Yesterday (04/02/09) National Director Raheem Kassam spoke to Eddie Nestor on the Drivetime Show for BBC Radio London 94.9FM. Speaking alongside Paul Cottrell, National Head of Public Policy for the University and College Union, Raheem spoke about extremism on university campuses and how students, academics and families need to take a more active role [...]
Raheem Kassam, national director of anti-racism campaigners Student Rights, said, “Tamimi has supported martyrdom, boasted about his links to Hamas and glorified terrorism publicly. If we cannot stop things like this going forward on campuses, we are sure to see a terrifying increase in incidents such as the Detroit bombing attempt. Why are we still [...]
A Jewish man was booed and jeered at during an event entitled “The Case for Sanctions and Boycott” being held at SOAS.
Raheem Kassam, of student anti-racism campaigners Student Rights commented to the BBC: “The overpowering racist jeering as displayed by some audience members at the event is a stark and chilling revelation of what [...]
When campaign group Student Rights heard about the talk it urged Queen Mary student union to cancel it.
The union then discussed the event with the student society that organised it.
A union spokesman said the society’s members were adamant Hizb ut-Tahrir would not use the event to “espouse hateful views”, but decided to find a new [...]
Anti-extremism group Student Rights was instrumental in applying pressure to get the event cancelled.
Director Raheem Kassam said:”It’s great to see that after the combined efforts of Peter Tatchell and Student Rights, UCL have decided to cancel this event.
“Abu Usamah has advocated violence and hate speech, which has no place on university campuses.”
The UCLU spokeswoman said [...]
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