British Jewish organisations have called on the UK government to follow in the footsteps of the United States and boycott the follow-up to the Durban conference.

The US said on Wednesday that it would not attend the United Nations event in September, because it would be wrong to commemorate the "ugly displays of intolerance and antisemitism" of the conference of September 2001.

Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit the UK next week for meetings with British politicians.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office would not say what was on the agenda beyond “political matters”.

Mr Netanyahu is also expected to visit France while in Europe.

Jewish militants were planning in 1946 to assassinate leading British politicians including the then Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the fiercely anti-Zionist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, according to MI5 files released from the National Archives this week.

An attempt on Bevin's life was "almost a topic of household conversation in the Middle East," said one top secret cable.

The British Foreign Office has expressed continued support for the controversial Goldstone Report into IDF actions in Gaza two years ago, despite its author's recent statements questioning the findings.

A literary magazine described by historian Benny Morris as sometimes being "no more than pro-Arab propaganda" will no longer receive any government funding.

The London Review of Books (LRB), published once a fortnight, had received £767,000 of public money to pay contributors since it was founded 31 years ago. However it did not apply for Arts Council support this year.

Yes: Fabian Hamilton, MP

We know that British Jews have always been at the forefront of the battle against extremist parties such as the BNP. This is precisely why we should be voting Yes in May's referendum on the Alternative Vote.