Islamophobia Conference 2019: Islamophobia and Shrinking Civil Society Spaces
December 9, 2019
The sixth annual IHRC Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 December 2019.
Civil Rights
The New Colonialism: the American Model of Human Rights /eds. Arzu Merali and Faisal Bodi
November 29, 2019
Available to buy now. Based on IHRC’s conference of the same name, this book presents nine contributions from scholar-activists looking at how human rights as theory and practice have been co-opted by the US as part of brutal, racist and colonial foreign and domestic policies.
Corbyn and Anti-Semitism – Prof Gus John answers Archbishop Welby
November 29, 2019
Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
Professor Gus John’s letter of resignation from CMEAC (Church of England body)
November 29, 2019
Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
Rabbi’s election intervention throws minorities under the bus
November 26, 2019
PRESS RELEASE IHRC views with astonishment today’s call by one of Britain’s most influential rabbis for Jews to effectively abandon the Labour Party in next month’s upcoming general election on account of the alleged scale of anti-Semitism within the party. In condemning Labour as trenchantly
On Islamophobia, Britishness and the shrinking political space
October 17, 2019
Islamophobia has always needed to be understood as part of the deeper crisis of the political and social culture we live in, argues Arzu Merali. I have been swotting up on Jerusalem for my youngest’s A-Levels this month. I would rather abstractly debate whether the
The Times and the targeting of dissenting Muslim voices
October 16, 2019
Faisal Bodi, from the Islamic Human Rights Commission, says a recent attack on his organisation by The Times newspaper is symptomatic of an Establishment that seeks to drive dissenting Muslim voices out of the public space. It’s somewhat perverse that The Times should draw on George
On The Times, Andrew Norfolk and the Paucity of Power
October 10, 2019
In reference to The Times reporting and leading comment regarding IHRC on 10 October 2019, IHRC stated: It matters little that e.g. the charity that gives its money to IHRC is in fact the charitable arm of IHRC registered under the direction and full supervision
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