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February 21, 2013 8:16 am

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Bizarre scenes in Oxford last night, as George Galloway stormed out of a debate upon realising that the student he was debating with was an Israeli citizen. According to The Times, “Mr Galloway had spoken for ten minutes before giving away to Eylon Aslan-Levy, who was speaking against the motion “Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank” in a debate at Christ Church College.” Then this happened:

Eylon Aslan-Levy isn’t a representative of the Israeli state – he’s a third year PPE student with dual nationality who was brought up in London. But because of his nationality Galloway wouldn’t debate with him.

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  • http://twitter.com/PaulBHalsall Paul Halsall

    Galloway is disgusting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharon.klaff Sharon Klaff

    There is a distinct difference in disagreeing with the policies of a state and propagating the annihilation of its people. Since Galloway was awarded a “Palestinian” Passport by Haniyeh of Hamas, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7939480.stm it must be taken that he supports Hamas with its genocidal charter (read articles 7 and 13) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

    In case some might say well that was 1988 and Hamas is now a legitimate political party elected democratically in Gaza, do watch these links for proof perfect that Hamas still is that same organisation that calls for the genocide of all Jews worldwide – Mahmoud Al Zahar states clearly that there is no place for the Jews amongst the nations of the world http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=0KgupoduYR0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0KgupoduYR0 Haniyeh reaffirms Hamas commitment to Genocide http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ZBFPVwh1h_Y&feature=related and Ahmad Bahr Hamas MP on the hustings 24/7 on Pally TV http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=qMkQGjQ8dWI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqMkQGjQ8dWI&gl=GB

    Together with his acceptance of the Hamas “Palestinian” passport comes an allegiance to its charter that calls for Genocide of all Jews worldwide. Does Galloway know he supports this or is he just a greedy self serving fool?

  • NT86

    The voters of Bradford West should be both pitied and laughed at for at least a decade for electing this utter lunatic as their MP.

  • http://twitter.com/BenSoffa Ben Soffa

    It is worth noting the Palestinian leadership of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement do not call for individual boycotts:
    “BDS does not call for a boycott of individuals because she or he happens to be Israeli or because they express certain views.”

    http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/bds-movement-position-on-boycott-of-individuals-10679

  • http://www.facebook.com/bmair1 Bill Mair

    Cut and pasted from George Galloway’s facebook page:
    I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the Apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple; No recognition, No normalisation. Just Boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the Apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.

  • John Reid

    TheDave Spart website Trotskyite… Er I mean socialist disunity laughably applaud him for walking out, democracy should include freedom of speech, And the Labour Party is A democratic socialist party , maybe the better that Galloway left then

  • Tom

    the same George Galloway who said people must not be allowed to walk out on Ahmadinejad’s holocaust denying speeches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAh_N5KDKOo

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Homfray/510980099 Mike Homfray

    I’ve come across this once before. It seems to be an extension of the ‘no platform’ approach, which I’ve never really been keen on in any case.
    While I broadly agree with Galloway on Israel, I think individual boycotts are daft. Debate and win your case. Given Israel’s appalling behaviour, its not difficult

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