Pro-Palestinian groups are organising a "siege" on Labour MPs, councillors and staff on Monday in a bid to force the party's hand to take a stronger stance against Israel.
The Palestinian Youth movement (PYM) has sent a list of instructions, outlined in an eight-page booklet, to "solidarity groups" across the UK to take part in a national day of action against Labour, citing its supposed "partnership in Israel's genocide on Gaza".
The "Siege on Labour" outlines tactics for how supporters should target offices of their local MPs.
It also includes regional Labour Party headquarters and Labour councillors.
The movement says now is an "opportune moment" to "exacerbate the political crisis in the party" after the Prime Minister declared Britain would recognise a Palestinian state, unless Israel committed to a ceasefire and two-state solution.
The document has been seen by The Times and dismisses Keir Starmer's announcement as it only recognises "the puppet regime of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank".
In its list of demands, the movement says the Government must go significantly further.
It also demands that Foreign Secretary David Lammy be immediately sacked and tried as a war criminal at the Hague, as well as making "Zionism a political crisis for the political class in this country".
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Supporters have been called to "identify and target their weakest pressure points".
Labour MPs Luke Akehurst have condemned the "intimidation tactics targeting our offices and staff" as unacceptable.
He added: "Harassment by threatening a ‘siege’ towards elected representatives and their hardworking caseworkers — who serve all constituents in their public service — crosses every line of democratic debate.
"Threats like these disrupt democracy by preventing constituents from being able to safely access their MP — which is everybody’s right."
They also demand that Foreign Secretary David Lammy be immediately sacked
| PAThe MP for North Durham concluded: "This bullying does nothing to help Palestinians or Israelis and only serves to undermine the constructive dialogue needed to advance peace. MPs will not be intimidated into abandoning our principled approach to this complex issue."
The PYM is an international group of pro-Palestinian young people who played a key part in the campus protests that targeted universities across the US last year.
The Anti-Defamation League, an international non-governmental organisation founded to combat antisemitism, has warned that the PYM has expressed support for terrorism, including the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Hamas is a proscribed terror group in the UK, with supporters risking a maximum of 14 years in prison.
Jeremy Corbyn has joined pro-Palestine protests in the past
| Palestine Campaign for SolidarityPYM’s members have praised top Hamas officials as "martyrs".
The organisation said it was "time for us to escalate” due to the establishment of Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing party.
They said: “The Labour Party is under immense pressure from the public, the media and from their voting base (with the announcement of the new left party) to take a stronger stance on Gaza.”