Feb 15, 2024 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, Each week it is getting harder and harder to write this letter. The situation does not change and in many ways is worsening. It is totally depressing and it would be easy to give in at this point. To give in to the voices in my...
Feb 7, 2024 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, The situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank continues to be desperate. The fear of what could happen tomorrow does not go away. And yet today we bring you a kind of success story. Immediately after the Hamas Massacre...
Feb 7, 2024 | Blog, Updates |
Article from January 2024 which was in the Jewish News, written by TalkMatters supporter and Leeds Church Minister David Kibble. Faith groups in a silent peace walk, January 2024. Pic: Liberal Synagogue/Plum Village UK Keir Starmer, commenting recently on...
Jan 31, 2024 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, TalkMatters is here to provide a different platform – to support the initiatives that bring moderate Israelis and Palestinians together. We question the people who link the supporters of Hamas with all Palestinians and...
Jan 24, 2024 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, The fear of what will happen next sits with us all as the war escalates and the politicians continue to disagree on the way out of this mess. This tragedy is not going to end soon. For us all there is now more and more pressure...
Jan 18, 2024 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, On Sunday, I stood in Trafalgar Square to mark the hundred days since the massacre and hostage taking in South Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. I stood in harmony with the calls to ‘bring them home’, I stood in...
Jan 10, 2024 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters As we enter the second week of 2024, I dread what lies ahead. The landscape has changed with a global war threatening. More and more polarisation within our UK communities. More and more fear and uncertainty for...
Dec 14, 2023 | Blog, Updates |
Muslims and Jews don’t have to import the Israel and Palestine conflict into Britain Mohammed Amin MBE was a Conservative Party member for over 36 years, but is now a Liberal Democrat. While he is Co-Chair of the Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester, he is...
Dec 14, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, On Sunday I joined a Roots webinar entitled Peace-Makers at a Time of War. Roots is a Palestinian Israeli Initiative in the Gush Etzion-Bethlehem-Hebron area. They are the first to build a...
Dec 6, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters, And so the war in Gaza continues and with it continues the sadness and anger that so many innocent men, women and children must suffer. This is TalkMatters’s ninth update and as the weeks go by, I am receiving...