Julie Siddiqi - Revision history

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 == Early life and conversion ==
-Julie Siddiqi converted to Islam in 1995 and has since positioned herself as a voice for British Muslim identity in interfaith contexts.<ref name="Srebrenica2014">Remembering Srebrenica, [https://srebrenica.org.uk/lessons-from-srebrenica/bearing-witness/julie-siddiqi Julie Siddiqi] ''Remembering Srebrenica'', 17 November 2014.</ref> Married to [[Naved Siddiqi]], who serves as trustee of [[New Horizons in British Islam]] and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, her family connections reinforce engagement with Holocaust remembrance and interfaith projects.<ref name="HMDTrustArchived">Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, [https://web.archive.org/web/20211013000000/https://hmd.org.uk/trustees Trustees] ''Holocaust Memorial Day Trust'', archived 13 October 2021.</ref>
+Julie Siddiqi converted to Islam in 1995 and has since positioned herself as a voice for British Muslim identity in interfaith contexts.<ref name="Srebrenica2014">Remembering Srebrenica, [https://srebrenica.org.uk/lessons-from-srebrenica/bearing-witness/julie-siddiqi Julie Siddiqi] ''Remembering Srebrenica'', 17 November 2014.</ref> Married to [[Naved Siddiqi]], who serves as trustee of [[New Horizons in British Islam]] and the [[Holocaust Memorial Day Trust]], her family connections reinforce engagement with Holocaust remembrance and interfaith projects.<ref name="HMDTrustArchived">Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, [https://web.archive.org/web/20211013000000/https://hmd.org.uk/trustees Trustees] ''Holocaust Memorial Day Trust'', archived 13 October 2021.</ref>
 == Career ==

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-[[Julie Siddiqi]] is an interfaith activist and has worked in 'counter extremism'. She is one of the co-founders of [[Nisa-Nashim]] a group which is dedicated to normalising Zionism in the British Muslim community.
+'''Julie Siddiqi''' is a British interfaith activist who served as Executive Director of the [[Islamic Society of Britain]] from 2010 to 2014 and co-founded [[Nisa-Nashim]], a Jewish-Muslim women's network dedicated to normalising Zionism within British Muslim communities.<ref name="NisaNashimAbout">Nisa-Nashim, [https://www.nisanashim.com/about/who-we-are Who we are] ''Nisa-Nashim'', accessed 15 February 2026.</ref> Converted to Islam in 1995, she has built a career promoting dialogue between Muslims, Jews, and Christians while participating in government-backed counter-extremism initiatives that critics argue suppress anti-Zionist voices.<ref name="ElectronicIntifada2022">Electronic Intifada, [https://electronicintifada.net/content/interfaith-group-lies-about-israel-lobby-connections/35281 Interfaith group lies about Israel lobby connections] ''Electronic Intifada'', 16 June 2022.</ref> Her work, including leadership roles in multifaith projects and advisory positions on anti-Muslim hatred, aligns with state efforts to frame criticism of the Zionist regime as divisive, consistent with broader counter-extremism strategies that discriminate against protected anti-Zionist beliefs under Miller v University of Bristol (2024).<ref name="AlMayadeen2023">Al Mayadeen, [https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/fodip-and-british-state-counter-extremism-strategy FODIP and the British government's 'counter-extremism' strategy] ''Al Mayadeen'', 23 February 2023.</ref>
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 ==Related==
 *[[Naved Siddiqi]] - husband, [[New Horizons in British Islam]] <ref> New Horizons for British Islam, Charity Commission, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/Y06my  </ref> and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. <ref> Trustees, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/nBLLd </ref>
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-*[[Naved Siddiqi]] - husband, [[New Horizons in British Islam]]
+*[[Naved Siddiqi]] - husband, [[New Horizons in British Islam]] <ref> New Horizons for British Islam, Charity Commission, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/Y06my  </ref> and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. <ref> Trustees, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/nBLLd </ref>
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 *Founder and Director of [[Sadaqa Day]], a one day Muslim-led focus on social action, which was launched in March 2015
 *co-chair of [[Nisa-Nashim]]<ref>HuffPost [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/julie-siddiqi/ Julie Siddiqi].  Accessed 21 April 2020.</ref>
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 *[[Contextualising Islam in Britain II project]] - participant<ref name="report">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140323044028/http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/assets/media/cib2-complete-report.pdf CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN BRITAIN] Project Leader Professor Yasir Suleiman Director, [[HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies]], Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE in Association with the UNIVERSITIES OF EXEtER AND WESTMINSTER January 2012.</ref>
 *Advisor for [[Mitzvah Day]]
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 *Founder and Director of [[Sadaqa Day]], a one day Muslim-led focus on social action, which was launched in March 2015
 *co-chair of [[Nisa-Nashim]]<ref>HuffPost [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/julie-siddiqi/ Julie Siddiqi].  Accessed 21 April 2020.</ref>
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 *[[Naved Siddiqi]] - husband, [[New Horizons in British Islam]]

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