This boils my piss. Why do they report their garbage as if it's reliable? (CST "anti semitism")
Posted by RaskolnikovX on February 11, 2026, 6:12 am
First of all the absurd framing of the CST "which provides security to British Jews". They might as well have introduced to the article with "Israel says...".
Then there's the ludicrous "More than half of all incidents referenced Israel, Palestine, Hamas or the war in Gaza". Interesting. I wonder what they could have been saying....
Which leads me on to the most important point. Notice what's missing? ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE. Not one of these thousands of "anti-semitic incidents" is described, quoted or even hinted at (other than the massive giveaway "Israel, Palestine, Hamas or the "war" in Gaza" which we all know means "people have been calling us out on our war crimes and genocide; that's anti-semitic)
Antisemitic incidents in UK spiked after Manchester synagogue terror attack
Community Security Trust, which provides security to British Jews, recorded total 3,700 incidents in 2025
Antisemitic incidents increased sharply in the UK after the deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, according to an organisation that provides security to British Jews.
Two people died and three were seriously injured at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on 2 October last year, in the first fatal antisemitic terror attack since the Community Security Trust (CST) began recording incidents in 1984.
On the day, the CST logged 40 antisemitic incidents and another 40 the next day. More than half directly referenced or celebrated the Heaton Park attack. As a result, October was the worst month for anti-Jewish hate in 2025.
In total, the CST recorded 3,700 antisemitic incidents last year – the second highest logged by the organisation, and 4% higher than the total for 2024. The highest total was in 2023, largely in the aftermath of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza.
A smaller increase was recorded in December last year after gunmen opened fire on Jews celebrating Hanukah on Bondi Beach in Sydney, demonstrating how violent incidents can fuel further harassment and abuse, according to a report published by the CST on Wednesday.
Mark Gardner, the organisation’s chief executive, said: “Two years of intense anti-Jewish hatred culminated in a Jihadi terror attack at a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The terror attack then triggered even more antisemitism, showing the depths of extremism faced by Jews and all our British society.”
For the first time, the CST recorded more than 200 antisemitic incidents every calendar month of the year. The 2025 average monthly total was 308 incidents, double that of the year before October 2023.
In 2025, the CST recorded four incidents of extreme violence, including the Heaton Park attack, as well as 170 cases of assault, 217 cases of damage and desecration to Jewish property, such as homes, vehicles, synagogues, schools and businesses, and more than 3,000 cases of abuse.
More than half of all incidents referenced Israel, Palestine, Hamas or the war in Gaza.
However, there was a fall in antisemitic incidents in educational settings recorded by the CST. In schools, the number fell by 23%, from 266 in 2024 to 204 last year. There was a 41% decrease in university-related antisemitic incidents.
Thirty-six incidents were linked to professional football, compared with 25 the previous year. Fourteen of the 2025 total were linked to the decision by West Midlands police to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a match against Aston Villa in November.
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, said: “Behind these shocking numbers are ordinary Jews suffering because of hate.” The government was providing record funding for security for Jewish communities in the UK, she added.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “We can’t have hatred and extremism pouring out on our streets. It is morally wrong that Jewish residents here in the UK no longer feel safe. Words are not enough. Action is needed.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: This boils my piss. Why do they report their garbage as if it's reliable? (CST "anti semitism")
Just seen a precis of this on ceefax, while I was setting the clock on the laptop. No mention of the police being antisemitic for shooting dead one of the people at the synagogue.The last working-class hero in England. Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025
Re: This boils my piss. Why do they report their garbage as if it's reliable? (CST "anti semitism")
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.
(For some reason the page didn't load fully for me - there are more examples included further down. Most online images, the genuine a/s messaging mainly for a right wing or conspiratorial angle, otherwise clearly motivated by horror at what is going on in Gaza and conflating it with Judaism as a whole in error.)Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/
on February 11, 2026, 6:12 am