Alt-Right Trolls Lash Out At Laura Loomer After Profile
Laura Loomer put a burqa on the “Fearless Girl” statue in New York’s Financial District during the March Against Sharia on June 10th. Image by Laura Loomer
By Ari Feldman July 14, 2017
Far right media activist Laura Loomer this morning, she has been the target of vicious anti-Semitic posts on social media since Forward published a profile of her Friday morning.
“Synagogue of Satan. You are fake Jews,” wrote @BrydensFunny.
“Go back to Israel you filthy kike,” wrote “Leah Goldstein.” (Twitter handle: @JewessGoyim.)
“Goldstein? You sound like a member of the tribe to me! Mashugana!” Loomer tweeted in response.
Though she tries to maintain a sense of humor about it online, Loomer acknowledges that dealing with the flood of anti-Semitic comments and imagery on Twitter is “really hard to deal with.”
“It’s insane,” Loomer wrote in a text Friday.
Contact Ari Feldman at feldman@forward.com or on Twitter @aefeldman.
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