"An Illegitimate State That Should Be No More"

One month ago at this event in London under the auspices of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, garrulous George Galloway, in fine demagogic style, and fit to burst a blood vessel, raises many a chuckle from his Israel-hating listeners with his eloquent inveighing against "the giant orangutan" Donald Trump, against the "gangsterism" of Binyamin Netanyahu, against Jews who have strayed  off the path of righteousness by supporting  Zionism ("We hate Zionism", George explains).

The bit about Israel being "an illegitimate state that should be no more" comes at about 4:15

George preludes his inveighing with tips on how to be in good standing with one's Maker on the Day of Judgment, and he pays elaborate tribute to Jews who are not Zionist, exulting at their existence (but overlooking the slight problem, of course, that Jews who are not Zionist in some sense are a very minute proportion of world Jewry indeed).

Oh, and he explains that "we" (does that mean all his audience?) are not anti-Jewish.

Droll:

 Very droll:

 And droller:

"The Supporters of Israel Have The Whole Political Class Now Dancing To Their Tune"

Well, they're certainly deep in it, Jeremy Corbyn and the gang.

(Update: See this!!!  hat tip: Ian G)

And of course Corbyn's troops are rallying.  (I've even seen one, albeit inconsequential, Livingstone apologist linking to an item in the deranged arsenal of the notoriously antisemitic, Holocaust-denying California-based  "Institute for Historical Review" in an attempt to support Red Ken's disgraceful remarks about Hitler, though I won't give it oxygen by linking to it.)

Here's a familiar demagogue, from whom my header is a quotation:

As comic relief, a pertinent video!

Meanwhile, if the following whets your appetite, please go here to see the rest.

'Twas Da Joos What Did It, Suggests Gorgeous George

Well, well, well! Here's Gorgeous George, speaking on Iran's satellite propaganda channel Press TV a few days ago (8 October), proving that behind those icy baby blues is a sense of humour and a vivid imagination!

I mean, he'd hardly be likely to advance a blood libel, would he?

(Incidentally, George, it's "Western Wall" not "Wailing Wall," the latter being considered an offensive term.)

 Don't overlook the two videos I posted earlier today, btw!

Of Spots & Leopards & Weasel Words Regarding A "Jewish State"

Following George Galloway's defeat as Respect Party MP for Bradford West at the May General Election some wag posted this image on Facebook.

And sure enough, on London Galloway has set his sights, since as most readers will know by now he's announced his candidature for the elected office of Lord Mayor, presently held by Boris Johnson, who won't be seeking a third term in 2016 since he's now an MP.

Here's an interview Gorgeous George gave a few days ago, setting out his credentials for what is already becoming a hotly contested job:

And here, parading their bile outside the Israeli Embassy last month, are some of the types who will no doubt be voting for him:

And the Gorgeous One is not the only dedicated Israel-demoniser who's thrown his hat into a leadership contest, veteran leftist MP Jeremy Corbyn having announced his ambition to become leader of the Labour Party.

Just something that caught my eye yesterday

Meanwhile, Senator Richard Di Natale, leader of the Australian Greens (remember my post here?) has moved to distance himself from what he replied to the Australian Jewish News (AJN) when its representative asked him whether Mahmoud Abbas should acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state:

“Of course. How can you have a two-state solution when you refuse to acknowledge the right of one state to exist?

It’s ­patently nonsense.”

But such a furore did Di Natale's remarks unleash in the hardcore Green Left that Di Natale has backed down from his stated position, his office telling the AJN:

“In Richard’s full response to the interview question, it is clear that he is talking about a state for Israelis and a state for Palestinians.

He had no intention for his comments to be interpreted as support for establishment of a ‘Jewish state’. It’s not a phrase that he used.”

Di Natale himself told the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) this week:

'.... I have never believed that the establishment of a "Jewish state" (as opposed to an "Israeli state") is conducive to this outcome [a two-state solution] and I absolutely do not support that goal.'

 Observed Zionist Federation of Australia president Danny Lamm:

'Senator Di Natale's revised position ... should ... be assessed in the light of Articles One and Four of the Palestinian Basic Law (2003) that respectively declare "the Palestinian people are part of the Arab nation"; and "the principles of Islamic sharia shall be the principal source of legislation".

It would be useful to ask whether Senator Di Natale's objection to ethno-religious identity applies solely to a Jewish Israel, or extends to an Arab/Muslim Palestine as well?"  [My emphasis]

As the AJN's editor, Zeddy Lawrence, comments in the current issue of the paper:

"Ignoring the fact that the Jewish State has existed for almost 70 years and is recognised in international law" Di Natale has in his revised statement "not only sought to turn the clock back to before 1948 but also to before two weeks ago ..."

And Aussie Foreign Minister Julie Bishop [pictured] has condemned Di Natale's volte-face and what triggered it.

To quote from a report in The Australian newspaper:

 '.... Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has accused Greens leader Richard Di Natale of “caving in” to ­extremists after he denied ­endorsing Israel as “a Jewish state”....

Ms Bishop said she was “dis­appointed” by the episode.

“Richard Di Natale has caved in to the anti-Semitic boycott, ­divestment and sanctions activists in the green movement,” she said.... [My emphasis]

Executive Council of Australia Jewry head Peter Wertheim said the senator had “been bullied by the far-left zealots in his party into adopting a position on this issue that is intellectually and morally untenable”.

“I now look forward to the Greens withdrawing recognition from the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Islamic Republic of Iran because of the unacceptable ­ethnic and religious identifiers in the official names of these states,’’ he said.

“To lecture other countries about their identity, and to refuse to recognise and respect the way they define themselves, is a truly unique approach to international relations.” ....'

Altogether now, boys and girls, you should know this by heart (no pun intended) by now:

Feathers From A Bradford Duster

"Today a rooster; tomorrow a feather duster" (Australian saying)

Poor Gorgeous George.

The ex-Respect MP with the monstrous ego still compares himself to a lion, to judge from his bravado in that appallingly graceless losing speech of his in Bradford West after his resounding drubbing at the hands of Labour's Nazeem Shah was announced.

Ms Shah, of course, had been traduced by him as a liar regarding revelations of her forced marriage to a stranger in her "British Asian"  family's country of origin when she was 15 and its registration in Britain when she was 16 (the legal minimum age for nuptials in the UK) so that the groom could settle there.

Tapping into the party of Muslim "victimhood"

So this is an especially sweet victory for her.

In defeat, George let rip with:

 "I don’t begrudge the Labour members here their moment of celebration of course.

 But there will be others who are already celebrating: the venal, the vile, the racists and the Zionists will all be celebrating.

 The hyena can bounce on the lion’s grave but it can never be a lion and in any case, I’m not in my grave. As a matter of fact I’m going off now to plan the next campaign."

But really George is just another of the 2015 British General Election's many fine examples of roosters, once cocks of the walk, who are now feather dusters. (They include the atrocious antisemitic anti-Israel Lib Dem David Ward, thrown out of his own Bradford seat by a discerning electorate!)

Let's have a look back at a sample of George the Duster's feathers, which, while he was still a rooster strutting about Bradford with his particular set of chums, were preened during his failed election campaign:

First, from "Team Galloway":

Then, squawking from the cock himself:

On the mean streets:

A vow about an alleged paedophile (hardcore "Islamophobes" will doubtless see the irony in this), who just happens to have been a stalwart defender of Israel in Parliament:

Campaign literature of the member for Pakistan Palestine:

With the granddaddies of the party and the 'hood:

Hmmm, segregated on the top deck where the cold winds blow, while the menfolk sit cosy and snug inside the campaign bus, George?

 Contrasting himself with his Labour opponent:

And one of several mocking squawks about members of her family being in his camp:

Naz Shah sure is one woman on top now, though, eh, George?

As the saying goes: "pride has  a fall".

Manchild in George's Promised Land

As Britain goes to the polls, an article by a journalist and pundit called Ben Judah begins:

'Welcome to Gallowayland.

This is what I think as I drive into Bradford.

In two hour’s time I will be punched in the head.

The squinty moon-face of one of Britain’s most ferocious orators glares from the street posters, capped by a black fedora.

... George Galloway has turned the constituency of Bradford West into his own world, catapulting into parliament as a Muslim-grievance politician from Britain’s most Islamic city.

Galloway, a former Labour Party MP, has got his seat by using anti-Zionist rhetoric, whilst suing critics who say he is anti-Semitic. His political genius is to have twigged that Bradford’s multiculturalism is a mirage: He now plays the city’s Pakistani clan politics, of family controlled votes, for power.

British civility has collapsed in Bradford’s elections.

The Labour Party is reported to have struggled to choose a candidate without the acquiescence of the Kashmiri clan dominating its local branch, and supporters of its eventual candidate Naz Shah have received menacing threats — like the dead crow, its mouth stuffed with grass, she found on her doorstep.

Bradford has also earned a reputation in Britain as unfriendly to Jews — a place where a journalist who walked the streets in a skullcap in March was almost immediately abused.

Galloway, who heads something called the Respect Party, has declared the city “an Israel-free zone.”

I drive through Gallowayland.

The leader of the Respect Party calls Bradford “the city of gold,” and has been going around the city in an old Rolls Royce, or an open-top double-decker bus fluttering with Pakistani and Palestinian flags.

I drive around shuttered industrial yards, cramped terraces of rising damp, and boarded-up pubs, their roofs sprouting with plants.

Respect has told me they are holding a “rally” in the community hall of St. Martin’s Church that I may attend as a journalist.

I walk into the hall....'

Read the rest here
Update: Galloway has lost his seat!!!

"These Treacherous Snakes ... Bellydancing For Netanyahu"

Gorgeous George on what goes on in the casinos and bordellos of London and why the Saudi rulers "have nothing to do with Islam":

Hat tip: Ian

Incidentally, while on the subject of Saudi Arabia and Shi'ites versus Sunnis, here's a rather clever cartoon (h/t Bruce's Mideast Soundbites):

Who's Blue, Pussycat? Blue Enough To Sue? Gorgeous George, That's Who

Shocking as the shade of pink

He's blue?

Well, obviously not politically.

His colour's more – well, look left.

But the man infamous for playing a pussycat lapping milk from the manicured hands of the winsome Rula Lenska as he lies at her feet is feeling really blue.

Reflecting bitterly on what he insists is his horrendous treatment on last week's BBC Question Time, George dubs Cristina Odone (who as we saw in a previous blogpost of mine placed her hand lightly on his arm to interject a point) "the saintly figure with wandering hands who is never done telling us what a Christian she is".

He places her among the "bit-players on the panel", who also comprise, in his words,

'the hapless Tristram Hunt MP (who attended the same expensive public school as [Jonathan] Freedland, in fact I was the only person sitting at the table who hadn’t been educated at a private school)....'

In basic black, with an old chum of ours

Moreover:

'I feel very let down by David Dimbleby. I have known him a long time, have always respected him and I didn’t expect the serial failures of which he was clearly guilty....

 The audience selection supposedly scientifically calibrated was laughably biased. Ludicrous and counter productive though that turned out to be, there was no guarantee of that outcome.

 I know of several pro-Palestinian supporters, Muslims, and Respect members who were turned down in their attempts to join the audience. Fanatic supporters of Israel evidently had no such difficulty....

 A special place in the hall of shame must go to the Guardian’s executive editor Jonathan Freedland selected for the role of chief prosecutor in the show trial. The Guardian, a faux liberal newspaper which last summer accepted (that which even Rupert Murdoch had declined) a paid full page advertisement from an Israeli organisation while the blood was still running in the streets of Gaza seeking to justify the slaughter and slander the Palestinians, thousands of whom had by then been slain.

 There is intense competition for the title of Hypocrite in Chief at The Guardian but Freedland in my view shades it....'

But since getting all that off his chest, Gorgeous George has mounted a defamation suit against a Guardian journalist.

Read all about it here

"Take Your Hands Off Me!" Gorgeous George Tells A Lady

Declaring himself cast in the role of Daniel in the lion's den, Gorgeous George, demagogic as always, faces a barrage of criticism on the BBC's Question Time, set in a heavily Jewish area of London.

Obviously discomfited, the man who once made a fool of himself by playing the pussy cat opposite actress Ruta Lenska was hardly in the mood, this time, to accept a lady's touch.

Catholic journalist Cristina Odone, laying her hand on George's arm to interject a point about Nazism's treatment of Christians, is brusquely told (twice) to take it away.

Poor George.  He can be forgiven for being niggled, given the fact he's being trounced by the audience.

See and read further here

Porkies, George?

Certainly seems so:

(Hat tip: Shirlee of Jews Down Under; more here)

À Londres, Ils Sont Juifs ...

In the heavily Jewish Golders Green area of London, an avowedly Christian "Solidarity Patrol" shows its sympathy for British Jews in view of reports of heightened antisemitism (hat tip: Rita; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkQcCU6lpU):

It is to Golders Green that Gorgeous George will soon be heading, to take part in an edition of BBC "Question Time"; his presence has, of course, been condemned by many as unnecessary provocation on Al Beeb's part, while the Board of Deputies of British Jews welcomes it as a chance to discredit George's opinions.

Have a look at this video, a collection of vignettes of viciousness  on the Israel-hating movement's part (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob26PJfq1XE):

 One of the newspaper articles that is shown in the first video above relates to Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.  He delivered a powerful speech on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day:

"Seventy years ago this week, Soviet troops stormed a large complex of Nazi prison camps in south-west Poland. They quickly discovered the apparatus for mechanised mass murder. The camps were called Auschwitz-Birkenau: a byword for the darkest depths of human depravity, and a period of unparalleled evil in human history.

Last Sunday, I travelled to Poland to represent the UK at this year’s liberation ceremony. The event was more poignant than ever, as it’s likely to be the last significant anniversary where survivors are present. It was also more sombre, because it takes place in the aftermath of another violent and disgusting attack on European Jews.

Recently I’ve heard people try to distinguish the antisemitism that propelled the Holocaust from the murders in Paris. They argue the former was born from fascism and ancient European prejudices, while the latter was driven by Islamic extremism and Middle Eastern politics.

This distinction is superficially reassuring. After all, we overcame the Third Reich 70 years ago. And as for those Jew-hating jihadists, well, they hate everybody else too. But there’s a problem: there is no distinction. It’s a delusion.

As I have said before, the irrational hatred of Jews is like cancer. It can be defeated, even crushed, but it can come back. Last year, Europe experienced a relapse, and only the most naïve would dismiss the potential risks that lie ahead.

Cancer begins in just a few malignant cells, but then it spreads, mutates and kills. The journey to the gas chambers began with small steps: newspaper columns, graffiti and broken windows. It ended with the murder of six million Jews and the destruction of European civilisation.

Some will dismiss such talk as hyperbolic paranoia. They’re wrong. The anxieties of French Jews were growing long before Amedy Coulibaly entered the Hyper Cacher supermarket, and increasing numbers were already emigrating to North America, Israel and Britain.

It is well documented that Jewish people in the UK are considerably less anxious about prejudice than elsewhere in Europe. But that is no cause for conceit, because last year we witnessed our own surge of antisemitic incidents.

Jews were spat at in the streets, intimidated and physically attacked. Cemeteries were desecrated, and the walls of Jewish homes daubed with vile and offensive graffiti. In July and August, there were more antisemitic incidents than the entire previous year.

These pernicious crimes have been accompanied by a creeping cultural acceptance of antisemitic attitudes and behaviour. A Jewish film festival was banned on the basis of Israeli policy in Gaza. A branch of Sainsbury’s cleared their shelves of kosher food to appease anti-Israeli protesters. During the Paris attacks, a respected BBC journalist started questioning a Parisian Jew about Israeli policy, as if she somehow bore responsibility.

These acts of antisemitism were almost casual, and their symbolism extremely troubling. The people and organisations involved eventually offered apologies, sometimes partial and begrudging, but I was dismayed by the initial denial and incomprehension that their behaviour was antisemitic.

The history of antisemitism shows the worst atrocities can begin when ordinary people turn a blind eye to small acts of discrimination, and minds drift lazily towards a mainstream, even fashionable, acceptance of prejudice.

Even some left-wing councils have jumped on the bandwagon. Labour-run Leicester considered it acceptable to play student union politics and ban Israeli-manufactured products. The Mayor of Tower Hamlets tried to create his own municipal foreign policy by flying the Palestinian flag. These public bodies should use their position of authority to promote community cohesion – not to grandstand and stir up tensions.

There is no excuse for this behaviour, or discrimination of any kind. Britain is a country where people of all faiths, and all backgrounds, can live peaceful and prosperous lives. British Jews have made and continue to make a huge contribution to national life: in business and commerce, the arts and literature, through volunteering and charities.

Britain without its Jews is not Britain at all, and this Government will remain at the centre of efforts to combat antisemitism. Last month, my department published a report about what we’re doing. That includes paying for extra security at Jewish schools, punishing online hate crime, and tackling anti-Semitism in football.

We are also ensuring all schoolchildren are taught about the Holocaust, so the next generation understands the horrors caused by inaction, and challenges any attempt to dilute the British values of tolerance and mutual respect.

Extremist behaviour has no place in modern Britain. It is a direct challenge to the values that define our nation. These values are very precious to us, and this Government will ensure they are never surrendered at the expense of British Jews. Freedom of religion is a hard-fought British liberty, and it is one that we will robustly defend."

According to this report Israel is even less popular in Britain than Iran.

The video of the magificent speech in Israel's favour given by Baroness Deech in a House of Lords debate on recognising a Palestinian State the other day is posted on this blog's Facebook page (link at the top of my sidebar) and on many other blogs.  Baroness Deech, a distinguished British educator,
is the daughter of Josef Fraenkel,  a renowned Yiddishist and co-author of Theodor Herzl, which appeared in 1943.  She is the lady about whom BDSer and ageing rocker Roger Waters made a grubby little crack drawing attention to her maiden name a couple of years ago.

It's worth savouring her speech in print:

My Lords, with unfortunate timing, this debate is taking place two days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, despite the millions spent on Holocaust education and remembrance, the museums and memorials and the school visits to concentration camps, there is a gap in memory and education that needs to be bridged. The desire and opportunity to murder 6 million people of a different religion whose presence on his territory the murderer resents must not arise again. The message Jews took from the Holocaust was that their nationalism was necessary. It has been a success. Israel is not Saudi Arabia; it is not North Korea, Iran or Pakistan. It is a flourishing and democratic outpost in the desert with an astonishing record. It is a safe haven, an imperative for existence that can be applied to no other country in the world.

Yasser Arafat declared an independent state of Palestine in 1988 and recognition followed from 100 states. The subsequent failure to change anything on the ground demonstrates the truth of the international law on recognition: namely, that statehood has to be founded in fact, not in numbers of recognitions.

As far as this Motion goes, almost every word of it is dubious. There can be no contribution towards a two-state solution because recognition of Palestine, falsely based, will only make the situation more dangerous. There can be no two-state solution unless Palestine recognises Israel, which she has steadfastly refused to do. There is no statehood attaching to Palestine in international law because it does not meet the criteria. A sovereign state of a Muslim Palestine has never existed—not before 1948, and not before 1967. It was Egyptian and Jordanian territory. Ehud Olmert’s offer of a state was rejected in 2009. The intention of many of the players in the region has always been the elimination of a Jewish presence in the area, not the establishment of yet one more Muslim state. The problem with Israel is not that it has displaced anyone; according to its neighbours, the problem is that its population is largely Jewish.

The practical result of a premature state of Palestine would simply be to free up the import of arms into the new state. The aim underlying this move is the takeover of Israel. Why is there no preparation by the Palestinians for statehood? There is no governance structure, no independent administration, no industrialisation and no negotiation of trade agreements with its neighbour, Israel. The state would not be a state in any recognisable form. Its leaders have declared that the current residents, whose status as refugees defies all logic, would remain defined as refugees. They would not be granted citizenship, nor would the state of Palestine open its doors to the Palestinian diaspora—those Palestinians whose miserable lives in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in the region are worse than the lives of those in Gaza and the West Bank. It has also declared that it would be a Judenrein state, unlike the 1.8 million Arab residents of Israel who have chosen to stay there.

So if a state has no citizens, and will not grant them citizenship in defiance of international law, what would it be for? It would be for a closer jumping-off point for the demolition of the State of Israel in pursuance of the alleged right of return. As other noble Lords have said, Fatah and Hamas want a one-state solution. Why should Israel recognise Palestine if there is no reciprocity but only a step towards elimination in return?

In the climate of extremism that is sweeping Europe, why should a country want to take a step that risks feeding it more? The only purpose is manipulative—to allow Palestinians to pursue claims against Israel at the UN and other international bodies. In the face of what is happening in Europe, what agenda do the proponents serve? Would it not be a good idea to examine the excesses of this position and turn to state building on the ground as an alternative?

Israel’s antagonists often accuse her of apartheid. In the worst times of genuine apartheid in South Africa, Mandela was planning his future independent country’s constitution, educating its leaders, preaching peace, not vengeance, and acting as a statesman. In the early days of Zionism, before statehood, the Jewish residents of what was to be Israel prepared their governance structure, set up the organs of a state, created universities, made the desert bloom, prepared a legal system and a free press, trade unions, hospitals and charities. None of this is present in the Palestinian leadership; nothing is readied. It is not a state under international law, but I have no time to describe that.

The worst element, of course, is that the residents will not be citizens but will be regarded as refugees whose aim is to return to a different state—Israel—rather than establishing citizenship in their own state, and the new state would be wholly dependent on international funds. For it to be recognised now—by the General Assembly, for example—would simply send the message to every other non-state entity in the world, such as the Basque country, Northern Cyprus, the Kurds and even Scotland, to bypass normal laws and claim to be a state. Let there be a two-state solution by all means if the Palestinians will create a homeland, accept the refugees, lay down their arms and be a country of peace.

And this insightful article about media bias against Israel, an article now getting the publicity it deserves, is very much worth reading. 

"You French People, If You Are In Gaza, We Will Slaughter You" (videos)

Please don't miss the previous post, by David Singer, on the fallout from the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. Following on from that post, here are Palestinian Islamists with some chilling messages (hat tip: Vlad Tepes blog):

More (hat tip Vlad Tepes) from Gaza, this outside the French Cultural Centre there:

(This article concerns an IS cell practising beheading skills by decapitating live animals in preparation for an attack on Israeli Druze: Vlad Tepes links to it but I chose not to look.)

Meanwhile:

As an added bonus here's Bradford "Respect Party" MP Gorgeous George, with many a denunciation of Israel as usual, declaring at an anti-Charlie Hebdo rally in his constituency that "The proper job of a satirist... is to hold the rich and powerful to account", inveighing against widespread "Islamophobia", and vowing to agitate in Parliament for the outlawing of insults to "The Prophets":

"We Thought We Had Abolished The Beast Of Anti-Semitism From Our Shores & Had Made It Totally Unacceptable"

So the frightful George Galloway, Respect MP for Bradford West, is up to his noisome nonsense again, proclaiming, with his customary demagogic fervour, that Bradford is "an Israel-free zone".

That's the Yorkshire city which, as I briefly described here, owes an immense debt to Jews who settled there in the nineteenth century and contributed materially to the civic and cultural life of the locality.

Declares Galloway:

“We have declared Bradford an Israel free zone. We don’t want any Israeli goods. We don’t want any Israeli services. We don’t want any Israeli academics coming to the university or college. We don’t even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford if any of them had thought of doing so.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.”

Regarding this barbarous call, the Yorkshire Post reports:

'A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “We have received two separate complaints about comments attributed to George Galloway MP during a speech he gave at a public meeting in Leeds on August, 2 2014. We are currently investigating the complaints.”

Bradford Council leader Councillor Dave Green has condemned Mr Galloway’s remarks. He said: “George Galloway may be a member of parliament but he does not speak for Bradford. He can only speak for himself and his party.” He described the comments as “deliberately divisive.”....

Reaction to the film on the social media site Twitter was angry and immediate. Julie Lenarz wrote: “He’s a disgrace to country/office.”.... ...Samuel LBS tweeted: “I wonder if George Galloway wants Muslim Arabs who are Israeli citizens banned from Bradford as well?”

Mr Galloway last night defended his speech and said he looked forward to hearing from the police inquiry. He said that “at least 95 per cent” of Israelis supported the military actions of the Israeli Government in Gaza.'

The Bradford Telegraph and Argus adds:

'Nigel Grizzard, a commentator on Jewish affairs, said: "George Galloway is a very extreme politician and these are very extreme remarks which are not helpful in any shape or form....

Israeli tourists with an interest in textiles visited Bradford, he said, "Whether they will want to come now is a different matter."

Mr Galloway said there was wide-spread support for the scale of military action taken in Gaza and added: "Bradford is the centre of peace studies, why on Earth would you want those people here?"

He said he could not comment on the police investigation until he knew further details of the nature of the complaints.

Mr Galloway made similar comments that Bradford should be an 'Israel free zone' after he was invited to speak at a rally in City Park last month.

At that event he also called on other city MPs and councillors to 'twin' with Gaza, though Bradford Council leader David Green later suggested that any move to twin with communities in that region should involve both Gaza and Israel. The process would have to go through normal council procedures.'

Here's a video of that rally in City Park.  Yes, City Park, Bradford, England. Hear a familiar Scottish voice rant. Hear the hordes of Islamists rave. A "centre of peace studies" indeed.

More anti-Israel hatred expressed there:

To quote the splendid Douglas Murray:

'Certainly, across Europe there is a new hatred in the air -- but this hatred is also the old one. The people on the streets of Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and other cities across Europe include the descendants of some of those who fought against, fought for, allied or collaborated with the evil regime which spurred this hatred on last time. But most of the perpetrators are not those people. Most of them are of immigrant backgrounds. In Britain, these are mainly from the Indian sub-continent (with a smaller group from the Gulf countries); in France and the Netherlands, they are from North Africa; in Germany and Austria, largely from Turkey.

All the peoples of Europe can see this but none of them want to identify it. We live so in terror of being politically incorrect. We live in a rightful disgust for racism of any kind. And yet here we see -- and nowhere more clearly than in Germany -- the new racist nightmare for Europe. We thought we had abolished the beast of anti-Semitism from our shores and had made it totally unacceptable. And yet here are people Europe has imported in their millions, failed in varying degrees to assimilate and who now (in considerable numbers) look as if they have taken up precisely the hatred we had all hoped to have left behind. These are dark days in the Middle East. But they are darker days in Europe. Whether we deal with this returned evil or not will be the challenge of this generation.'

 As a Spanish analyst (quoted here) observes: 

"It is possible legitimately to criticize Israel. But it smells fishy when all of the blame is attributed to Israel, without even mentioning the small detail that a terrorist and jihadist group that rules Gaza has infringed on every conceivable humanitarian principle, by using civilians as human shields, and launching missiles from apartment blocks, while their leaders are living comfortable in Qatar, guests of a sheik.

 It is not difficult to unmask an anti-Semite: someone who frivolously abuses the term "genocide," a word that has such profound significance for the Jewish people ....'

Another, quoted in the same article, remarks:

"There is no territory more occupied than the body of a Palestinian woman, or a strip narrower than the female spirit severed by the violent imposition of the superstitions of Allah and the followers of Mohammed. We had better not even mention the situation of Palestinian homosexuals. This selective outrage by top progressives when it involves Israel is indeed anti-Semitism."

And writes the staunchly pro-Israel French academic Guy Millière:

'....All French politicians are ready to condemn anti-Semitism in general terms (except members of the National Front); none are ready to call the anti-Semitism that is exploding in France today by its name: Islamic anti-Semitism....

Almost all French politicians adopt an attitude of appeasement toward the enemies of Israel and Jews. They never define Hamas as an Islamic terrorist organization. They close their eyes to the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish hate speech disseminated by the enemies of Israel in the Middle East, and to the irony that France finances that speech. They act as if they did not see that the hate speech France finances in the Middle East is now spreading throughout France........All reports major French television reports on Israel's war against Hamas are made ​​from the point of view of Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. No report speaks of Hamas's genocidal Jew hatred or of the use of Arab women and children as human shields. Journalists from major French media outlets act as if they did not know that by adopting a watered-down vision of the protesters and rioters in France, and by describing the war from the point of view of Hamas or the Palestinian Authority, they are playing a dangerous game that could lead to more pogroms and even civil war....

French politicians also know that France's Muslim population now amounts to 15% of its total population and that radical Islamist organizations are particularly well established. The Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF), the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, is the main French Muslim organization; it attracts tens of thousands of people in each of its annual meetings and openly lends political support to Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. French politicians do not want a confrontation with the UOIF.

French politicians also know that more than 750 neighborhoods in France are considered "no go zones" by the police, and that the authorities have lost control of them.

They also know that 70% of all inmates in the French prison system are Muslim , and that self-proclaimed imams and gang leaders have taken over many prisons. They know that these prisons have been transformed into recruiting centers for jihadists, and that regaining control of these prisons is an almost impossible task. Mohamed Merah and Mehdi Nemmouche, the Brussels Jewish Museum killer, became jihadists while in French prisons.

French politicians know, as well, that more than 800 French Muslims are being trained in the Islamic State, in Iraq and Syria.

They know that Muslims vote. Eight million Muslims clearly have greater political weight than do four hundred thousand Jews. [The greater clout at the polls in Europe and in Australia  that Muslims now have compared to Jews owing to their far greater numbers must, of course, be a central worry for all who support Israel, whether Jew or non-Jew.]

The major French media are also scared and paralyzed. Criticizing radical Islam on French television is now almost impossible. Organizations fighting "Islamophobia" are extremely vigilant and extremely well funded....

On July 21, Meyer Habib, a MP representing French citizens living in Israel, said that "an atmosphere of Kristallnacht" spreads over the country. Many French Jews agree.'

Writes that fine American, Lieutenant-Colonel Allen West:

'Watch this video of a former US Marine being attacked by a pro-Hamas mob this past Saturday in Washington DC. What makes me angriest was the way these animals surrounded the Marine and began shouting “Allahu Akhbar” and then attempted to coerce the DC police who finally showed up at the scene. This Marine’s crime was that he stood with an American and Israeli flag. He was punched, kicked, and spat upon by these ravenous savages. It is only by way of violence and intimidation that these supporters of Islamism and jihadism achieve their goals. And to think this occurred right in our nation’s capital, just as in Paris and London....

We have allowed a cancer to infiltrate Western Civilization and it is metastasizing at an alarming rate. This cancer will indeed destroy the host unless a precision emergency surgical procedure is conducted. 

Those who support Islamic terrorism live side-by-side with us — the evidence is clear as to why. When in our country an American, who has served his nation, cannot express his First Amendment right of freedom of speech and expression without being attacked by a mad mob there is something very wrong.

This goes beyond the scope of multiculturalism. It is a matter of survival and respect. Perhaps those who attacked the Marine would do better living in Gaza with their Hamas brethren. And you can bet that behind this violent protest you will find the instigation of Muslim Brotherhood front groups ....

When tolerance becomes a one-way street it leads to cultural suicide....'

It's not the first time that Colonel West has given that warning, and I doubt that it will be the last.  Abetted by the perverse and destructive Left, a terrible force has been allowed to penetrate the soft underbelly of the democratic West, and the recent demonstrations against Israel in Western capitals and other large cities has thrown that fact into sharp relief.  The Jews are the canaries in the coalmine, as seen in what one commentator has termed "The Hate-Wave all over the Islamicised West".

""Break The Crosses & Destroy The Lin­eage Of The Grand­sons Of Mon­keys"

 From that master demagogue, George Galloway:

Meanwhile, reports blogger John Rossomando:

'A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against the Jews.

"The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the Hadiths! The Hour [resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the tree will say: "Oh, Muslim, servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, kill him! THE PROMISED Holocaust," the terrorist group's Islamic State Media a graphic posted on its @ISIS_Conquests's Twitter account said.

This hadith has proven popular with Islamic extremists of all stripes, ranging from IS to Hamas – and even on television in the Middle East.

Daniel Pipes, an expert on jihadism, said the hadith likely was a recruitment tool.

"​Yes, ​calling for a holocaust against Jews refers to a violently anti-Semitic strain among jihadis and will surely appeal to some of them," Pipes said in an email to the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Anti-Semitic propaganda has played an important role in the terrorist group's recruitment effort. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, placed Jews on the side of evil in a speech posted Tuesday on the Internet in which he called on Muslims to join him.

"O ummah of Islam, the world today has been divided into two camps and two trenches … The camp of Islam and faith, and the camp of kufr (disbelief) and hypocrisy … all being led by America and Russia, and being mobilized by the Jews," al-Baghdadi said.

In another such video released on Twitter, IS told jihadists to "Break the crosses and destroy the lin­eage of the grand­sons of mon­keys."

Some jihadist supporters are calling on the group to open a new front against Israel....'

Read all of Rossomando's post here

"Without A Single Trace ... in His Name, His Face, or ... His Culture of the Middle East": Galloway on Regev

Here's gorgeous George, telling in a newly posted video of the time when the "South African [sic] Israeli"  Mark Regev allegedly sat behind him at the 2005 Senate hearing into Galloway's conduct:

Of  the "ubiquitous apologist for Israeli war crimes" Galloway notes:

 "He was sat behind me in full view ... a South African Israeli without a single trace either in his name, his face, or anything about his culture of the Middle East ..."

Up The Jumper! Galloway & The Israeli Flag (video)

Remember how George Galloway refused to debate with Brasenose undergraduate Eylon Aslan-Levy?

"I don't recognise Israel, and I don't debate with Israelis!" announced the MP before strutting out of the scheduled debate.

Well, Galloway's been back to Oxford, where his squalid little outburst and boycott of a young man who just happens to be a citizen of the Zionist Entity has returned to haunt him.

In the video below Brasenose undergraduate Jonathan Hunter delivers a heartfelt message in Hebrew, rattling Gorgeous George, who warns him not to approach further, before asking "What's that up your jumper?"

Out comes an Israeli flag ... and then young Mr Hunter says his piece in English and is duly escorted from George's presence.

As reader Ian says, "Comedy Gold!" (though Galloway's observations following Mr Hunter's outburst are no laughing matter).

Jonathan Hunter has described the reason for his action here
Read more here

Telling Lies "Is Of Course Worse Than Being Wrong" Declares Galloway (video)

In an interview (regarding the parliamentary defeat of David Cameron's proposed military intervention in.Syria) on the anti-American channel "Russia Today" one of the channel's favourite talking heads, George Galloway, who as my previous post shows has been caught red-handed (if that's the appropriate word) lying to the House of Commons, declares quite frankly that deliberately telling lies "is of course worse than being wrong".

Showing contrition for the bare-faced porky he told fellow-MPs when the Honourable Member for Hendon tackled him regarding remarks he made implicating Israel in the recent nerve-gas attack on innocents in Syria?  (" If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was al-Qaeda who used chemical weapons. Who gave al-Qaeda chemical weapons? Here’s my theory: Israel gave them the chemical weapons so that they would use them so that they would bring the international community into the final destruction of Syria.")

Not a bit of it.

In the interview George was referring not to himself but to the "lies" of the "mainstream media and political class" regarding Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

(Note, by the way, his reference to the possible use of "chemical weapons" by "any regime faced with an existential threat to its existence".  Could that contain an oblique reference to the Zionist Entity, perhaps?)

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" goes the Ninth Commandment (Exodus 20:16).

Yet we already know that Britain's crusading anti-Zionist Anglican vicar the Reverend Dr Stephen Sizer thinks George's avowed theory that Israel supplied the chemical weapons used in Syria worthy of being taken seriously:

(What do you make of George's porky in the Commons, Stephen?)

And now (hat tip: reader Geoff) we know that Anglican priest Father Dave Smith, of Sydney, who like Sizer rarely misses an opportunity to hammer Israel hard, is of similar mind.

For on his blog "Father Dave" (as he likes to be known) declares:

"Personally, as one who considers Galloway a friend and a mentor, I find his theory entirely plausible"

"Every Time You Think He Cannot Sink Lower ...": The Sequel

 Low ...

Lower still ...

"[E]very time you think he cannot sink any lower he finds new ways to surprise you," Alex Massie observed last week in The Spectator (see my post here).

 Well, the Honourable Member for Bradford West has surely hit rock bottom this time, telling an easily disproven porky in the Commons' chamber:

 Read more here

Hat tip: readers Ian & Shirlee

"Every Time You Think He Cannot Sink Lower ...": Syria, Israel, & British Brothers in Arms

From Uganda (he certainly gets around) crusading anti-Israel Anglican vicar Stephen Sizer, a fond fan of Kairos Britain (see my previous post for its iniquities), a ferocious foe of the Balfour Declaration (he and chums are fighting a curious, furious rearguard action against it via the "Balfour Project"), and a not infrequent voice on the Iranian regime's notorious propaganda satellite channel Press TV, has told his Facebook faithful (hat tip: reader P):

"George" is the vehemently anti-Israel politician George Galloway, who represents the heavily Muslim constituency Bradford West for the so-called Respect Party in the "Mother of Parliaments," and has suggested on Press TV that Israel provided the chemical weapons that killed so many innocents in Syria a few days ago:

"If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was al-Qaeda who used chemical weapons.

Who gave al-Qaeda chemical weapons?

 Here’s my theory: Israel gave them the chemical weapons so that they would use them so that they would bring the international community into the final destruction of Syria..."

Writes Alex Massie in The Spectator:

"Say this for George Galloway: every time you think he cannot sink any lower he finds new ways to surprise you. His latest contribution to Press TV, Iran’s propaganda station, speaks for itself. Parody is pointless.Given his history and his paymasters, we would expect him to defend the Assad regime in Syria. Even so, under-estimating his ability to sniff out the true villains is never sensible...."

 See also, incidentally, this pro-Israel Christian blog

By the way, what might George and Stephen have been saying to each other in this photo from earlier this year?  Click here for suggestions!

Galloway Down Under (video)

Gorgeous George thrills his fans in Sydney earlier this month:

See his anti-Israel rant to a Muslim audience here