Manchester synagogue attack: Charity volunteers among injuries | Manchester

One of those who were injured on a synagogue during the attack on Thursday Manchester worked for the Community Security Trust (CST), it was created when the organization for its role in preventing an even worse atrocity was praised.

The sight of volunteers in the Hi-vis bibs of the charity organization has become familiar in recent years everyone who visits Jewish worship, schools and other sites. For decades, however, public order has also informed about monitoring and combating anti -Semitism and at the same time played a role in order to counteract hatred compared to other communities.

In the two years since the attacks on October 7, 2023 in Israel and the beginning of the war in Gaza, the staff of the organization increased by about a third against the background of an increase in anti -Semitic crimes. There were 3,282 religious hate crimes on Jewish population in March 2024, compared to 1,543 in the previous year.

Separate data from the CST itself, based on the number of anti -Semitic incidents reported to the charity, recorded 1,521 anti -Semitic incidents in the UK in the first half of this year.

The graphic shows the average number of hate crimes per 10,000 people classified by the perceived religion of the victim.

While it became a charity in 1994, the CST and its predecessors have recorded and published anti -Semitic incidents in Great Britain in Great Britain since 1984.

Today his work revolves around more than 100 employees and 2,000 committed volunteers, who are intensively completed in intensive training from first aid to the implementation of security. While his volunteers have been injured in the past, it is assumed that the most serious injuries to one of his employees in Manchester are the most serious so far.

“We pray for his continued recovery and welcome the courage of everyone who have contributed to preventing the terrorists from getting into the shul [synagogue]«, Said the managing director of the CST, Mark Gardner.

The CST presence at locations is often a mixture of their own volunteers, including trained meetings and private security officers. As a recipient of the financing from the Home Office, the CST distributes a state scholarship in the amount of 18 million. Last year, these were used at locations with 200 kindergartens, 260 synagogues and 50 top -class community buildings. The CST itself is based on donations.

The broader work of the CST in training is less visible, which advises security and long -term research on anti -Semitism from sources such as neo -Nazis and radical Islamists.

His work in this area has contributed to this Cases including prison in 2021 a man who was one of them at the time Great Britain’s most productive, right-wing extremist anti-Semitic video streamer. The CST police police police were aware of its activities.

The charity organization also works closely with partners, including Say mom -The national project that records and measures anti-Muslim incidents in Great Britain and has described the work of the CST as “groundbreaking”.

Both are in a formal partnership with other anti-hate organizations as part of the community Alliance to Combat Hate (Catch) partnership.

The work of CST, to which other communities have moved, also contains its guide for Safety methods for worship sites. In other areas, it operates to tailor -made sensitization courses for young people in connection with Maccabi GB, the charity organization sport, health and well -being StreetWise program

Others include partnerships with the police and with MPs, while they meet regularly with the ministers and who is committed to the government policy of anti -Semitism. While the CST works in the Jewish community, an organization called Shomrim also monitors anti -Semitism and works on behalf of the Jewish Haredi communities.