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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Just three days ago, the UK government via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office quickly went out of its way to publicly rebuke Channel 4 for giving airtime to the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to broadcast a peaceful Christmas message to the people of Britain. Yet, today, given the...
Writing for the Jewish Chronicle this week, Alex Brummer (who is also the City Editor at the Daily Mail), predicts that the economic woes afflicting the newspaper industry could result in an even greater pro-Israeli position being adopted by our UK press in 2009. Brummer surveys the current...
Islamophobia Watch reports on a press release circulated by the anti Muslim think tank, the Centre for Social Cohesion, which accuses Asghar Bukhari of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK) of ‘glorifying terror’. The CfSC has urged mainstream media outlets to desist from using MPACUK...
Concerned readers of changes to marriage visa regulations announced by the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas last month will be interested to learn of an emerging disparity in the implementation of these regulations.
ENGAGE has written to Damian Thompson, author of Holy Smoke on Telegraph blogs concerning his blog entry on 19 Dec, ‘Any Muslim killed fighting Israel goes to paradise, says MPAC spokesman’.
