Open letters

Open Letters

IHRC Response to Times Letter

The Times published a letter on 08 August 2024, from several individuals criticizing IHRC’s letter to the Home Secretary about protecting minority communities from violence by far-right groups. This is our Chair’s response to that letter: Sir, A letter from Lord Pannick KC, Baroness Altmann

Letter to Home Secretary and 44 police chiefs in England and Wales

The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper The horrifically shocking racist violence of the last few days in which Muslim communities and asylum seekers have seen their persons, homes, vehicles, businesses, places of residence and mosques attacked has left them feeling unsafe and vulnerable. Enabled by their

IHRC letter to student encampments supporting Palestine

Dear students, I want to commend the courageous and principled stand you are taking in opposing the genocide in Gaza. By doing so, you are aligning yourselves with morality, humanity, and placing yourself on the right side of history. You are also following in a

Letter challenging Aldi to come clean about Medjool dates

We are writing to seek an explanation from Aldi as to why you appear to be intentionally misleading customers about the origin of your medjool dates. In a reply to an earlier query by IHRC dated 8 February 2024 you stated that the medjool dates

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