BAD BARON (TOM) WATSON?

 

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BOARD OF DEPUTIES CHANUKAH RECEPTION EXTENDS WARM WELCOME TO TORIES, DAME MARGARET HODGE, AND LORD TOM WATSON

“Among those to attend the event on Monday evening were foreign secretary James Cleverly, former minister Theresa Villiers, [and] the Labour MPs Christian Wakeford and Chalotte Nicols …

“Also warmly greeted was Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader, who has just taken up his seat in the Lords, and attended the Board reception with his two teenage children …”

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jenrick-praises-brilliant-work-of-jewish-labour-mp-hodge-at-board-chanukah-reception/



TZIPI HOTOVELY, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE U.K.

“In 2013, Hotovely rejected Palestinian statehood aspirations, supporting a Greater Israel spanning over the entire land of current Israel, along with the Palestinian territories.

“At her first event as ambassador with the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Hotovely described the Nakba as an ‘Arab lie’.

“She had earlier sponsored in the Knesset groups deemed to be 'racist' who are opposed to mixed marriages; [she] favours a one-state solution that withholds citizenship from West Bank Palestinians …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipi_Hotovely

“Watson is Vice Chair of Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI).”

“Watson has also received funding from businessman Trevor Chinn.”

“In 2003, Watson voted in favour of going to war with Iraq, and subsequently voted consistently against an investigation into the war.”

“In December 2015, Watson spoke about Labour members who took part in a vigil against proposed UK airstrikes on Syria outside the office of Stella Creasy MP, saying that ‘if there were Labour party members on that [anti-war] demonstration … then I think they should be removed from the party.’ His spokesman later said that Watson was unaware that the office was empty at the time.”



“In August 2020, it was reported by The Daily Telegraph that Watson was to once again be nominated for a peerage, in this instance by the Labour leader Keir Starmer.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Watson,_Baron_Watson_of_Wyre_Forest

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BARON WATSON OF WYE FOREST APOLOGISES

Tom Watson apologises in Lords for promoting [sic] false [sic] abuse allegations

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/21/tom-watson-apologises-in-lords-for-promoting-false-abuse-allegations-labour-deputy-carl-beech