A British politician said she was the target of anti-Semitic taunts. The Labor Party’s Oona King, who represented her heavily Muslim London district in Parliament until she lost her seat in last week’s general election, said she was called a “yid” and a “Jewish bitch” during the election. King is the daughter of a Jewish woman and a black man who left the United States during the Vietnam War.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.