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Jun 15, 2020, 5:27 PM

‘Hate fuel’ firing up online antisemites is too incendiary to publish

Screenshot of post featured in the CST report, entitled Hate Fuel: the hidden online world fuelling far right terror
(Jewish News)

You won’t be able to read CST’s new report, because the content is so extreme that we cannot make it public. The report, Hate Fuel, examines the online social media networks by which today’s Nazis spread hatred and incitement to terrorism, including live footage of...

Feb 27, 2020, 1:21 PM

Jew hatred is factor Prevent can’t ignore

Police cordon off Westminster following a terrorist stabbing attack.

(Photo credit: Victoria Jones/PA Wire via Jewish News)

The government’s Prevent programme is perhaps the best-known part of its four-pronged counter-terrorism strategy, the other prongs being Prepare, Pursue and Protect. Prevent does what it says on the tin: it is aimed at preventing terrorism by identifying people who may sooner or later become...

Aug 7, 2018, 5:13 PM

Corbyn’s ideological assault may start with Jews – but won’t end with them

Screenshot from Jeremy Corbyn's video apology, posted online (Credit: Jewish News)

In an interview published in Sunday’s Observer newspaper, Tom Watson MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, warned that anti-Semitism must be dealt with, or the Party would “disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment”. It is not certain if by “vortex” Mr...

May 30, 2018, 6:30 PM

Tommy Robinson’s politics surrenders truth to the mob

For me, the highlight of last week’s Israel 70 celebration concert at the Royal Albert Hall, was when Natan Sharansky ended his speech by slamming those who love Jews but hate Israel and those who love Israel but hate “liberal Jews”. Sharansky delivered the same...

Feb 1, 2018, 3:43 PM

Be strong against those who hate and envy us

A record number of nearly 1,400 anti-Semitic incidents (most of them racist hate crime) were reported to CST’s London and Manchester offices last year. The reports came from members of the public, security personnel and police forces across the UK, but this record high is...

Sep 28, 2017, 1:47 PM

Sneers and slander as anti-Israel Jews use a jackboot

What is it with the Labour Party and anti-Semitism? One step forward, one step backwards, one thumbs up, one middle finger stuck up in your face. Almost 97 percent of Labour Party Conference delegates voted for the rule change banning racism. This rule change was...

Jun 27, 2017, 5:07 PM

A new initiative to tackle hate on Facebook

On 23 June, CST joined our Muslim anti-extremism friends Tell MAMA and Imams Online on a public panel at Facebook’s London HQ, for the British launch of the tech giant’s new Online Civil Courage Initiative, to be known by the acronym OCCI. It was a...

May 23, 2017, 2:25 PM

When terror strikes, we must be resolute and focused

As I write this article on the morning after the appalling terror attack at the Manchester Arena, my CST colleagues and I are keenly aware that we do not know what the coming hours, days and weeks will bring. What we already know is bad...

Apr 5, 2017, 2:47 PM

Ken Livingstone: Dragging us through the dirt

Ken Livingstone has dragged our Jewish community, Zionism and the Labour Party through the dirt. Labour’s NCC disciplinary panel agreed, finding he had brought the Party into disrepute. The punishment for this? A slap on the wrist, a fudge, a suspension not an expulsion, a...

Feb 2, 2017, 11:58 AM

The year Jew hate didn’t even need false pretext

This may sound a strange thing for Community Security Trust’s director of communications to say, but I do not welcome the headlines and media coverage that our latest anti-Semitic incidents report, with its record high figures, will probably attract. The reason is simple enough. I...

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Mark is Director of Communications, Community Security Trust (CST)