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Campaigners disrupt event showcase demanding venues stop hosting fossil fuel firms

Post author:The Canary
Post published:16 July 2026
Post last modified:16 July 2026

Amidst the third heat storm of this year, campaigners demanded an end to London venues hosting events for fossil fuel companies. Fossil Free London campaigners disrupted inside the QEII Centre in Westminster while the venue hosted its annual Summer Showcase. This is an invitation-only event marketed to the events industry where companies can find suitable locations for their corporate events. In protest over London venues hosting oil and gas events, five campaigners entered the 40th birthday party event at the QEII Centre and disrupted the event. They requested to give a birthday speech within the DJ booth when they said: Did…

Twelve arrested over far-right terror plot against Suffolk Islamic event

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

UK counter-terror cops have arrested twelve people over an alleged far-right threat against an Islamic event in Suffolk, England. The arrests took place mostly in southern and eastern England with one individual detained in Greater Manchester. On 13 July, the Counter Terrorism Police (CTP) had said: The investigation, which is extreme right-wing terrorism-related, is connected to a suspected threat directed towards an Islamic event held at Shrubland Hall, Suffolk over the weekend (9-12 July). Due to the concerns over the possible threat, and as a precaution, advice was provided via Suffolk Police to the organisers of the UK Ijtima event to…

Exclusive: YP suspends Wimborne-Idrissi — for event she didn’t attend

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:4 July 2026
Post last modified:4 July 2026

Your Party (YP) has suspended three members of its executive committee — for attending a socialist event. Well-known Jewish left-winger Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Essex’s Solma Ahmed and the RMT’s Mel Mullins were all suspended for participating in a Socialist Federation conference: YP got it wrong, but that’s not the point But at least one of those suspended wasn’t even at the event. And Wimborne-Idrissi told Skwawkbox that even if she had been, it wouldn’t justify Corbyn’s new party behaving like the authoritarian Labour party: I wasn’t even at it! But even if I had joined in to listen to what was being…

Zack Polanski pushes Sadiq Khan on ‘unlawful activity’ at pro-Israel event

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:17 June 2026
Post last modified:18 June 2026

Green leader Zack Polanski has called for ‘immediate escalation’ from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan over clearly “unlawful activity” at the Great Israeli Real Estate event. Jewish anti-Zionists had joined protests outside the London event on 14 June to oppose its attempts to sell land in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. Polanski: ‘No impunity for hosts of deplorable Great Israeli Real Estate event’ In a letter to Khan, Polanski insisted that there had already been “substantial evidence ahead of the event” suggesting wrongdoing, and that authorities should have never allowed it to take place. But following the event, he stressed: It has…

Jordan Stephens returns to Brighton for event exploring pressures facing young men

Post author:The Canary
Post published:17 June 2026
Post last modified:17 June 2026

Amnesty International UK is launching a new live event series in Brighton on 25 June with musician, writer and mental health advocate Jordan Stephens. He’ll be leading a conversation about the pressures facing young men today and how stronger communities can help create positive change. Change The Record: In Conversation with Jordan Stephens takes place on Thursday 25 June at The Old Market in Hove. It’ll bring together Stephens and a panel of guests for an honest discussion about wellbeing, identity, belonging and the social and economic challenges shaping the lives of young men. Stephens is best known as one half…

Israeli property event referred to authorities over illegal settlement ads

Post author:DANIA AKKAD
Post published:16 June 2026
Post last modified:2 July 2026

The UK government has referred the Great Israeli Real Estate event to the Advertising Standards Authorities (ASA) as it has emerged that properties for sale in illegal Israeli settlements were promoted at the show. Organisers had said last week that all exhibitors at the event would provide information only about properties for sale within the Green Line – the internationally recognised border between Israel and Palestine. But on Monday, Declassified revealed that brochures circulated at the event advertised developments in at least seven illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Declassified now understands that on Sunday, the day the…

Illegal West Bank settlements advertised at Israeli event in London

Post author:DANIA AKKAD
Post published:15 June 2026
Post last modified:2 July 2026

Despite denials from organisers, evidence gathered inside the event shows occupied Palestinian land was being marketed Properties from seven illegal settlements were advertised at the Great Israeli Real Estate Event on Sunday in London, days after more than 100 MPs and groups urged the UK government to ban it. Organisers had told journalists last week that all exhibitors at the event “without exception” would only provide information about properties for sale within the Green Line – the internationally recognised border between Israel and Palestine. But brochures circulated at the event which Jewish Anti-Zionist Action (JAZA) shared with Declassified and others posted…

Student protesters defy event boss to expose arms insurance cover-up

Post author:The Canary
Post published:15 June 2026
Post last modified:15 June 2026

Student protesters have released footage and delivered letters to Sompo Insurance headquarters, defying attempts by event organisers to cover up the violent removal of activists from a major London financial conference. The incident occurred at the Insurance Linked Securities Conference, hosted by Insurance Insider, where four activists, including a 17-year-old student, were pushed and dragged from the venue by security. Security guards manhandled the 17-year-old student out of the event, as she shouted: “I’m just 17” and “Stop insuring genocide”. Activists accuse insurance company of ‘complicity’ The students had attended the event to demand that Sompo, a key sponsor, drop its…

ICJP issues Serious Crime Prevention Order letter to Met over Great Israeli Real Estate event

Post author:The Canary
Post published:12 June 2026
Post last modified:13 June 2026

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), in collaboration with the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and Public Interest Law Centre (PILC), has written to the Metropolitan police asking them to assess the legal issues in relation to a London edition of the Great Israeli Real Estate event under the Serious Crime Act and if appropriate apply for a Serious Crime Prevention Order on 14 June. ICJP previously issued a letter to the Met calling for an immediate investigation into the legality of the event and those associated with the event under UK domestic law, providing the Met with an…

Polanski question leads Khan to reveal he told police to investigate Great Israeli Real Estate event

Post author:The Canary
Post published:12 June 2026
Post last modified:12 June 2026

London mayor Sadiq Khan has condemned the Great Israeli Real Estate event, scheduled for Sunday 14 June in London. This came in response to a question from Green Party leader and London Assembly member Zack Polanski at Mayor’s Question Time. The event promotes the sale of land in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli property sector is trying to make inroads in the western market. Actress and questionable ‘wellness’ advocate Gwyneth Paltrow has recently sold her face to developers. Polanski said: It is morally incomprehensible and unconscionable that this event is scheduled to take place in our city…

Farage to speak at Yank hand-me-down event in UK

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:8 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is a US event at which American Conservatives gather to revel in their own evil. Or it was, anyway. The most recent event was significantly diminished from the conference’s heyday. And as such, it’s no surprise to see the organisers expanding out into new markets: CONFIRMED SPEAKER: Nigel Farage Leader of Reform UK for CPAC Great Britain, July 16-18, in London, United Kingdom. pic.twitter.com/ZblpFJJlxk — CPAC (@CPAC) June 7, 2026 The question for the UK is this: do we really want some tired, Yank hand-me-down event, or are we going to start being our own country…