Ben Goldsmith reports antisemitic abuse in wake of 15-year-old daughter’s death

Environmentalist Ben Goldsmith has reported online antisemitic conspiracy theories swirling around the death of his 15-year old daughter Iris on his Somerset farm last month, after the quad bike she was riding on overturned.

Goldsmith, the brother of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and documentary-maker Jemima Khan, divorced Iris’s mother Kate Rothschild in 2012 and revealed this week that he had seen “countless” Jewish conspiracy theories linked to his daughter’s death.

He tweeted: “A glimpse into the dark world of anti-Semitic/‘Illuminati’ conspiracy theory: countless appallingly upsetting tweets about the death of my teenage daughter Iris,” adding: “I’ve reported some of these but there are so many.”

Iris was laid to rest in private funeral at St Mary’s Church in Barnes, south-west London, last month. Giving the eulogy, Kate said: “I can’t possibly begin to explain the ocean of grief we find ourselves in or the feeling of being shattered into a thousand unfindable pieces.”