1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:05,600 George Galloway who's in Westminster for 2 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:07,839 us this morning and uh you may remember 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,880 that from last year it was Mr. Galloway 4 00:00:07,839 --> 00:00:13,679 who was up against Naz Sha the MP that 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,120 that started this whole row with those 6 00:00:13,679 --> 00:00:17,840 comments she made before she was 7 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:19,840 elected. Good morning to you. It is this 8 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,400 indicative of a problem within the 9 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,720 Labour party, a party of which you used 10 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,920 to be a member. Well, you call it a 11 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:30,560 problem. Uh Nasha's uh frankly 12 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:33,040 half-witted scribblings were before she 13 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:35,120 was an MP and they were on Facebook. 14 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:37,280 They were not like the two Palestinian 15 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,120 children that were shot down dead in 16 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,719 Jerusalem yesterday and left lying on 17 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,800 the street like stray dogs. This is an 18 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:48,800 entirely synthetic crisis. Ken 19 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:52,600 Livingston said absolutely nothing 20 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:55,920 wrong. Everything he said was the truth. 21 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:59,120 Historical fact proven. I've got the 22 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:02,320 books. So should you. There was an 23 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:04,799 agreement between the Nazi filth of 24 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:08,320 Hitler and the Zionist leaders in 25 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:11,920 Germany to send Germany's Jews to 26 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:14,880 Palestine because both of them believed 27 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,560 that the German Jews were not German and 28 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,640 that they were aliens. Even if they'd 29 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:22,080 been there for centuries, they must 30 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:25,200 leave. So in that sense, Nazism and 31 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,080 Zionism were two sides of the same coin. 32 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:30,240 They even actually minted a coin to 33 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:33,439 prove it to celebrate the Havara 34 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,759 agreement which was reached. Now, should 35 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:38,799 Ken Livingston have gone round the 36 00:01:35,759 --> 00:01:40,880 studios saying that? I think not. I 37 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:43,040 wouldn't have, neither on timing, nor 38 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,880 would I have used the words and the 39 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,799 imagery that he used. But you can't be 40 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:51,200 expelled for telling the truth. Oh, 41 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:53,680 wait. That's what happened to me over 42 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,920 Iraq. Okay, Natasha Deon's here in the 43 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,640 studio. George, she wants a word. I just 44 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,799 wanted to ask you I if this is, as you 45 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:04,240 claim, an a synthetic crisis that's been 46 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:06,240 fabricated out of a few um ill-judged 47 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,759 Facebook comments, then why do you think 48 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,920 it's happening now? Why is it 49 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:12,000 advantageous to attack the Labour Party? 50 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:14,080 Now, in your opinion, they're trying to 51 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,400 get rid of Jeremy Corbin. That's the 52 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,520 long and the short of it. There's a slow 53 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:23,040 motion coup. It has been underway for 54 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:26,480 many months. The real target is Jeremy 55 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:29,040 Corbin. And you'll see that this chaos 56 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:33,760 which has been created, you just saw it 57 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:36,720 by Labor MPs, screaming Nazi scum, other 58 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,879 big Labor figures like Livingston. They 59 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,440 will say with all this chaos, we can't 60 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:43,920 go on like this. We need a new leader 61 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,160 who can command the support of members 62 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:49,120 of parliament and those parts of the 63 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:51,599 media that has been hysterically anti- 64 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:55,200 uh Corbin from the very beginning. So 65 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:58,640 it's a coup. Corbin is the target. Sadik 66 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:00,480 Khan and John man and the other voices 67 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:02,959 that have been heard so loudly over the 68 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,920 last 24 hours. They're at the heart of 69 00:03:02,959 --> 00:03:07,840 that coup. You see if I'm right. You 70 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:10,560 said George that that Ken Livingston was 71 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,879 actually right in his assertions and and 72 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,040 look that that is a point that could be 73 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:18,720 up for for argument. A lot of people on 74 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:21,280 Twitter claiming that as well. But the 75 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:24,239 idea which he effectively putting that 76 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:26,680 that Hitler was a Zionist that he was 77 00:03:24,239 --> 00:03:29,360 supporting the idea of building a Jewish 78 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,879 homeland that that can't be validated, 79 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,040 can it? I mean, he he may have wanted 80 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:35,080 them all out of his country before 81 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,519 policy changed and they decided to 82 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,760 exterminate 6 million Jews, but the idea 83 00:03:37,519 --> 00:03:41,920 that he was actually a Zionist can't be 84 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,680 stood up surely. And Ken Livingston 85 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:46,319 never said it. It's one of those things 86 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,959 that seems to have passed already in a 87 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:51,280 day into myth. He never said that Hitler 88 00:03:48,959 --> 00:03:53,040 was a Zionist. That would be absurd. 89 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:56,040 Hitler was not a Zionist. The Zionists 90 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:59,840 were not Nazis. But in 91 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:03,239 1933 they concluded what was effectively 92 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:06,159 a treaty that the German Jews would be 93 00:04:03,239 --> 00:04:09,360 transported to Palestine. And that is 94 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:11,360 the Zionist project. They also don't 95 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,760 believe that German Jews are German. 96 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,160 French uh Jews are French or British 97 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,160 Jews are British. They believe that they 98 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,079 are aliens and they should go and live 99 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,759 in somebody else's country. And that's 100 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:26,560 what the Nazi filth believes too. Even 101 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:29,199 now today there are people on the far 102 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:31,919 right who believe that Livingston 103 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:35,520 actually said Neil what he actually said 104 00:04:31,919 --> 00:04:38,160 I mean to and to quote him verbatim um 105 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,040 if I can find it now um he was Hitler 106 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:43,600 was supporting Zionism that's a fact 107 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,960 that doesn't mean he was a Zionist but 108 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,120 he was supporting Zionism and that's a 109 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,080 fact it's a historical fact every 110 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,320 scholar including Israeli scholars and 111 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:57,120 including Jewish scholars will tell you 112 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,759 that. But in this firestorm, this 113 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,919 synthetic firestorm, in this smoke 114 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:04,720 screen, all of that has been lost and 115 00:05:01,919 --> 00:05:07,520 it's now accepted uh with regret in some 116 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:10,360 cases or with uh I told you so in others 117 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:13,440 that Ken Livingston somehow is an 118 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:16,639 anti-semite. His entire life has been 119 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:19,360 spent fighting racism of all kinds. 120 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:23,039 Indeed, he'd still be the Labour mayor 121 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:26,800 of London if he hadn't gone so out on a 122 00:05:23,039 --> 00:05:29,039 limb to defend minorities in London and 123 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,560 to stand up against anti-racism. Okay. 124 00:05:29,039 --> 00:05:34,320 But the whatever your view on that key 125 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,600 issue, there's a there's a problem for 126 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,520 Labour, isn't there? In the way it's 127 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,039 been handled by Jeremy Corbyn, whether 128 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,520 you think he should be backing Ken 129 00:05:39,039 --> 00:05:43,840 Livingston or sacking Ken Livingston. 130 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:47,520 Um, it's a bit of a fudge at the minute, 131 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,600 isn't it? Uh, no. He did what uh the 132 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,720 news media has been demanding that he 133 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,960 do, which is Somali uh evict Ken 134 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,840 Livingston, one of the giant figures uh 135 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:00,080 of the British left out of the Labor 136 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:01,919 Party. So, I can't think you can I don't 137 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,080 think you can say that he's been in any 138 00:06:01,919 --> 00:06:06,319 way fudging. He's just done the wrong 139 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,400 thing. He's done the precise opposite of 140 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:11,360 the wrong thing. I tweeted before all 141 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:14,080 this happened the yesterday morning, if 142 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:16,400 you don't run, they can't chase you. He 143 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:19,120 did run and my goodness, you are all 144 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,440 chasing him. George Galloway, we have to 145 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,440 leave it there.