Dave Rich

Police officers patrol at a cordon near to an incident at the Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, north-west London, where an attempted arson attackcaused minor smoke damage to an internal room but no injuries or significant structural damage

April 20, 2026, 4:49 pm

When it comes to antisemitism, the sound of silence from UK anti-racists is deafening

Beyond government, the police and the State as a whole, there is a huge civil society-shaped hole where nothing is being done to combat this shameful rise in antisemitism here

By Dave Rich

October 7, 2025, 11:47 am

OPINION: After Heaton Park, things cannot go on as they did before

The 'anti-racist' left's blind spot when it comes to antisemitism has never been clearer

By Dave Rich

August 22, 2025, 11:45 am

OPINION: Neo-Nazi ideology is being embraced by the ‘anti-Zionist’ movement

A growing group within the UK's 'pro-Palestinian' caucus are echoing ideas previously expressed by this country's most notorious Fascist organisations

By Dave Rich

I doubt many of Palestine Action’s supporters would be OK if this was done to their workplace on the grounds of “freedom of expression”

August 8, 2025, 8:07 am

OPINION: The revealing thought process of the academics backing Palestine Action

This is not an example of cause-agnostic support for free expression or political protest. This is a case of the ends being seen to justify the means.

By Dave Rich

# Me Too Unless you are a Jew placard, March against antisemitism, tens of thousands people protest against a rise in hate crimes against Jews in London

August 6, 2025, 12:00 am

OPINION: The link between anti-Israel hate and antisemitism is demonstrably closer today than ever

'Whether you think of this as a ‘new normal’, or as a sign that the golden age for British Jews came to and end on that awful October morning: this is no longer just a temporary blip,' Dave Rich writes

By Dave Rich

Bob Vylan crowd surfs during his performance on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. The performer led crowds on the festival's West Holts Stage in chants of "death, death to the IDF". Issue date: Sunday June 29, 2025.

June 30, 2025, 12:52 pm

OPINION: The permitted racism, fully on view at Glastonbury

20 months after Nova - the worst terror attack on a concert in living memory - British crowds at Glastonbury chanted for death

By Dave Rich

Central London, Saturday 21 June, 2025. Photo Credit: Dave Rich

June 23, 2025, 10:38 am

OPINION: Why are people in London marching for the Ayatollah?

Iran blinds women, hangs gays and plots Israel’s destruction, yet some British people cheer it on. How did moral blindness and anti-Western zealotry create this alliance of the absurd?

By Dave Rich

Colorado attacker Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45. Photo: Via X

June 2, 2025, 5:55 pm

OPINION: This is how a terrorist movement forms and flourishes

You don’t need an organisation, just a collective worldview and a network of social media accounts to spread the message, writes Dave Rich

By Dave Rich

Protesters with a sign opposing antisemitism - but are more now using a different term? (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Sipa)

February 14, 2025, 11:20 am

OPINION: Let’s not forget there are millions in Britain who recoil at extremism

...but the hate revealed by CST's annual incidents report shows a long-term trend of increasing antisemitism, writes Dave Rich

By Dave Rich

August 4, 2022, 12:02 am

OPINION: It feels like a long time since antisemitism was ‘normal’

The CST's director of policy Dave Rich considers six months of antisemitism without anything specific to trigger it

By Dave Rich

January 18, 2022, 3:33 pm

OPINION: Texas shul siege compels us to confront uncomfortable truths

The CST's Dave Rich looks at the roots of conspiratorial antisemitism which may have motivated Faisal Malik Akram to fly to the US and take four Jews hostage in a synagogue

By Dave Rich

Protesters with a sign opposing antisemitism (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Sipa)

August 5, 2021, 10:35 am

OPINION: We need allies to stop this disease

To turn the tide on hate, social media platforms must adhere to their own policies, and prove that having 'zero tolerance' is not just paying lip service, writes CST's Dave Rich

By Dave Rich

February 19, 2021, 3:37 pm

OPINION: The professor Miller scandal is entirely of Bristol Uni’s own making

Professor Miller believes his academic freedom is under threat, but it is his spurious accusations that threaten the academic freedom of his Jewish students, writes Dave Rich

By Dave Rich

December 17, 2020, 9:38 am

OPINION: Far too many students experience prejudice

Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust responds to the latest antisemitism statistics, with a focus on Jew-hatred taking place on campus

By Dave Rich

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Photo credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

October 29, 2020, 1:28 pm

OPINION: Report shows why British Jews’ fear of Corbyn was not unfounded

Following the historic publication of the EHRC's report into antisemitism, Dave Rich reflects on the five year battle with Labour - and the vindication the report offers

By Dave Rich

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