Conservative peer accused of using anti-Jew tropes in Lords debate

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"...A Conservative peer has been accused of using antisemitic tropes after saying in a debate in the Lords that Jewish people should pay for a proposed Holocaust memorial in London because they have "an awful lot of money".

Archie Hamilton, who served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was made a peer in 2005, was criticised after the debate, which was about whether to put the memorial and education centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to parliament.

Lord Hamilton said he lived nearby and the park was too small for the memorial, before adding: "I do not understand why the government have volunteered taxpayers' money, when there is so little of it, to finance this"..."

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rds-debate