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on February 11, 2026, 12:31 pm, in reply to "This boils my piss. Why do they report their garbage as if it's reliable? (CST "anti semitism")"
https://cst.org.uk/research/cst-publications/antisemitic-incidents-report-2025
Interestingly they feel the need to reassure that not every report they receive is classed as antisemitic, and note that there might be a bias in reporting related to times when Jews feel particularly vulnerable and are thus on a hair trigger for reporting anything suspicious (gee, I wonder why...):
'If an incident is reported to CST but shows no evidence of antisemitic motivation, language or targeting, then it will not be recorded as antisemitic and will not be included in CST’s annual antisemitic incident total. In 2025, CST received 3,001 reports of potential incidents that fit this description, rising by 21% from the 2,488 such incidents recorded in 2024. There were 2,230 incidents of this type reported in 2023 and 621 in 2022. Many of these potential incidents involve suspicious activity or possible hostile reconnaissance at Jewish locations; criminal assaults on, or theft from, Jewish people that do not show antisemitic motivation; or anti-Israel activity that did not involve the use of antisemitic language or imagery and was not directed at Jewish people, buildings or organisations solely because they were Jewish. The increase observed from 2022 is a consequence of the substantial rise in anti-Israel feeling being publicly communicated since 7 October 2023, and the Jewish community’s generally heightened sense of distress and unease amidst the surge in antisemitism recorded since Hamas’ attack on Israel on that day. The terror attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur 2025 added to this anxiety and is likely to have increased people’s motivation to report any behaviour that may seem suspicious and hostile. These factors have led to more reports of any activity perceived as potentially hostile or worrying, even if they do not meet CST’s threshold to be classed as an antisemitic incident. These reports still play an important role in CST’s provision of security protection to the Jewish community.'
However, there is the usual conflation of antisemitic and anti-zionist messaging, insisting (with no evidence) that the latter is a 'euphemism' for the former:
'There were 1,766 antisemitic incidents that showed explicitly anti-Zionist motivation, comprising 48% of the annual total, compared to 43% in 2024 and 31% in 2023. It is noteworthy that, over the last three years, the proportion of antisemitic incidents that display ideological anti-Zionism alongside anti-Jewish language or targeting has grown by a larger proportion than incidents that simply contain Israel-related discourse. CST recorded 462 instances of anti-Jewish hate wherein the terms “Zionism” or “Zionist” were used, often as euphemisms for “Jewishness” and “Jew”, or in conjunction with other antisemitic sentiment, rising from 423 cases in 2024 and 271 in 2023. Meanwhile, on 387 occasions, Israel, Israelis or Jewish people were equated with Nazi Germany or the Nazis, a rise from 333 such examples in 2024 and 257 in 2023.'
Surely they should be welcoming this rise in anti-zionist framing, as it shows that people are carefully making the distinction between Judaism the religion and the racist, neocolonial ideology of zionism? This in spite of the constant messaging by media, politicians and, it has to be noted, much of mainstream jewry, that israel is synonymous with Judaism.
Anyway, the report could be usefully contextualised with records of anti-muslim or anti-black racism during the same period. 4 examples of GBH, is that all you've got?
'CST recorded four instances of Extreme Violence in 2025, compared to two in 2024. This is the joint-highest annual figure for reports in this category – the same total as in 2015 – and more than the number of Extreme Violence cases recorded across the past three years combined. There were no incidents of this kind reported in 2023, one in 2022 and three in 2021.'
Anyway, whatever, f* these guys and the graun for taking them seriously.
jeers,
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