Petition updateExpel Baroness Tonge from the House of LordsVictim mentality jibe "repulsive" says CST spokesperson
Campaign Against Hate Speech
Feb 5, 2017
"Mark Gardner, CST director of communications, described Baroness Tonge's reaction to the report as " intemperate" and "hostile".
He said: "It typifies how Israel hatred causes some on the anti-racist liberal left to wilfully ignore, pervert and ridicule the concerns of British and world Jewry about antisemitism.”
Her "victim mentality" jibe was "repulsive", he said.
"It not only insults Jews, but demands they magically cast off the accumulated trauma of millennia of persecution, culminating in the Holocaust. If she told black people to get over slavery, we can imagine exactly what reaction it would rightly provoke.”
Mr Gardner added that CST had received "many supportive emails and tweets from politicians of all political parties and also from many non-Jewish members of the public" since publishing the report.
"For this reason, we took the finely balanced decision not to publicise Baroness Tonge’s outburst, but then she herself put in on Facebook, trying to promote scorn for this, the worst set of antisemitic incidents reported in recent decades,” he said. "
Copy link
WhatsApp
Facebook
Nextdoor
Email
X