March 2015 Blog Archive

• White supremacist pleads not guilty to murder of three at Kansas Jewish buildings

  30 Mar 2015 by Dave Rich

  American white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller has pleaded not guilty to the murder of three people at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and at the nearby Village Shalom Retirement Center in April last year.

• Rabbi reveals Stamford Hill synagogue brawl was sparked by party dispute

  26 Mar 2015 by Dave Rich

  The Jewish Chronicle has reported that the fight at a synagogue in Stamford Hill, north London, on Saturday night was sparked by an argument at a nearby party.

• CST agrees national incident data sharing protocol with Police

  25 Mar 2015 by CST

  CST has signed an agreement with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to share antisemitic incident data with Police forces across the UK.

• Jewish cemetery vandalised in Hungary

  25 Mar 2015 by CST

  A Jewish cemetery in Gyongyos, Hungary, was desecrated over the weekend, leaving 15-20 gravestones damaged.

• UK Home Office Extremism Strategy

  24 Mar 2015 by Jonny Newton

  Home Secretary Theresa May outlined details of the new Home Office extremism strategy yesterday, where she stated that it would aim “to tackle the whole spectrum of extremism, violent and non-violent, ideological and non-ideological, Islamist and neo-Nazi – hate and fear in all their forms.

• Incident at synagogue in Stamford Hill

  23 Mar 2015 by CST

  Social media and British and international news outlets have reacted strongly to an incident at a synagogue in Stamford Hill early on Sunday 22 March.

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  Prime Minister David Cameron states he will not 'turn a blind eye' to antisemitism

  20 Mar 2015 by CST

  Various news outlets have covered the Prime Minister David Cameron's well received speech at CST's 2015 Annual Dinner.

• CST Annual Dinner 2015

  19 Mar 2015 by CST

  Over 1,300 guests attended the CST Annual Dinner last night in central London. It was CST’s largest ever fundraiser and one of the UK Jewish community’s largest ever charity events.

• New Facebook guidelines for removing hate content

  17 Mar 2015 by CST

  Facebook has published a new set of rules explaining to users what kind of content is not allowed on the site. These include tougher restrictions on hate content and a ban on the use of Facebook by organisations that promote hate.

• Increased support for CST since Paris, Copenhagen attacks

  16 Mar 2015 by Dave Rich

  The Jewish Telegraph Agency has written a profile of CST following the terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen at the beginning of 2015. The article reveals the increased level of volunteering for CST from across the Jewish community since those attacks.

• European official backs calls for Europe-wide antisemitism taskforce

  12 Mar 2015 by Dave Rich

  Federica Mogherini, European Commission President and High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has endorsed the idea of creating a pan-European taskforce to address antisemitism.

• Awards for combating racism in football

  11 Mar 2015 by CST

  Samuel Eto’o and the FARE network were presented with the European Medal of Tolerance by European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation president Dr Moshe Kantor at a gala event in London this week.

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  Four arrested in France for links to Hyper Cacher terrorist attack

  10 Mar 2015 by CST

  The BBC has reported that French police have arrested four people for alleged connections to the Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris in January.

• (Posthumous) Islamist Comedy Award for Charlie Hebdo

  9 Mar 2015 by Mark Gardner

  Sometimes an organisation reveals its true nature by deliberately behaving in a way that others can only interpret as blatantly stupid, crass and offensive.

• Journalist films antisemitic abuse

  9 Mar 2015 by CST

  A journalist used undercover filming to record antisemitic abuse on the streets of Manchester and Bradford.

• Living with the J-word

  8 Mar 2015 by CST

  A personal experience of antisemitism, by writer and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb.

• CST backs ‘We Stand Together’ campaign

  8 Mar 2015 by CST

  CST has given its backing to ‘We Stand Together’, a campaign to promote community cohesion and oppose hatred and bigotry.