PALESTINE solidarity activists will protest on Monday against Camden Council’s use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism to “label anti-zionists as racists.”

The IHRA definition claims that “manifestations [of anti-semitism] might include the targeting of the state of Israel.”

Campaigners say that the Labour-run north London council adopted the definition in 2015, long before the party controversially embraced it with an amendment last summer.

Two officers of the anti-extremist Prevent programme were sent to a public meeting with the theme: “Labour, Corbyn and anti-Semitism: why is Solidarity with Palestine Under Attack?”

Camden Council has not responded to campaigners’ requests for information on why the officers were at the meeting, but it is assumed that they had been told to gather information and report back.

Campaigners have also sent a formal petition to the council following the procedures listed on its website but received no acknowledgement.

Sam Baker of North London Revolutionary Communist Group told the Star: “This is an example of how the IHRA definition of anti-semitism is being used to redefine what people can and cannot say about Israel and Palestine.

“The Prevent officers are part of the government’s terrorism protection programme, and it implies that criticising Israel is an extremist view. This has to be challenged, otherwise it will be the norm.”

A petition has also been launched on Change.org calling for the council to end the branding of Palestine solidarity activists as anti-semitic.

Protesters are demanding that the details surrounding the Prevent officers’ visit to the meeting be published in the public interest and that there is a new vote at Camden Council to reverse its adoption of the IHRA definition.

The crowd will gather as the council meets at 6.30pm on Monday in the Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt Street, London NW1.