Vanessa Feltz has revealed how she was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protester shouting “fascist Zionist scum” as she walked through central London.
Speaking on her LBC show yesterday, the Jewish broadcaster, 63, said the “white man” tried to whip up fellow protesters after spotting her heading home from work and screamed at her over his megaphone.
Feltz said she was singled out “because I'm known to be Jewish.
“I was walking to get to the Tube station when suddenly I heard very, very loudly, ‘Vanessa Feltz, Vanessa Feltz, fascist Zionist scum’.
“I wheeled around and there was a guy, he looked like a white guy to me, not that I know what his origin was, and he was chasing me, screaming into a megaphone and chasing me shouting ‘fascist, Zionist scum’.”
She said: “I’m a grandma, I'm 63 years old, I've never been an athlete, I was wearing wedge shoes and carrying a handbag, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I can't run and if he catches me what will you do to me, is he going to beat me up?' And also are other people going to join him, what's going to happen to me?”
Describing the incident, Feltz recalled how a woman came to her aid and stood between her and the man.
She told LBC listeners: “She said, 'Go on Vanessa, you run' – not that I can run. But anyway I sort of waddled off in the other direction. I heard from her afterwards on Instagram – she just DM'ed me, 'Are you ok?'”
She revealed the frightening incident as she discussed MP Diane Abbott's claims that Jewish people do not suffer the same kind of racism as black people.
The veteran MP was suspended from Labour again last week after defending her previous comments about racism, which had led to a year-long suspension.
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