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The Cult of Corbyn has been replaced by the Cult of Gender

There is a common denominator between the Labour antisemites and pro-trans activists

January 19, 2023 09:40
Antisemitism demonstration in Parliament Square(MM)9634
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When are you old enough to learn about sexual abuse and antisemitism? All I know is that I was too young.

I was in pre-school, so about four, when a boy in my class would stand behind me and put his hand between my legs in the lunch queue. It is one of my oldest and most visceral memories; I can still smell him.

It was a year or two later, at my new school, that I had my first experience of antisemitism. A new friend uninvited me from going to play at her house because her parents had discovered I was a “dirty Jew”.

I didn’t experience much antisemitism growing up, but the sexual harassment was always there; the persistent comments on my breasts from teenage boys, the flasher at our netball courts, the hands between my legs on crowded Tubes, in nightclubs, at an Eminem concert. The ex-boyfriend who pinned me down until my flatmates heard me crying “stop”.