A peer in Britain’s Liberal Democrat party resigned as a trustee for a British charity over anti-Israel remarks. Baroness Tonge’s resignation Tuesday followed months of controversy after she referred, during her party’s conference in September, to the “financial grips the pro-Israeli lobby has on the Western world.”
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