Ilford women join Europe’s biggest Jewish-Muslim solidarity conference

Ilford delegates Nazia Shahid and Tracey Grant (Image: Yakir Zur - YZ Photography)

Nazia Shahid, Tracey Grant and student Rabbi Daniela Touati joined delegates from across the country at a conference run by Nisa-Nashim - Britain’s Jewish Muslim women’s network - on Sunday, April 22.

Entitled Change Markers, the conference took place at the London School of Economics in Holborn.

BBC journalist Nomia Iqbal charied an all-female panel which included activist and author Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.

Julie Siddiqi OBE, Muslim Co-Founder of Nisa-Nashim, said: “We must not allow people around us to pitch Jews and Muslims against each other to fight over who is the most hated.”

Key note speaker Robi Damelin (Image: Yakir Zur - YZ Photography)

Robi Damelin, of joint Israeli-Palestinian group The Parents circle, delivered the key note speech.

The event featured bonding over food, poetry and tea and Jewish and Muslim afternoon prayer services were held side-by-side. For more information on Nisa-Nashim go to www.nisanashim.org/

Nisa-Nashim conference group. Photo: Yakir Zur (Image: Yakir Zur - YZ Photography)