The Camden branch of Momentum accuses the national leadership of bowing to pro-Israel influence

Pro-Corbyn activists will picket a meeting of Labour’s ruling body next week in an attempt to stop the “pro-Israel lobby” forcing a climbdown on antisemitism.

Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) is expected to try to end weeks of bitter rows by adopting the full definition and examples of antisemitism in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) code.

Members of the NEC will be greeted on Tuesday by a “mass lobby” organised by the Camden branch of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn group.

The activists vowed after an emergency meeting to combat what they describe as “mounting pressure from the pro-Israel lobby, including right-wing Labour MPs, backed by the corporate media and the BBC”. They say that Jeremy Corbyn is being urged “to agree that the party adopts