The Daily Telegraph, 11 July 2026
Activists from banned terror group emerge in campaign recently shut down by Meta
By Alexi Demetriadi
From The Daily Telegraph
Former Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT) activists have reappeared within a major mainstream pro-Palestine campaign linked to associates of the banned organisation – but whose social media accounts were suddenly shut down last week.
It comes as the Royal Commission into Anti-Semitism heard this week of the proliferation of hatred on social media platforms, and as British experts warned of the difficulties that country faced in enforcing its ban on HUT.
The Saturday Telegraph can reveal that Stand 4 Palestine’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, which together boasted more than 200,000 followers, were removed last week in an apparent unilateral move by Meta, which owns both platforms.
Accusing Meta of “silencing” its voice, S4P activists blamed “mass reporting by Zionist bot farms”.
It has moved to a smaller back-up Instagram account, while its WhatsApp and Telegram channels remain active.