Hope not Hate

Hope not Hate
HnH logo
Existence	2004—present
Purpose	anti-racism" organisation, involved with illegal surveillance, and Antifa associations.
Location	London, United Kingdom
Affiliation	Searchlight New Labour

Hope not Hate (HnH) is a communist "anti-racist" organisation, involved with surveillance, and with Antifa domestic terrorist groups. Some on the Right refer to it as Hate not Hope. In February and March 2024 the famous London magazine The Spectator roundly criticised the group and described them as "sinister" and "shameless".

Of all the blights on our politics, there are few more tedious than the left-wing campaign group that masquerades behind some poorly constructed frontispiece.

Background

The organization was founded in 2004 by Nick Lowles, who is Jewish, a former editor of the often criticized Jewish-communist "anti-fascist" Searchlight magazine. Hope not Hate's Deputy Director is Jemma Levene, who previously worked as Head of Campaigns at Jewish cultural education charity SEED, and at the Jewish Orthodox Union in New York. The Political Organiser is Liron Velleman, Policy Officer for the Jewish Labour Movement. Its Director of Research is Joe Mulhall, a journalist who claims he has published a wide array of internationally recognised reports on the "Far-Right". He authored the ridiculous book British Fascism after The Holocaust.

Hope not Hate functioned as part of the Searchlight organisation until 2011, when the two groups split. As a standalone organisation, HnH took with it two of the three units of Searchlight: Searchlight Educational Trust (SET), a charity; and Searchlight Information Services (SIS), its research and investigative function. The organisation now consists of HOPE not hate Educational Ltd (a charitable wing) and HOPE not hate Ltd (focused on campaigning and investigative work).

HnH and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) have been stated to have had or have a hostile relationship with one another, despite both being "anti-racist" organisations. This may reflect their origin in and ongoing influence from non-Trotskyist Communism (HnH) and Trotskyism (UAF). UAF has been described as being more extreme, such as by not criticizing Islamist extremism, possibly reflecting the origin in the more extremist Trotskyist ideology.

See also the Searchlight article on criticisms of this organisation from which Hope not Hate originates.

Activities

Nigel Farage stated in 2014 that Unite Against Fascism members had made violent attempts to silence him and that there had been repeated attempts by political opponents to disrupt his public meetings which had forced him to hire bodyguards. His personal security had been threatened by supporters of UAF and Hope Not Hate. “They are violent in intent,” he said. “Their intention is to stop me speaking.” Both groups officially denied any involvement in violence, insisting they are peaceful and democratic organisations.

HnH has been roundly criticised by The Spectator a highly respected London political commentators' magazine:

Worst among these campaign groups is Hope Not Hate (HNH). It is supported by a range of left-wing MPs and occasionally gets a reach-around from some Conservative or other. HNH calls itself an ‘anti-fascist’ organisation and that is what the media slavishly call the group when they report on its work. A few years ago, a classic piece of HNH reporting claimed that evil people are using video games to spread messages of hate. This crack journalism was picked up by the BBC, which quoted one of the group’s activists saying: 'Once you’re in that world, then the radicalisation starts to happen'. The man in question was referred to by the BBC as coming from the ‘anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate’. If anyone had any doubt that HNH is not, in fact, an anti-fascist organisation they might note several things. First – there aren’t many fascists around. We don’t like them in Britain. Perhaps thanks to a dearth of targets or perhaps because it’s full of far-left ideologues, HNH some while ago decided that its targets should be the UKIP, Nigel Farage, Brexiteers and the Tory party.

Naturally the group has had little to say about the hate marches in London each week. But they did swoop into action when a small group of people opposed one of the protests. This group – predictably enough – was portrayed by HNH as the "far-right" on the march. As we all know, calls for ‘intifada’ and ‘jihad’ are expressions of peace and love whereas saying ‘Eng-er-land’ is a notorious far-right dog-whistle.

Anyhow, this week HNH was back at it, heralding another incredibly unimpressive ‘investigation’ online: ‘This is BIG. We’ve uncovered the private Twitter account belonging to Sir Paul Marshall, co-owner of GB News. And it’s littered with likes and retweets of racist and Islamophobic content.’ It was amusing in its way. HNH, of course, had not ‘investigated’ or ‘uncovered’ anything. Marshall’s Twitter account was public and all that the geniuses at HNH had to do was sit at home eating crisps and screen-shotting tweets. Nor was the material ‘racist and Islamophobic’. Most of it was just retweeting things which the rest of us notice as ‘events’ and ‘facts’, such as disturbing footage of Islamists running riot. HNH cherry-picked a few ‘likes’ from Marshall’s account and then presented it as representative not just of the man but of a wider, sinister movement.

Some years ago HNH published a list of ‘Islamophobes’. One – a scholar – subsequently had an Islamist come to his front door and try to shoot him in the head. A while later, HNH wrote a similar report and threatened to put political writer Douglas Murray in it. When he threatened legal action, HNH explained that if I removed the piece criticising them, it might consider removing my name from its latest hit-list. The group is not just silly but sinister. It wishes to change the political weather in our country (UK), and it operates like a gangster. As with so many self-proclaimed ‘anti-fascists’, their name is wrong. They really should drop the ‘anti’ bit and rename themselves Hate Not Hope.

HnH attracts Leftists from the UK and across Europe notably Scandinavia, one of whom, Patrik Hermansson, (born c. 1992) a Swedish Far-Left activist who works for HnH and other fanatical far-left groups using an alias as Erik Hellberg and posing as a student, set up a private meeting with a Traditional Britain Group officer. Hermansson secretly and illegally recorded this conversation and HnH then sold what they thought were incriminating parts to the London-based Far-Left Daily Mirror newspaper who then ran a public smear article against the officer. In 2017 the BBC bragged that by 2017 he had already been "undercover" in the so-called alt-right in the UK, Europe and the USA for a year.

In October 2024 the Far-Left UK TV station, Channel 4, established specifically to cater more for "minorities", meaning aliens, ran what they called a documentary undercover: "Exposing the Far Right" which revolved around an investigation by Hope Not Hate into an "international organisation" with UK ties that promoted racial, and eugenics-based theories. It followed a year-long infiltration during which Jewish journalist Harry Shukman and the delightful Patrik Hermansson were able to meet leaders of the Human Diversity Foundation, which has both media and race science branches. These Leftists fail to understand that it is not against the law to believe in race differences (especially noting hospital operations call specifically for donors from a particular race) nor is it wrong to study the science of eugenics, which before WWII was immensely popular across the world.

In early 2025 Hope Not Hate operative Andrew Edge pleaded guilty to charges including harassment, threats of violence against people and their families, and more. He had failed to turn up for the court hearing and went on the run, before being captured by Manchester Police and brought by them to court.

Sources

• Hann, Dave, & Tilzey, Steve, No Retreat: The Secret War between Britain's Anti-fascists and the Far Right, Milo Books, Lytham, Lancashire, U.K., Nov 2003, ISBN: 1-903854-22-9
• Birchall, Sean, Beating the Fascists, Freedom Press, London, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-904491-12-5

Gallery

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  Nick Lowles, head of HnH

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  HnH's Jemma Levene

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  HnH's openly communist Matt Collins

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  HnH's fanatical Joe Mullhall

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  HnH's activist Patrik Hermansson (alias Erik Hellberg)

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  HnH's violent Adam Edge, convicted 2025.

External links

• UK Labour Set Up Parliamentary Group With Far-Left Hope Not Hate
• Hope not Hate? Truth not Lies More Likely! by Gilad Atzmon
• Hateful and Hopeless – "Hope Not Hate’s" Labourite cranks get it wrong again
• Soros-Backed Hope Not Hate: Trump Is ‘Mainstreaming’ Islamophobia
• HOPE Not Hate Identified in Swedish Military Report on Left Wing Extremist Violence