Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with British Ambassador to Israel Tom Philips on Monday, following reports of a planned U.K. boycott of Israeli labor unions.

Britain has become in recent years the battlefield in Israel's fight for its existence as a Jewish state.

The number of British organizations calling for the boycott of Israel, their public campaigns, and their constant comparisons between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa have made the battle for British public opinion particularly significant.

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On Wednesday, representatives of the new British University and College Union (UCU) are scheduled to meet in Bournemouth. On the agenda is another proposal to boycott Israel's academic institutions.

In her meeting with Philips, Livni expressed her dissatisfaction over the planned boycotts and noted that they stand in complete contradiction to the otherwise positive relationship between Israel and the U.K.

Ambassador Philips stated that his government is opposed to the boycotts, and repeated the British position, according to which boycotts and sanctions are not helpful to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Philips also informed Livni of British Council activities, as well as those of other British cultural institutions, aimed at improving the connections between academic institutions in Britain and Israel.