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  • CST Security Bulletin following Pittsburgh shooting

    29 Oct 2018 by CST

    Following the tragic mass casualty shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, USA, this Shabbat, CST has sent this security bulletin to all UK Jewish communal venues, requesting that our community remains calm, vigilant and cooperative with security measures.

  • The denial and deflection that unites the cheerleaders of Trump and Corbyn

    3 Mar 2017 by Dave Rich

    American Jews have been rocked in recent weeks by a wave of anti-Semitic incidents, including bomb threats and cemetery desecrations. These kinds of attacks are not supposed to happen in the Jewish utopia of the United States, and suddenly the sense of insecurity felt by European Jewish communities in recent years seems to be making its way across the Atlantic.  

  • Positioning Steve Bannon on the Fascism - Nationalism spectrum

    23 Feb 2017 by Dave Rich

    His admiration for ‘Judeo-Christian values’ might differentiate Trump’s chief strategist from traditional European far right anti-Semitism, but stereotypes of Jews are still crucial to the global nationalist populism he champions.  

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