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Antisemitic British Baroness Jenny Tonge Pressures UK Jews to Condemn Israel
JANUARY 30, 2015 11:50 AM
Ben Cohen
Baroness Jenny Tonge, a member of Britain’s House of Lords with a long record of inflammatory, often antisemitic, statements against both Israel and the British Jewish leadership, has again been pressuring British Jews to collectively condemn Israel.
Earlier this week, Tonge tabled a written question in the House of Lords in which she asked “Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to encourage Jewish faith leaders in the United Kingdom publicly to condemn settlement building by Israel and to make clear their support for universal human rights.”
Tonge’s question, which comes against the background of rising antisemitism in the UK, was quickly condemned by Jewish campaigners.
Jonathan Sacerdoti of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which recently published a disturbing survey about the current levels of antisemitism in the UK, told The Algemeiner that the “widely accepted” definition of antisemitism coined by the European Union Monitoring Center “specifies that it is antisemitic to hold Jews collectively responsible for any action of the State of Israel.”
“Baroness Tonge has a long history of making these sorts of remarks,” Sacerdoti said. “It is despicable to see her using the House of Lords to try to harass Jewish people.”
Since 2012, Tonge has classified herself as an “Independent Liberal Democrat,” as she was compelled to resign from the Liberal Democrat Party – the junior partner in Britain’s governing coalition – for refusing to apologize for a comment made at a public meeting that Israel “would not be there for other.”
In 2010, Tonge was fired from her position as the party’s health spokesperson after she made the outlandish claim, which evoked memories of the ancient antisemitic blood libel, that Israeli medical teams assisting in Haiti after the devastating earthquake there were involved in organ trafficking.
Despite these bruising experiences, Tonge continues to assault both Israel and the Jewish community at every opportunity. Speaking in a House of Lords debate last night on the Palestinian issue, she declared that “Israel is becoming a pariah state, and, because of its cruelty towards the Palestinians, the general public are conflating the Jewish State of Israel with Jewish people all over Europe.”
Tonge then repeated her demand that British Jews must condemn Israel if they want to avoid increased expressions of antisemitism. “When those of us who criticize the Government of Israel are accused of anti-Semitism by the Israel lobby, it further reinforces the view that Jewish people everywhere support the actions of the Israeli Government,” she claimed. “Can the Jewish community not understand this? It is not responsible for Israel’s actions: of course it is not. Why, therefore, do its leaders not speak out in condemnation of the injustice to the Palestinians at this time? Why, oh why?”
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Fanatical UK Lib-Dem Jenny Tonge joins new hate fest against Jewish state Jenny Tonge is one of the most frightening anti-Zionists in Britain, and her companions at this recent event are even worse, as an eye-witness describes
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On 29 February 2012 11:27
Where to begin with last week’s event at Middlesex University’s campus in Hendon, North West London, sponsored by Interpal?
It was billed as a discussion on “Is Israel an Apartheid State?“, but became an evening of unadulterated Jew hatred.
Jenny Tonge, the Liberal Democrat Member of the House of Lords, famous for once saying she might have been a suicide bomber had she been born a Palestinian, was the star attendee and put in a chilling performance in her usual role as one of Britain’s foremost Israel-haters.
Tonge, who describes herself as an “ethnic Christian” started by telling the audience to beware of the Israel lobby because “once they have decided to go for you, they will go for you. I bear the scars”. She cited the notorious writings of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, which have been widely discredited for effectively alleging a Jewish conspiracy – a charge that the authors have strenuously denied.
She finished with the dire prediction that “Israel is not going to be there forever” and warned that eventually Israel “will lose its support and then they will reap what they have sown”.
this “Baroness Tonge” whoever she may be, is merely re-mouthing the standard Nazi mantra against the Jews
meanwhile,
the British are losing their country to the IslamoNazi invasion/influx/immigration/whatever
her attentions would be far better directed at home defense instead of attacking the Joos 3000 miles away
ps: oh yes, we forgot to say...
FU”BaronessTonge”
Baroness Jenny Tonge got hit with the ugly stick - Several times!!
it occurs to be that, as a “Baroness” this lady is “in the ruling elite” of UK
(at least in title)
and it is the (controlling part of) that ruling elite that’s been selling Great Britain straight down the Toilet of History
bringing the IslamoNazi Enemy inside, into every British city and town (by the miliions!)
What did the “average’ British people ever do to deserve this horrible Sell-Out by their “elite ruling class” ..?
She’s more like “goyim, goyim, gone”.
Brazil, Argentina, eh, whatever. :)
They should have taken care of her in an alley long ago, to shut her ugly mouth.
Wasn’t she a GI Joe character in an earlier life?/s
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She’s not a member of British hereditary aristocracy. Her peerage is strictly a political appointment.
I see.
Thanks.
(there are plenty of BOTH the hereditary aristocracy AND the politicos that have been selling UK out......same, without the official aristocracy, in USA)... the damage is similar ... and increasing....day by day by day...)
I hereby pressure all British piers who want to express their latest brain fart about what Jews or Jewish leaders should or shouldn’t do to sod off.
“British piers”
I think you want “peers” there, unless you want the elites to take a walk off one and jump in the lake, which is fine by me, lol.
“British piers”
I think you want “peers” there, unless you want the elites to take a walk off one and jump in the lake, which is fine by me, lol.
Oops, two for the price of one above.
Freudian slip.
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