Three teaching unions have written to the foreign secretary after being denied permission to enter Palestine on an educational visit.
A delegation representing Education International had travelled at the invitation of the General Union of Palestinian Teachers to visit Ramallah and Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
Scotland's EIS confirmed president Adam Sutcliffe was among a delegation from 15 countries which was detained at the border and refused entry by the Israeli authorities.
The EIS, along with the UCU and NEU have now written to the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, calling on the UK Government to raise these concerns with their Israeli counterparts, and to seek assurances that any similar future educational delegations will not be denied entry to Palestine.
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The letter states: "The entire mission was stopped at the border and held for five hours. Our passports were confiscated, our phones searched and we were questioned at length by the Israeli military.
"The questions went far beyond the itinerary and purpose of our intended visit to the West Bank but included our personal political views and affiliations, and our relationships to contacts both personal and professional on our phones. We were not allowed to cross the border into Israel/Palestine and were finally returned to Jordan, only after the border crossing had closed, where our passports were eventually given back to us.
"Throughout our five-hour ordeal, the leader of the GUPT, the Deputy Education Minister for the Palestinian Authority, and the governor of Jericho were waiting on the other side of the border to meet our delegation.
"Our treatment by Israeli border officials and military personnel on 22 January was utterly unacceptable, and we ask that you protest in the strongest possible terms to your Israeli counterpart.
"We are entitled, at the very least, to an apology and the assurance that there will be no further impediments to our travel or that of other international educators seeking entry to Palestine for wholly legitimate purposes."
The West Bank has been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967, with movement in and out controlled by the IDF and Palestinians governed by martial law while those living in illegal settlements are subject to Israeli law and have representation in the Knesset.
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