Last week’s Mail Online article about Muslim “no-go-areas” is the latest episode in the UK media’s chronic demonisation and misrepresentation of British Muslim communities, a trend which shows no signs of abating, writes Hamza Ali Shah.
This week the Biden administration has approved $735 million worth of arms sales to Israel, a reminder of how crucial US military support is to Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinians. This isn’t just failing to build peace, it is actively working against it, writes Andrew Smith.
Israel routinely claims it ‘humanely’ warns Palestinians before it bombs their homes. For us Palestinians from Gaza, the PR spin around this ‘roof knocking’ hides a much uglier reality, write Malaka Shwaikh and Shaymaa Ziara.
As Jews, we need to be the loudest voices leading the call for Palestinian liberation, I know my Holocaust refugee grandmother would have demanded nothing less, writes Mike Friedberg.
Jamel had lived in the UK for half his life when he unexpectedly found himself on a plane to Ghana. His story, Galatea Scotti writes, shows how the emotional and material repercussions of involuntary returns can be deep and traumatic, not only for individuals but entire communities.
The UK government’s latest review of its Prevent strategy is not only a political facade but a trojan horse to expand the programme. We must be united in our call for disengagement from it, and to demand nothing less than Prevent’s abolishment, argues Na’eem Ibn Farooq.
Time and again, successive UK governments have put arms sales ahead of the rights and lives of Palestinians. That long and shameful policy must stop, writes Dana Aboul-Jabine.
More than 75 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a landmark agreement prohibiting nuclear weapons has come into force this week. However, the five original nuclear powers, including the UK, stand in opposition. Steve Shaw reports.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands after 66 days on hunger strike in a British prison. Roger Bromley explores the ways in which Sands’s writings, and those of his fellow prisoners, became a principal resource for the building of Irish identity and solidarity.
“A guide and a balm, a meditation on the politics of survival and an appeal to extend our arms towards each other”. Chav Solidarity, by D. Hunter, is a book that must be read, writes Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi.
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