Faisal Bodi

Letter to Metropolitan Police re policing Al-Quds Day march

Sir Mark Rowley Metropolitan Police Commissioner New Scotland Yard 8-10 Broadway London SW1H 0AZ   28 March 2024   mark.rowley@met.police.uk   Dear Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, We are writing ahead of the annual al-Quds Day march on April 5 to register our concern with the

Reply to Jewish Chronicle re Al-Quds Day questions

This is the email from the Jewish Chronicle, followed by IHRC’s reply Hi there, I’m a reporter at the Jewish Chronicle newspaper and am getting in touch about the forthcoming Al Quds Day March, which you have organised. What do you have to say to

Groups urge Met to stop “politicised” policing of pro-Palestine demos

Sir Mark Rowley Metropolitan Police Commissioner New Scotland Yard, 8-10, Broadway, London, SW1H 0AZ   20th March 2024 mark.rowley@met.police.uk   Dear Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley,   In view of the recent dismissal of a prosecution against a pro-Palestine protestor we the undersigned are seeking reassurances

Huge crowd expected for Al-Quds Day rally in London

Thousands of protestors are expected to descend on London from all over the country on April 5 for this year’s Al-Quds Day rally. The turnout could be the biggest to date in the long history of the event, in view of the rising death toll

michaelgove

Extremism definition is anti-democratic, divisive and Islamophobic

Today’s announcement by Michael Gove that the government is widening the definition of extremism to catch mostly mainstream Muslim organisations is the latest in a series of Islamophobic measures seeking to exclude Muslims from public life. The blackballing of Muslim groups as a threat to