Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of allowing anti-Semitism in the UK to “deteriorate” amid a string of “performative” policies which “only serve to satisfy an extreme cadre” of ultra-Left-wing groups.

The Prime Minister’s actions have “empowered” those taking part in a spate of increasingly aggressive pro-Palestinian protests and have “added to a climate of intolerance and hate” faced by British Jews, according to Jewish Labour members.

Labour Against Anti-Semitism (LAAS) – a grassroots campaign group of predominantly Jewish party members – cites the embargo on some arms sales to Israel as well as the Government’s resumption of taxpayer funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA).

The funding had been suspended following claims that its members had taken part in the Oct 7 atrocity, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and 240 people taken hostage. A number of employees were subsequently sacked by the agency.

Sir Keir has also dropped the previous government’s challenge to the International Criminal Court application for an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister.