Jewish groups have agreed to meet Labour's Peterborough MP Lisa Forbes after she wrote to them apologising for the "hurt" caused by the revelation she had approved of antisemitic posts on Facebook.

Ms Forbes wrote to the Board of Deputies after her victory in the June 6 poll to say she had "caused hurt in your community, to you and to those you represent".

In the last days of the campaign, which Ms Forbes won by 683 votes, she was revealed to have liked antisemitic Facebook posts, including one that claimed Theresa May had a "Zionist slave master's agenda" and that Mossad created ISIS. She had also signed a letter opposing the IHRA definition of antisemitism that called Israel an "apartheid state".

The Jewish Labour Movement urged the party to suspend her within hours of her election.

On Monday, the Board of Deputies said it had arranged for her to meet with its representatives along with the Jewish Leadership Council, Community Security Trust and the Antisemitism Policy Trust on a date to be determined.

In a letter to her, Board chief executive Gillian Merron said the meeting would be private but that they would publish her letter to them in view of the "considerable media interest".

"We will set out why the messages that you approved promote Jew-hatred and contain antisemitic conspiracy theories," Ms Merron wrote.

"We will also explain about anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, IHRA and the nature of modern antisemitism and set out the threat that the CST has to deal with on a regular basis."

In the email from Ms Forbes released by the Board, the new MP says: "I am writing first and foremost to apologise. I am sorry that I have caused hurt in your community, to you and to those you represent. 

"I know that you are hurting and that you have had to endure the most appalling abuse and treatment as the scourge of antisemitism has risen across the UK and across Europe in recent years.

"And I understand that you will be furious and exhausted with people who make statements that further this abuse, or seek to normalise antisemitism." 

She said she would like to meet "to learn more about your experience, about the issues you are facing as a community right now and to better understand how I can deepen my own awareness of these issues and to act as an ally".

"And of course I would like to meet to apologise, in person, for engaging in these thoroughly unacceptable posts," she added.

"I am aware that the kind of content I mistakenly engaged with online was deeply offensive and contained antisemitic language and tropes which harm the Jewish community'.

"I know it is not good enough to simply say I am anti-racist; I know I need to demonstrate to you that I will take action to gain your trust and I hope you will agree to meet with me and to allow me to attend any relevant training for me to better understand the nature and extent of antisemitism and the impact it has on the Jewish community."