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Stop the Hate: New report exposes shadowy pro-Israel pressure group

In October this year, the Canary editor Steve Topple reported on the activity of Telegraph journalist Patrick Sawer. Sawer was doorstepping pro-Palestine activists to ask questions which were raised by the Zionist lobby group Stop the Hate.

Now, news site TRT World has reported more on the people behind Stop the Hate:

Doorstep the hate

When Sawer turned up at the doorstep of independent journalist Ibrahim Abul-Essad, the latter noted it was a very “direct” way for the Telegraph journalist to make first contact. In response, Sawer said he wanted to give Abul-Essad the opportunity to respond to Stop the Hate UK, who were arguing that Abul-Essad should be prosecuted for “antisemitic hate crimes”.

Topple wrote the following about the situation:

This type of targeted harassment is nothing new from Stop The Hate UK. As the Canary previously reported, Stop The Hate took a central role in the proscription of Palestine Action. The group bill themselves as the “largest Jewish-led direct action campaign group in the UK.” However, that ‘direct action’ regularly involves doxxing activists to the police. It has specifically run a targeted campaign against Dr Rahmeh Aladwan – to the point where its racism was revealed as it made cops arrest another brown doctor, thinking it was Aladwan.

Meanwhile, Labour Against Antisemitism’s Alex Hearn has a history of weaponising antisemitism on behalf of Israeli politicians against anti-Zionist Jews.

Moreover, Labour Against Antisemitism has a history of targeting innocent people with accusations of antisemitism for its own political agenda. Or rather, it targeted people for the political agendas of Keir Starmer and his now-chief of staff Morgan McSweeney.

It would be unimaginable if criticism of Russia or North Korea led to journalists doorstepping a person, and yet here we are.

In the video at the top, TRT World report:

Research shared with TRT World by an independent Palestinian researcher points to two main figures behind the group: Itai Galmudi and Yochy Davis. They organized counter protests against Palestine solidarity events in the UK. Galmoudi is reportedly an Israeli army veteran. Davis met Israeli President Isaac Herzog last year and both were recently photographed at a reception inside Israel’s London embassy.

Davis previously drew attention to himself at a Roger Waters gig:


The TRT World video adds:

Stop the Hate UK, which was publicly praised by former Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, joined other pro-Israel organisations in demanding the UK government designate the direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

Hotovely is the smirking genocidaire who was Israel’s ambassador to the UK until recently:

The below video clearly demonstrates the Zionist propaganda playbook, which is to cry ‘antisemitism’ whenever somebody accurately describes what Israel is doing:

While it turns out you can cry ‘wolf’ many times and still get away with, Israel’s defenders have now thoroughly maxed out their bullshit allowance.

Stop the Hate—Foreign influence

The TRT World video goes on to say:

Critics ask: why are two individuals, foreign citizens, linked to a foreign state accused of genocide, helping shape which British activists get labelled ‘extremists’ or ‘terrorists’ on UK soil?

Stop the Hate is just one piece of a larger pro-Israel ecosystem in the UK. However, Galmudi also runs Enough is Enough. Another group that mobilizes against pro-Palestine activism. Together, the groups form part of a wider network of policy outfits, doxing illegal pressure groups and pro-Israel think tanks.

So the real question is this: who gets to decide what counts as extremism in the UK? British citizens or foreign-aligned pressure groups with an agenda?

And if they can influence who gets labelled a terrorist, then whose interests is Britain really defending?

Historically, there has been tremendous hostility from the establishment whenever anyone asked these questions. We’re at a point now, though, where too many people are asking, and they can’t silence us all.

Featured image via TRT World / Estonian Foreign Office

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.