The Jewdas activist invited to give antisemitism training to Labour Party members attempted to draw a comparison between the Holocaust and Prime Minister Theresa May's so-called 'hostile environment' policy towards migrants.

Speaking to the Dulwich and West Norwood Labour branch last Thursday, Annie Cohen said: "Nothing frustrates me more, hearing people like Theresa May and Eric Pickles standing on Holocaust Memorial Day... while literally creating a hostile environment for migrants in this country now."

She also said support for the state of Israel could create a blindspot for the root causes of Jew-hate, saying: "Part of this relation of antisemitism to the state of Israel is that, as long as you support the state of Israel, you are not antisemitic. You are doing the right thing.

"You don't have to address those historic issues, the underlying antisemitism that still exists, but also the attitudes that led to the Holocaust and ultimately affect migrants in this country."

Ms Cohen also suggested that Holocaust education had failed to teach "how much elements of what happened in Nazi Germany still remain across society and how they were elements that featured everywhere, not just in Nazi Germany".

She suggested that there was a "need for the support of the state of Israel as a matter of fact, like every Western country has to support the state of Israel."

Ms Cohen spoke of the fact that Britain had "encouraged emigration to Palestine" and said that lessons "have not been learned from the Holocaust".

The headline on this story was amended on June 27 after Mrs Cohen asked us to make clear she was comparing the Conservative’s hostile environment with pre-Holocaust Nazi policy towards Jews, not the Holocaust itself.