Emma Barnett reveals Jeremy Corbyn had to plead with his supporters to stop them sending her antisemitic abuse

The BBC presenter and host also said she viewed the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue, her old shul, in October as having crossed a “threshold” in Britain.

“[The attack] felt very different,” she said of the attack which claimed the lives of two people. “When you’ve got Jews being killed in synagogues, it’s very, very frightening. It was a threshold crossed in Britain. But I don’t believe we [Jewish people] can’t live here and be happy.”

In a piece she wrote for the Times filed the day of the attack, Barnett said how she had been walking home from the gym when she heard the news.

“I was very, very upset and realised I was checking the story in a different way from normal because I was trying to see if I knew anyone who had been killed, which is not a normal way to interact with any story,” she said. “I could imagine the place; I know its doorknobs.”

Writing for the JC in 2016, Barnett said that she “came out” as a Jew live on air during her first LBC broadcast without any forward planning.

She wrote: “My throat was tight and mouth desert dry as the word fell clumsily out. ‘I am… a Jew.’ And there it was. My faith out there. Live on the radio. Before that point, my religion had never been relevant in my job.”

[Missing Credit]Emma Barnett with her husband

Working for many years as a “Jew in disguise” because of her blonde hair, blue eyes and the fact she had never spoken publicly about her religion, she said it can lead to “illuminating moments”.

“Being an incognito Jew lands me in conversations I ordinarily wouldn’t be privy to,” she wrote, “and gives me the chance, should I be in the mood, to confront stereotypes head on, and potentially make a difference, as Disney as that sounds.”