The Sara “Women Against Antisemitism Against Women” conference was a reminder just how widespread the combined hatred of misogyny and antisemitism is.

Hearing personal accounts from MPs like Margaret Hodge, Ruth Smeeth and Luciana Berger of the abuse they have suffered was startling: some of the online harassment they have received as Jewish women in the public eye is horrific.

While I’m not an MP, as a writer with a long-time online presence I, too, have had my share of internet abuse, and it’s remarkable how much of that has been both antisemitic and misogynistic. 

I was, some years ago, left terrified and contacting police after a White Nationalist website published my photo and other personal information, saying I was a “Jewess begging to be shot”. The CST immediately offered me support and advice, and I learned that my experience was not at all unusual, sadly.

Last year, my online life imploded after the Ukip former leader Nigel Farage, shared with his 1.2 million Twitter followers a criticism I had made of him.

The abuse that was sent by his fans was shocking. I was receiving messages on Twitter every few seconds, thousands and thousands of people — almost entirely men — telling me I was a “Jewish c*nt” who deserved to die/be raped/be put in a gas chamber.

I was sent Holocaust images and antisemitic propaganda, and images of women being hurt or wounded. His followers said they’d find out where I live and rape me, and sent me outright death threats.

Though I could lock (make private) my Twitter account and mute the messages, these people then moved on to other online platforms, and I had to change my name on Facebook, lock my Instagram account, and redirect my email due to the barrage of hatred.

This went on for over a week, first from supporters of Farage, and then by supporters of Donald Trump who’d caught wind of an easy online pile-on to a Jewish woman; the sheer bombardment and frequency of receiving so much hatred across multiple social media services left me a shaking wreck.

Zoe Margolis is an author, writer and film critic