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CST volunteers in training
Steep rise in religious hate offences in UK driven by crime against Jews
By Lee Harpin
Home Office statistics show religious hate crime in England and Wales up by 25 percent over the past year with offences against Jews doubling
CST volunteers in training
October 10, 2024, 11:50 am
Steep rise in religious hate offences in UK driven by crime against Jews
Home Office statistics show religious hate crime in England and Wales up by 25 percent over the past year with offences against Jews doubling
By Lee Harpin
June 25, 2024, 1:38 pm
‘Get out of the city, Jew!’ Hasmo students assaulted at Belsize Park tube station
Hate crime investigation opened as mother says her Year 7 son had his head smashed on the wall whilst assailants allegedly pushed another student onto the side of a stationary train
By Michelle Rosenberg
Kessler died from a blunt force head injury and it was homicide, according to the sheriff’s department
November 7, 2023, 8:49 am
Jewish man dies after confrontation at California Israel-Palestine protests
Death of Paul Kessler, 69, being treated as homicide after he fell backwards and hit his head on the ground
By Candice Krieger
Police on duty
October 5, 2023, 4:08 pm
Jews are victims of one in six religious hate crimes, while making up less than 1% of UK population
Home Office statistics show while the number of religious hate crimes against Jews has fallen, the amount continues to be disproportionately high.
By Fergal Jeffreys
Sadiq Khan​ signs the Holocaust Educational Trust (UK)​ Book of Commitment at City Hall in 2018
January 25, 2023, 11:27 am
OPINION: I’m honoured to stand side-by-side with survivors
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, London mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to honour those who perished and "do everything I can to root out antisemitism".
By Sadiq Khan
The CST said government and police increasingly accept the argument that antisemitism should be included in Prevent. (Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)
October 6, 2022, 2:42 pm
Hate crime offences against Jews in England and Wales rise by 49 % over past year
New Home Office statistics confirm that Jews and Muslims are the main target of rising religiously motivated hate crime between March 2021-22 with 23 per cent of all offences involving antisemitism
By Lee Harpin
Lionel Idan, the lead prosecutor for hate crime at the Crown Prosecution Service
July 27, 2022, 3:55 pm
OPINION: Our prosecutors are working with Jewish groups to fight antisemitism
Lionel Idan, the lead prosecutor for hate crime at the Crown Prosecution Service, says he wants to bring more hate crime offenders to justice
By Lionel Idan
Keir Starmer wonders inside the Berlin Memorial to Murdered Jews of Europe
July 15, 2022, 2:06 am
JN Starmer interview: I will work with CST in ‘new effort’ to halt antisemitic hate
Speaking to Jewish News after visiting Berlin's Holocaust memorial, Starmer said if elected his party would 'support the CST in new efforts to tackle hate crime.'
By Lee Harpin
Wood Green Crown Court (Credit: Rillke, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78662669)
September 4, 2019, 9:56 am
Man jailed for shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jewish family on bus
‘It is hard to believe that crimes like this are still being committed,’ the prosecutor said
By Mathilde Frot
Screenshot of a video of the incident
August 6, 2019, 11:54 am
Abuser filmed calling family ‘dirty Jews’ in St Albans
Video shows stranger hurl antisemitic abuse outside cafe and kick advertisement board
By Mathilde Frot
Worrying times: A Worcestershire mosque daubed with a swastika
July 3, 2019, 4:57 pm
Hate crime report urges united approach from faith groups
Paper compiled by the Faith & Belief Forum and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, calls on religious communities wot work together in fighting discrimination
By Jewish News Reporter
Some forms of bullying can take place online
July 3, 2019, 11:45 am
Judgement due on whether ‘coordinated harassment’ is a criminal offence
Law Commission set to look over 'existing communications offences' in second phase of legislation review
By Jewish News Reporter
A person using a computer. Photo credit: Adam Peck/PA Wire
October 19, 2018, 11:38 am
CST official: Online anonymity ‘fuelling confidence’ of hate crime offenders
Community Security Trust official says says there are 'opportunists' who use terror attacks to antagonise minority communities online
Desecrated Jewish graves (2017)
October 15, 2018, 3:03 pm
Government hate crime figures to differentiate antisemitism from other racism
Community security chiefs welcome news that the Office of National Statistics will break down incidents to reveal extent of Jew-hatred
Cressida Dick, the Met Police Chief, speaking at the No2H8 awards
September 18, 2018, 9:32 am
#No2H8 Crime Awards: Cressida Dick vows not to “let the haters win”
Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police pays tribute to those fighting hate crime, saying she is proud 'our diversity and our cohesiveness'
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