British lawmakers are currently busy with what the UK’s Jewish Chronicle has described as the “biggest delegation to visit Israel for years.”

According to the Jewish Chronicle, senior “Labour shadow cabinet members are due to join the party’s biggest delegation to visit Israel for years.

“Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy will lead the group — co-ordinated by Labour Friends of Israel — in meetings with Israel’s defence minister Moshe Ya’alon and other counter-terror experts.

“They will discuss the strategic defence relationship between Britain and Israel and study the threats facing Israel and the security situation in the Palestinian territories.”

Murphy will be joined by 10 other MPs, peers and political advisers travelling to Tel Aviv on Sunday, including shadow defence minister Gemma Doyle, LFI chair Anne McGuire MP and vice-chair Louise Ellman MP.

* At a recent “Palestine Solidarity Campaign” in Britain, the associate editor of the national newspaper, Daily Mirror, Kevin Maguire told of his experiences visiting Israel and the West Bank with both the PSC and pro-Israel advocacy group Bicom, which he described as a “very pushy”.

Maguire said the “ferocious pressure” exerted by the Israeli embassy meant journalists were up against a “juggernaut machine” when covering the conflict.