In October, MintPress graphic designer and field photographer, Ibrahim Abul-Essad opened his door to find Patrick Sawer of The Daily Telegraph demanding answers.
A prolific writer who has penned 28 pro-Israel articles in the past two months alone, Sawer asked the British Palestinian journalist to respond to pro-Israel pressure group Stop The Hate U.K.'s campaign for him to be prosecuted for "anti-Semitic hate crimes."
Abul-Essad's "crime" was attending an October 2024 demonstration in London protesting an event featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the future of Gaza - a case that the Metropolitan Police have already looked into and dismissed.
Sawer has previous connections to Stop The Hate U.K. A 2024 Daily Telegraph article framing pro-Palestine marchers as racists, for instance, appears to have been based largely on intelligence gathered by Stop The Hate U.K., and features multiple images of protestors taken without their knowledge.
But who are Stop The Hate U.K. ? And where did they come from ? MintPress News explores the group's rise, its agenda, and its scandalously close links to both the British and Israeli governments.
Israeli Front Group?
Stop the Hate U.K. was founded in early 2024, at the height of the Israeli attack on Gaza, in order to stymie and oppose the growing wave of support for Palestinian liberation across Great Britain. The group has attempted to equate support for human rights with terrorism. As their official Twitter bio reads, "We stand in opposition to the hate marches that have swamped our country since the 7.10 massacre. We shall not be cowed. Terrorist supporters off our streets!" The organization has repeatedly pressured the British government to ban demonstrations, and condemned the police for their insufficient vigor in suppressing the movement.
Although it states that it is a non-profit organization, MintPress could find no registration of the group with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
The organization's website describes it was founded "in response to the repeated failures of the Metropolitan Police to address anti-Semitic incidents at Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) marches." This will be news to many in the U.K., where police have arrested over 2300 people under the Terrorism Act of 2000 for peacefully opposing the designation of activist group Palestine Action as a terrorist entity, putting it on a par with the likes of ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. So aggressive has British authorities' repression of free speech been, that it was officially rebuked by Amnesty International as a grave breach of human rights.
Stop the Hate U.K. organizes their own demonstrations. However, they have not been successful in attracting mass participation. Unlike pro-Palestine marches that can draw in as many as one million Britons, an image posted by Stop The Hate U.K. of their recent protest in Brighton shows fewer than 40 attendees. They have, however, had more success disrupting solidarity events, filming or harassing protestors and pushing for their prosecution. In this role, The Canary notes, they serve as unofficial "police informants." Stop The organization also sells merchandise from their website; among the most popular items are t-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the word "Zionist" in all caps.
While trying to expose the identities of pro-Palestine marchers, Stop The Hate U.K. appears to try to keep their own a secret. There is no information about their key members on their own website, only multiple egregious typos. For example, their " About Us" section offers little about their background, except that their organization is "is a call to action for a world without racism or anti-Semitism. Every voice counts in rejecting intolerance and fostering understandinWho We Are" (sic).
Nevertheless, pro-Israel outlet Jewish News identified two Israelis, Itai Galmudy and Yochy Davis, as among the founders. Born in Rishon LeZion and raised in Re'ut, near Modi'in, Galmudy lived in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2008, returning to Israel to study at university and serve in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He participated in Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 bombardment of Gaza, wherein the IDF is widely accused of carrying out serious war crimes, including deliberately targeting civilians. Images from Galmudy's social media show him proudly in uniform, serving in what appears to be a tank brigade.
The British government formally condemned Israel for its actions; Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg describing them as "collective punishment" of a civilian population. Despite this, Galmudy himself was able to move back to London immediately after Operation Protective Edge, and works in the pub industry, where he proudly notes that he refuses to serve anyone wearing Palestinian clothing.
In 2024, he co-founded Stop The Hate U.K., a group that has gained plaudits from the Israeli government itself. Earlier this year, Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely recorded a video wishing Galmudy a special happy birthday, stating that: "Your great activity for the last 12 months means so much to the State of Israel."
"It is concerning that a former Israeli soldier who represented a military which is being investigated for genocide responsible for killing 150 members of my family is part of an organization targeting me and other British citizens in the U.K. calling for a free Palestine," Abul-Essad told MintPress.
Like Galmudy, Yochy Davis is from Israel; her Facebook profile identifying her as from Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa. Describing herself as a "passionate" adherent of Zionism, Davis first came to public attention in 2023, when she and three other pro-Israel activists disrupted Roger Waters' London show. The rock star is a high-profile supporter of progressive causes, including Palestinian statehood. Davis shouted at Waters, unfurling an Israeli flag and calling his views "disgusting." The incident was well-covered in the British press, who appeared keen to undermine Waters' message.
Davis has long promoted Israeli causes. In 2019, for instance, she worked with Israeli organization, My Truth, to bring a squad of IDF soldiers to Britain to visit the Houses of Parliament and carry out a series of "educational" lectures promoting Israel and its military as benevolent forces.
Israeli charity website, Israel Gives, describes My Truth as "an educational organization that is comprised of Israeli Defense Force reservists that educate about the IDF operations and the moral standards it holds," adding that:
'My Truth' reservists speak up openly and with a firsthand perspective about their army experiences in response to those who attempt to slander Israeli soldiers in the name of so-called 'full disclosure.'"
And like Galmudy again, Davis' activism has earned her official praise from Israeli government officials. In 2019, former Shin Bet official and then-Minister of Justice, Amir Ohana, recorded a video expressing his deep gratitude, stating:
I want to tell Yochy Davis and the My Truth organization: thank you for providing justice. Thank you for providing truth to the world, and thank you for everything you are doing for the State of Israel and for the people of Israel. Thank you."
Davis recently met with Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, and both she and Galmudy attended an official event at the Israeli Embassy in London last month. Earlier this year, the pair also traveled to Israel and the Golan Heights - Syrian territory illegally occupied by Israel - where they liaised with and took photos with IDF soldiers.
Stop The Plagiarism
The choice to name a pro-Israel advocacy group "Stop The Hate U.K." clearly attempts to equate support for Palestine and opposition to genocide with anti-Semitism. Yet it has also caused significant confusion, as a well-known and respected charity, "Stop Hate U.K." (SHUK) already exists.
SHUK was established in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence affair. Stephen Lawrence was a Black British teenager murdered in London in a racially motivated killing in 1993. The attack, and the subsequent inadequate response from the Metropolitan Police, made Lawrence a cause célèbre, the George Floyd of his day. An official inquiry found that the police force was "institutionally racist" and needed to be radically reformed. Since 1995, SHUK has carried out vital work challenging hatred and intolerance. Lawrence's mother serves as its patron.
Pro-Israel group Stop The Hate U.K. is frequently misidentified as the more legitimate body, including in Sawer's aforementioned Daily Telegraph article, where it attributes the intelligence provided to SHUK. It is eminently possible that this sort of confusion was deliberate, and Stop The Hate U.K. is trying to bask in the legitimacy of an established anti-racist charity. MintPress contacted SHUK for this investigation, but did not receive a response.
Gaza and the rise of Stop The Hate U.K. provokes a number of important questions. How is it that a pro-Israel pressure group, co-founded by two Israeli citizens, can have such an outsized effect on British public life ? How can a former member of an army carrying out a massacre put such successful pressure on U.K. authorities to arrest journalists exposing the IDF's crimes ? And who gets to decide who and who is not a terrorist: British citizens or pressure groups allied to a foreign nation carrying out a genocide?
Feature photo |Pro-Israel demonstrators gather in London during a counter-protest to a pro-Palestinian rally, part of the wider mobilization that groups like Stop The Hate UK have sought to amplify as they pressure authorities to crack down on anti-genocide activism. Martin Pope |Sipa via AP Images
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Behind the headlines of "civil war" and "tribal clashes," Sudan's collapse reveals a U.S.-engineered campaign of starvation, displacement, and proxy war led by Israel and the UAE to crush resistance and control Africa's resources.
Sudan isn't collapsing on its own — it's being taken apart.
And behind every headline about "civil war" is a story of US empire, greed, and betrayal.
While headlines point to the UAE as the culprit behind Sudan's humanitarian disaster, the truth runs far deeper and more sinister.
For over two decades, it's been Washington's official policy to turn Sudan into the failed state we see today — part of a new Cold War against China, Russia, and Iran, and a campaign to destroy any nation that dares to stand with Palestinian liberation.
What's happening in Sudan isn't another African tragedy — it's an architectural design of US imperialism where starvation, displacement, and genocide are the tools of Washington's policy.
In Sudan, Entire cities have been leveled.
Hospitals bombed. Women raped and executed on camera.
Families starve while Sudan's gold is stripped and flown to Dubai.
Sudan once stood at the heart of the Axis of Resistance — a bridge between Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon; a logistical lifeline for weapons to Gaza and South Lebanon; and a strategic ally on the Red Sea
That defiance sealed its fate.
Like Libya and Iraq before it, Sudan has been targeted for destruction — punished for its independence and its solidarity with Palestine.
And at the center of this assault are two of Washington's most reliable proxies: Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
They've been deployed by Washington to do what the empire can no longer do openly — to wage wars by proxy, seize resources, and crush the Resistance from within.
Israel provides intelligence and strategy.
The UAE provides money, weapons, and cover.
Together, they carry out the dirty work of empire.
Sudan sits on a fault line connecting the Red Sea, the Sahel, and the Horn of Africa — regions central to China's Belt and Road Initiative and Russia's trade networks.
Its ports could link Africa's mineral wealth to a new, multipolar economy no longer dependent on the U.S. dollar.
For Washington, this is an existential threat.
China's Belt and Road offers nations like Sudan an escape from the IMF, the World Bank, and the petrodollar system that have trapped the Global South in debt for decades.
If Sudan joined that network, it could connect Africa's gold, oil, and mineral wealth directly to Beijing — bypassing Western control entirely.
That's what Washington fears most.
By collapsing Sudan, it weakens both the Axis of Resistance and the Belt and Road Initiative, blocking Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran from gaining a foothold in Africa.
It's the same Cold-War logic that destroyed Libya, Syria, and Yemen — the same imperial blueprint:
If a nation rejects Western capital and seeks independence, it must be destabilized, divided, and starved into submission.
And Israel and the UAE, deployed by Washington, have become the empire's regional enforcers — controlling the Red Sea, isolating Iran, and looting Sudan's gold and oil under the banner of "stability."
The destruction of Sudan didn't begin yesterday.
It began decades ago — with a long campaign to make Sudan ungovernable.
In 2019, after years of sanctions, isolation, and CIA interference, Washington and its Gulf allies orchestrated the fall of Omar al-Bashir under the illusion of "democratic reform."
In his final years, Bashir tried to win the West's approval — the same fatal mistake Muammar Gaddafi made.
Ghaddafi famously shook the hands with Tony Blair and agreed to Disarm for an an exchange for political survival - but the Empire couldn't allow for Libya to become an independent state where Gaddafi wanted to create an African gold currency to unite the continent and ditch the US dollar.
NATO invaded and Gaddafi was disposed of within a blink of an eye. Dragged through the streets of Tripoli after being sodomized with a machete.
And Omar AL-Bashir tried to negotiate with the US and turned to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, agreeing to cut ties with Iran in exchange for political survival.
He did everything they asked — and they toppled him anyway.
Because the empire doesn't forgive and it does not forget.
They wanted a compliant Sudan, not a sovereign one.
And they wanted to ensure it would never again stand with Iran, Palestine, Yemen, or Lebanon.
To justify that outcome, the empire had to make Sudan look like a monster.
In the 2000s, Washington labeled it a "state sponsor of terrorism" — not for violence, but for its alliances.
Then came Darfur — the perfect emotional weapon.
The humanitarian theater that paved the way for NATO's destruction of Libya was first rehearsed in Sudan.
Western think tanks, NGOs, and intelligence agencies turned a regional conflict into a global spectacle.
Celebrities like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie became the moral front of an imperial campaign — speaking of "genocide" and "saving Sudan," while U.S. and Israeli intelligence quietly mapped oil fields and gold reserves.
As Clooney called for intervention, the CIA armed the proxies.
As Jolie pleaded for "human rights," Western and Israeli-linked allies backed warlords.
Even Jolie has since hinted that celebrity activism can be manipulated to serve Western agendas — turning compassion into consent for war.
By the time Bashir fell, the world had accepted the lie that Sudan was a failed state — its people primed for foreign "salvation," its resources already marked for extraction.
With Bashir gone, the UAE rose as Washington and Tel Aviv's new enforcer.
Once known for skyscrapers and malls, Abu Dhabi became a hub for proxy wars — financing coups, arming militias, and laundering blood gold under the banner of "counter-terrorism."
Through the Abraham Accords, Israel and the UAE fused Emirati money, Israeli intelligence, and Western arms into one war machine.
And Sudan became their next laboratory.
As Sudan's people starve, its resources are stripped bare.
The vultures are feeding.
Al Junaid Multi Activities, owned by RSF commander Hemedti's family, seized Sudan's gold mines — turning blood-soaked earth into its private fortune.
Emiral and Alliance for Mining, backed by the UAE, took over the Kush Mine and funneled gold through Dubai, erasing its origins before it hit global markets.
Western oil giant Schlumberger returned under the guise of "reconstruction," even as famine spread and cities turned to ash.
Sudan's economy was carved up between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces, who profited off war and smuggling while civilians starved.
The famine isn't a by-product — it's a weapon.
The Rapid Support Forces didn't just appear — they were created.
In 2015, during the U.S.-backed war on Yemen, the UAE recruited thousands of Sudanese fighters — many ex-Janjaweed — as mercenaries against Yemen's Ansarallah movement.
They fought with Emirati funding and Western weapons, under Washington's quiet approval.
That war gave the RSF training, funding, and global connections — turning them into a regional army for hire.
They fought Yemen's resistance yesterday.
Today, they're massacring civilians in Khartoum, Darfur, and beyond.
Villages erased. Women raped. Hospitals burned.
Millions displaced. Entire generations lost.
These are not "tribal clashes."
This is genocide — engineered and financed by the same powers that once claimed to bring "democracy."
Since 2023, Israel and the UAE have armed and financed the RSF — ensuring their grip on Sudan's gold and ports.
Gold flows from Darfur to Dubai, refined and sold worldwide.
Once melted, its origins vanish — but not its blood.
That wealth cycles through banks, defense contractors, and tech supply chains in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
For Israel, Sudan's collapse is strategic: It weakens Iran's allies, opens African markets, and secures Red Sea routes around Yemen's blockade.
While Yemen sacrifices to blockade Israeli ships for Gaza, the UAE and its allies quietly keep Israel's trade alive.
It's the same imperial pattern: Destabilize. Demonize. Then divide.
Every time, the target is a nation that stands with Palestine, aligns with China or Iran, and refuses to bow.
But make no mistake — this isn't just a war on the Resistance. It's a war on the future itself.
Sudan's collapse sends a message to every African and Asian nation daring to work with Beijing or Moscow: break from the dollar, and we'll break your country.
Sudan's suffering isn't collateral damage — it's the cost of resistance.
As famine spreads and children die, gold still moves, oil still flows, and the empire still profits.
They call it "stability."
But what they've built is slavery — wrapped in the language of democracy.
Every nation that resists — Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Lebanon, and now Sudan — faces the same fate: sanctions, proxy wars, starvation, and propaganda.
This is the architecture of US imperialism.
The export of so-called Western Democracy against the Global South.
Sudan is not "another African tragedy."
It's a frontline in humanity's struggle for freedom — between the Axis of Assistance and the Axis of Resistance, between a dying Western order and a world fighting to break free.
And that's why Sudan matters: it's where the war for a free Palestine, the war on Africa, and the war against China's multipolar ambitions all converge.
This is the face of modern day colonialism.
Mnar Adley is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Adley also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the video series Behind The Headlines. Contact Mnar at mnar@mintpressnews.com or follow her on Twitter at @mnarmuh.