Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that recognition of a Palestinian state will “lay the groundwork for the next Oct 7”.

The Prime Minister is under pressure to reconsider the move amid concerns that Palestinian children are being radicalised.

A report by an Israeli-founded non-profit organisation warned that the Palestinian Authority (PA), the current government in the territories, is “indoctrinating” children with school textbooks that “glorify terrorism”.

It is expected that the UK would treat the PA as the sovereign government of a Palestinian state following recognition.

But the report by Impact-se (the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education) is likely to raise fears about any move to recognise a state.

Examples in the report include reading comprehension exercises describing terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians as “heroism”, maths exercises asking children to count the number of “martyrs” who died in the First Intifada, and children’s books circulated for National Reading Day depicting a suicide bomber who killed 21 Israeli civilians.