In June 2011, MEMO organized a speaking tour for
Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the
Islamic Movement in Israel. Salah, who was banned from entering the UK by the home secretary, was held in custody pending deportation until April 2012 when an immigration tribunal ruled that the home secretary had been misled.[18][19]
On 22 August 2015, MEMO organized an event titled "Palestine & Latin America: Building solidarity for national rights", featuring alleged antisemitic cartoonist
Carlos Latuff and British Palestinian activist
Azzam Tamimi.
Jeremy Corbyn was scheduled to appear as well, but pulled out.[22][23]
In November 2017, MEMO organized an event titled "Crisis in Saudi Arabia: War, Succession and the Future" discussion
Saudi Arabia's future monarchy succession and regional rivalries with Iran and war in Yemen.[24]
In 2015, Labour Party leadership candidate
Liz Kendall said “It seems deeply unwise for Jeremy [Corbyn] to appear on at a conference organised by MEMO, an organisation that the
Community Security Trust has said is infamous for repeated negative conspiracy theories about Israel and Jewish people in public life.”[25] The Trust desctibe MEMO as an anti-Israel organisation and as promoting conspiracy theories and myths about Jews, Zionists, money and power.[26][27][25][undue weight? –
discuss][undue weight? –
discuss] It said that MEMO had "questioned the suitability of
Matthew Gould for the post of UK ambassador to Israel simply because he was Jewish".[27][undue weight? –
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The same year, the Sunday Telegraph's
Andrew Gilligan described it as "a news site which promotes a strongly pro-
[Muslim] Brotherhood and pro-Hamas view of the region", its director Daud Abdullah as "also a leader of the Brotherhood-linked
British Muslim Initiative, set up and run by the Brotherhood activist
Anas al-Tikriti and two senior figures in Hamas", and its senior editor, Ibrahim Hewitt, as chairman of
Interpal, 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.[28][29][30]
Palestine Book Awards
Since 2012, MEMO sponsors and organizes the annual Palestine Book Awards.[31][32][33] The award is intended for books in English on various Palestinian topics.[34][35]
^Perry, D.L., 2020. The Islamic Movement in Britain. International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. London: King’s College.