ITV Good Morning Britain's Rob Rinder says he receives hate 'every day' in sad admission

Rob Rinder says he has been receiving hate messages "every day" (Image: ITV)

Rob Rinder has been receiving hate messages on social media “more or less every day” over the war between Israel and Hamas, he has revealed.

The Good Morning Britain presenter said he is regularly targeted online because he is Jewish and pro-Israel.

The star, who is a practicing barrister and also the star of Judge Rinder, was hosting a discussion about whether Jewish people are still welcome in the arts when he was questioned about his own experiences of antisemitism since the current conflict in the Middle East broke out after Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 last year.

“The only real difference that I’ve found has been on social media,” he told the audience who had gathered for the event in a north London synagogue last week.

Explaining what he meant by that, he said: “So tomorrow morning I will go out and present Good Morning Britain and within five or six minutes I’ll be - not inundated - but within a very short period of time I’ll be called a genocidal apologist etc.”

Rinder said he is regularly targeted online because he is Jewish and pro-Israel (Image: Getty)

When asked about the frequency of these outbursts, he said that they were “more or less every day”.

Nevertheless, Rinder, 46, is refusing to be cowed by the trolling by people he labelled “keyboard warriors”.

Rinder, who has extensive experience as a criminal defence lawyer, told the event: “The truth of the matter is that years ago I used to represent people who were on the other side of that keyboard warrioring and I’ve seen quite literally the sea of detritus, the abyss of what that is.”

He said that he had represented such people, some of whom had been members of the National Front.

“These were not happy humans,” he said. “These were people who were up all night, angrily, with surplus energy to invest in hate.

Rinder is the grandson of a holocaust survivor (Image: PA)

“And so whenever I’m the unhappy beneficiary of that sort of violence, I think ‘oh you poor love, I know what you’re like’.”

Rinder, the grandson of a holocaust survivor, won a BAFTA award for the episode of the BBC’s Who Do You Think Are in which he starred. The 2018 episode saw the star, who lost seven family members in the holocaust, uncover his grandfather’s heartbreaking story of tragedy and loss.

Following on from that, he went on to present a BBC documentary series called My Family, the Holocaust & Me, in which he helped others to uncover the truth about what their families had experienced.

Speaking at the event staged by the Jewish Chronicle last week, Rinder said: “The truth of the matter is that I expect in our extended lives we don’t actually know many people, if any, who have that residual capacity to espouse violence and hate - most people don’t. So I always know what that looks like, what it sounds like and even what it is.”