Arzu Merali

We Don’t Need White Tears When Racism Kills

Another racist murder in Norway exposes the failures of its institutions to tackle rising hatred in the Scandanavian nation says Iffit Qureshi.   Last week in Oslo, Tamima Nibras Juhar, a 34-year-old Norwegian Ethiopian Muslim woman, was murdered in Kampen, Oslo by an 18-year-old right-wing

July 26 – Cuba, Che, Castro and Beyond

It’s 26 July.  Here is our own tribute. This beautiful piece from Mohammad Hamza / Intifada Street will form part of the 2025-26 IHRC Gallery stock (undated diaries incoming). Don’t forget profits go to charity. Read this thread from the Cuba Solidarity Campaign on the

Response to Damien Egan comments in The Jewish News

Damien Egan MP has taken to the pages of The Jewish News today 2nd July 2025 to demand restrictions for various organisations in the wake of the Palestine Action proscription debacle.  This list includes IHRC, based  on spurious claims.    Introduction   As this is

Response to Walney (Woodcock) Comments on IHRC in The Times

More on Walney’s words of demonisation against IHRC   Introduction In a comment piece in The Times (UK), the unelected peer Lord Walney (John Woodcock) has continued making spurious claims about IHRC, demanding that the latest draconian security measure – the Foreign Influence Registration scheme

2005 Warnings

IHRC as Nostradamus: 2005 Warnings Coming True

Re-reading IHRC’s 2005 report on the culture of ‘anti-terrorism’ in the UK, Abed Choudhury argues that its warnings about the criminalisation of lawful dissent and the expansion of authoritarian legal tools have now materialised, and shows how the UK’s legal and political climate has moved