PRO-PALESTINIAN campaigners hit back yesterday after three local authorities were taken to the High Court for boycotting the products of illegal Israeli settlements.

Leicester City, Swansea City and Gwynedd councils were accused by Jewish Human Rights Watch (JHRW) of anti-semitism for refusing to procure goods and services from the occupied West Bank.

But campaigners said the councils were following government and international guidelines when refusing to comply with human rights abuses in Palestine.