Netanyahu's visit will focus on Iran and UK trade

Netanyahu is believed to be due to visit Rishi Sunak at Downing Street on Friday and is likely to face protests organised by leading Jewish community figures and organisations.

Kearns said: “I think a lot of Westminster politicians will be shocked by these protests, simply because they haven’t been following events in Israel all that closely, so I’m not sure that Netanyahu coming here now is a wise move.

“Israel has many friends in Parliament and people here are used to defending it, but we may be moving to a different place. If the constitutional conflict deepens, criticism of the Israeli government will become much more mainstream.”

She added that new Israeli government policies were causing major unease. She said: “We don’t want to see ministers suggesting that Jordan doesn’t exist, or the expansion of West Bank settlements.

“Above all, we don’t want to see a third intifada, with the misery and loss of life that this would entail — yet sometimes it feels there are people on both sides, Israeli and Palestinian, who would like this to happen.”