George Galloway is one of quite a few
people today saying Ken Livingston
talked about the facts why do you
believe it was anti-semitic well George
expressed it as ever far better than Ken
Livingston George said Zionism and
Nazism are two sides of the same coin
now that is clearly not true Nazism was
intended to destroy the Jewish people
that was his intention the problem is
that people use anti-zionism to conceal
uh their anti-semitism you say you're
anti-zionist well what you're really
saying is you're against the existence
of the state of Israel if you don't want
Israel to exist that is clearly
anti-semitic it's not a kind of vaguely
nice opinion it's actually a very bad
opinion George Galloway no Zionism and
Israel are political constructs if you
were for the downfall of the Soviet
Union as John was that didn't mean you
hated Russian people in fact you could
say it meant the opposite that you
wanted to liberate the Russian people
from the political system under which
they lived Ken Livingston doesn't have a
racist bone in his body in fact he'd
still be the mayor of London if he
hadn't gone out on a limb on anti-racist
causes over and over again we cannot
allow this conflation it's dangerous for
everybody being against Israel is not
being against Jews many Jews are against
Israel you've just had one on the screen
L BR do do you accept that that you can
be
anti-israel without being anti-semitic
or do you believe that's is the that's
the lie you're it the question is not
about whether you're for or against
Israel uh people actually conflate the
Israeli State the Israeli government
actions the settlers the actions of lud
the statements of Benjamin Netanyahu um
people who don't want Israel to exist
among whom uh are a very large number of
people on on the ultra left I don't say
George is one of those but there are
people for whom anti-zionism is a shield
behind which they they March they call
Israel
a country with its own Supreme Court
that findes against its own government
they call that an aparti st do you
accept that some people do do that uh
there are some the anti-Semitism exists
it's always existed The Daily Mail used
to fund it but this is a on the left
problem you know in particular that some
people hide behind being you know anti-
uh you know Israel when they are in fact
well there may be some though um I have
to tell you in all honesty I've never
met one and Ken Livingston certainly
isn't one and Nei is Jeremy Corbin or
McDonald this is a synthetic argument
that's being generated here it's a smoke
it's about offense isn't it it's about
saying you know find deeply hurt well
they've SE seized on legitimate
anxieties amongst Jewish people and
heart feelings and exploited it need to
bring it up I mean why why why mention
Hitler in that answer yesterday
something to do with his age I referenc
the second world war all the time it was
our finest Hour the defeat of fascism
the greatest victory of the 20th century
and so on these are uh perhaps age
related uh points joh M turn it was an
absurd thing to say it was if to say we
don't really object to Hitler's earlier
work when he seemed to be Pro Zionist
but a bit later he went mad I mean
Hitler was a racist and anti-semite
throughout his entire career and and to
to name him to to um to try to defend
NASA try to defend uh the party from
accusations there's an anti-semitic
crisis inside the party is is not just
silly it's actually Ken showing he
probably should no longer contribute to
public debate Ian George gway I mean um
John M turn quoted you actually ear I
mean you know you you had said Nazism
and Zionism with two sides of the same
coin well they actually did mint a coin
uh to uh use in the program the harara
program to ship Jews out of Germany
here's the point but do you think that
some people might take offense to that
no Zionism and Nazism for a brief period
of time cooperated to get Jews out of
Germany because both of them believed
that Jews should not be in Germany the
Zionist believed they should be in
Palestine for one set of reasons and the
Nazis believed it supported Zionism is
surely a perversion and Zionism was
about liberating Jews from it's not look
the the zionists were not Nazis and the
Nazis were not zionists and actually
living if you look at the transcript
Livingston never said that they were he
said that they cooperated together
together and they did that's a matter of
historical fact support he said he
support you don't actually need to bring
the historian from America you could
bring many historians from Israel this
is not a secret it's only a secret to
those now waking up to it they were
cooperating because they had the same
idea that the European Jews should not
be in Europe they should be in Palestine
now what Jeremy Corbin has said and I
think George Galloway has also said is
actually this is about you attacking
Corbin Jeremy Corbin is doing a
perfectly good job of attacking himself
I don't need to do anything his
inability to act with decisiveness about
Naas sha was telling his silence today
is telling he's a man who Pals around
with terrorists he calls Hamas and
Hezbollah his friends he paled around
with the paral IRA he's a man who is not
trusted and can't be trusted he can't
bring himself to say the word Israel he
was the labor friends of Israel
fundraiser last year in the in the low
Party Conference couldn't say the word
Israel he does not uh want to see a
two-state solution uh in the Middle East
he wants to see one state and that state
would be
Palestine as I was about to say before I
was rudely interrupted on Channel 4 News
this evening the truth is that this
so-called anti-Semitism scare that has
been mounted against the labor party and
its leader Jeremy Corbin is a smokees
screen it's a smoke screen to hide the
slow moving coup that began against
Jeremy Corbin almost on the day and hour
that he was elected here's what they're
trying to do create as much chaos in the
labor party and as much electoral damage
as they possibly can and then say we too
much chaos here we need a new leader
that's the game that is a foot sadik
Khan is right at the center of this coup
and don't reward them with any first
preference vote
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