I'm George Galloway, member of
parliament and presenter of Press TV's
comment program. Every week at Ask
Galloway, I answer the best of the
questions that have been asked to me in
the in the preceding week. Uh this week
I'm going for the question posed by
Boiled Vark, which is this. If you could
beam anyone up permanently on board the
file to sit on a comet for the rest of
eternity, who would it be? Well, I
agonized about some of my political
enemies, but I came down to someone who
not everyone in the world will know, and
they're the lucky ones. Her name is
Katie Hopkins. She's a columnist on the
down market sewer rat newspaper, The
Sun, and she's been getting down and
dirty. This week, she tweeted that it
was time for Israel to start the bombing
of the Palestinian people again. And she
described the Palestinian people as
rodents burrowing away underneath
Israel. two-state solution, my ars, she
said. Now, it was a very odd choice of
words, quite apart from how offensive it
was to describe the Palestinian people
as rodents when she's a ratfaced
herself, was really very strange. In
fact, she is the lowest of the low. Even
amongst the Sun columnists, she is the
lowest of the low. her personal behavior
uh not just uh on television although
some of her personal behavior unknown to
her was being caught on television but
because of her political views which run
the range of right to extreme right than
Genghis K. Now I'm asking a question
here. If a Muslim personality, say a
cricketer or a famous Muslim footballer
had called for people to start bombing
Israel, if that personality had
described Israelis
as rodents burrowing away underneath
Palestine,
I hazard a guess they'd already be under
arrest. There certainly would be a
clamor in parliament, in the media to
put that person under arrest because we
have laws against hate speech, against
deliberately seeking to incite hatred,
which is usually followed by violence
against any group of people. So, in
answering your question, I'm asking
another one. Why isn't Katie Hopkins on
trial? And when will the television
companies stop inviting her to their
sofa? And when will Rupert Murdoch stop
paying her money to write offensive,
obscene columns? I guess we'll wait a
long time for that one. Well, that's it
for this week. Don't forget #
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I'll answer the best of them every week
at this time.