STUDENTS and parents at a Birmingham school were left fuming yesterday after management secretly invited the Israeli ambassador for a talk.

Outraged locals issued an open letter to the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls head demanding an apology and calling for a Palestinian speaker to be invited to redress the balance.

Students said their questions were screened, violating their freedom of speech.

The row took place ahead of today’s protest outside the Israeli embassy, where thousands will be calling for justice for the dozens of Palestinians killed by Israelis in the last few weeks.

Over 230 former and current students, as well as their parents and members of the King Edward’s Foundation community signed the letter which they believed went “against the ethos of the Camp Hill community.”

“Throughout our educational careers it has been constantly reinforced to us how we as young women have a right to education, right to freedom of expression and speech and a right to partake in decisions of the school.

“All of which have been explicitly violated in the process of the recent visit from the ambassador.”

Activists called the London embassy protest against the recent increased violence in Palestine and demand that ministers slap sanctions on Israel.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign chair Hugh Lanning said: “We are coming together to unite for peace, freedom, and justice — and against hatred, intolerance and racism.

“We refuse to sit back and watch the Israeli government, military and settlers destroy Palestinian lives, and build Palestine out of existence.”