The Sara “Women Against Antisemitism Against Women” conference was a reminder just how widespread the combined hatred of misogyny and antisemitism is.
Hearing personal accounts from MPs like Margaret Hodge, Ruth Smeeth and Luciana Berger of the abuse they have suffered was startling: some of the online harassment they have received as Jewish women in the public eye is horrific.
While I’m not an MP, as a writer with a long-time online presence I, too, have had my share of internet abuse, and it’s remarkable how much of that has been both antisemitic and misogynistic.
I was, some years ago, left terrified and contacting police after a White Nationalist website published my photo and other personal information, saying I was a “Jewess begging to be shot”. The CST immediately offered me support and advice, and I learned that my experience was not at all unusual, sadly.
