Not-for-profit press monitoring organisation
TheMiddle East Monitor (MEMO ) is anot-for-profit press monitoring organisation[ 1] lobbying group [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Israeli–Palestinian conflict but writes about other issues in theMiddle East , as well. MEMO ispro-Palestinian in orientation,[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Islamist ,[ 8] [ 9] Muslim Brotherhood ,[ 10] [ 11] Hamas .[ 12] [ 13]
MEMO is financed by theState of Qatar .[ 14] [ 15] Daud Abdullah , former Deputy Secretary General of theMuslim Council of Britain [ 16] [ 17] British Muslim Initiative .[ 18]
Events In June 2011, MEMO organized a speaking tour forRaed Salah , leader of the northern branch of theIslamic Movement in Israel . Salah, who was banned from entering the UK by thehome secretary , was held in custody pending deportation until April 2012, when an immigration tribunal ruled that the home secretary had been misled.[ 19] [ 20]
In 2011, MEMO co-organized an event withAmnesty International andPalestine Solidarity Campaign entitled "Complicity in oppression: Do the media aid Israel?" featuringAbdel Bari Atwan .[ 21] [ 22]
On 22 August 2015, MEMO organized an event entitled "Palestine & Latin America: Building solidarity for national rights", featuring allegedlyantisemitic cartoonistCarlos Latuff andBritish Palestinian activistAzzam Tamimi .Jeremy Corbyn was scheduled to appear but pulled out.[ 23] [ 24]
In November 2017, MEMO organized an event entitled "Crisis in Saudi Arabia: War, Succession and the Future", a discussion of future succession inSaudi Arabia 'smonarchy , regional rivalries withIran , andwar in Yemen .[ 25]
Staff The staff and contributors of MEMO includeDaud Abdullah ,Ibrahim Hewitt and Ben White.[citation needed
Criticism In 2011,John Ware ofBBC News described MEMO as a pro-Hamas publication.[ 19]
In 2015,Labour Party leadership candidateLiz Kendall said: "It seems deeply unwise for Jeremy [Corbyn] to appear on at [sic Community Security Trust has said is infamous for repeated negativeconspiracy theories about Israel andJewish people in public life."[ 26] Zionists , money and power.[ 27] [ 28] [ 26] [undue weight? discuss It said that MEMO had "questioned the suitability ofMatthew Gould for the post of UK ambassador to Israel simply because he was Jewish".[ 28] [undue weight? discuss
In 2016, Yiftah Curiel, an employee of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and spokesman for Israel's embassy in London,[ 29] Middle East Eye are also active inInterpal , which has been designated in Israel as a terror-supporting group, as well as being on the United States Treasury's list of specially-designated terrorist organisations.[ 30] [ 31] [ 32]
The same year,Andrew Gilligan , a reporter forThe Sunday Telegraph [Muslim] Brotherhood and pro-Hamas view of the region," its director Daud Abdullah as "a leader of the Brotherhood-linkedBritish Muslim Initiative , set up and run by the Brotherhood activistAnas al-Tikriti and two senior figures in Hamas," and its senior editor,Ibrahim Hewitt , as chairman ofInterpal , which he said was also linked to Hamas and the Brotherhood. Gilligan noted its location at Crown House, which he described as a "hub" of the Muslim Brotherhood's European activities.[ 33] [ 34] [ 35]
Palestine Book Awards Since 2012, MEMO sponsors and organizes the annualPalestine Book Awards. [ 36] [ 37] [ 38] [ 39] [ 40]
See also
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