ENGAGE has today written an open letter to the Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, in response to the Government’s inaction and muted statements concerning the barbaric Israeli onslaught in Gaza, as well as Miliband’s statement delivered to the House, and subsequent...
ENGAGE has written to the BBC’s Head of News, Mr Peter Horrocks, to question the disproportionate use of Israeli spokespeople in news reports on Gaza on BBC radio and television.
On Monday January 12th 2009, the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband read out a statement in parliament about the Israeli invasion of Gaza. There then followed a short parliamentary debate. Below we reproduce the full text of Miliband’s statement together with the debate that...
Major credit to Bloggerheads for unearthing evidence that a Sun front page story last week on Muslims targeting British Jews for attack was planted by the very ‘terrorism expert’ whose comments feature in the story. Glen Jenvey (pictured), a self styled ‘freelance terrorism...
Peter Kilfoyle MP is among readers of The Times that have written to the paper for printing a comment by Benny Morris, ‘Israel has no choice but to be tough on Hamas – and Iran’, without offering a counter view from a Hamas or Palestinian writer.
The statement by the International Red Cross (ICRC) criticizing Israel’s breach of international humanitarian law formed part of a news report on Channel 4 News yesterday.
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...
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.
