HOPE not hate

Nick Ryan spoke with activist lawyer Pam Horowitz on her new book, and the life she spent with the activist in the civil rights movement -  Julian Bond. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Holocaust denial continues it's ugly transmission, adapting even during an unprecedented health emergency. Joe Mulhall spoke to the Council of Christians and Jews on the subject of the mutating shape of Holocaust denial today.  Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Nick Ryan spoke with activist and author Joel Goza on the history of ideas that deeply entrench racism in American life. Joel is the author of America's Unholy Ghosts on racism in American faith and politics and is currently working on his second book Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Making an Anti-Racist America. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Campaigns and Operations Officer Afrida was joined by Joe Mulhall, Nick Lowles and Matthew McGregor to discuss the deep roots of yesterday's attack on American democracy. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

This roundtable conversation is a reminder on the importance of combatting discrimination against muslims, worldwide. HOPE not hate researcher Safya Khan-Ruf was invited to speak alongside Dr. Jennifer Phillipa Eggert, Cllr. Jas Athwal, Mufti Ahmed Peerbhai in a wide discussion on Islamophobia and anti-muslim hatred today. The meeting was chaired by Yusuf Patel MBE,  with thanks to London Borough...

Want to learn from the Biden for President digital team? We had a great session with them - and you can listen to the podcast here. The Biden team faced off against the Trump campaign’s self-styled “death star” digital operation and won. They did it with innovative tactics, great content, and a lot of heart - from the candidate on down. But how did they approach their work? What worked well (and w...

Want to learn from Joe Biden's campaign team? They faced online smears, sophisticated digital attacks, and social media companies who couldn't or wouldn't stem the tide of lies. HOPE not hate supporters heard directly from some of the team tasked with combating this wave of disinformation. Joe Biden's digital director Rob Flaherty, Becca Rinkevich, Director of Digital Rapid Res...

If you want to know how Joe Biden beat Donald Trump, this podcast is for you. We talked to two of the Biden team about how they organised - and what we can learn. It’s a must-watch (and don't forget to tag anyone you know who does campaigning). **Here’s all the background** The Biden for President campaign faced a stiff challenge in 2020: how to mobilize people in such huge numbers that an in...

With the US heading to the polls in one of the most fractious elections ever,  and many fearful about far right & militia violence, Nick Ryan speaks to former head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heidi Beirich, about the scale of the far right threat facing us today. https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/magazine/usa2020/ Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out mor...

Following the publication of the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party, we're joined by Peter Mason of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jemma Levene from HOPE not hate, and the Labour MP Stella Creasy. They talked to our campaigns director Matthew McGregor about the report itself, and where the fight against anti-Jewish racism goes from here. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out...

Campaigns director Matthew McGregor asks Jess Morales Rocketto the question everyone wants to know- "Will we win?" the coming election in the United States. A community organiser in the USA for the National Domestic Worker's Alliance and Care in Action, Jess spoke with Matthew McGregor about the impending election that is really a battle for the future of liberal democracy in the US...

Ruth Smeeth (Vice Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement) and Matthew McGregor (Campaign director at HnH) discuss Ruth's highly personal experiences of antisemitism in the Labour Party and the deep problems that have lead up to the EHRC's investigation. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

The false QAnon conspiracy theory features aspects of ancient antisemitic narratives, its rise and spread across the globe has also seen its transformation into ever more virulent, localised forms. This should be alarming to antifascists everywhere. A major new piece of research from Gregory Davis and David Lawrence is discussed and read here by Joe Mulhall. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find...

Journalist, Author and Playwright Paul Mason spoke with Joe Mulhall about the recent prosecution of the Greek Neo-Nazi Party, their sudden rise, and what the significance of the verdict means for antifascists combatting resurgent fascism internationally. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Caleb Cain and Cynthia Miller-Idriss join Nick Ryan for a conversation about the far right online ecosystem, and discuss their mutual work in challenging it. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Joe Mulhall dives back into the HOPE not hate archive for the second in our new series, this time reading new work from Simon Murdoch looking at the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, an important part of our movement. Simon investigates if the arguments between anti-racists and antifascists could better be resolved through a mutual understanding against the common enemy.  Visit the HOPE not hat...

This compelling round table between three leading writers (including Hope not Hate's Joe Mulhall) is a useful insight into the origins and continued importance of race science. With many thanks to the Wiener Library for allowing us to reproduce the recording here. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Juliana Rordorf details the many ways that free speech is unevenly distributed, and outlines a liberal approach for its protection that accounts for how the far right violates the speech of others. Central to this is the work of deplatforming hate. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

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Researcher Juliana Rordorf reads her first in a series of articles on the varying ways that the far right co-opts and abuses arguments around free speech. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

In this first episode of a new series where we look at objects in the HOPE not hate archive, Joe Mulhall discusses one of the oldest publications we keep. The Hidden Hand was the newspaper of The Britons, a small, antisemitic group, that flogged it's shabby wares in the violently tumultuous interwar period. Although marginal, with a small print run, the personalities around The Britons became...

Eric K. Ward grew up in Los Angeles. Coming up in a punk scene that was volatile and tribal. In the context of rising hatred Eric and his friends learnt that they had to fight hard for their values. This was the start of a journey that would bring Eric to his work today as an anti-racist and antifascist, in a world on the brink. This interview was recorded before the situation in Portland reached...

Joe Mulhall discusses the new report from Gregory Davis on the many failings of Bitchute. Bitchute is a video content platform that has hosted to terror videos from groups such as ISIS and National Action, as well as gaining huge numbers on conspiracy theory videos during the recent crisis. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

The Uyghur crisis in western China has led to over 1 million – some upwards of 2 million – Muslim Uyghur people being interned in what the Chinese government calls "re-education" centres. They've steadily faced an erosion of their cultural and religious rights, forcible birth control and increasingly oppressive surveillance. Now a shrinking minority within their own lands, Sophie Ri...

HOPE not hate's Joe Mulhall spoke with the authors of Reactionary Democracies. Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter's new book which challenges the idea that liberal democracy provides a consistent bulwark against racism. Arguing that popular notions of 'the people' justify the exclusion of others and the normalisation of racist ideas, the authors point to mainstream racism, islamo...