Corbyn troll: Hang traitor MP from tree
JEREMY CORBYN was at the centre of a new row over social media trolls last night after one of his supporters called for a Labour MP to be ‘hanged’.
Labour said it had launched an i nvestigation i nto messages – unearthed by The Mail on Sunday – targeting Enfield North MP Joan Ryan, who said during the General Election that many Labour supporters had ‘ more confidence in Theresa May as Prime Minister’ than in party leader Mr Corbyn.
Beverly Krell, a Labour member from Manchester, attached Ms Ryan’s comment to a tweet headlined ‘We support Jeremy Corbyn’, with the remark: ‘If anybody has a rope and a tree, I’m ready’.
She also accused Ms Ryan of ‘dual allegiance’ and ‘ treason’ for her role as Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. In other posts, Mrs Krell threatened to kill ‘Zionists’ with an AK-47 assault rifle and dismissed the Holocaust as ‘regurgitated’.
Last week, The Mail on Sunday revealed how Labour trolls had targeted the pregnant wife of a Tory MP after he clashed with Mr Corbyn in the Commons. One fanatic said: ‘Hope your baby dies’. The MoS agreed not to identify the MP in order to protect his wife, who is due to give birth in the New Year.
The attacks prompted Theresa May to call for a halt to social media abuse, while Mr Corbyn insisted: ‘Threats and intimidation have no place in our politics.’ Mrs Krell, who comes from a Jewish background, has written that she had ‘always sworn not to enter a synagogue as meeting Zionists would leave me most likely serving a sentence for murder’.
After calling for Ms Ryan to be hanged, she changed her online name to Sophie Goulding. Then, as Goulding, she wrote: ‘How do you deal with Zio Nazis other than deactivate the main account and find my AK-47.’
Last night, Mrs Krell claimed that the messages – left over a period of months in the past year on a number of social media sites – were the result of her being ‘hacked’.
She declined to comment further, saying: ‘I don’t trust the media.’
In one tweet, ‘Goulding’ said: ‘I’ve had enough of the regurgitated Holocaust… does the extermination of American natives count, or the black holocaust when millions were… sold into slavery.’
Jackie Walker, who was suspended from Labour for anti- Semitism, responded: ‘Careful – that got me accusations of anti-semitism’.
Mrs Krell, a public supporter of Mr Corbyn’s leadership campaign, joined members of Left-wing group Momentum in an attempt to stop Ms Walker from being expelled.
Last night, a Labour spokesman said: ‘The Labour Party condemns anti- Semitism and is committed to campaigning against it in all its forms. Any instances of antiSemitism will be investigated and acted upon inline with our procedures.’
Ms Ryan was not avail able for comment.