I am not...You are trying to prove he is! When he clearly said its his personal thing and shouldnt be displayed! Now why are you digging in his closet?
You failed to discuss the OP and jumped at the man in the video and his personal life...How many times must he deny before the press?
The video in the OP is from Feb 2013, there is nothing to discuss here other than Galloway's bigotry. I was just trying to find the root of his bigotry. Even the BDS condemned Galloway's actions.
On 20 February 2013, Galloway walked out of a publicised debate when he found out that his opponent had Israeli citizenship. The debate, hosted by
Christ Church, part of the
Oxford University,
[165] was on the topic "Israel should withdraw immediately from the
West Bank". His opponent in the debate was Eylon Aslan-Levy.
[166] While Levy was speaking, Galloway interrupted him, asking "Are you an Israeli?". When Levy, a third-year
PPE student at
Brasenose College[167] acknowledged this (he is of joint British-Israeli nationality),
[168] Galloway stood up and stated "I don't recognize Israel and I don't debate with Israelis" and left the meeting. Explaining his actions on his Facebook page, Galloway wrote:
“"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."
[169]”
Aslan-Levy was quoted in
Cherwell as saying: "I am appalled that an MP would storm out of a debate with me for no reason other than my heritage. To refuse to talk to someone just because of their nationality is pure
racism, and totally unacceptable for a member of parliament."
[167] Aslan-Levy later told the
Daily Mail that "[Mr Galloway] clearly had a problem not because I am Israeli – I'm sure he would have talked to an
Israeli Arab, he didn't want to talk to me because I am an
Israeli Jew".
[170][171][172][173][174] Julian Huppert, the
Liberal Democrat MP for
Cambridge, stated: "It is pretty pathetic that George Galloway walked out of the debate when he found out that another speaker was Israeli".
[175]
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee subsequently released a statement indicating that while it does support a "boycott of Israel", the campaign rejects "a boycott of individuals because she or he happens to be Israeli or because they express certain views."[9][165]
but then again,try to fail better next time.
