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Behind the humanitarian activism lies a trail of Holocaust denial, antisemitic conspiracy theories, support for Hamas, and distortion and negation of October 7
In early September 2025, Sarah Wilkinson, a British activist, announced that she would join the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza — billed in her own words as “The Largest Civilian Humanitarian Mission In HISTORY To Break The Siege On Gaza”. Framed by sympathetic outlets as a “human rights activist,” Wilkinson herself insisted in a video: “I’m peaceful, I’m non-violent. I’m not a threat to anybody.”
Her public bio on X reinforces this carefully cultivated brand: Was… Graphic Designer. Is… Working for Freedom and Justice in Palestine. Wants… An End to the Israeli Genocide of Gaza. She operates both @swilkinsonbc and @RebuildGaza24, with a combined following of more than 356,000 on X and 18,700 on Instagram.
But Wilkinson’s record tells a different story. Beyond the imagery of humanitarian activism lies a history of Holocaust denial, antisemitic conspiracy theories, open support for Hamas, and systematic distortion of the October 7, 2023 attacks. A U.K.-based anti-Israel activist, she has written for Lebanon-based MENA Uncensored and appeared on Press TV, Iran’s state broadcaster, a notorious platform for promoting anti-Jewish hatred.
The trajectory is striking. From 2016 to 2019, Wilkinson openly trafficked in Holocaust denial and classic antisemitic conspiracies. In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacres, her rhetoric shifted but the underlying pattern did not. From 2023 to 2025, she replaced one form of denial with another: recasting the atrocities as an Israeli fabrication, and then weaponizing the Holocaust itself by branding Gaza as a “Holocaust.”
The faces change—Shoah, 9/11, October 7—but the logic is stable: Jews and Israelis, in Wilkinson’s narrative, always lie.
Wilkinson publicly praised the “incredible Oct 7 infiltration.” In March 2024 she wrote that the “evil Israeli lies of October 7th spouted by propaganda outfit Zaka” had “caused the Israeli murder of 30,000 innocent ppl.” On September 8, 2024 she amplified the claim that Israel “MURDER[ED] its OWN citizens under the ‘Hannibal Directive’ during October 7th,” framing the massacre as a false-flag. The tone often mixed derision and provocation: sharing a French satirist’s line—“Hello my name is Blanche & I’ve been an anti-Semite since October 7th: no worry, you’re in a ‘safe place’… we’re all anti-Semites here.”
Her online activity drew the attention of U.K. police. On August 29, 2024, counter-terrorism officers arrested Wilkinson at her home. A relative posted that “12 [officers]… some in plain clothes from the counter-terrorism police,” arrived just before 7:30 a.m., seizing devices over content including tributes to Hamas leadership and Holocaust-denial material. Wilkinson has also lent her support to Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd musician turned activist, who himself has denied the atrocities of October 7 and aligned publicly with pro-Hamas narratives. Waters has long courted controversy with his comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany and stage performances featuring antisemitic imagery, making him a natural figure of solidarity for Wilkinson’s brand of activism.
Independent monitors also flagged her influence. The ADL identified Wilkinson as one of five key influencers who helped propagate the narrative denying sexual assault against Israeli victims of October 7. In one post, she exaggerated criticisms of a New York Times investigation to dismiss it as “all fake,” claiming an interview was “done under false pretences [sic],” thereby feeding the falsehood that evidence of rape was insufficient.
Wilkinson’s trajectory predates Gaza. A former Labour member, she was caught up in the party’s antisemitism crisis. During the 2016 leadership contest she was suspended for posts including calling a Jewish donor a “zio-desperado” and declaring “Israel is a Nazi state.” In January 2017, the suspension was lifted without warning. A leaked March 2020 report later described how a more systematic review of Wilkinson’s feeds would have revealed repeated support for extreme antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and conspiracy theories blaming Israel for 9/11, 7/7, and other so-called “false flag” attacks. Internal spreadsheets listed 27 members for investigation—including Holocaust deniers Norma Fyre and Sarah Wilkinson—yet no action followed from that dataset, and Wilkinson remained in the party until her October 2018 resignation. She dismissed the storm around then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his enabling of antisemitism as merely “an attempt to oust him from power.”
By 2016, Wilkinson was a proactive advocate for BDS - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, the anti-Zionist activist organization that contests the existence of the Jewish state and calls for its economic isolation and elimination. Her posts accused Israel of “ZioNazi occupation.” Between 2016 and 2019, she repeatedly analogized the IDF to the Nazis, circulating imagery and captions that collapsed the distance between wartime genocide and a contemporary army, erasing context while cementing an inflammatory equivalence. This framing—Israel as the true Nazi—was not only provocative but a textbook case of Holocaust inversion and distortion, recasting victims as perpetrators. It would later reappear, almost unchanged, in her Gaza rhetoric.
Wilkinson’s feed is a catalogue of familiar conspiracies. In 2016, she shared the claim: “9/11 was a PR stunt by hardline Zionists to launch the war on Islam on behalf of Israel.” The same year she posted that “Zionism is infiltrating the world successfully. Its daily crimes… are not held to account… not even by the UN.” She boosted content about a supposed “Rothschild war path,” and alleged that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, was Jewish—hits from the greatest-hits album of modern antisemitism.
In 2024, the language softened but the frame persisted. She mocked the U.K. for equating “throwing a bit of red paint” in solidarity with Palestine with “blowing up 3,000 ppl during 9/11.” Elsewhere, she wrote that the “horror of 9/11” had been eclipsed by “two decades of ruthless American imperialism… including the genocide in Gaza.” The point is not to clarify her position on 9/11, but to keep the conspiracy lens trained on Jews/Israel and to relativize mass murder.
The core of Wilkinson’s history is Holocaust denial. In 2016, she misused Jewish population statistics to cast doubt on the Holocaust, tweeting: “World Almanac… Jews grew b/n 1933–48 from 15,315,000 to 15,753,000. Wouldn’t 6m losses show up… #JustSaying.” This manipulation of demographic figures—ignoring wartime displacement, incomplete census data, and the fact that many survivors were unregistered for years—is a classic Holocaust denial trope, deployed to suggest that six million Jews could not have been murdered. She questioned Anne Frank’s diary as a hoax and linked it to a neo-Nazi site. An archived tweet from June 2016 recommended “essential reading” claiming many Holocaust “claims” had been “debunked,” with a link to a Holocaust denial repository.
She has never publicly retracted these statements. What changed is the tactic. Post-October 7, Wilkinson leaned into Holocaust inversion. On November 9, 2023, she pushed “#GazaHolocaust”, invoking Shoah memory to brand Israel as Nazi Germany. This rhetorical pivot—away from explicit denial toward weaponizing the Holocaust as an accusation—does not correct the record; it extends the abuse of history.
Sarah Wilkinson’s case is emblematic of a wider phenomenon. Once suspended during Labour’s antisemitism crisis, later a promoter of Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories, she has managed to reinvent herself as a ‘humanitarian activist’ with a large online following. Yet her journey- shows continuity rather than rupture: denial of the Shoah gave way to denial of October 7; comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany became hashtags about a “Gaza Holocaust.”
Her story underlines how antisemitic narratives adapt to new contexts, resurfacing under the guise of human-rights activism or anti-imperialist critique. Wilkinson is not an isolated extremist but part of a broader trend where old tropes—Jews as liars, Jews as Nazis, Jews as global conspirators—are recycled and amplified in today’s pro-Palestinian discourse. The flotilla may project an image of peace and solidarity, but behind it lies a record of distortion that blurs the line between activism and hate.
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