Civil Rights

IHRC accuses Charity Commission of Islamophobia

Islamic Human Rights Commission 7 March 2019 IHRC has written to the Charity Commission accusing it of Islamophobia and double standards in its dealings with the organisation’s charitable arm. The letter follows communication between the Commission and the Daily Telegraph last week, on the basis

Event Report – ‘Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain’

Amrit Wilson joined us at the IHRC Bookshop to discuss the new and expanded edition of her book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain on 21 February 2019. The book is available to purchase online and in-store. Watch the event below, and read more about the book underneath.

Is the UK pushing a false narrative on Hezbollah?

Arzu Merali argues that the UK’s ban on Hizbullah is the result in part of a capitulation to right wing thuggery and minority Zionist voices. In 2006, there was a war – another onslaught by the invincible Israeli war machine.  Despite a media bias so palpable that even the BBC found itself guilty in a review of its coverage of Israel-Palestine affairs, people did not care for the aggressors.

The Britain-Israel partnership driving ‘antisemitism’ allegations: 
 thoughts on a counter-strategy

The British state displaces its pro-Israel commitments onto ‘the Jewish community’, constructed as Zionist and thus vulnerable to antisemitism.   This provides a convenient shield for the state’s partnership with the Zionist colonisation project.  This agenda aggravates societal divisions – frightening Jews and dividing them from each other, while also separating them from the Left and Muslims.