Manchester synagogue attack: charity volunteer among injured | Manchester
On Thursday, one of the wounded in a synagogue in Manchester was working for community security security (CST), and the organization was praised for the prevention of even worse savagery.
The opinion of the volunteers in the Hi-Vis aprons of the aid organization, Jewish worship places, schools and other places in recent years have often been familiar. However, it has played a role that resisted hatred against other communities while informing public policy by following and struggling for decades.
In the last two years since October 7, 2023’s attacks on Israel and the beginning of the war in Gaza, the organization’s staff has increased by about one third against the background of the increase in anti -Semitic crimes. According to home office figures, there were 3,282 religious hate crimes targeting the Jewish people from March 2024 from 1,543 to the previous year.
Data from CST has recorded 1,521 antisemitic events in the UK in the first half of this year based on the number of anti -Semitic events reported to the charity institution.
In 1994, while he became a charity, CST and his predecessors have recorded and published anti -Semitic incident figures in the UK since 1984.
Today, more than 100 personnel and first aid is revolving around 2,000 private volunteers who receive intensively training in everything, from how to make security. Although volunteers have hurt in the past, it is believed that one of the staff in Manchester is still most serious.
“We pray for the ongoing healing and greet the courage of everyone who prevents the terrorist from entering Shul [synagogue]Mark Mark Gardner, General Manager of CST, said.
The presence of CST on sites is a mixture of its volunteers, including educated congregations and private security guards. As a financing buyer from the Ministry of Interior, CST distributes an 18 million -old government grant paying to commercial security officers. They were deployed on sites such as 200 nursery, 260 synagogues and 50 high -profile joint buildings last year. CST itself is based on donations.
CST, which is less visible, is a long-term research on education, security consultancy and resources from sources, including Neo-Nazis and Radical Islamists.
He contributed to his work in this field Cases including prison in 2021 A man who was one of those times England’s most productive extreme right anti -Semitic video pennants. Anti -Terrorist Police, CST was warned against its activity.
Charitable organization, Mother tell me -The national project that records and measures anti -Muslim events in England and defines CST’s work as “groundbreaking”.
Both are official partnerships with other anti -hate organizations within the community alliance to combat the partnership with the Catch.
CST’s work drawn by other communities Security procedures for the place of worship. In other fields, Maccabi GB is conducting awareness courses called Youth Street, which is called specially for special youth for young people with the Sports, Health and Welfare Assistance organization. Streetwise program
While other work includes partnerships with police and deputies, ministers and the government meet regularly with the policy of anti -Semitism. While working in the Jewish community, an organization called Shomrim also monitors antisemitism and works on behalf of the Hareni Jewish communities.
