She added: “Sometimes people make statements but then they don’t look about the history around apartheid, around separation, around people living side by side.
“For me it’s about raising awareness and bringing more people to a place where they understand ‘what can I do to help?’
“And at the end of the day it is choice. It’s up to you what produce you buy.”
Ms Osamor also commented on the criticism the party and pro-Palestine activists face on antisemitism, saying that discussions on Israel should focus "on the state and never on Jewish people".
In November Emily Thornberry, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, described BDS as “bigotry against the Israeli nation”, while Tom Watson, the party’s deputy leader, called it “morally wrong”.
Ms Osamor later issued a statement in response to the report, run on the PoliticsHome website, saying her quotes were “used selectively from a long and wide-ranging interview”.
She said: “It is not Labour Party policy to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), and I fully support Labour’s commitment to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on a two-state solution – a secure Israel alongside a secure and viable state of Palestine.”
