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Jew hater “Jihad” Jenny Tonge has posted the following on Facebook: It links to this article on Middle East Monitor. Let’s first start with the image. It shows Jewish Holocaust victims, not palestinians. What makes the inclusion of this fake image here even more duplicitous is the fact it is not the image Facebook automatically includes when you post this story: In other words, it looks like Tonge deliberately replaced the automatically chosen image with this fake one. But now to the story itself. Israeli Jewish journalist Asaf Shalev, who lives in California, has said that Israel had been hiding...

In the second attack on Israel by Liberal Democrat politicians in the same week that the party’s leader said the party got it wrong on Israel, Jenny Tonge claimed on Friday that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is the root cause of terrorism worldwide. Possibly “Holocaust guilt” allows this treatment to go unchecked, Tonge said, adding that it might also be the “power of the pro-Israel lobby” in the UK and US. The Liberal Democrat peer was speaking in the House of Lords at the Strategic Defense and Security Review, which sets out how the British government will deliver the priorities...

A Liberal Democrat MP has stirred controversy by saying she understood why some people became suicide bombers. Jenny Tonge said suicide bombers were "born out of desperation" and she might consider becoming one herself if she lived in Gaza and the West Bank. But the Richmond MP stressed she did not condone their actions. "From minor things to major things their life does not feel like it is their own," she said. "I do not condone suicide bombers. No one can condone them ... but I do understand why people out there become suicide bombers." She added: "It is out...