Community Security Trust
The Community Security Trust (CST) was set up in 1995 and given charitable status as an organisation created in order to 'protect the lives and security of the Jewish community'[1]. Mike Whine from the Board of deputies of British Jews was a spokesman for the CST on its launch, he argued that 'There is an increasing terrorist threat. If you look at the attacks, they are not just against Israeli institutions, they are against Jewish institutions'[2]. Mike Whine describes the organisation as a 'Jewish neighbourhood watch scheme"[3]. The group was set up following the bombing of the Israeli embassy in London and the Joint Israel Appeal in Finchley the previous summer (1994)[4].
In 1997 Mike Whine described the group as 'A Jewish neighbourhood watch - with a little bit added'. The Independent reported that the CST 'trains bodyguards for Jews at risk from Arab or Fascist groups', Whine denied that they were a vigilante force arguing that 'We operate within the law, providing a deterrent force. We aren't a bunch of Rambos'Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Contents
Contact, Resources, Publictions, Notes
Contact
Resources
- Antony Lerman, How serious a threat is antisemitism?, The Guardian, 13 April 2009
CST publications
- Community Security Trust
- Antisemitic Incidents Report 2007
- Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad 1968-2003
- Antisemitic Discourse Report 2007
Notes
- ↑ David Brindle and Alex Bellos, Jews set up defence force to combat terror attacks, The Guardian, 19-May-1995
- ↑ David Brindle and Alex Bellos, Jews set up defence force to combat terror attacks, The Guardian, 19-May-1995
- ↑ Steve Boggan, Jewish groups put security top of their agenda; A burgeoning defence force has won charitable status, The Independent, 20-May-1995
- ↑ James Cusick, Bomb Attacks: Five hurt as charity group is focus for second raid: Anti-terrorist police sifting through the wreckage of the car that contained the bomb which exploded in Finchley, north London, early yesterday, The Independent, 28-July-1994
