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.

We need Courage not Deference when it comes to Muslim representation

February 11, 2019

In our desire to appease and please, we also erase our own selves, our histories, our stories, scrapping between us instead for recognition from those who will never give it, and who do not deserve our legitimisation.

The Britain-Israel partnership driving ‘antisemitism’ allegations:   thoughts on a counter-strategy

February 2, 2019

The British state displaces its pro-Israel commitments onto ‘the Jewish community’, constructed as Zionist and thus vulnerable to antisemitism. This provides a convenient shield for the state’s partnership with the Zionist colonisation project. This agenda aggravates societal divisions – frightening Jews and dividing them from each other, while also separating them from the Left and Muslims.

New report intensifies squeeze on Muslim CSO space

January 21, 2019

Islamic Human Rights Commission 21 January 2019 PRESS RELEASE – UK: New report intensifies squeeze on Muslim CSO space Beleaguered Muslim organisations, already squeezed by a shrinking civil society space, are the target of a new report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Defining extremism: What does 2019 hold for British Muslims?

January 9, 2019

Institutionalised Islamophobia has contributed to hate crimes, discrimination and the exclusion of Muslims from political spaces, argues Arzu Merali Where to start or finish a year’s overview of Islamophobia in the UK? We can focus on the comments of various public figures, not least