Open Letter to the JC

February 7, 2020

IHRC has written an open letter to The Jewish Chronicle to complain about their reporting of Genocide Memorial Day’s school resources.

Corbyn and Anti-Semitism – Prof Gus John answers Archbishop Welby

November 29, 2019

Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.

Rabbi’s election intervention throws minorities under the bus

November 26, 2019

PRESS RELEASE IHRC views with astonishment today’s call by one of Britain’s most influential rabbis for Jews to effectively abandon the Labour Party in next month’s upcoming general election on account of the alleged scale of anti-Semitism within the party. In condemning Labour as trenchantly

The Times and the targeting of dissenting Muslim voices

October 16, 2019

Faisal Bodi, from the Islamic Human Rights Commission, says a recent attack on his organisation by The Times newspaper is symptomatic of an Establishment that seeks to drive dissenting Muslim voices out of the public space. It’s somewhat perverse that The Times should draw on George

A Fly Girl’s Guide to University

August 1, 2019

The blog is back, and what a way to start. Dear Friends, Peace! Just a quick reminder about tonight’s event at the IHRC Bookshop and Gallery. We are delighted to have Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Waithera Sebatindira and Lola Olufemi, to discuss their book A FLY Girl’s Guide

Event Report: Political Muslims with Tahir Abbas & Sadek Hamid

May 13, 2019

Watch Sadek Hamid and Tahir Abbas talk about their book Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context with Ahmed Uddin, on Thursday 25 April. The discussion began around the relationship with Britain and its former colonies throughout the Muslim world and the history

Islamophobia in the Tory Party

April 5, 2019

Arzu Merali and Ali Fazel join The Newsmakers on TRT World to discuss racism in the Conservative Party in the UK.

Tony Blair Institute report ‘Narratives of Division’ – A critique

February 20, 2019

The report’s publication was timely as just weeks earlier IHRC published a briefing analysing how the label “extremism” was being used to elbow Muslim organisations out of policymaking.