A Labour MP was branded a ‘rodent’ and an ‘evil money-grabber’ in a series of repulsive anti-Jewish blogs over four months, the Old Bailey heard today.

Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger, 35, is said to have been harassed online by Joshua Bonehill-Payne, 23, a ‘committed proponent of anti-Semitic views’.

Bonehill-Paine allegedly posted five ‘hateful and insulting’ articles about the woman he blamed for the jailing of a far-right extremist he saw as a comrade.

Trial: Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger (left), 35, is said to have been harassed online by Joshua Bonehill-Payne (right), 23, a ‘committed proponent of anti-Semitic views’

Garron Helm was sentenced to four weeks in prison after pleading guilty to sending a malicious communication.

He tweeted a picture of Ms Berger with a Star of David superimposed on her forehead accompanied by the words ‘#Hitler was right’.

Philip Stott, prosecuting, told jurors that Bonehill-Paine regarded the sentence as ‘wrongful’ and set about targeting Ms Berger afresh.

Mr Stott said: ‘The common ideology which so stirred Mr Bonehill-Paine is one of fierce anti-Semitism.

‘Throughout the articles... Ms Berger is referred to by Mr Bonehill-Paine as, for example, a rodent, as evil, a money-grabber, a dominatrix and responsible for the death of Jesus.

‘Repulsive as they may be to you and me, I understand that Mr Bonehill-Paine is not likely to dispute that he made these remarks.’

The prosecutor told jurors that the defendant was expected to argue his posts were ‘reasonable in the circumstances’ and fall within the bounds of ‘free speech and freedom of political expression’.

Four of the blogs were posted on The Daily Bale (Britain Against Left-wing Extremism), which Bonehill-Paine founded, and another on his personal website.

Each article makes anti-Semitic remarks about Jewish people, Jewish Labour MPs and their colleagues and Ms Berger in particular, the court heard.

At court: Bonehill-Paine allegedly posted five ‘hateful and insulting’ articles about Ms Berger (left, today), who he blamed for the jailing of a far-right extremist he saw as a comrade

Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, Somerset, denies racially aggravated harassment of Ms Berger between October 26, 2014 and January 25, 2015.

The first post came seven days after Helm was sent down on October 20 2014.

In a blog entitled Racist Anti-White Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger Exposed, Bonehill-Paine allegedly accused her of ‘criminally instigating a campaign of personal hatred against British freedom of speech hero’.

He went on to state that she must be ‘a dominatrix’ with a ‘deep-rooted hatred for men’ and her choice of partners makes her a ‘money-grabber’, the court heard.

The post was illustrated with three ‘offensive’ images, including one of Ms Berger's face superimposed on a rat, the court heard.

The MP's parliamentary assistant, Eve Byrne (pictured), reported the blogs to police

In a second post on November 4, 2014, Ms Berger was described as being part of a ‘new line of Jewish MPs’ who are ensuring ‘that white genocide happens without fail’.

An article days later was entitled ‘Zog (Zionist Occupied Government) attacks Daily Stormer in retaliation to a successful Berger campaign’.

The far-right website was hailed for its ‘fantastically successful campaign against the Jewess’ cited as ‘a battle between good and evil, white and anti-white’.

On November 20, 2014, the defendant went on to post ‘Joshua Bonehill-Paine: On the eve of battle’ in which he is depicted holding a Union flag.

Referring to a court hearing for similar offences, he described a charge against him of ‘calling a Jewish pervert a Jew’, jurors were told.

The final piece, on January 24 2015, was titled ‘The Legacy of Operation Filthy Jew B****’.

Mr Stott told jurors: ‘It was, as such a title might suggest, the article which caused Ms Berger perhaps most distress.

‘Within it, Mr Bonehill-Paine celebrates the 2,500 plus tweets which Ms Berger received as a result of the campaign and urged that 'veterans of Operation Filthy Jew B**** should be on stand-by for future operations'.’

The MP was alerted to the blogs by friends and constituents and her parliamentary assistant, Eve Byrne, reported them to police.

Bonehill-Paine was arrested on February 13 last year. On being charged, he allegedly said: ‘I am really pleased.

‘This gives me an opportunity to be found not guilty, hopefully at a full Crown Court trial, with the media that will bring.’

Attending court: Bonehill-Paine allegedly accused Ms Berger (pictured today) of ‘criminally instigating a campaign of personal hatred against British freedom of speech hero’

Mr Stott told jurors: ‘Both the language and the imagery deployed in these articles are strongly offensive.

‘You might think the message they convey is even more so - that Ms Berger is, through her membership of the Jewish faith and community, “filthy”, “money-grabbing” and a “dominatrix”, “evil” - in short to be detested.

‘That she has gained her position through being “put there” by other Jewish Labour MPs in the furtherance of an imagined “white genocide” rather than, as is the real case, by being democratically selected and elected.’

The prosecutor highlighted more examples of Bonehill-Paine's ‘passionate hatred of the Jewish community’ in YouTube rants from the time.

A video posted in October 2014 encouraged people to back the #FreeGarronHelm campaign.

Another, the following January, called ‘The Jewification of Great Britain’, talks of what he saw as the ‘foreign Jewish enemy’, the court heard.

On October 28, 2014, Bonehill-Paine admitted six charges of sending ‘malicious communications’ and one of harassment over posts on Twitter and the Daily Bale alleging that several people were paedophiles.

He was on bail awaiting sentence for the whole period he is alleged to have harassed Ms Berger and was handed a suspended sentence in February 2015, the court heard.

Giving evidence at the Old Bailey, Ms Berger said she found the cliched image associating a member of the Jewish faith with a rodent as ‘troubling’ and she was ‘incredibly concerned’. She told jurors: ‘I felt sick really.’

She said: ‘It's attacking me for my faith or religion and not something I have said or done for my constituents.’

Ms Berger went on to describe the effect of the defendant's alleged ‘Filthy Jewish Bitch Campaign’ following Helm's jail sentence.

She said: ‘I did not jail anyone - it was the police and CPS to prosecute, and he pleaded guilty and it's not within my gift to send anyone to jail.’

Some of the militaristic language used about going into ‘battle’ was particularly worrying, she said.

On fears for her personal safety, the MP said: ‘It's fair to say I was the most concerned I have ever been about my personal safety since I was elected.

‘It was in the midst of this “Filthy Jewish B****” campaign the police were in constant contact with me. They were in my office and home and assisted my personal safety.

‘I had police patrolling outside my home and office. It was because of those patrols that a demonstration happened outside my office over a weekend in support of Garron Helm.

‘I have received as an MP anti-Semitism since I was elected. The scale and body during this period, combined with articles, I felt very much under attack. It was all-consuming.’

Ms Berger said measures had been put in place in part because of the online posts.

The Labour politician told jurors that some of the blogs were still online.

‘Even if you were convicted in this country, if it is an American website there is nothing you can do,’ she said.

Cross examining, James Palfrey suggested there were elements of the posts which were a ‘puerile attempt at satire’.

He asked if, for example, anyone would seriously blame her for the death of Jesus. But Ms Berger said: ‘My interpretation of it - it is clearly anti-Semitic.’

Mr Palfrey went on to ask about the representation of Jewish people in Parliament.

Trial judge Mr Justice Spencer cut in to curb the line of questioning, saying: ‘This is turning into a debate rather than a cross examination.’

Ms Berger told the court that she did not regard images of her face on a rat as just ‘clumsy’, as the barrister suggested, but ‘ugly’.

As a result of the “Filthy Jewish B**** Campaign”, Ms Berger said she had received death threats, tweets telling her to ‘watch my back’, porn DVDs and abusive messages on Facebook and Instagram from Britain and abroad.