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.
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