Shady Community Security Trust (CST): The British Empire and Israeli Government - mainstream media and 'antisemitism' (and coups)
CST's Leadership:
Mark Gardner, CST Chief Executive
"Mark has worked at CST and its predecessor organisation since 1989, and became the Chief Executive in 2020. He is a leading commentator on contemporary antisemitism...
...played a prominent role in the April 2018 ill-fated Jewish community leadership meeting with (then) Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn MP."
BBC (2018): Corbyn anti-Semitism meeting 'disappointing', Jewish leaders say:
"...Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies of British Jews said the Labour leader did not agree to any of the concrete actions they asked for...
...had written to Mr Corbyn following last month's demonstration to suggest "areas of action".
After a meeting with Mr Corbyn, which lasted more than two hours, the organisations said in a statement: "We are disappointed that Mr Corbyn's proposals fell short...""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43887223
Amanda Bomsztyk, CST Northern Regional Director
"Amanda has been involved with CST for over 30 years,,,
Working alongside Chief Constables and regional Counter Terror Units on matters concerning the safety of the Jewish community, Amanda has provided assistance in confidential terror-related trials..."
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4783206
Dr Dave Rich, CST Director of Policy
"Dr Dave Rich is Director of Policy at CST, having joined CST's predecessor organisation in 1994, and is one of this country's leading authorities on antisemitism and political extremism...
Dave is the author of Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world and how you can change it; and The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism. He writes regularly about antisemitism and extremism for newspapers and journals in the UK..."
https://cst.org.uk/about-cst/csts-leadership
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lefts-Jewish-Problem-Jeremy-Anti-Semitism/dp/1785901206
CST Blog:Engine of Hate: the online networks behind the Labour Party's antisemitism crisis:
"The problem of antisemitism in the Labour Party over the past three years has been fuelled by a flow of antisemitic tweets and posts on social media, done in the name of the Labour Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn..."
Board of Deputies of British Jews (2020) Decision to reinstate Jeremy Corbyn to Labour Party is a ‘retrograde step’:
GOV.UK (2025): Home Secretary speech at the Community Security Trust:
"...just as the Prime Minister was unrelenting in his mission to root out the stain of antisemitism from the Labour Party after that truly shameful period in our party’s history. Now in government, we will be equally unrelenting in our crackdown...
I have spoken to 2 of my predecessors here tonight, Grant Schapps and James Cleverly here tonight and we have committed to maintaining the multi-year funding for CST that Rishi Sunak announced here last year..."
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-at-the-community-security-trust
BBC (2024): Big rise in antisemitic incidents in UK - charity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx285v8djejo
BBC (2024): UK antisemitic hate incidents hit new high in 2023, says charity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68288727
BBC (2024): Religious hate crime at record high, figures show:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kjrr44mvdo
BBC (2023): Antisemitic incidents 'quadruple in UK' since Hamas attack in Israel:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67085625
BBC (2023): Antisemitism complaints double at London universities, charity antisemitismsays:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64335148
BBC (2023): Jeremy Hunt pledges £7m to tackle antisemitism:
"Mr Hunt said he will "repeat the £3m uplift" to the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity which helps Jewish people in the UK. In October, the CST was given £3m of additional funding..."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67494802
BBC (2022): Anti-Semitic hate incidents at new high in 2021, charity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60322106
BBC (2021): British Jews' fear and defiance amid record monthly anti-Semitism reports:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57339266
BBC (2017): Anti-Semitic hate crime at record high, says UK charity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38836536
The Electronic Intifada: EI exclusive: UK charity with Mossad links secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jews to government:
"An influential UK charity denounced Jewish critics of Israel in secret reports to the government earlier this year, The Electronic Intifada has learned.
The Community Security Trust (CST) is known for its work recording anti-Semitic attacks and for security patrols at Jewish communal events.
But evidence uncovered by The Electronic Intifada suggests the CST works behind the scenes with an assertively pro-Israel agenda not stated in its charitable remit. There are also serious questions over the CST’s links to the government of Israel and, allegedly, to its intelligence services...
In a report sent to government department the Home Office, the CST denounced several “anti-Zionist British Jewish individuals and groups” as “extreme groups,”... Use of the term “extreme groups” is significant. It’s a phrase the CST usually reserves for violent far-right groups such as the British National Party, the National Front and Combat 18; or for Islamic political groups...
...CST has strong links with government departments — especially the Home Office and Department for Communities and Local Government. In some areas CST volunteers jointly patrol with the police.
...been lauded by politicians at the highest levels of government. Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have both given speeches at black tie CST dinners...
Founded as a charity in 1994, the CST had several notable predecessors. The Group Relations Educational Trust (GRET) was founded by Gerald Ronson...
Trained by Mossad?
Antony Lerman, founder and former director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), told The Electronic Intifada that CST volunteers had in the past received self-defense training from Mossad, Israel’s overseas spy agency...
Conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
Lerman’s is far from the only Jewish voice critical of the the CST. Tony Greenstein is a Palestine solidarity and anti-racist activist who has blogged extensively on the CST. He has frank criticisms of their methods. “The CST has a long record of barring anti-Zionist Jews from meetings and harassing them,”...
Lack of transparency
Although the CST claims to represent the Jewish community, it has asked for a special dispensation from the Charity Commission so that the names of its trustees are not publicly accessible (most charities in the UK have the names of their trustees listed on the Charity Commission’s website). A spokesperson from the Charity Commission said such dispensations were only given in “very exceptional” cases,...
A multi-million pound operation
In a 2009 interview with The Jewish Chronicle, Ronson claimed to have friends at the highest levels of the Israeli government:
“He received a phone call from the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and met [current Prime Minister] Binyamin Netanyahu, at the time a minister in Shamir’s government,.."
https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/the-simon-round-interview/interview-gerald-ronson
Israeli government links
The Israel Government Monitoring Forum on Anti-Semitism with which Lerman was at odds in the early 1990s now has a successor body called the Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism. The forum’s website lists the CST as one of the “members of the forum”..."
The Circle Jerks: Golden Shower of Hits: Coup d'etat:
"The government gets overthrown
A sudden force, a major blow
Over out, the new comes in
Coup d'état
Give me a bomb
A Molotov..."
Music video used for transformative purposes
https://twitter.com/BowenBBC/status/1499668674940133378?lang=en
#Coup