What to do.What to say.
The complete handbook to Israel advocacy and campaigning against antisemitism. 44 answers to the things people actually say, each with sources you can name out loud. And 64 guides for the rest of it: the meeting, the motion, the interview, the room.
Written for two people. The one doing this for the first time, alone and with nobody's permission. And the one who has to make it happen, with a room to fill and other people relying on them.
Sixty seconds, no sound needed
How it works in a minute
The whole site, start to finish, in one film. Then how to use this site, in more detail.
Read the film as text
On a march. In a seminar. In the group chat. What do you say?
Stop The Hate presents Answer The Hate. What to do. What to say. The complete handbook to Israel advocacy and campaigning against antisemitism.
Step 1. Start with you. I am starting out. I am running something. Say how much time you have. You get a short list, not forty options.
Step 2. Pick your line. Seven places to answer. Every stop is a guide: 64 of them.
In a hurry? Take Quick. One line to say back, with the fact underneath it.
Need the argument? Claims. Their strongest case, stated fairly. Your answer, sourced.
Step 3. Read the stop. The short version first. No footnotes. Where it applies. How long it takes. When it was last checked.
Step 4. Take it out the door. Templates: write the email, blocks to build from, not a script. Print: pocket cards and A4, black and white. Share: send the exact page, not the homepage.
What to do. What to say. answerthehate.com. Free. Published by Stop The Hate.
If you have fifteen minutes
No group neededYour first fifteen minutes
Whether to reply at all, the one thing worth doing tonight if you decide to, the rules that hold whatever you post, and where to go when you have longer.
SOC · 6 minCapturing evidence properly
A nine-step procedure for recording an incident so it still works in six months, a six-word short form for the street, and what to do when it happens on Shabbat.
EVT · 7 minWhen it happened weeks ago and you said nothing
You froze, the room moved on, and you have not. Whether you can still raise something weeks old, what is still worth writing down, and the sentence to open with.
CAM · 8 min
Choose what you are doing
Colour is the track, and the three letters on every card are its code. Shape is the kind of page.Answer in the room
Talking to people who disagree with you, or who have not decided, or who are your friends.
CNV · 11Answer online
Posting, handling a pile-on, and building an account that gets seen without making things worse.
SOC · 12Answer on campus
Speaking up where you study or work, and using the procedures you already have standing in.
CAM · 7Answer in the media
Getting covered, correcting coverage, and handling a hostile interview.
MED · 6Answer where it is decided
MPs, councillors and formal bodies, where a motion may be on the table and every fact you cite will be checked.
POL · 6Organise the action
Planning, running and following up on demonstrations, vigils and public events.
EVT · 10Organise the group
Starting one from nothing, running a meeting, dividing the roles, finding the money and keeping people going.
COM · 12
Three things you can use today
Claims and responses
A short answer you can say out loud, the strongest version of the opposing argument stated fairly, and at least three sources. One page per claim, so you can send someone a link to exactly the point you mean.
44 entriesMessage templates
A drafted opening paragraph, several ways to say why you are speaking, and a range of asks from easy to hard. Not a script to read out.
5 templatesBuilt to print
The whole set of claims as pocket cards, and every short answer on a few sides of A4. Both built from the entries themselves, so neither can quietly fall out of step with the site, and both in black and white to survive a bad photocopier.
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