A group among the organisations that pushed for the proscription of Palestine Action joined a march in Brighton in which protesters denied Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The same group has been at the centre of Zionist counter-protest collusion with the police, that has resulted in the arrests of pro-Palestine protesters.
Brighton Zionist protest: a carnival of genocide denial and vile celebration
On Sunday 27 July, Zionists gathered in Brighton to “march for Israel”.
Protesters marched with placards and chants denying the reality of Israel’s brutal genocide:
A carnival like protest led by a banner declaring,
“Stop the Lies, there’s no Genocide in Gaza”There’s no coming back from this depravity, when the rest of the world is watching children starved, shot + bombed to death. Truly sickening to see it on the streets of the UK https://t.co/hAGWQLyZsU
— Jon Silver (@InvisibleMapper) July 28, 2025
Pro-Israel outlet Jewish News covered the protest with a headline boasting how:
Hundreds join Brighton march demanding action on antisemitism and hostage return
However, the video panning the length of the march told a different story:
howling at the reveal at the very end of this of just how small this “march” is https://t.co/68KXIssBSY
— Alison Rumfitt (@hangsawoman) July 28, 2025
The pitiful turnout was even less impressive, given the fact national Zionist protest groups brought protesters in by train:
But, the “tide is turning” according to the fetid fascists cheering on this vile celebration amid a literal genocide:
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside …
Brighton Today!
The Tide Is Turning pic.twitter.com/sljkwxw86x
— LittleBoats 🇬🇧NI🏴🏴En (@LittleBoats2020) July 27, 2025
Of course, it’s the peaceful 80-plus-year-olds holding placards supporting Palestine Action cops are on high alert for:
Peoplecare being arrested as terrorists for opposing mass murder, while racists supporting genocide March in Brighton with Police support. Never again means everybody everywhere always or it means nothing. This is a shameful disgrace for Britain https://t.co/2CPw9IZn9M
— Cllr Martin Butcher – Green #backzack (@WareGreenCllr) July 28, 2025
The very worst people in our society. Can’t imagine how genuinely ugly your mind has to be to go out on the street celebrating children being starved to death, shot for sport, and bombed in their shelters. Scum. https://t.co/EzLUzFMT70
— Bobby Gant (@Bobby_Gant) July 28, 2025
The day these racist, genocide-denying scumbags were stomping down streets of Brighton, the state they unfalteringly waved their flags for killed 63 Palestinians in cold blood and starved to death 14 more through its grotesquely engineered famine.
Stop the Hate UK: the group behind counter-demos and the proscription of Palestine
Amid the groups ferrying protesters to the march were the incongruously named Stop the Hate UK (STHUK).
It bills itself the:
largest Jewish-led direct action campaign group in the UK.
But the group’s demonstrations don’t really equate to “direct action”. Its operations have all ostensibly revolved around counter-protesting pro-Palestine marches and demonstrations. STHUK is the group that’s been behind the majority of the numerous notorious counter-demos in London and across the country.
Its website – which at the time of publication has multiple incomplete sections – details how STHUK was founded:
in response to the repeated failures of the Metropolitan Police to address anti-Semitic incidents at Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) marches.
In November, the Met Police attempted to delay Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (PSC) weekly anti-genocide march. It moved to do so on behalf of a pro-Israel demonstration STHUK cobbled together last-minute.
A telling paragraph on STHUK’s landing page all-but admits its members’ role acting as police informants at Palestine protests:
Our presence at protests ensures that anti-Semitic behaviour is met with immediate action. Trained observers monitor and report incidents, pressuring the police to act swiftly to protect public safety.
So of course, it should come as no surprise that STHUK was also amid the forces pushing for the Home Office to proscribe Palestine Action.
It’s well documented that Zionist lobby group We Believe in Israel (WBII) was chief among those lobbying for this. It published a report in June titled Palestine Action: A Case for Proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000. And notably, the Guardian pointed out how home secretary Yvette Cooper’s statement on the decision to proscribe Palestine Action was “similar” to the wording from this report.
STHUK was a co-author of this. It collaborated with WBII on its “multi-front” pressure campaign where it boasted its plans to brief:
MPs, Peers, and ministers on the legal case
Who is Stop the Hate UK?
The group first emerged in early 2024. Its X profile shows that the group registered an account in April 2024, when it immediately began posting graphics with counter-protest call-outs. However, its co-founder Itai Galmudy appears to have been coordinating the counter-demos, though under a different name – Enough Is Enough – since at least March 2024.
While STHUK doesn’t openly publicise its origin, Jewish News wrote in September that year that:
Itai Galmudy, together with Yochy Davis and Max Royston, are the activists behind Stop the Hate UK, which since May, have held weekly counter protests outside the Swiss Cottage Library in opposition to those marching against the war in Gaza.
Galmudy has largely been the spokesperson of STHUK, with multiple media outlets quoting him as co-founder for the group. As Skwawkbox previously noted:
He spoke to far-right channel GB News, repeating long-debunked propaganda about the October Hamas raid, accusing the peaceful marches of representing ‘mob rule’, claiming he was threatened with death by a pro-Gaza marcher in front of a police officer and admitting that his group’s demo is specifically targeting the pro-Palestine march.
And it appears that it’s Galmudy that’s been front and centre of Zionist instigators colluding with the Met to get pro-Palestine activists arrested.
He’s reportedly a former IDF soldier, who served during the 2014 attacks on Gaza.
Roger Waters protester: ardent supporter of the IDF
Meanwhile, a former Israeli defence minister and now member of the Knesset Amir Ohana previously described Yochy Davis as:
one of the UK’s leading grassroots activists.
“Thank you for providing justice…”
Here Israeli Justice Minister Omir Ohana thanks Yochy Davis for her propaganda work for the Israeli military.
pic.twitter.com/MIlU8gkNFI— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) June 8, 2023
Ohana was thanking David for her work for Israeli military propaganda organisation My Truth. Electronic Intifada identified in 2023 how Davis had:
raised funds over the past few years for My Truth, a group arranging propaganda tours for Israeli troops.
Moreover, it noted that:
In a 2019 post on the GoFundMe website, Davis wrote that she was “lucky enough to help” with a UK visit by My Truth that year. The group had visited the Houses of Parliament, she noted, and Davis was collecting money so that “wonderful young volunteers” from the Israeli military could undertake regular trips to Britain.
On 23 July, Ohana was among the lawmakers in the Knesset that voted through a non-binding motion calling for the annexation of the West Bank. Middle East Eye reported that following the vote, Ohana declared:
The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel
In a brief claim to infamy, it was Davis who disrupted a Roger Waters concert in London in July 2023, unfurling Israeli flags.
Cognitive dissonance off the charts
In April, when the right-wing and Zionist media maligned an anti-genocide march in Essex, the Telegraph quoted Max Royston calling it a “hate march”.
Vehement in its mission to brand pro-Palestine protesters as antisemitic, the outlet referred to him as a “local community representative”, but omitted to mention his role founding STHUK and attending multiple counter-demonstrations.
That same month, Royston teamed up with WBII director Catherine Perez-Shakdam to pen an article for the Daily Express. The piece condemned Riverway Law’s application for the deproscription of Hamas, writing without a shred of conscious irony that:
It would establish a perverse moral equivalence between legitimate political struggles and actions so heinous they defy any definition of human decency.
Of course, quite to the contrary, as the Canary’s Charlie Jay wrote on the law firm’s appeal:
The proscription of Hamas in its entirety not only contravenes the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) by unlawfully restricting freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, which are our rights to protest, but also brings about other negative outcomes.
In June, the BBC spoke to Royston, who had travelled to Tel Aviv for its annual Pride celebration. Unlucky for him however, he happened to time his trip right when Iran rained bombs down on the colonial invading state after a spate of its unprovoked attacks.
As Israel killed an Iranian journalist and continued to massacre Palestinians in Gaza, Royston played the victim. The BBC wrote how he’d described how it is “very scary” living through missile barrages, stating how:
Even in a bomb shelter underground, you hear the explosions.
Once more, the BBC also failed to point out Royston’s affiliation to STHUK.
Intimate ties to a prominent pro-Zionist pressure group
While STHUK describes itself as a “grassroots non-profit”, it seems to hold intimate ties with WBII.
Alongside the lobbying crusade to proscribe Palestine Action, the group has collaborated with WBII on a number of other toxic campaigns. As ever, conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, one called on the Charity Commission to crack down on nonprofits speaking out against Israel. Another honed in on the Essex March for Palestine protest. It demanded police arrest peaceful Palestine protesters, who it labelled “nothing more than hate gangs”. Ostensibly, its goal is to stifle anyone standing up to Israel’s genocide and violent settler occupation.
Despite presenting itself as a nonprofit, the Canary was also unable to find any evidence it has registered with the Charity Commission.
It’s a disgraceful reality that in Labour-led UK 2025, holding a Palestinian flag and signs supporting Palestine Action can get you arrested under the Terrorism Act. At the same time, protesters can freely wave a flag of an occupying state committing violent war crimes, and march with placards denying its genocide.
However, it’s little wonder, when those genocidal Zionist flag-shaggers have clearly had the ear of this corrupt Labour government.
Featured image via screengrab
