Nearly 90 peers have urged independent peer Baroness Tonge to give an unqualified apology after blaming Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat on the “pro-Israel lobby”.
The cross-party wrote to the Daily Telegraph on Monday denouncing her “shameful” comments on social media.
In a Facebook post, the former Liberal Democrat, whose comments on Israel have frequently caused outrage, wrote: “The Chief Rabbi must be dancing in the street. The pro-Israel lobby won our General Election by lying about Jeremy Corbyn.”
But her remarks were denounced as “both shameful and in clear contravention of Britain’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism” in the letter to the Telegraph.
