Faisal Bodi

Genocide Memorial Day to remember horrors of Gaza

IHRC is pleased to announce that its sixteenth annual Genocide Memorial Day will take place on Sunday, 19 January. This year’s theme is ‘Resisting Genocide’. Fifteen months after it started, Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza ploughs forward relentlessly. Despite the ICJ finding a plausible

IHRC urges boycott of official Holocaust commemorations

IHRC is urging local government and other organisations to boycott the official 2025 Holocaust commemorations after the government-led charity that presides over Holocaust Memorial Day refused to include Gaza among the genocides being marked. In a letter to 460 councils and universities across the UK,

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

Letter to Holocaust Memorial Day Trust re Gaza genocide

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust PO Box 61074 London SE1P 5BX   27 November 2024   Dear Sir or Madam, Absence of the ongoing genocide in Gaza from the list of genocides mentioned by HMD The front page of the official Holocaust Memorial Day website describes

Islamophobia conference to discuss crackdown on Muslim expression

A stellar panel of speakers is lined up to present papers at the annual Islamophobia Conference this weekend. Among the luminaries are the acclaimed anti-Zionist historian, Prof. Ilan Pappé, former Bristol University academic Prof. David Miller, decolonial thinker Prof. Ramon Grosfoguel and Imam Dawud Walid

Syria statement

The Islamic Human Rights Commission affirms the fundamental right of both the Syrian and Palestinian people to resist oppression and tyranny and live a dignified existence. Justice and moral consistency demand that we cannot trade one people’s rights away to secure another’s.  Yet once more

PM Starmer must commit now to arresting Israeli leaders

The arrest warrants issued today by the International Criminal Court against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Yoav Gallant defence minister are long overdue. Usually, better late than never might be a justified reaction but in this instance it is more a case of too