Palestine solidarity at the crossroads
NOVANEWS
New strategy and hard-nosed determination are needed. But where is the unity and leadership?
By Stuart Littlewood
Last week we saw how Baroness Jenny Tonge was cruelly maligned in the House of Lords by Lords Pickles and Polak. Pickles invited the minister and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) to join him in condemning Baroness Tonge for “suggesting that the murders in Pittsburgh were caused by the actions of the Israeli government”. He accused her of causing “great pain in Pittsburgh” and (horror of horrors) falling foul of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
Jewish News reported that Pickles and Polak, both high-ranking figures in the Israel lobby, slammed her “callous inflammatory” remarks which, they claimed, were “in cle...