Radio presenter Maajid Nawaz has revealed he received a sinister death threat while hosting an on-air debate about Labour’s antisemitism row.
The LBC host said he was branded a “Zionist Jewish terrorist posing as a Pakistani” and warned that “swords are sharpened and the guns loads” in the threat Mr Nawaz chose to make public on his personal Twitter page.
The same threat added he would be “smashed with a hammer on the head.”
Mr Nawaz, who founded the Quilliam counter-extremism think tank, wrote that the “graphic live death threat” had been written by “antisemitic cowards.”
He added: “Far worse hasn’t stopped me speaking my mind and defending our minorities.”
During his LBC show on Sunday, Mr Nawaz had described Labour as “institutionally antisemitic” in response to new allegations over the party’s disciplinary processes.
Later, he told listeners: "While live on air whilst speaking I received a very graphic death threat. Because that's the climate of fear that this kind of racism has led to.
"I posted it because I want people to understand how scared the Jewish communities must feel, who regularly deal with anti-Semitic hate crime incidents year in, year out.
"I'm not going to let such intimidation scare me, I've been through must worse than that.
"But this petty and cowardly threat to my life will not deter me to speaking up in favour of our minority communities across the board."
