Jewish doctors feel “intimidated and unsafe” at the British Medical Association’s annual conference because one in 10 motions for debate relate to Israel, Palestine or Zionism.

The three-day meeting is used to set out the doctor union’s policies and priorities based on motions put forward by members, but 43 – about 10 per cent of the total – were about Israel, Gaza, Palestine, anti-Semitism or Zionism.

Just five were concerned about other “international relations”.

The Jewish Medical Association (JMA) said members attending the conference “feel intimidated, unsafe and excluded” and that it had “felt it necessary to seek advice from” the Jewish support charity the Community Security Trust (CST) and BMA “to ensure the safety and protect the wellbeing of Jewish representatives”.