Ward affair erodes support for LibDems after Tonge

The David Ward affair continues to rumble on, driving a further wedge between the Liberal Democrats and the UK Jewish population. The party has acted to give the Bradford East MP what Nick Clegg has described as a "yellow card". But it is unclear what purpose this was intended to serve.

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Blood libel cleric Raed Salah was wronged, says Baroness Tonge

Blood libel cleric Raed Salah should be invited to London to take part in a peace conference for Israelis and Palestinians, a House of Lords debate has heard.

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No support for Tonge's G4S Israel idea

A suggestion that security agency G4S should relocate staff from Israel to serve at the Olympic village was roundly dismissed by a Home Office minister during a parliamentary debate.

Jenny Tonge, who in February resigned from the Liberal Democrats following anti-Israel comments made at an Israel Apartheid Week event, made the comment during a discussion on Olympic security.

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Hating Israel is not a get-out-of-jail-free card to grant automatic immunity from charge of loathing Jews

Can a wish be genocidal? In Baroness Tonge's case, yes. If wishes were horses, bigots would ride. That the baroness will now appear in the martyrology of those who suffer for their opposition to Israel goes without saying.

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How my report led to Baroness's exit

When I received an early morning email last Wednesday from Raheem Kassam, of TheCommentator.com, asking if he could republish my report of Jenny Tonge and Ken O'Keefe speaking in Hendon, I had no idea of the repercussions.

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Goodbye Baroness Tonge, it has been a long and troubling ride

Baroness Tonge has been a one-woman running sore within the Liberal Democrat Party, poisoning relations with the Jewish community with her persistently distasteful and incendiary comments about Israel. Finally she is gone, effectively sacked after refusing to withdraw her statement during an event at Middlesex University that Israel "will not last forever".

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Baroness Tonge: The full statement

"The comments I made have been taken completely out of context. They followed a very ill tempered meeting in which Zionist campaigners attempted continually to disrupt proceedings. They mouthed obscenities at the panelists, to the extent that University security attempted to remove them from the premises.

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