Cat got your Tonge?

Remember the earthquake that devastated Haiti back in 2010? It was notable for various reasons beyond the damage it caused. An international relief effort commenced during which one member of the UK House of Lords alleged that the help provided by Israel was to enable them to harvest victims’ organs. It was a scurrilous charge, uttered without any evidence whatsoever. However, the damage was done to the UK Jewish community. Baroness Tonge had once again uttered a blood libel, a fallacious charge that was first lodged against Jews in Britain approximately 900 years ago.

Now here we are, several years later, and one of the largest British charities, Oxfam, is at the centre of a scandal involving their relief efforts in Haiti. As reported in The Times, despite receiving millions of pounds of government aid, Oxfam’s people were using survivors of the tragedy as paid prostitutes. Moreover, the issue has come to light as a result of a whistleblower who revealed the full extent of the charity’s depravity in the field and its subsequent cover up.

Yet notwithstanding Oxfam’s abuse of vulnerable people and its activities in the field, there are no calls for Oxfam’s removal as a registered charity or other penalties such as having Oxfam listed as a proscribed organisation by the UK government. All that is happening is calls for more investigations.

And where is Baroness Tonge when you need her now that the focus is away from the Israelis and is now squarely on Britain and one of its premier charities?

I imagine she would comment that the British charity was not harvesting vaginas but that the better view is that Oxfam was contributing to the rebuilding of the local economy.

#MeToo indeed.