Three in five Jewish pupils have experienced antisemitism in school, a Government-commissioned review is expected to reveal.

The independent review into antisemitism in English schools, due to be published tomorrow, was set up after a Jewish MP was stopped from visiting pupils in Bristol.

Damien Egan’s visit to Bristol Brunel Academy was cancelled last year for ‘safety’ reasons because pro-Palestinian activists planned to hold protests outside the school.

After the cancellation, the local branch of the National Education Union (NEU) claimed victory, saying its members had ‘raised concerns’ over the MP being vice-chairman of the Labour Friends of Israel parliamentary group.

Today’s report is expected to make 27 recommendations, including encouraging schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.

It also calls for guidance to be strengthened for schools on political impartiality, with heads told to consider the appropriateness of political expressions or identifiers.

It is understood this could lead to teachers being reminded not to wear pro-Palestine badges and other partisan symbols.

The Government is poised to accept the recommendations in full.

Three in five Jewish pupils have experienced antisemitism in school, a Government-commissioned review is expected to reveal (file picture)

The report includes a survey, which found one in five pupils said they had witnessed antisemitism, and three in five Jewish pupils had experienced it, but less than half felt it would be addressed if it was reported.

Review author Sir David Bell said he was ‘very struck’ by the evidence of rising antisemitism in schools, and the extent to which it was underreported.

He told Sky News: ‘What this review has demonstrated is that a general commitment to tackling racism or prejudice or hate has not properly identified antisemitism as a particular kind of hate. And certainly that’s one of the themes of this report.

‘We do need to name antisemitism as a particular kind of prejudice and hate, because I think if you don’t name it, you don’t actually know what you’re tackling or what you’re going to be able to do to respond to it.’

The report, which was leaked tonight, recommends teachers are trained in awareness of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.

This is a definition of prejudice against Jews, including 11 examples, drawn up by the intergovernmental organisation.

The report also says antisemitism should be included in schools’ online safety and safeguarding policies.

Media literacy lessons should be established to aid in recognising and confronting online antisemitism and conspiracy theories, it adds.

The independent review into antisemitism in English schools, due to be published tomorrow, was set up after a Jewish MP was stopped from visiting pupils in Bristol. Pictured: Jewish MP Damien Egan, who had his talk cancelled by Bristol Brunel Academy

And Holocaust education should frame antisemitism as a central, explicit theme of the atrocity.

It also says modern-day Judaism should be comprehensively taught in Religious Education classes, with opportunities to engage with the Jewish community, such as by visiting synagogues and marking Holocaust Memorial Day.

Policies on staff behaviour should be clear that antisemitism is not acceptable, and where they experience it themselves, robust reporting and response mechanisms should be in place.

And it recommends delivering a communications campaign in transport hubs near Jewish schools to stop pupils being targeted.

Finally, Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate should hold schools accountable for the implementation of policies to tackle antisemitism, it says.

Sir David said teachers needed to be seen as impartial so that students could ‘debate topical and difficult issues without feeling that teachers are imposing their own views on students’.

Jonathan Frisher, a 17-year-old Jewish student from Cheshire who took part in the review, said that swastikas and Nazi salutes had become normalised at his school.

He told Sky News: ‘I was the only Jewish student at my school, and I experienced lots of antisemitic bullying.

‘There were lots of comments around gas chambers, people telling me that I belonged in a gas chamber. And I also saw a wider culture in school of swastikas and Nazi salutes becoming quite normalised.

‘And the burden was often left on me as a 12-year-old Jewish student to explain to my peers why this antisemitism was so wrong.

‘I really believed then, and I believe now, that this has to come from the Government; teachers have a role to play in tackling antisemitism. The responsibility is on them.’

The Department for Education said it did not comment on leaks.