Luciana Berger interview: I’m still hounded for being Jewish — and I know Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic

Luciana Berger interview: I’m still hounded for being Jewish — and I know Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic The former MP quit Labour after receiving death threats and the abuse hasn’t stopped. She has tired of her former leader’s excuses Rosamund Urwin Sunday November 01 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Sunday Times Luciana Berger left Labour last year Luciana Berger left Labour last year JOHN NGUYEN The release of the damning report into Labour Party antisemitism on Thursday brought everything back for Luciana Berger — it immediately triggered a fresh onslaught of racist abuse. The former MP for Liverpool Wavertree — who had joined the party as a student and was in effect hounded out of it by antisemitism — received a message online threatening that she “would pay” for the suspension of the former leader Jeremy Corbyn. During a Live Chat session run by the Corbyn-sympathising Novara Media, anonymous commentators dubbed her “a vile fifth columnist” and “the face of evil”. On Twitter she was called a “criminal”, “duplicitous” and a host of misogynistic slurs, while all the classic antisemitic tropes were deployed: she was “an agent for a foreign

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