Following President Trump’s announcement to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and thereby officially recognise the city as the Israeli capital has sparked strong reactions across the world. Western European leaders, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, have generally taken a critical stance. They point to the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian accords, which had left the final…
The Good Price mini-market in Colombes, located in Paris, is required to be a “general food store” according to its license and must meet the needs of all of its inhabitants, meaning it must sell pork and alcohol, but that defeats the purpose of its halal credentials. The owner Soulemane Yalcin opened his store in…
The Good Price halal supermarket’s manager Soulemane Yalcin has spoken out against the store’s ordered closure. “The accusation of communalist business doesn’t make sense,” he said. “These are my business choices, I studied the market, I looked at the numbers of the store that came before this. I take into account my clients’ demands and…
The Good Price mini-market in Colombes has been ordered to close after it did not comply with the conditions of its lease, which stated the shop must act as a “general food store,” the Court of Nanterre ruled. The local authority argued members of the local community were not being served properly because the shop…
20 years on from their ground-breaking report on the topic, the Runnymede Trust has published a new report stating Islamophobia is “still a challenge for us all”
