Community Security Trust

Crime

Home Office discussing possible Palestine Action ban Exclusive: By their own admission the pro-Palestine group is facing criminal action against '16 political prisoners in Britain, 11 of which have not yet faced trial'

November 6, 2024   

(Jewish News) Discussions are taking place within the Home Office over the possible steps to proscribe the Palestine Action protest group, while police chiefs vowed to use the “full force of the law” to pursue activists responsible for criminal incidents last weekend. […]

Interfaith

7 October praised as ‘just so beautiful’ at ‘family event’ at London ExCel Centre Speakers openly praised Hamas atrocities at the Islamic Global Peace and Unity Festival

October 24, 2024   

(Jewish News) The 7 October Hamas attack was praised as “just so beautiful” at a “peace and unity” festival at one of the UK’s top exhibition centres. Iranian Press TV presenter Latifa Abouchakra also described the atrocities in which Hamas terrorists killed […]

Arts & Entertainment

Guardian deletes online review that criticises the ‘demonisation’ of Hamas Journalist Stuart Jeffries writes that CCTV footage in Channel 4's 'One Day in October' shows the terror group members in a bad light on 7 October

October 10, 2024   

(Jewish News) The Guardian has removed an online review of a Channel 4 documentary about 7 October that criticised the negative portrayal of Hamas terrorists and confirmed to Jewish News on [Thursday] that it “won’t be making any further comment at this […]

Arts & Entertainment

Guardian review of 7 October documentary criticises negative portrayal of Hamas Journalist Stuart Jeffries writes of 'One Day in October: 'Sadly, it demonises Gazans as either killers or looters'

October 10, 2024   

(Jewish News) A Guardian review of a documentary about the 7 October attacks criticises its negative portrayal of Hamas. In his review of Channel 4’s One Day in October, which depicts the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri using CCTV footage, Stuart Jeffries writes: […]

Academics & Education

‘Understandable resistance’: Many UK university students deny October 7 was terrorism — poll 38% of students said those publicly supporting Israel on campus should expect abuse. Only 31% vocally disagreed with this.

May 18, 2024   

(Jerusalem Post) A total of 38% of students at Russell Group universities, a prestigious collection of 24 UK universities, stated that they believe Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel were an “understandable act of resistance,” according to a poll commissioned by StandWithUs […]

Academics & Education

NUS reaches undisclosed settlement with ‘anti-Zionist’ former president Shaima Dallali admits that tweet that got her sacked was antisemitic as she settles with student union

May 7, 2024   

(Jewish News) The National Union of Students has reached a settlement with ex-president Shaima Dallali, after she admitted a tweet posted on social media in 2012, for which she apologised, was antisemitic. A statement agreed by both parties confirmed that “a settlement […]

Demonstrations

Claims of ‘no-go zones for Jews’ in London ‘total and utter fiction,’ says Shomrim president Rabbi Herschel Gluck has accused the Home Office’s independent advisor on extremism Robin Simcox of making claims about 'no-go [zones] for Jews' that have 'nothing to do with reality'

March 8, 2024   

(Jewish News) Suggestions that there are no-go zones in London for Jews are “a total and utter fiction,” Shomrim president Rabbi Herschel Gluck has said. Responding to claims made by Robin Simcox, the Home Office’s independent advisor on extremism, who suggested that […]

Demonstrations

CST chief says claims London a no-go zone for Jews during Gaza protests ‘deeply troubling’ Mark Gardner, the CST’s chief executive, told Radio 4’s Today programme there was ’huge element of truth’ in the claim about the West End during pro-Palestine events

March 8, 2024   

(Jewish News) A newspaper headline claiming London’s streets have become a “no-go zone for Jews” during pro-Palestinian protests is “deeply troubling,” the Community Security Trust’s chief executive has claimed, but he added that “it also contains a huge element of truth.” Mark […]

Interfaith

Report: Iran recruiting British Muslims on Middle East pilgrimages to spy on UK Jews UK newspaper says IRGC approaches Shiite Muslims visiting religious sites in Iraq, Iran, asks them to gather intel on prominent British Jews, synagogues, Iranian dissidents

February 10, 2024   

(Times of Israel) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimages to Iran and Iraq to spy on Jews and Jewish targets in the United Kingdom, according to a Friday report citing Israeli and UK officials. According to the […]

Crime

Cleverly promises to crack down on hate ‘provocateurs’ at Palestine protests Exclusive: Home secretary tells Jewish News 'the police and government are working at identifying and dealing with those provocateurs, those people who are driven by antisemitism'

January 28, 2024 and   

(Jewish News) Home secretary James Cleverly has insisted the police are now making “significant arrests” of those responsible for antisemitic hate crimes at pro-Palestinian rallies. But he has admitted these arrests and prosecutions need to be better publicised to help calm widespread […]

Interfaith

Police say man professing ‘love’ for Hamas was just ‘amicably arguing’ for his cause Exclusive: Jewish News supplied video of the incident on Oxford Street to the police along with the man's mobile number and email address. Police have refused to investigate, saying the proud terrorist sympathiser was legally 'supporting his own view.'

December 31, 2023   

(Jewish News) Police have refused to investigate a vile video of a man declaring “love and support” for Hamas, saying the footage shows the terrorist sympathiser “amicably arguing” for his cause. Jewish News supplied video [of] the incident on Oxford Street on […]

Academics & Education

Several UK Jewish schools close ‘in interests of the safety of our precious children’ It comes as Jewish students were being warned by schools to disguise their uniform because of a fear of retaliatory attacks caused by the ongoing war in Israel.

October 12, 2023 , and   

(Sky News) Four Jewish schools in north London are closing their doors “in the interests of the safety of our precious children.” Torah Vodaas Primary School in Edgware, Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary School in Colindale, and Menorah High School in Neasden informed […]

Crime

Kosher restaurant in Golders Green vandalised as Met Police step up patrols in London Metropolitan Police patrols have been increased in London after reports of groups of people celebrating Hamas’ attack on Israel.

October 9, 2023   

(LBC) Pictures from Golders Green this morning show the front doors of popular kosher restaurant Pita in Golders Green had been vandalised with reports the till had been stolen. “Free Palestine” graffiti had been daubed on a nearby railway bridge. It is […]

Context

Two men charged over ‘Khaybar Khaybar’ demo chant claim Met Police confirm two men have been charged with behaviour 'likely to stir up racial hatred' and have been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 17 May.

April 20, 2023   

(Jewish News) Two men have been charged with behaviour “likely to stir up racial hatred” at a demonstration where they allegedly chanted references to the historic massacre of Jews at the battle of Khaybar. In a statement issued by the Metropolitan Police […]

Context

CAGE accused of ‘excusing deliberate murder and inciting hate’ in Dee family tweets Controversial Muslim advocacy group appears to blame family of the two British-Israeli sisters Maia and Rina Dee for their murder in the West Bank

April 11, 2023   

(Jewish News) Controversial Muslim advocacy group CAGE has been accused of “excusing deliberate murder and inciting hatred” in a social media response to the killing of the two British-Israeli sisters Maia and Rina Dee. In an inflammatory Twitter thread posted on the […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Islamic charity head: Jews and Muslims should be allies over Islamophobia day Asif Aziz is calling for the UK government to enshrine the UN's International Day to Combat Islamophobia on 15 March in statute

February 14, 2023   

(Jewish News) The founder of a grant-making foundation sponsoring Muslim students through university has appealed to the Jewish community to help persuade the government to recognise the UN’s annual Day to Combat Islamophobia on 15 March. Asif Aziz, a businessman who established […]

Arts & Entertainment

Ofcom rules TV channel broadcast ‘antisemitic hate speech’ The Ahlebait channel, serving the UK's Shia Muslim community, said it 'sincerely regrets potentially offensive antisemitic remarks were broadcast,' after CST complains to broadcast watchdog

July 27, 2022   

(Jewish News) The broadcast watchdog Ofcom has ruled that a television channel serving the Shia Muslim community in the UK broadcast content that “amounted to antisemitic hate speech” and was “abusive and derogatory towards Jewish people.” Investigating a complaint made by the […]

Crime

CST ‘completely rejects’ BBC’s claim it confirmed anti-Muslim phrase used Community Security Trust reacted furiously to allegation made in findings of a BBC investigation over the Chanukah attack report

January 26, 2022   

(Jewish News) The Community Security Trust has reacted furiously to claims made in the findings of an investigation into the BBC’s Chanukah bus reporting, that they were responsible for confirming the slur “dirty Muslims” could be heard in video footage of the […]

Immigration

Charity chief’s migrant warning sparks communal outrage Exclusive: JNF UK chairman Samuel Hayek’s claim that Muslim immigration threatens the future of Jewish life in Britain branded ‘simplistic and reckless’

December 22, 2021   

(Jewish News) The chairman of one [of] the UK’s top Jewish charities provoked dismay among community leaders this week after claiming immigration into this country would leave Jews with “no future in England.” Asked about comments made to an Israeli newspaper earlier […]

Interfaith

Chief executive of MEND wrote: ‘Israel’s generosity is like that of Hitler’ Exclusive: Azhar Qayum, head of Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), tells Jewish News his incendiary comment on Facebook from 2014 was 'not meant as an insult to any people.'

August 16, 2021   

(Jewish News) The chief executive of Islamic advocacy group Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) wrote that “Israel’s generosity is like the ‘generosity’ of Hitler” in an incendiary social media post. Azhar Qayum made the claim during a heated online debate sparked by […]