Countdown's Rachel Riley suffers online abuse after sharing video about antisemitism in football

Permission to talk about something really difficult...Thread:
I don’t particularly want to, but yesterday, after posting an @kickitout video condemning antisemitism, inevitably, I’m confronted with weird and aggressive posts about Israel and Zionists, and I want to address this. pic.twitter.com/7xBQuq8wev

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) 8 December 2018

She wrote: “One tweet in reply to the posts following the video complained about all the rich Jews pretending to be persecuted, then followed into a series uninformed tweets about Palestine and ‘Jews.’”

But among the attacks she shared, she said she was pleased to see someone who had sent her antisemitic abuse, changed his mind once his behaviour was pointed out to him.

She wrote: “For the first time ever, I saw someone make an antisemitic post, carry on that path, and then listen to someone with a different view and change their opinion.

“They’d heard some things, didn’t understand them, nor the context, and turned it aggressively on Jews,” she wrote.

She told her Twitter followers: “There are always 2 sides to a story, and sometimes that story doesn’t come into play.”

She asked people to “think carefully before accidentally adding fuel to the flames of antisemitism, whatever your motivation.”