Islamophobia

The struggle against Blackface in the Netherlands

The annual Sinterklaas Festival in the Netherands has become a testing ground for the status of ethnic minorities and their attempts to influence what it means to be Dutch. The festival is based on a legend that every December, St. Nicholas travels to the Netherlands

Rabbi’s election intervention throws minorities under the bus

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

Event Report: Towards Sacred Activism with Imam Dawud Walid

Abed Choudhury (Head of Legal and Advocacy at IHRC) chaired the author evening with Imam Dawud Walid on Friday, 1 November 2019. Watch the full author evening here: The author evening began with Imam Dawud Walid introducing his book Towards Sacred Activism as an attempt

Event Report: Postcolonial Banter with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Muneeza Rizvi chaired the author evening with educator, writer and spoken-word poet, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on Thursday, 17 October 2019. Watch the full event from the IHRC YouTube channel: The event began with Muneeza Rizvi introducing Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Postcolonial Banter and asking Suhaiymah to introduce the

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On Islamophobia, Britishness and the shrinking political space

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

PODCAST: Santiago Slabodsky – Are Muslims the new Jews?

[June 2019] Professor Santiago Slabodsky joins Arzu Merali to discuss this phrase often used in activism. Slabodsky argues that shared histories of co-racialisation mean that the ways of seeing both Muslims and Jews in the modern Western psyche should worry us all. Keywords: Muslims, Jews,

The Times and the targeting of dissenting Muslim voices

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