George Galloway can't even get his anti-Israel agenda to be self-consistent

From George Galloway's Facebook page: A number of questions have recently arisen I need to deal with. Firstly if people want to talk to the Palestinians they need to contact the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and has been for many decades. ... Apartheid Israel is a cancer at the heart of the middle-east....

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Thurslinks: Anti-semitism at Ma'an, Galloway slammed, Bklyn PoliSci BDS, HRW bias

From Ian: Website Backed by EU, UNESCO Prints Anti-Semitic Article “[The Jews] feel inferior to the nations and societies in which they live, because of the hostility and evil rising in their hearts towards others and for their plots and schemes against the nations who know with certainty that the Jews are the root of conflict in the world, wherever they reside.”This sentence, as reported by Palestinian Media Watch, is taken from the Palestinian...

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Galloway trying to prop up Assad with Gaza convoy

Honest Reporting notes an article in The Times of London: The Gaza aid convoy spearheaded by George Galloway is splitting apart because the overland route passes through Syria. The Times of London (paywall) reports: In February, leaked e-mails between Mr Galloway and President Assad’s media adviser were published in which he referred to the Syrian President as “His Excellency” and the Baathist state as “the last bastion of Arab dignity”. The Syrian...

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Galloway defends Syrian regime, blames Israel

Those 6000 people murdered in Syria? That's not the issue. From George Galloway's radio show: (h/t Yoe...

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George Galloway whines that he is "exiled from Palestine" (updated)

From Ma'an: Former British MP George Galloway appealed to Egypt on Wednesday to reconsider the government's decision to deny him entry to the country as he heads the fifth Viva Palestina convoy heading for Gaza. "I have no wish to have a fight with the Egyptian government; my fight is with Israel," Galloway said in a statement issued from Paris. "I am already forbidden to enter Palestine by Israel. If I am now unable to enter through Egypt this...

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Egypt reiterates: Galloway banned from Egyptian soil

In light of the "Viva Palestina 5" convoy that is heading towards Egypt, Hossam Zaki of the Egyptian Foreign Affairs ministry has emphasized that George Galloway is banned from entering Egypt under any circumstances. He also said that Egypt does not allow land convoys to enter Gaza and restricts the number of people who can enter at one time. He stated that the goods must be unloaded at El Arish where the Egyptian Red Crescent takes over all...

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Report: Egypt arrests senior Hamas official in Cairo

Palestine Press Agency and PalVoice, both Fatah mouthpieces, are quoting Egyptian security forces that Egypt has arrested a senior Hamas official at Cairo International Airport. The Hamas member is Mohamed Debabeche, known as "Abu Radwan", the commander of the General Security Service who reports to Hamas interior minister Fathi Mohammed. The sources linked his arrest with the recent discovery of large shipments of secure radio equipment that were...

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