Lady Tonge resigns Lib Dem party whip over Israel remarks

[shira]

An outspoken Liberal Democrat peer who declared that Israel would not last for ever has resigned the party whip after rejecting a call from Nick Clegg to apologise.

Lady Tonge told the leadership in a phone call that she could not accept the ultimatum from the deputy prime minister because she stood by her remarks.

Her move, which came as the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned Tonge's remarks as "sinister and abhorrent", means she no longer holds the Lib Dem whip in the Lords.

She said: "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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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/29/lady-tonge-lib-dem-israel?newsfeed=true

[shira]

1. Ed Miliband on Jenny Tonge

See Richard Millett, Student Rights, Guido Fawkes and The Guardian. (LINKS AT SITE)

Note: Jenny Tonge made these comments at a meeting in which her co-speaker was Ken O’Keefe. O’Keefe is one of the authors on deLiberation: a website founded by the racist and promoter of Holocaust denial, Gilad Atzmon, as a home for those expelled from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for Holocaust denial.

Here is Jenny Tonge with Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the genocidal racist terrorist group, Hamas...

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UPDATE

Tonge has resigned the Lib Dem whip. She can go join the Nazis now.

http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/29/ed-miliband-on-jenny-tonge/

[LeftishBrit]

2. Glad she's resigned

Once could be a misunderstanding or taken out of context, but she's said this sort of thing several times.