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Police open Twitter threat file

January 12, 2012 12:14

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Martin Bright,

Martin Bright

1 min read

Police are now investigating three separate allegations of death threats from an antisemitic Twitter stalker who advertised himself as an Ed Miliband lookalike.

Shereef Abdallah first targeted a young woman who runs the Julie's Think Tank blog, which supports liberal intervention in the Middle East. He later threatened a former Labour Party press officer who came to her defence online, and a young British-Israeli woman who challenged him on his use of the word "Nazi" to describe people who disagreed with him.

The Labour Party has suspended Mr Abdallah's membership as a result.

The Metropolitan Police said: "Officers from the London Borough of Camden are investigating a possible case of 'malicious communication', following allegations of antisemitic comments being placed on Twitter. The victim, a 32-year-old woman, received several threatening messages between November 2011 and January of this year."

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