Faith Matters and TellMAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) have created and launched the first Annual National Hate Crime Awards (#NHCA 2016). For far too long, people within communities as well as organisations have worked tirelessly to challenge hatred, intolerance and prejudice without any national recognition. We believe that this has to change and this is why […]
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Join the rally for Aleppo’s children
Aleppo’s children have been bombed relentlessly by Syrian and Russian warplanes for weeks. Over 1.6 million of us have called for our leaders to step up and protect these terrified children and their families, and now it’s time to take our call to the streets. This Saturday from 12pm we’re gathering outside Downing Street to […]
Day the East End united to fight against the Blackshirts
The following article by Colin Shindler appeared in The JC on 29 September 2016. Oswald Mosley instituted antisemitism as the official policy of the British Union of Fascists only in 1934, some two years after its formation. The annual report of the Board of Deputies for 1932 stated that Mosley had informed the Board that […]
Support the petition for an end to terror in Aleppo
Earlier this year Searchlight reported that the only picket of the Syrian regime’s embassy in London had been organised by Nazis from the London Forum and Polish Nazis from the NOP. We hope that opponents of fascism everywhere will support the petition below to halt an even worse aerial bombardment than the one by German […]
National Hate Crime Awareness Week – public meeting in Redbridge
Thursday 13 October, 7.30pm to 9pm, Gloucester Room, Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford IG1 1EA Hate crime – crime driven by prejudices against certain groups in society – has never gone away. The police, the council and voluntary sector groups like us, have been supporting victims of hate crime every day in Redbridge. The reality […]
In Shimon Peres, Israel has lost a founding father and voice of reason
Shimon Peres, who served as the ninth president of Israel, died on 28 September 2016 at the age of 93. Colin Schindler reflects on his life and achievements. The transformation of Szymon Perski from Vishnyeva in Belarus into Shimon Peres, a founding father of the state of Israel, is a reflection of how the Jews […]