 65% of complainants accusing the public service broadcaster of pro Israeli bias, according to the Daily Mail. How have you found the BBC’s coverage of Gaza?
The UN said in a statement on yesterday that the Israeli military had privately admitted that the shelling of a UN school in Jabaliya on Tuesday which killed more than 40 Palestinians and injured around 50, was in response to fire from OUTSIDE, not inside, the UN compound. Israelis have been...
As part of the ENGAGE 10 Point Guide to Helping Gaza, we have drafted a sample letter that can be sent to MPs by all British citizens who are appalled by the slaughter that the Israelis are perpetrating in Gaza before the eyes of the world. The ENGAGE letter addresses some of the key […]
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...
