The work of the CST has multiplied after two years of war
August 6, 2025 09:16
CST’s latest Antisemitic Incidents Report, covering the first six months of 2025, is the most important study of what our community is going through right now.
The Antisemitic Incidents Report is the evidence base for how to best allocate communal security resources, government initiatives and police responses, all of which depend upon facts, figures and information exchanges with communal partners, government departments and police forces across the UK.
Every aspect of the Antisemitic Incidents Report comes from CST’s work directly helping each individual victim of antisemitism and our always seeking to improve the responses of communal security, government and police.
CST is covering twice as many communal events and working three times the number of security hours as we did before the war. We are helping nearly double the number of antisemitic incident victims. Every week we pass information to counter-terrorist police. We also manage £18m of government money that pays for commercial (ie not CST) guards to work at over 500 communal sites, most of them schools and synagogues. After nearly two years of war I hope that we have not let our community down. I hope that we, CST’s volunteers, staff and trustees have delivered on our principles of Community and Security and Trust.
CST’s work isn’t only about protecting our community. Rather, it’s about strengthening it in the hour of need. Nothing gives us more satisfaction than seeing the increased activism across our community: all of it despite, or maybe because of, nearly two years of war.
CST does all of this security work because we are proud of our Jewish community, our way of life, and our contribution to this country. We encourage all of you to feel that same pride, to show our strength and resilience, and CST will continue encouraging and enabling Jews to stand up and fight back against what we are now facing.
Mark Gardner is the CEO of the CST
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