BRITISH Jews voiced their opposition yesterday to anti-Palestine groups “offensively belittling” the Black Lives Matter campaign to further their own cause.

Almost 90 Jewish people co-signed a stinging letter sent to the Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies, accusing them of piggybacking on the campaign against police brutality on black US citizens by using the social media hashtag #IsraeliLivesMatter.

Five Israelis were killed and 21 injured amid clashes in Jerusalem earlier this month, while at least 25 Palestinians have also been killed so far including a pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter.

Pro-Israeli groups are planning a rally outside the Palestinian embassy in west London today. But the co-signers said that organisations “purporting to speak on [their] behalf” are peddling divisive and dangerous rhetoric.

They said: “When Jewish organisations use death to pursue a political agenda, they tarnish our reputation as an ethical people.

“Our texts tell us that any loss of life is like the end of a world.

“Death, then, is not the basis for a campaign. Especially a campaign which appropriates and offensively belittles the #BlackLivesMatter slogan on which it is (ironically) based.”