GEORGE GALLOWAY ‘BADLY BRUISED’ IN STREET ATTACK
London, 4 Dhu’l-Qadah 1435/30 August 2014 (MINA) – British member parlement George Galloway was badly bruised after he was attacked in the street on Friday night as it appears to be connected with his support towards Palestinian people against Israeli occupation.
“George was posing for pictures with people in Nothing Hill London and this guy just attacked him, leapt on him and started punching him,” his spokesman said as quoted by itv.com and Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
It appears to be connected with his comments about Israel because the guy was shouting about the Holocaust, the spokesman added.
“George is badly bruised but OK. He has bruising to his head and face and is in a pretty bad shape.”
Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of ABH and taken to the south London police station where he remains.
Galloway (59) is a British politician of the Respect Party, which represents the region of West Bradford. Recently, he says Bradford is “Israeli-free area”.
Galloway married Putri Gayatri Pertiwi Indonesian-citizen Dutch in 2012. He became a member of the British Parliament in 1987-2010. Galloway founded the organization Viva Palestine. This organization in 2011 brought 120 convoys carrying aid to the Gaza Strip.
Galloway campaigned for Palestinian independence by visiting various countries, including Indonesia from January 23 to February 3, 2012, and he visited Silaturahim Radio (Rasil) and conducted number of interviews.
Respect Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. Since late March 2012 he has been the Respect Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West.
After first coming to prominence in Scottish politics, he became General Secretary of the London based charity War on Want in 1983, remaining in the post until 1987. Galloway was first elected in that year’s general election as a Labour Party MP representing Glasgow Hillhead. From 1997, Galloway represented its successor constituency Glasgow Kelvin, and remained as the MP for the seat until 2005. In October 2003, Galloway was expelled from Labour having been found guilty of four charges of bringing the party into disrepute.
He became a leading member of the Respect Party in 2004 (eventually its leader), and was elected as the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow at the general election the following year. After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Poplar and Limehouse in 2010, he returned as a Westminster MP following the Bradford West by-election in March 2012.
In the late 1980s, according to journalist David Aaronovitch, Hansard records him delivering “a ferocious assault” on the Ba’ath Party, and Galloway opposed Saddam Hussein’s administration until the United States-led Gulf War in 1991. Galloway visited Iraq in 1994 and delivered a speech to Saddam Hussein which ended in English with the statement “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.” He has maintained that he was addressing the Iraqi people in the speech. Galloway testified to the United States Senate in 2005 over alleged illicit payments from the United Nations’ Oil for Food Programme.
Galloway is a campaigner who supports the Palestinian side of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, taking an anti-Zionist stance, and was involved in the Viva Palestina aid convoys. Despite this commitment, Galloway’s abrupt departure in 2013 from a debate at Oxford University, after he discovered the other speaker had joint British-Israeli citizenship, led to him being criticised by other advocates of the Palestinian cause.
Galloway has been described as “renowned for his colourful rhetoric and combative debating style.” The Spectator awarded him Debater of the Year in 2001. (T/R04/P3)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)