A Jewish woman subjected to anti-Semitic abuse on social media says she was advised by police to stop posting on controversial subjects such as Gaza.

Heidi Bachram, who had family members murdered and taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct 7 attacks, was the subject of attacks by another user on X.

The account was eventually suspended for violating X’s rules with the posts, which contained anti-Semitic comments and cartoons showing stereotypically Jewish figures.

But Ms Bachram, from Brighton, said that instead of investigating who was responsible for the abuse, Sussex Police suggested she stop posting about “controversial subjects” such as Gaza.

Ms Bachram has been prominent in raising the plight of hostages still held by Hamas. On Oct 7, Tsachi, the cousin of Ms Bachram’s husband, and his wife and two children were held at gunpoint on the floor of their home on Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

Mayan, Tsachi’s 18-year-old daughter, was murdered and Tsachi taken hostage. His family received confirmation in February that he had been killed in captivity.

Cruel jibes about Oct 7 victims

An account operated under the name NJimmytree is accused of bombarding Ms Bachram with abuse, calling her a “scumbag”, “ugly Zionist” and “ugly faced pig”.

One message stated: “You have a face only a genocidal Zionist pig could like. Your brother-in-law should thank Hamas, because of them he never has to see your monstrosity of a face again.”

Another of NJimmytree’s posts showed a photograph of Mia Chem, a young woman kidnapped by Hamas at the Nova festival, with the jibe “check out the beak on this one”.

One particularly offensive post in November last year showed two images of a young woman’s profile and the comment: “Imagine getting a nose job because your captors made you feel ugly because they didn’t want to rape her.”

The material posted also included stereotypical cartoons of Jewish men with large noses rubbing their hands, together with the comment: “Why do you all look like this?”

Ms Bachram told The Telegraph: “The constant abuse was scary. He seemed obsessed with posting my face and being nasty about my appearance. It just felt relentless. When he posted about my husband’s murdered relative, I felt sick. We are still in shock from Tsachi’s death and it’s a very painful time.

“I couldn’t believe someone would be so deliberately cruel.”