Post by RPankn on Dec 5, 2005 16:35:04 GMT -5
by Alex Sholem - Thursday 1st of December 2005
Anti-Israel politician George Galloway came under fire yet again this week after he told an Arab television interviewer that Zionists control the media.
The Bethnal Green and Bow MP's latest comments came after he was introduced as “a former member of the British Houses of Parliament” during a live interview with Qatari Al-Jazeera television.
He responded: “I am still a member of parliament and was re-elected five times. On the last occasion I was re-elected despite all the efforts made by the British government, the Zionist movement and the newspapers and news media which are controlled by Zionism.”
Mark Gardner, Director of Communications at the Community Security Trust, said: “This is despicable language for a Member of Parliament to use. Suggestions of Jewish media control can only give encouragement to anti-semites of every type.” [Where did he suggest Jewish media control when Zionism is not representative of all Jewry?]
During the interview, which was broadcast on 17 November, Galloway accused Israel, Britain and the United States of targeting Syria because of the “good things” it had done, such as supporting “Palestinian resistance” and refusing to make peace with Israel.
He also described Senator Norm Coleman, the leader of the US Congressional investigation into Galloway's alleged oil deals with Saddam Hussein's regime, of being “the strongest supporter of Israel in Washington”. [Well, this he was wrong on. It's actually a toss up between Coleman, Lieberman and Hellary.]
He added: “Almost all politicians in Washington blindly support Israel. Senator Norman Coleman, the senator who was accusing me is the closest friend of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.”
Ben Novick, Director of Media Relations at BICOM, dismissed Galloway's allegations about zionist control of the media, adding: “We hope that Al-Jazeera's premonition of Galloway as a former MP will soon become a reality.” [As we hope the Franklin case is only a premonition of things to come.]
Galloway has a long history of controversial comments about Israel and zionism. In September he told an American radio station that “Israel and dirty tricks have a long history”. [How is this controversial? The USS Liberty, bombings of Egyptian hotels in '52 or '53 by Israelis disguising themselves as Arabs, the Stern Gang and Ben Gurion's terrorism, the assassination of Hariri. And let's not even start with the 5 dancing Israelis on Sept. 11th, later caught dressed as Palestinians with box cutters and $6,000 in cash, as well as sightings of white vans with occupants in Palestinian dress around NYC after the attacks. The former Israeli special forces member on one of the hijacked flights, who Betty Ong identified as a hijacker. Mossad fronts posing as moving companies, Mossad operatives posing as mall kiosk salespeople, 100 Israeli "art students," etc.]
At the time, he told TJ: “I believe that Zionism has exploited the Jewish people as much as the Palestinian people and has turned the people of Einstein and Epstein into one apparently represented by Sharon and Netanyahu.”
Galloway himself was unavailable for comment yesterday, but a Respect Party spokesman said the interview with al-Jazeera was in-line with his stated views.
Galloway ousted Labour's Jewish MP Oona King in May's general election. [Previously they complained because King is Black, so which is it? I don't see why anyone should be offended a Bliarite flunkie lost though.]
www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=2144
Anti-Israel politician George Galloway came under fire yet again this week after he told an Arab television interviewer that Zionists control the media.
The Bethnal Green and Bow MP's latest comments came after he was introduced as “a former member of the British Houses of Parliament” during a live interview with Qatari Al-Jazeera television.
He responded: “I am still a member of parliament and was re-elected five times. On the last occasion I was re-elected despite all the efforts made by the British government, the Zionist movement and the newspapers and news media which are controlled by Zionism.”
Mark Gardner, Director of Communications at the Community Security Trust, said: “This is despicable language for a Member of Parliament to use. Suggestions of Jewish media control can only give encouragement to anti-semites of every type.” [Where did he suggest Jewish media control when Zionism is not representative of all Jewry?]
During the interview, which was broadcast on 17 November, Galloway accused Israel, Britain and the United States of targeting Syria because of the “good things” it had done, such as supporting “Palestinian resistance” and refusing to make peace with Israel.
He also described Senator Norm Coleman, the leader of the US Congressional investigation into Galloway's alleged oil deals with Saddam Hussein's regime, of being “the strongest supporter of Israel in Washington”. [Well, this he was wrong on. It's actually a toss up between Coleman, Lieberman and Hellary.]
He added: “Almost all politicians in Washington blindly support Israel. Senator Norman Coleman, the senator who was accusing me is the closest friend of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.”
Ben Novick, Director of Media Relations at BICOM, dismissed Galloway's allegations about zionist control of the media, adding: “We hope that Al-Jazeera's premonition of Galloway as a former MP will soon become a reality.” [As we hope the Franklin case is only a premonition of things to come.]
Galloway has a long history of controversial comments about Israel and zionism. In September he told an American radio station that “Israel and dirty tricks have a long history”. [How is this controversial? The USS Liberty, bombings of Egyptian hotels in '52 or '53 by Israelis disguising themselves as Arabs, the Stern Gang and Ben Gurion's terrorism, the assassination of Hariri. And let's not even start with the 5 dancing Israelis on Sept. 11th, later caught dressed as Palestinians with box cutters and $6,000 in cash, as well as sightings of white vans with occupants in Palestinian dress around NYC after the attacks. The former Israeli special forces member on one of the hijacked flights, who Betty Ong identified as a hijacker. Mossad fronts posing as moving companies, Mossad operatives posing as mall kiosk salespeople, 100 Israeli "art students," etc.]
At the time, he told TJ: “I believe that Zionism has exploited the Jewish people as much as the Palestinian people and has turned the people of Einstein and Epstein into one apparently represented by Sharon and Netanyahu.”
Galloway himself was unavailable for comment yesterday, but a Respect Party spokesman said the interview with al-Jazeera was in-line with his stated views.
Galloway ousted Labour's Jewish MP Oona King in May's general election. [Previously they complained because King is Black, so which is it? I don't see why anyone should be offended a Bliarite flunkie lost though.]
www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=2144
