36 Facts About Jenny Tonge

Jennifer Louise Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenny Tonge is a politician in the United Kingdom.

Jenny Tonge's was Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Richmond Park in London from 1997 to 2005.

Jenny Tonge's sat as an independent in the Lords from 2012 until her retirement in 2021.

Jenny Tonge's attended Dudley Girls High School from 1951 to 1959.

Jenny Tonge's trained to be a doctor at University College Hospital, gaining an MB and BS in 1964.

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Jenny Tonge's was a manager of Community Health Services in Ealing from 1992 to 1996.

Jenny Tonge was a councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1981 to 1990, and served as chair of the Social Services Committee.

Jenny Tonge's stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Richmond and Barnes constituency at the 1992 general election.

In 1997, Jenny Tonge was elected to Parliament, representing Richmond Park.

Jenny Tonge was concerned about Blair's response, because it implied the government was "prepared to accept money from anybody, regardless of the doctrine or religious beliefs of the donor".

At a subsequent press conference after their return, Jenny Tonge compared Gaza Strip living conditions for Palestinians to conditions Jews had suffered in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

In January 2004, Jenny Tonge was sacked as the Liberal Democrat children's spokeswoman by the party leader, Charles Kennedy.

At a pro-Palestinian parliamentary meeting, Jenny Tonge had said of Palestinian suicide bombers: "If I had to live in that situation – and I say that advisedly – I might just consider becoming one myself".

Jenny Tonge's repeated her comments on Sky News, but added, "I do not condone suicide bombers, nobody can condone them".

Jenny Tonge refused to apologise, commenting "I was just trying to say how, having seen the violence and the humiliation and the provocation that the Palestinian people live under every day and have done since their land was occupied by Israel, I could understand".

Jenny Tonge retired from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election, and was made a life peer and member of the House of Lords later in the year.

At a later meeting at Edinburgh University the following November, Tonge said that professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer's article "The Israel Lobby and U S Foreign Policy" which appeared in the 23 March 2006 issue of the London Review of Books supported her assertion that the "Israel lobby had a disproportionate voice in Anglo-American foreign policy".

In November 2008, Jenny Tonge visited the Gaza Strip again, this time with Lord Ahmed, Clare Short, and members of the European Parliament.

On 12 January 2009, Jenny Tonge asked in the House of Lords about investigations into alleged Israeli war crimes in the December 2009–January 2010 Gaza War, saying:.

In March 2009, Jenny Tonge joined a six-person delegation of British politicians which met with Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in Syria.

Jenny Tonge told an interviewer that their goal was to force the British government to talk to Hamas and press the United States to do likewise.

Jenny Tonge's said that eventually activists must look to "a full trade embargo and boycotting everything Israeli".

On 1 February 2010, The Palestine Telegraph, of which Jenny Tonge was then a patron, published an article which made false claims that an Israel Defence Forces emergency aid hospital in Haiti was secretly harvesting organs and selling them on the black market, based partly on a report made on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television which cited a YouTube video produced by a group called AfriSynergy Productions.

Jenny Tonge's later resigned as a patron of The Palestine Telegraph after it published a video of an interview with American neo-Nazi David Duke.

Baroness Jenny Tonge resigned the Liberal Democrats whip position immediately after being given an ultimatum by party leader Nick Clegg to apologise or resign for her remarks.

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Jenny Tonge's spoke at a London rally at the Israeli Embassy against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and the November 2012 Israeli bombings of Gaza in retaliation for militant rocket attacks on Israel.

In January 2015, the New York Jewish newspaper Algemeiner Journal described Jenny Tonge as having "a long record of inflammatory, often anti-Semitic, statements against both Israel and the British Jewish leadership" in discussing a written question she had tabled in the Lords, which urged for "Jewish faith leaders in the United Kingdom publicly to condemn settlement building by Israel".

In July 2016, Jenny Tonge repeated her call for British Jews to condemn Israel resulting in calls from Campaign Against Antisemitism for her to be expelled from the Liberal Democrats.

Jenny Tonge chaired a meeting of the Palestine Return Council at the House of Lords on 25 October 2016 to launch a campaign for Britain to apologise for the Balfour Declaration, which advocated a home for Jews in Palestine, ahead of its hundredth anniversary in 2017.

Jenny Tonge was suspended by the Liberal Democrats, and then resigned from the party on 27 October 2016.

In October 2018, Jenny Tonge faced calls to resign over a post she made on Facebook in the aftermath of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, in which she claimed that the Israeli government's actions towards Palestinians may have contributed to a rise in anti-Semitism.

Jenny Tonge is strongly in favour of stem cell research and has stated so in the House of Lords.

Jenny Tonge's is pro-choice on abortion and has supported "Patient " laws in the United Kingdom.

Jenny Tonge was chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health for five years, which in November 2012 issued a report on child marriage, A Childhood Lost, which urged the British government to act to stop child marriage in Britain and abroad.

Jenny Tonge met her future husband, Dr Keith Jenny Tonge, in 1959, at university.

Jenny Tonge was a consultant neuroradiologist, formerly at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth; they have two surviving grown children and seven grandchildren.