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...
Nov 29, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters,It is both an irony and a tragedy that so many of the murdered and the hostages of October 7th were volunteers of the initiatives that TalkMatters supports. But although heart-broken, those that survived are not giving...
Nov 22, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters,Nearly seven weeks have passed since the brutal Hamas attack murdering, maiming, torturing and taking hostages on Saturday 7th October, and the ensuing war on Gaza. It is hard to be anything but profoundly angry and sad as more and more...
Nov 15, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters,This is our sixth update and I’m sad to say there are no changes in the situation. Grief and uncertainty are everywhere and as reported last week, the initiatives TalkMatters supports are finding it hard to function in the same way...
Nov 9, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters,Sadly this is the fifth week since war began and the initiatives TalkMatters supports are finding it hard to function in the same way as before. Many of the organisers have been in touch and say that people are in shock, that they do not...
Nov 1, 2023 | Updates, War Updates |
Dear Friends, I’ve just come off the phone upset and saddened to the core. As you know, we have been reporting on our many Associates in Israel and Palestine since this nightmare began nearly four weeks ago. It has been dreadful but today’s news is worse...
