Tonge, Dr. Jennifer Louise (Baroness) (UK)

After working as a doctor in the NHS for over 30 years, Jenny Tonge was elected to the House of Commons in 1997.
She was made Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, the same year. She was elevated to the House of Lords in 2005, where she is a front bench speaker on health matters.
She first visited Israel, the West bank and Gaza in 2003 and ever since has been an outspoken critic of the state of Israel and more recently of the coalition of Christian Evangelicals, Neocons and Zionists who make up the Israel lobby in the USA  and UK.
She speaks on Palestinian issues, in universities and activist meetings all over the country. She recently founded 'Friends of Palestine" an organisation affiliated to the Liberal Democrats.<p></p>