London
– Baroness Tonge, who was forced to resign from the Liberal Democrat Party in
the House of Lords over antisemitic remarks in 2012, has once again tried to
hold Jews to account for ‘crimes’ she perceives Israel to have committed.
Speaking
in the House of Lords today, Baroness Tonge blamed Israel for the rise of
extreme Islamism and ISIS. She then went on to say that Israel did not deserve
the support of British Jews, but that Jews nonetheless had a special
responsibility to stop the Israeli government “destroying…the Middle East and
the wider world”.
Tonge
also claimed that Palestinian terrorist groups have a “justified grudge”
against Israel, effectively defending the terrorism that is aimed at Jewish
people in Israel and around the world by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other
terrorist organisations.
