ACTIVISTS today slammed evidence that details of proceedings against pro-Palestinian campaigners were shared with the Israeli embassy in London.

A freedom of information request showed that the office of the British attorney-general provided Israel’s deputy ambassador with contact information for police and prosecutors probing action against an Israeli arms factory.

The email, sent to Daniela Ekstein at the embassy last September, was redacted other than its subject matter: “Crown Prosecution Service/counterterrorism police contact details.”

The move followed the arrest in August of 10 Palestinian Action members under the Terrorism Act following protests at a Filton factory owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit. Eight more campaigners were subsequently arrested.

A Palestine Action spokesperson said: “The Israeli embassy has attempted to interfere in our cases for years. 

“In light of the information uncovered, continuing the prosecution against them is a serious miscarriage of justice. They must be released and all compromised prosecutions of activists and journalists must be stopped.”

Clare Rogers, mother of one of the detained activists, said: “My 21-year-old daughter Zoe has been in prison for eight months without trial and counting. 

“She took action against Elbit because she couldn’t sit on her hands and do nothing while her government committed war crimes by supplying arms to Israel.

“It’s sickening to learn that the brutal repression she and the Filton 18 are experiencing may have been planned in secret conversations between our government and the Israeli embassy. 

“In a just nation, the Filton 18 case would be thrown out as soon as this political interference came to light.”

Anas Mustapha of Cage International said that Israel’s “interference in British policing and the judiciary is not an isolated act — it is part of a broader, dangerous campaign to criminalise dissent, suppress the anti-war movement and entrench authoritarianism in order to protect the Western colonial outpost that is Israel.”

The Israeli embassy has previously denied interference in legal cases, and a government source claimed that “it has been routine under successive governments to help embassies get in contact with the relevant authorities purely for purposes of sharing information that could be relevant to a case.”

Separately, the government today announced £101 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority for humanitarian relief, economic development and governance assistance after a visit to London by the authority’s premier, Mohammad Mustafa.

Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer told MPs that it was essential that the authority be given a lead role in the reconstruction of Gaza in place of Hamas, apparently regarding that as a matter for Britain to determine.