I'm George Galloway and I want to talk
to you about the scandal that has broken
as a result of some brilliant undercover
investigative journalism by Al Jazzer
and published on the front page of the
British newspaper The Mail on Sunday.
Most of you will know the outline. an
Israeli official in charge of political
relations with Britain's political
parties. A man with a very large bag of
money about which more later no junior
employee. This is a man who is on the
conference circuit and is in and out of
the British Parliament almost on a daily
basis doing his business for Israel. He
was captured on film with some friends
from Labor and Conservative, including
members of parliament and high ranking
parliamentary officials plotting to
bring down a British government
minister. And not just any minister, Sir
Alan Duncan, the deputy foreign minister
of Britain. Now, I've known Sir Alan
Duncan for more than 30 years. He's a
very brave man, not just because he
stands out against Israeli crimes
against the Palestinian people, but
because he was the very first publicly
out gay conservative MP. And so when the
Israeli official said that he could
arrange a scandal to bring down Alan
Duncan from the foreign office position
that he holds, you don't have to be
Einstein to work out what kind of
scandal that might have been. That ought
to have been enough for Boris Johnson,
who was called an idiot in the same
piece of footage by the Israeli official
to summon Mark Reev, the Israeli
ambassador to London, and give him his
marching orders. He didn't, of course,
do that for reasons which we will uh go
into in just a few minutes. But that was
not all that was uncovered.
The friends at the lunch asked the
Israeli official whether there were not
uh other MPs that could meet the same
fate could be brought down in a scandal
by this man that they were launching
with. And they came up with a very
interesting name, Sir Crispen Blunt, no
less, the chairman of the British
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.
They didn't like him either. They wanted
to bring him down to arrange a scandal
for him. Now, he too is a publicly
outgay conservative. Again, you don't
have to wonder for long what kind of a
scandal that might have been. I don't
mean to be flippant, but maybe they
would have put Alan Duncan and Crisen
Blunt together under the bedclo. Maybe
that would have been the ultimate the
mother of all scandals bringing them
both down at the same time. Now Boris
Johnson declared the matter immediately
closed. So my first question to you is
if that had been a Russian embassy
official or an Iranian embassy official
planning to bring down important people
in the British state, would the matter
have been immediately closed? Or would
the respective ambassadors be brought
into the foreign office and promptly
expelled from the country? Wouldn't we
be now in the middle of a state-to-state
crisis with any other state that's
carried out such subversion of our
democratic process? And that's what I
want to turn to next because uh these
two Tory uh knights of the Shire can
look after themselves. I'm more
interested in the Labor Party aspects of
this. Jeremy Corbin and I marched
together for more than 30 years in
support of the Palestinian people. Since
the day and hour that Corbin was
elected, indeed when it became clear
that he was likely to be elected, the
Israel lobby has gone absolutely
bananas. They persecuted
Jeremy Corbin every step of the way to
the leadership and as soon as he had won
it, they began trying to have him
overthrown. They confected an entirely
fake anti-semitism scare inside the
Labor Party, painting their own party as
a nest of racism, when of course the
truth was that there was nothing to such
allegations whatsoever. The only thing
that most Labor Party members have in
common with Jeremy Corbin on this is
their support for justice for the
Palestinian people and their opposition
to the crimes of the state of Israel.
Well, there was a Labour MP at the
lunch. Her name is Joan Ryan. She's the
member of parliament for Enfield, though
you wouldn't know it. In fact, she's
more properly described as the MP for
Tel Aviv. She's the chair of the
so-called Labor Friends of Israel, and
she was there for a very important
purpose. And the same Israeli official
in charge of political relations with
the British political parties gave her
some very good news. And in the pictures
accompanying the uh Al Jazzer footage,
you can see the breadth of the smile on
her face as well. It might because the
official told her that he had secured
more than 1 million pounds as a slush
fund for Labor members of parliament to
come to the aid of the state of Israel.
is being dressed up as more than1
million pounds to fly Labor members of
parliament to Israel for factf finding
missions. But that's entirely bogus.
First of all, most of them have already
been uh on not one but several factf
finding missions to Israel. Secondly,
you can fly to Israel for well under
a,000 pounds. And let's say half of the
Labor MPs have taken the shekele. That
doesn't even cost you £100,000.
What was the other £900,000
for? I'll tell you. It was for a slush
fund to destabilize Jeremy Corbyn to try
and overthrow Jeremy Corbin as the
leader of the Labor Party. It was for a
political slush fund operated by Labor
members of parliament on behalf of a
foreign power. Not just any foreign
power, but one which is the biggest
international lawb breakaker on the
earth. One which has just been
unanimously condemned by the entire
security council of the United Nations
for its criminal activities against the
Palestinian people.
What kind of Labor MP
is not only in bed with a state like
that, but is receiving covertly? Because
you would never have heard of the
existence of this slush fund of more
than1 million pounds, taking money from
a foreign embassy to lobby for that
foreign country. When that foreign
country stands in public appropri
amongst almost all Labor Party members,
most people in Britain and most
countries in the world. And the third
aspect I want to deal with is this.
It is said in the video by the
highranking Conservative official at the
lunch that almost all Conservative MPs
are members of the Conservative Friends
of Israel. I can tell you that at least
half of the Labor MPs are members of the
Labor Friends of Israel. Isn't it about
time that you demanded that your member
of parliament's first allegiance was to
Britain? That their first responsibility
was to debate and decide on what
Britain's foreign policy should be
rather than be agents for somebody
else's country. And when that somebody
else's country is a country of gangsters
that murder people including British
people and for a very long time
the Israel lobby have been in
Westminster and White Hall before you
know they tried to murder Sir Winston
Churchill the British prime minister at
a time when he was leading our country
in the epic battle against Hitler
fascism the perpetrators
of a holocaust which murdered six
millions of Jews. They planted bombs in
the foreign office in Whiteall. They
murdered British officials. They hanged
two British sergeants with piano wire in
an orange grove and took pictures of it
so that they could spread it as
propaganda around the world. They blew
up more than 90 British civil servants
in a hotel in Jerusalem. Israel invented
terrorism. It invented modern terrorism
at any rate. Yet now it calls its
victims, the Palestinian people, the
terrorists and themselves the victims of
terror. Well, we can talk about sorting
out the Middle East later on another
day, but first we have to sort out our
own parliament and our own democratic
system. We must not tolerate its
subversion by a foreign power. We cannot
tolerate members of parliament being
bought and paid for by a foreign power
because we can never know when they say
when they ask when they do what they do
in parliament. We can never know if
they're doing it because it's in our
interests or it's in the interests of
someone else. I haven't seen the Al
Jazzer documentary in full yet, but when
I do, I'm sure, God willing, I'll have
the chance to come and talk to you about
it again.