No, pro-Palestine activists are not ‘Jew-hunting’ in Woodseats

Not long after we finish speaking about the alleged “Jew hunt” in Woodseats, Jean Hatchet takes to X to tell her tens of thousands of followers exactly what she thinks of me. I was “rather hostile,” she alleges, and my “petulant manner was laughable”. Then she really goes for the jugular: “This is why you have a job at a tiny rag in Sheffield Victoria,” she writes. Within a few hours, one of her followers responds with an AI-generated image of me dressed in Nazi uniform. “This her? Was she in uniform when she interrogated you?”

I wasn’t the only journalist to speak to Hatchet about the so-called Jew hunt, or the first to cover the events of last Sunday. The morning after the fracas she appeared on GB News, she’s since been interviewed by the Daily Mail and YorkshireLive, and The Star has written about two police reports made by those involved. But what seems to have upset Hatchet when it comes to me is that, before our conversation, I spoke to the pro-Palestine activists she has accused of hunting Jews “door to door”. Their version of events was markedly different, and I wanted to see how she would respond to it. I wanted to get to the truth.