Open letters

Open letters
Open Letters

Request for comment from Times and IHRC’s response

On 25 February, The Times published an article in which it promoted the claim that Muslim groups, including IHRC, are using Islamophobia as a tool to silence critics of so-called “grooming gangs”. Below we reproduce its disingenuous request for comment and our response. From: Witherow,

Letter to Metropolitan police re 18 January pro-Palestine demonstration

Tuesday 4th February 2025 New Scotland Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JL   Dear Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley   We are writing to draw your attention to the procedural irregularities and the eventual draconian police tactics employed at the pro-Palestine demonstration in central London on

Jewish Chronicle article on IHRC and IHRC’s responses

On 27 January 2025, the Jewish Chronicle published a highly scurrilous attack on the IHRC and its chairman Massoud Shadjareh. The article is libellous and full of fabrications. Prior to the article being published the JC approached IHRC for comment. However it did not publish

Letter to Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation

Jonathan Hall KC Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation 6KBW College Hill 21 College Hill EC4R 2RP 9 January 2025 By email: Jonathan.Hall@6kbw.com Dear Mr Hall, Incarceration of the Filton 10 Activists I am writing to express my profound concern regarding the arrest and detention of

Letter re Holocaust Memorial Day to councils and universities

17 December 2024 To whom it may concern Dear Sir/Madam   The front page of the official Holocaust Memorial Day website describes its mission as follows: “to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of people murdered under Nazi persecution