The Jewish Chronicle reports that new legislation preventing UK magistrates from issuing arrest warrants for visiting Israeli officials accused of war crimes is to be unveiled next week. ‘The new legislation will pass the power to issue arrest warrants for prominent figures such as Ms Livni to...
The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) has issued a factsheet concerning the skirmishes between the Viva Palestina convoy, carrying aid and equipment to the beleaguered people of Gaza, and the Egyptian police patrolling Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip. The...
You can read the statement made to the House of Commons by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson (pictured), on Aviation and Border Security on Tuesday, here. Key excerpts from the statement are reproduced below: ‘With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the failed...
Revd. Peter Mullen (pictured), Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church in the City of London, offers a further sampling of his bigoted views on Muslims in a recent column in the Northern Echo. Mullen, commenting on the attempted Detroit airplane bombing,...
As new US rules on profiling individuals from ‘high security risk’ countries come into operation today, the Daily Telegraph carries comments from Khalid Mahmood MP (pictured) and Dr Shaaz Mahboob, of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, supporting moves to introduce passenger profiling in...
The President and Provost of University College London, Malcolm Grant (pictured), has written an article for the Times Higher Education website in which he has defended his college from the many scurrilous allegations that have been made against it in recent days following the failed...
It was only likely to be a matter of time before the usual suspects were invited to contribute their simplistic explanations on the suspected causes of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab’s radicalisation. Stephen Pollard (pictured), editor of the Jewish Chronicle, contributes a comment piece in today’s...
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg (pictured), heads the list of signatories of an open letter published in the Observer today calling on ‘the British government and the international community to apply meaningful pressure upon Israel’ to lift its suffocating blockade on...
A year on from the devastation of the Gaza strip by the Israeli army, a consortium of 16 aid agencies, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, have released a report on the meagre progress in Gaza’s reconstruction caused by Israel’s continuing blockade. The report, ‘Failing Gaza’...
The Jewish Chronicle reports on a spat between the Foreign Office (Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, pictured with Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence Minister) and the Department for Communities and Local Government on messages filtered to British Muslims on the Government’s line during the Israeli...
