Owen Jones quits social media after being accused of being “in the pay of the Israeli government”

Owen Jones, the Guardian columnist, has quit social media after being accused of being “in the pay of the Israeli government”.

The writer and left wing activist announced he was quitting in a Facebook post, saying his experience online had been "utterly depressing".

He wrote: "On a daily basis I have angry strangers yelling at me, on the one hand, that I'm responsible for the destruction of the Labour Party.

"And on the other, I'm a right-wing sellout careerist who's allied to Tony Blair and possibly in the pay of the Israeli government."