Luciana Berger, the Labour MP for the Liverpool Wavertree constituency, has received antisemitic death threats online.
Berger received the threats through her email account last Friday, a fact that came to light earlier today. The message read ‘you better watch your back Jewish scum’ accompanied by an image of a knife, whilst another email warned that she was going to ‘get it like Jo Cox did’, referring to the MP murdered last month by a man with links to Neo-Nazi groups.
According to a local news outlet, Merseyside Police have since arrested a man in connection with the threats, who has admitted to the offence.
This is not the first time that Berger has been the victim of online antisemitism. In 2013 a local music promoter was fined for an antisemitic outburst directed at her, and in 2014 a man was jailed for targeting Berger with online antisemitic abuse in 2014, an event which triggered a wave of similar messages being sent to the MP.