A man who subjected a Jewish MP to an online campaign of anti-Semitic abuse has been jailed for two years.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, 24, was convicted of the racially aggravated harassment of Luciana Berger at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.
Speaking earlier, the Liverpool Wavertree MP said she felt "unsafe" after a "prolonged" campaign that also "inspired others to post messages".
She added she was concerned about an increase in the far right.
Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire before Bonehill-Paine's sentencing, she said: "We're seeing it across Europe but we're seeing it in our country as well."
Government figures, she said, showed an increase in the number of people coming from a right-wing extremist ideology being referred to the government's counter-terrorism strategy Prevent programme.
"The concern is when that extremism also crosses the line into terrorism," Ms Berger said. "It also crosses the line into physical threats."
Ms Berger spoke out after a court heard how 24-year-old Joshua Bonehill-Paine wrote five hate-filled blogs in 2014 harassing her.
Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, Somerset, posted the articles after the jailing of fellow far-right extremist Garron Helm in October the same year.
Helm, then 21, from Merseyside, had admitted sending a picture on Twitter depicting the MP with a holocaust-era Star of David on her forehead and the hashtag "Hitler was right".
Over the next four months, Bonehill-Paine posted articles online calling Ms Berger "an evil money-grabber" and claiming the number of Jewish Labour MPs was a "problem".
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Joshua Bonehill-Paine, 24, was convicted of the racially aggravated harassment of Luciana Berger at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.
Speaking earlier, the Liverpool Wavertree MP said she felt "unsafe" after a "prolonged" campaign that also "inspired others to post messages".
She added she was concerned about an increase in the far right.
Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire before Bonehill-Paine's sentencing, she said: "We're seeing it across Europe but we're seeing it in our country as well."
Government figures, she said, showed an increase in the number of people coming from a right-wing extremist ideology being referred to the government's counter-terrorism strategy Prevent programme.
"The concern is when that extremism also crosses the line into terrorism," Ms Berger said. "It also crosses the line into physical threats."
Ms Berger spoke out after a court heard how 24-year-old Joshua Bonehill-Paine wrote five hate-filled blogs in 2014 harassing her.
Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, Somerset, posted the articles after the jailing of fellow far-right extremist Garron Helm in October the same year.
Helm, then 21, from Merseyside, had admitted sending a picture on Twitter depicting the MP with a holocaust-era Star of David on her forehead and the hashtag "Hitler was right".
Over the next four months, Bonehill-Paine posted articles online calling Ms Berger "an evil money-grabber" and claiming the number of Jewish Labour MPs was a "problem".
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