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Stop The Hate.

What this is

Two arguments come at you and nobody prepares you for either: what to do about antisemitism, and what to say about Israel. This is the handbook for both. It assumes you have fifteen minutes before a meeting, or an evening before an event, or a room to fill on Thursday and nobody else to fill it.

It is not balanced and does not pretend to be. It argues a case. But it will never tell you a contested thing is settled, and that is not squeamishness. Our readers argue in public, against people who have done the reading. A line that collapses under one follow-up question takes the rest of your case down with it, and your credibility with that. The room stops weighing what you said and starts wondering what else you got wrong.

Why it is separate from Stop The Hate

Because they are different jobs. Stop The Hate campaigns. This is what you reach for at eleven at night, when somebody has sent you something and you do not know how to answer it, and a page like that works better when it is not also asking you to join anything.

Stop The Hate is the UK's largest grassroots, Jewish-led direct action group, with teams in London, Leeds and Brighton. It was founded after October 7th and has been at the centre of grassroots campaigning in Britain since: fighting antisemitism, and making the case for Israel.

In that time it has organised national marches, counter-protests, hostage campaigns, university debates and rallies against antisemitism. It asks three things of government. Protect the Jewish community. Police anti-Zionist hate. Prosecute antisemitism.

Stop The Hate was defined by doing. That is where this comes from. Almost everything here was learned standing in a street, chairing a meeting, taking a call from a journalist, or being the only Jewish person in the room and deciding whether to say anything. It is not a literature review.

How it is written

To a standard you can read for yourself. Two rules do most of the work.

Every claim entry puts the other side's best case at the top, before our answer. Not their worst version. Their best, stated as well as we can manage. An argument that has already met the strongest objection is the only kind that survives contact with somebody who has met it too.

Every fact carries a source you can say out loud. A title and a publisher, not a bare link, so in a room you can name where it came from rather than asking anybody to take our word for it. Every page also carries the date it was last checked, and how often it is due to be checked again.

You can read the editorial standard the whole site is written to.

What it will not do

• It is not legal advice. Where the law matters it says so, says the law differs by country, and tells you what to find out and who to ask.
• It will not tell you what to think about Israeli politics. Readers here hold every view there is, and a handbook does not get to allocate one. Nobody has to denounce a government they did not elect in order to be heard here. Where conceding a point genuinely works with a particular audience, it says so as a tactic, and names the audience.
• It does not collect anything about you. No account, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold and nothing shared. The search runs on your own device. The country you pick never leaves your browser.

When we are wrong

Tell us, and we would rather hear it from you than watch somebody hear it in a room. A page that states something we cannot support does more harm than a page that does not exist, because somebody will repeat it, out loud, in front of people, and it will be their credibility that pays.

Point at the sentence and say what is wrong with it. We will check it, and either change it or say why we have not.

Write to us at the address on the contact page. Tell us the page, the sentence, and what is wrong with it. We would rather be corrected by somebody on our own side than in a room by somebody who is not.

Using any of it

Take it. Print it, photocopy it, put it in a folder, read it out at a meeting, send somebody a link to the one page that answers what they said. It was written to be used, and every page is built to print.

Everything here is free to reuse with attribution. Quote it, adapt it, translate it, put it in your own briefing under your own group's name. Say where it came from and link back if you can, so somebody who wants the sources can find them. Nothing needs asking for and nothing needs paying for.

The photographs are the exception and are not covered by that. They are the photographers' work, licensed to this site with credit, and are not ours to hand on.