Dear Mr Bell

Your hotel is scheduled to host Jenny Tonge on 24 January.  Tonge has a long history of goading Jews and inciting antisemitism, most commonly by blaming Israel and/or Jews for antisemitism. Details can be found here :

https://www.change.org/p/house-of-lords-commissioner-for-standards-expel-baroness-tonge-from-the-house-of-lords?fbclid=IwAR3HTbe0GP-rBXXiBdf--dTIAoyDLv05hDLUzaeH11pEDHYT9kZlC_fEQ9Q

8500 people have so far signed a petition to expel her from the Lords.

In addition the organiser of the event, the PSC, is a refuge for Jew-haters and wants to see the end of Israel as Jewish State, an antisemitic desire.

And the very title of Tonge's talk ('Everyday Life in Apartheid Israel') is antisemitic. Just two example of Israel's universal human rights: It was an Arab judge, George Karra, who put former Israeli President Moshe Katsav in prison for sexual crimes. And an Arab judge of the Israeli Supreme Court, Salim Joubran, supervised the last national elections in Israel.

We feel sure that whoever took the booking did not know the history of either Tonge or the PSC. Now that you have been alerted, we are certain that you will wish to cancel the booking immediately, in order to head off allegations that The White Rock Hotel is colluding with anti-Jewish racists. Tonge and the PSC have the right of free speech but that does NOT entitle them to a platform wherever they choose.