Clegg sacks Jenny Tonge over ' IDF Haitian organ trafficking' claim
The Liberal Democrat leader has sacked his health spokeswoman in the House of Lords after comments she made about alleged organ trafficking in Haiti.
Jenny Tonge told the Jewish Chronicle there should be an inquiry into claims that Israeli troops sent there after the earthquake were trafficking organs.
Nick Clegg said the comments were "wrong, distasteful and provocative" and dismissed her from her post.
He said she apologised "unreservedly" for any offence she had caused.
The peer is a patron of the news website, the Palestine Telegraph, which printed the allegations.
It claimed that members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), sent to help with the humanitarian effort after Haiti's devastating quake, were selling human organs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8513662.stm
Good on Clegg for immediately sacking her for publicly demanding Israel launch an independant investigation into what is in reality nothing more than anti-semite slander. Not that he had any choice after she spouted that racist nonsense.
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Critical thinking head on here. Look at this sentence:
"Jenny Tonge told the Jewish Chronicle there should be an inquiry into claims that Israeli troops sent there after the earthquake were trafficking organs."
The important thing is not that Jenny Tonge said this, but those claims have been made by -someone-. The important thing is to find out WHO and WHY they are saying it. Why should she be punished for relaying fears about something she's heard that does sound very sinister?
Biffo said today, "I've heard a rumour that an Israeli soldier accidentally shot a Palestinian child."
OGHHHHH OMGZ ANTI-SEMITE>>>> SACK BIFFO
This stinks. No country should be beyond scrutiny.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1215907