George Galloway who's in Westminster for
us this morning and uh you may remember
that from last year it was Mr. Galloway
who was up against Naz Sha the MP that
that started this whole row with those
comments she made before she was
elected. Good morning to you. It is this
indicative of a problem within the
Labour party, a party of which you used
to be a member. Well, you call it a
problem. Uh Nasha's uh frankly
half-witted scribblings were before she
was an MP and they were on Facebook.
They were not like the two Palestinian
children that were shot down dead in
Jerusalem yesterday and left lying on
the street like stray dogs. This is an
entirely synthetic crisis. Ken
Livingston said absolutely nothing
wrong. Everything he said was the truth.
Historical fact proven. I've got the
books. So should you. There was an
agreement between the Nazi filth of
Hitler and the Zionist leaders in
Germany to send Germany's Jews to
Palestine because both of them believed
that the German Jews were not German and
that they were aliens. Even if they'd
been there for centuries, they must
leave. So in that sense, Nazism and
Zionism were two sides of the same coin.
They even actually minted a coin to
prove it to celebrate the Havara
agreement which was reached. Now, should
Ken Livingston have gone round the
studios saying that? I think not. I
wouldn't have, neither on timing, nor
would I have used the words and the
imagery that he used. But you can't be
expelled for telling the truth. Oh,
wait. That's what happened to me over
Iraq. Okay, Natasha Deon's here in the
studio. George, she wants a word. I just
wanted to ask you I if this is, as you
claim, an a synthetic crisis that's been
fabricated out of a few um ill-judged
Facebook comments, then why do you think
it's happening now? Why is it
advantageous to attack the Labour Party?
Now, in your opinion, they're trying to
get rid of Jeremy Corbin. That's the
long and the short of it. There's a slow
motion coup. It has been underway for
many months. The real target is Jeremy
Corbin. And you'll see that this chaos
which has been created, you just saw it
by Labor MPs, screaming Nazi scum, other
big Labor figures like Livingston. They
will say with all this chaos, we can't
go on like this. We need a new leader
who can command the support of members
of parliament and those parts of the
media that has been hysterically anti-
uh Corbin from the very beginning. So
it's a coup. Corbin is the target. Sadik
Khan and John man and the other voices
that have been heard so loudly over the
last 24 hours. They're at the heart of
that coup. You see if I'm right. You
said George that that Ken Livingston was
actually right in his assertions and and
look that that is a point that could be
up for for argument. A lot of people on
Twitter claiming that as well. But the
idea which he effectively putting that
that Hitler was a Zionist that he was
supporting the idea of building a Jewish
homeland that that can't be validated,
can it? I mean, he he may have wanted
them all out of his country before
policy changed and they decided to
exterminate 6 million Jews, but the idea
that he was actually a Zionist can't be
stood up surely. And Ken Livingston
never said it. It's one of those things
that seems to have passed already in a
day into myth. He never said that Hitler
was a Zionist. That would be absurd.
Hitler was not a Zionist. The Zionists
were not Nazis. But in
1933 they concluded what was effectively
a treaty that the German Jews would be
transported to Palestine. And that is
the Zionist project. They also don't
believe that German Jews are German.
French uh Jews are French or British
Jews are British. They believe that they
are aliens and they should go and live
in somebody else's country. And that's
what the Nazi filth believes too. Even
now today there are people on the far
right who believe that Livingston
actually said Neil what he actually said
I mean to and to quote him verbatim um
if I can find it now um he was Hitler
was supporting Zionism that's a fact
that doesn't mean he was a Zionist but
he was supporting Zionism and that's a
fact it's a historical fact every
scholar including Israeli scholars and
including Jewish scholars will tell you
that. But in this firestorm, this
synthetic firestorm, in this smoke
screen, all of that has been lost and
it's now accepted uh with regret in some
cases or with uh I told you so in others
that Ken Livingston somehow is an
anti-semite. His entire life has been
spent fighting racism of all kinds.
Indeed, he'd still be the Labour mayor
of London if he hadn't gone so out on a
limb to defend minorities in London and
to stand up against anti-racism. Okay.
But the whatever your view on that key
issue, there's a there's a problem for
Labour, isn't there? In the way it's
been handled by Jeremy Corbyn, whether
you think he should be backing Ken
Livingston or sacking Ken Livingston.
Um, it's a bit of a fudge at the minute,
isn't it? Uh, no. He did what uh the
news media has been demanding that he
do, which is Somali uh evict Ken
Livingston, one of the giant figures uh
of the British left out of the Labor
Party. So, I can't think you can I don't
think you can say that he's been in any
way fudging. He's just done the wrong
thing. He's done the precise opposite of
the wrong thing. I tweeted before all
this happened the yesterday morning, if
you don't run, they can't chase you. He
did run and my goodness, you are all
chasing him. George Galloway, we have to
leave it there.