The co-leader of Oxford University’s Labour Club (OULC) has resigned after claiming that a large proportion of members have “some kind of problem with Jews”, The Jewish News reported.

Senior Labour MPs Ian Austin and John Mann called for an investigation into allegations made by Alex Chalmers, who resigned after the Club voted to back Israel Apartheid Week.

Chalmers alleged that members of the Club thrown “around the term ‘Zio’ with casual abandon” and some had expressed “‘solidarity’ with Hamas”, saying: “A large proportion of both OULC and the student left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews.”

The Labour Party has vowed to take “robust action” against students at Oxford University if they are found to have displayed “anti-Semitic behaviour”.

Oxford University’s Jewish Society said in recent months the OULC has become “increasingly dominated by the radical student left”.

The claims included that members had sung the song ‘rockets on Tel Aviv’ and that “one member was formally disciplined by their College for organising a group of students to harass a Jewish student and shout ‘filthy Zionist’ whenever they saw her”.

Russell Langer, Union of Jewish Students campaigns director, said: "The reports of anti-Semitism coming out of OULC are extremely concerning.’

"These reports, along with the decision of OULC to endorse Israeli Apartheid Week show that OULC are against the interests of Jewish students."