RESOURCES

NUS Passes Motion Condemning ‘Student Rights’

• The Independent: ‘NUS condemns “anti-Islam” group’ Student Rights’
• Huffington Post: ‘Tide turns against anti-extremist Student Rights, as NUS condemns group’
• The Guardian (student blog): ‘“Anti-Islam” group condemned by NUS‘
• Times Higher Education: ‘Student Rights motion from NUS prompts nasty war of words‘
• The National Student: ‘Student Rights: exposing extremism or targeting Muslim students?‘
• Zelo Street: ‘Student Rights called out at last‘

MP’s resignation from Student Rights & the Henry Jackson Society

• ‘Student Rights: LibDem MP Tom Brake Desers Counter-Extremism Group, Others Set to Follow‘, Huffington Post
• ‘LibDem resigns from controversial think-tank Henry Jackson Society‘, Liberal Conspiracy

How Student Rights & the Henry Jackson Society fuel Islamophobia

• ‘Alan Mendoza’s Putsch in the Henry Jackson Society’, GreaterSurbiton.wordpress.com (by former HJS employee)
• ‘Campaign launched against ‘witch-hunt’ of Muslim students by “Student Rights” group‘, Ceasefire Magazine
• ‘Far Rights targets Islamic events‘, Institute of Race Relations
• ‘Muslim Students’ Anger at Student Rights’ Extremism on Campus Claims‘, Huffington Post
• ‘It’s Time to Stop Demonising Muslim Students’, Huffington Post
• ‘Student Rights ‘Camus Extremism’ Study: Dishonest Pseudo-Science in Support of a Toxic Narrative‘, Huffington Post
• ‘”Student Rights’: Islamophobia on campus‘, Counterfire
• ‘EXPOSED: Quilliam leadership directly involved with Neocon Douglas Murray’s Henry Jackson Society‘, Loonwatch
• ‘Student Rights adviser interviewed by distributors of Islamophobic film‘, Real Student Rights
• ‘The EDL-Quilliam-Student Rights connection’, Real Student Rights

About the Real Student Rights counter-campaign

• ‘What climate denial, oil addiction and xenophobia have in common: neocons‘, The Guardian
• ‘”Student Rights” group banned on 5th uni campus’, Impact (University of Bath student newspaper)
• ‘KU students vote against ‘Islamophobic’ group‘, River Online (University of Kingston student newspaper)
• LSE Students Union slams controversial ‘Student Rights’ group, Huffington Post
• Ironically named ‘Student Rights’ group exposed by actual students, Huffington Post
• ‘Campaign launched against ‘witch-hunt’ of Muslim students by “Student Rights” group‘, Ceasefire Magazine
• ‘LSE Students Union passes motion saying no to Islamophobia and calling for Real Student Rights’, Real Student Rights
• ‘Goldsmiths SU passes motion condemning “Student Rights”‘, Real Student Rights
• ‘Birkbeck becomes third uni in 2 weeks to pass “Real Student Rights” motion’, Real Student Rights
• ‘Real Student Rights covered in LSE’s The Beaver‘, Real Student Rights / The Beaver
• ‘Zelo Street blog on Real Student Rights campaign‘, Real Student Rights / Zelo Street
• ‘UK students decry anti-Muslim group‘, OnIslam

Misleading media coverage based on Student Rights’ claims

• Complaint to the BBC, British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
• BBC ruling: complaint upheld, BBC
• ‘Student Rights Blames Newspapers for Backlash over ‘Inaccurate’ Campus Extremism Headlines’, Huffington Post
• ‘Student Rights Group Claims Media “Mistakes”, Conflation With Extremism “Not the Fault” of its Gender Segregation Report’, Huffington Post
• Corrections and Clarifications (right), The Times – apology for its inaccurate front page story of 13 May 2013, based on Student Rights’ misleading report.
• ‘Channel 4 calls Student Rights “a student equality group”‘, Real Student Rights
• ‘The BBC admits “Student Rights” is not a student group’, Real Student Rights

How Student Rights undermines student Palestine solidarity activism

• ‘British Campus Watchdog Organisation Student Rights Attacks Palestine Solidarity‘, Electronic Intifada
• ‘How front group “Student Rights” undermines Palestine solidarity‘, Electronic Intifada

Student Rights, Henry Jackson Society and their connection

• Student Rights website
• Henry Jackson Society website
• Student Rights – Tackling Extremism on Campus, Powerbase profile
• Henry Jackson Society, Powerbase profile
• “‘Student Rights’ group exposed, London Student
• ‘Should segregation ever be allowed in universities?‘, Channel 4 News (on Youtube)
• ‘FOI request shows “Student Rights” touted itself as “independent”‘, Real Student Rights

Student Rights director, Raheem Kassam

• Raheem Kassam, Powerbase profile
• ‘Who is Raheem Kassam? A Wikipedia Mystery’, Liberal Conspiracy
• ‘Student Rights director promotes counter-jihad style propaganda against Islam‘, Islamophobia Watch
• ‘Muslim demographics, rabid Islamophobia and The Commentator‘, Loonwatch
• ‘Students branded “fools” by director of “Student Rights”‘, Real Student Rights
• ‘The Pretentious Commentator’, Zelo Street
• ‘The extreme anti-extremism: Raheem Kassam climate-sceptic ‘GreenCEASE project‘, Spinwatch

Freedom of speech, ‘extremism’ and British universities 

• University College London Caldicott report
• ‘Freedom of Speech on Campus: Rights and Responsiblities in UK universities‘, Universities UK
• ‘Campus links with terrorism “overstated“‘, Times Higher Education
• ‘Anti-extremism or anti-fascism‘, Institute of Race Relations

Feminism, Islamophobia and gender segregation media coverage

• ‘This isn’t feminism, it’s Islamophobia‘, The Guardian
• ‘Why does the media only talk about student sexism when Muslims can be blamed?‘, OpenDemocracy
• ‘The Segregation Debate‘, OnReligion

Organisations and contacts promoting real student rights

• Welfare and Student Rights, National Union of Students (NUS)
• Black Students Campaign, NUS

Other

• ‘Israeli newspaper slams justice week as “anti-Western“‘, Felix (Imperial University’s student newspaper)