IHRC Head of Advocacy Abed Choudhury looks at how political language has been rendered meaningless by a cynical political class in the UK, and how this augurs ill for what was once considered a democracy. There’s been a lot of reflection on the 20
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
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
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
Head of IHRC Advocacy, Abed Choudhury, unpacks the vicious authoritarianism driving UK discourses on proscription of dissenting voices and protest, from Palestine Action to IHRC itself. The UK government’s use of anti-terror legislation has drifted from authoritarian excess to something closer to farce. What began as
The possible proscription of Palestine Action shows now more than ever, to join the dots between the history repressive policy and law in the UK and support for genocide overseas, argues Massoud Shadjareh. The planned proscription of Palestine Action by the UK government, if enacted,
Demand the UK change its course on the genocide in Gaza and the wider wars in West Asia, including now, against Iran. Summary The UK government bears immense responsibility for Israeli genocidal crimes in Gaza, and latest escalation of violence to yet another country, this
Head of IHRC Advocacy, Abed Choudhury, argues that media hysteria around the Qur’an burning case is undermining not just equality for Muslims, and the concept of equality before the law for all, but perpetuating discourses that target Muslims for hatred.
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