Email headers ranged from 'thank-you' to 'shameful', from 'arsehole' to 'anti-semite'

Jon Snow: In the last eight days, having interviewed both the Israelis and Hamas on Channel 4 News over the Gaza crisis, my inbox transformed into a Middle East war zone.

The headers ranged from 'thank-you' to 'shameful', from 'arsehole' to 'anti-semite' and from 'criminal' to 'Christain'. Many of the most abusive actually included their whole postal addresses. They ranged from California to Cairo, from Java to Gateshead from Manchester to Morrocco.

Many were formulaic, using similar phrase construction. But more were specifically abusive suggesting my mother should rot in hell among other things.

Naturally, I responded...

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