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George Galloway is one of quite a few

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people today saying Ken Livingston

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talked about the facts why do you

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believe it was anti-semitic well George

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expressed it as ever far better than Ken

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Livingston George said Zionism and

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Nazism are two sides of the same coin

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now that is clearly not true Nazism was

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intended to destroy the Jewish people

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that was his intention the problem is

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that people use anti-zionism to conceal

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uh their anti-semitism you say you're

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anti-zionist well what you're really

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saying is you're against the existence

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of the state of Israel if you don't want

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Israel to exist that is clearly

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anti-semitic it's not a kind of vaguely

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nice opinion it's actually a very bad

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opinion George Galloway no Zionism and

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Israel are political constructs if you

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were for the downfall of the Soviet

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Union as John was that didn't mean you

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hated Russian people in fact you could

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say it meant the opposite that you

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wanted to liberate the Russian people

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from the political system under which

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they lived Ken Livingston doesn't have a

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racist bone in his body in fact he'd

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still be the mayor of London if he

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hadn't gone out on a limb on anti-racist

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causes over and over again we cannot

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allow this conflation it's dangerous for

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everybody being against Israel is not

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being against Jews many Jews are against

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Israel you've just had one on the screen

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L BR do do you accept that that you can

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be

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anti-israel without being anti-semitic

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or do you believe that's is the that's

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the lie you're it the question is not

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about whether you're for or against

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Israel uh people actually conflate the

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Israeli State the Israeli government

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actions the settlers the actions of lud

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the statements of Benjamin Netanyahu um

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people who don't want Israel to exist

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among whom uh are a very large number of

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people on on the ultra left I don't say

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George is one of those but there are

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people for whom anti-zionism is a shield

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behind which they they March they call

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Israel

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a country with its own Supreme Court

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that findes against its own government

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they call that an aparti st do you

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accept that some people do do that uh

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there are some the anti-Semitism exists

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it's always existed The Daily Mail used

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to fund it but this is a on the left

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problem you know in particular that some

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people hide behind being you know anti-

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uh you know Israel when they are in fact

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well there may be some though um I have

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to tell you in all honesty I've never

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met one and Ken Livingston certainly

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isn't one and Nei is Jeremy Corbin or

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McDonald this is a synthetic argument

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that's being generated here it's a smoke

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it's about offense isn't it it's about

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saying you know find deeply hurt well

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they've SE seized on legitimate

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anxieties amongst Jewish people and

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heart feelings and exploited it need to

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bring it up I mean why why why mention

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Hitler in that answer yesterday

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something to do with his age I referenc

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the second world war all the time it was

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our finest Hour the defeat of fascism

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the greatest victory of the 20th century

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and so on these are uh perhaps age

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related uh points joh M turn it was an

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absurd thing to say it was if to say we

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don't really object to Hitler's earlier

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work when he seemed to be Pro Zionist

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but a bit later he went mad I mean

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Hitler was a racist and anti-semite

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throughout his entire career and and to

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to name him to to um to try to defend

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NASA try to defend uh the party from

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accusations there's an anti-semitic

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crisis inside the party is is not just

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silly it's actually Ken showing he

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probably should no longer contribute to

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public debate Ian George gway I mean um

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John M turn quoted you actually ear I

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mean you know you you had said Nazism

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and Zionism with two sides of the same

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coin well they actually did mint a coin

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uh to uh use in the program the harara

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program to ship Jews out of Germany

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here's the point but do you think that

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some people might take offense to that

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no Zionism and Nazism for a brief period

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of time cooperated to get Jews out of

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Germany because both of them believed

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that Jews should not be in Germany the

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Zionist believed they should be in

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Palestine for one set of reasons and the

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Nazis believed it supported Zionism is

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surely a perversion and Zionism was

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about liberating Jews from it's not look

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the the zionists were not Nazis and the

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Nazis were not zionists and actually

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living if you look at the transcript

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Livingston never said that they were he

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said that they cooperated together

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together and they did that's a matter of

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historical fact support he said he

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support you don't actually need to bring

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the historian from America you could

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bring many historians from Israel this

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is not a secret it's only a secret to

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those now waking up to it they were

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cooperating because they had the same

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idea that the European Jews should not

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be in Europe they should be in Palestine

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now what Jeremy Corbin has said and I

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think George Galloway has also said is

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actually this is about you attacking

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Corbin Jeremy Corbin is doing a

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perfectly good job of attacking himself

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I don't need to do anything his

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inability to act with decisiveness about

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Naas sha was telling his silence today

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is telling he's a man who Pals around

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with terrorists he calls Hamas and

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Hezbollah his friends he paled around

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with the paral IRA he's a man who is not

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trusted and can't be trusted he can't

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bring himself to say the word Israel he

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was the labor friends of Israel

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fundraiser last year in the in the low

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Party Conference couldn't say the word

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Israel he does not uh want to see a

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two-state solution uh in the Middle East

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he wants to see one state and that state

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would be

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Palestine as I was about to say before I

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was rudely interrupted on Channel 4 News

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this evening the truth is that this

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so-called anti-Semitism scare that has

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been mounted against the labor party and

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its leader Jeremy Corbin is a smokees

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screen it's a smoke screen to hide the

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slow moving coup that began against

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Jeremy Corbin almost on the day and hour

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that he was elected here's what they're

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trying to do create as much chaos in the

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labor party and as much electoral damage

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as they possibly can and then say we too

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much chaos here we need a new leader

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that's the game that is a foot sadik

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Khan is right at the center of this coup

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and don't reward them with any first

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preference vote

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if you're a Jeremy Corbin supporter I'm

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George Galloway and I approve this

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message