Yes, we have looked into Nisa-Nashim which is a Zionist interfaith effort to infiltrate and subvert Muslim communities set up by the Board of Deputies and with funding from the British state and involvement from British intelligence.
Here is the intro to the first piece I did [Full piece at Link 1 below]:
Why would an interfaith group lie about the involvement of Zionists in its creation and governance?
The group – Nisa-Nashim: The Jewish and Muslim Women’s Network – presents itself as a charity. It claims to fosters dialogue and understanding between Muslim and Jewish women, bringing them “closer together” to “build personal friendships, grow as leaders and benefit wider society.”
But the evidence suggests that its real purpose is to cultivate relationships with Muslim women to undermine criticism of Israel’s state ideology Zionism and to normalize such criticism in the Muslim community.
Nisa-Nashim launched in June 2015 and registered at Companies House, the UK’s registrar of firms, in September 2016. The Nisa-Nashim website states that it raises “awareness of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and women’s role in society.”
Nisa-Nashim operates through a variety of local groups and coordinates events where Muslim and Jewish women can build “understanding and friendships” or become “active allies” through meetups such as “come eat with me” and book clubs.
The group, by leveraging personal contacts and friendships, makes it harder for Muslim participants to be critical of Zionism, particularly in the wake of each new human rights outrage and incidence of ethnic cleansing by the state of Israel in Palestine.
In response to our reporting Laura Marks published various lies and smears, to which I replied as follows [Full piece at Link 2 below]:
Laura Marks was formerly a senior figure at the pro-“Israel” Board of Deputies of British Jews (2012-15), an organisation that boasts in its 2020 annual report of a "close working relationship with the Israeli embassy and strengthened links with the Israeli military and Ministry of Strategic Affairs." She has been centrally involved in Zionist attempts to penetrate British Muslim communities via so called “interfaith” activities in order to normalise Zionism.
Lifelong Zionist
Marks has been a Zionist almost all of her life. She was a member of the Zionist Habonim Dror in her youth, a group also attended by her husband, the TV producer Dan Patterson, by his father before him, and also by the couple’s children. So three generations of the family have gone through the indoctrination process in which the group specializes. Marks claims the group taught her “leadership skills and independence”. She doesn’t mention the racist doctrine of Zionism with which the group grooms Jewish young people. In recent years, Marks has been in the leadership of the pro-"Israel" Jewish Leadership Council and has been involved in several interfaith groups dedicated to penetrating the Muslim community and normalising Zionism, such as Mitzvah Day and Nisa-Nashim.
Smearing critics of Zionist interfaith work
According to Marks there is a side to the debate on interfaith that is “bullying, personal and vicious” and this explains why Nisa-Nashim was “targeted so aggressively” by an edition of Palestine Declassified, a programme on which I am the Producer. She refers to an “undercover ‘documentary’” in which one of our journalists attended a Nisa-Nashim meeting. This was discussed, she says, by an “all male” panel. But she doesn’t make clear that the undercover filming was accomplished by a young woman, the British Palestinian journalist, Latifa Abouchakra. She bravely infiltrated the Nisa-Nashim meeting highlighted the “incubation” of the group by the Board of Deputies and the connections of the meeting host to British intelligence. I say “brave”, since engaging critically with organisations connected to Prevent, the Islamophobic British counter-terror policy, is a material risk to all Muslims in the UK. Marks appears to airbrush the Palestinians from the story, just as the Zionist entity has tried to do in reality.
Link 1:
electronicintifada.net/conte…
Link 2:
english.almayadeen.net/artic…
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