Labor MP Josh Burns tells the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion of the antisemitic abuse experienced by his non-Jewish partner Georgie Purcell. Burns says while he and his office receives thousands of abusive messages, his partner, who is an MP for the Victorian Animal Justice party, is also attacked because of her association with him. ‘She gets a layer of misogyny and a layer of sort of violent, sexualised comments on top of it as well,’ he says
Josh Burns says partner Georgie Purcell faces antisemitic abuse because he is Jewish, commission hears
Josh Burns tells royal commission his partner Georgia Purcell faces antisemitic abuse
