Why is Galloway in the US?
This is a guest post by Ben Cohen of Z Word
To my knowledge, no independent sightings have been confirmed, but according to his website, the pro-Hamas British MP George Galloway is currently on a speaking tour here in the US.
Back in March, Galloway was advised that he might be inadmissible to Canada because of “his self-confessed financing of Hamas, which, according to Canadian law, is very much a terrorist group.” And here is the text of that confession, delivered in Gaza on March 8th, when Galloway was heading what purported to be an aid convoy (he is now tussling – not for the first time – with the UK’s Charity Commission:)
We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of the contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say: We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine. Just in case the British government or the European Union want to face me in any court, let me tell them live on television: I personally am about to break the sanctions on the elected government of Palestine. Many of my friends have to give their cash to charities. By Allah, we carried a lot of cash here. You thought we were all fat. We are not fat. This is money that we have around our waists. And we have to give this… Some of my friends have to give this money to charities, and they will do this in private later this evening, because they need receipts and it’s not practical to do it here.
But I, now, here, on behalf of myself, my sister Yvonne Ridley, and the two Respect councillors – Muhammad Ishtiaq and Naim Khan – are giving three cars and 25,000 pounds in cash to Prime Minister Ismail Haniya. Here is the money. This is not charity. This is politics. The government of Palestine is the best people where this money is needed. We are giving this money now to the government of Palestine. If I could, I would give them 10 times, 100 times more. We are against this siege. We are opposing this siege. We are breaking this siege. We are breaking this siege.
Galloway’s remarks, delivered as he stood alongside Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas premier of Gaza, confirmed his status as Europe’s leading parliamentary apologist for a regime which has brutally stifled internal Palestinian dissent with the same zeal that it has attacked Israel and rejected agreements signed with the Palestinian Authority. Given this extraordinary speech, I’m wondering whether there are grounds to question Galloway’s apparent presence in the US this week. Two questions come immediately to mind.
- In official parlance, Hamas is designated by the US government as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization.” The US has adopted a wide range of measures to combat terrorism financing. Are foreign nationals who have provided money and material support to organizations which appear on the above list permitted to enter the US?
- Foreign nationals who enter the US under the visa waiver scheme, which includes the UK, have to fill out Form I-94W. Assuming Galloway filled out this form, which box did he tick on question ‘C’, which asks about involvement with terrorist activities?
I’m just asking.
Comments
| 20 May 2009, 11:17 am |
Out of curiosity, when was George last spotted in that big building by the Thames, officially his main place of work?
| 20 May 2009, 11:21 am |
Have GG’s parliamentary expenses been published? Not sure why he’d need a second home though … it’s not far from Tower Hamlets to Westminster
| 20 May 2009, 11:24 am |
Hasn’t stopped him writing for the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/20/speaker-martin-snobbery
Have to admire his chutzpah in calling for financial openness and transparency for MPs…
Incidently, I’ve never ever heard any Englishman use the Sctotish sectarian terms “Mick” or “taig”: and I strongly doubt that many Englishmen who didn’t have some close connection with or interest in the West of Scotland would even have a clue what they might mean
| 20 May 2009, 11:29 am |
Galloway does not, surprisingly, claim that much from the Commons, mostly money for bag-men and lackeys. He’s too smart for that.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/george_galloway/bethnal_green_and_bow#expenses
Galloway gets more than enough from his second and third jobs, Talk TV and working for the Holocaust denying, PressTV
| 20 May 2009, 11:58 am |
In our warped value system Michael Savage, an American talk-show radio host is banned from the UK on no evidence at all (he’s suing Jacqui Smith btw and Fabricant discussed it in Parliamentary questions) and yet someone who has openly expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah is untouched in the USA. I understand Galloway is suing the Canadians and some Canadian Jewish organisation leaders over his banning from Canada incident.
(If anyone remarks on Savage I have more to say)
| 20 May 2009, 12:12 pm |
What I’m not sure about is whether GG is actually regsitred to vote in the UK. If not, any donations he’s made to Respect are inadmissable and should be handed over to the Electoral Commission.
| 20 May 2009, 12:21 pm |
“By Allah, we carried a lot of cash here [...] But I, now, here, on behalf of myself, my sister Yvonne Ridley, and the two Respect councillors – Muhammad Ishtiaq and Naim Khan” – Galloway
By Allah…?
my sister Yvonne Ridley…?
Is Galloway only posing as a Muslim for monetary reasons, or is he a believing Muslim? If he is not a Muslim why does he used the name of the Muslim god like this, and why does he refer to the deranged Ridley as his “sister”?
| 20 May 2009, 12:23 pm |
>>> a regime which has brutally stifled internal Palestinian dissent
This is true. Hamas serves to keep a lid on Palestinian anger.
On the other hand, it obviously has a broad social base since it won by a landslide in the parliamentary election.
But I guess it is too much to ask fckwit HP saucers to offer any kind of serious analysis of this phenomenon. Such an analysis might uncover some rather uncomfortable truths about the plight of the Palestinians.
Much easier to poke fun at George Galloway.
| 20 May 2009, 12:27 pm |
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000451639&fid=1725
Obama is promising East Jerusalem to the Palestinians, and plans on making part of it into an “intenational” zone (ie. lots of “peacekeepers” who take the Palestinian side on any dispute).
Plus Obama is endorsing the “Saudi plan”.
And of course the Palestinians wouldn’t need to make any committments to living peacefully (since they would just violate any such commitments anyway).
Is there anyone on the planet who seriously thinks that such a “two-state solution” would be regarded by the Palestinians as anything other than an interim step to a “no-Israel solution”?
| 20 May 2009, 12:28 pm |
Israeli war crimes in Gaza might go some way to explaining the popularity of Hamas:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8059021.stm
As well as the bulldozing of Arab homes:
| 20 May 2009, 12:30 pm |
>>> Is there anyone on the planet who seriously thinks that such a “two-state solution” would be regarded by the Palestinians as anything other than an interim step to a “no-Israel solution”?
So what would be your final solution to the Palestinian problem?
| 20 May 2009, 12:33 pm |
>So what would be your final solution to the Palestinian problem?
I’ll answer your question if you answer mine.
| 20 May 2009, 12:38 pm |
K Ronstadt, you sound scared, afraid of something, like you have discovered something nasty in your Psychological closet and cannot cope with what it is? Perhaps there is a God after all.
Goodnight to all except of course Ronstadt, I really hope you have lots of very nasty nightmares.
| 20 May 2009, 12:39 pm |
The most devastating thing ever said to Galloway was when Hitchens told him he was praised Cindy Sheehan and her sons killers in the same week.
He found time to do a CiF piece saying that Martin has been overthrown by English racists and snobs. The man is a product of the Labour Party and the old way of doing things.
| 20 May 2009, 12:41 pm |
>>> I’ll answer your question if you answer mine.
OK then. Yes of course Palestinian nationalists want control of all of Palestine, just like Israeli nationalists want control of all of Palestine.
That’s why I support neither. Nationalism is one of the most disgusting aspects of the prevailing world order.
I support a world without borders and without nation states. People should be free to live where they choose.
Your turn.
| 20 May 2009, 12:43 pm |
>>> I really hope you have lots of very nasty nightmares.
I dream of a world where all people are free.
| 20 May 2009, 12:48 pm |
“I dream of a world where all people are free.”
Including Israeli Jews?
Don’t bother replying I really am going to bed and anyhow I would not believe your reply anyway because you are, without doubt, a fanatical Idealistic Fool, one day you may grow up, but not today.
| 20 May 2009, 12:48 pm |
Sending the zionist jews back to where they came and establishing a caliph, as it should have been.
| 20 May 2009, 1:02 pm |
“I support a world without borders and without nation states. People should be free to live where they choose.”
Linda, do you ever question your own sanity? I doubt it, of course.
| 20 May 2009, 1:04 pm |
“Sending the zionist jews back to where they came…”
Linda, if you believe in a world without borders, as you claim above, how can you object to Jews in Tel Aviv, Hebron or wherever? Or does freedom of movement not apply to Jews, sorry Zionist Jews? Hypocrite!
| 20 May 2009, 1:07 pm |
“…establishing a caliph, as it should have been.”
Linda, did you just out yourself as a Muslim hoping for a Caliphate? Well, about time!
Did you “give me a sound thrashing” yet (as you tend to claim)?
| 20 May 2009, 1:07 pm |
I support a world without borders and without nation states. People should be free to live where they choose.
In the meantime, I’ll entrust my security and happiness to the United States Marine Corps.
| 20 May 2009, 1:21 pm |
Galloway is so clearly funding Hamas that I suspect he wants to be arrested or put on trial, which would give him huge publicity and make him seem a martyr in the eyes of those who support him.
Given his track record in blustering the US senate into submission and beating UK newspapers in court, he has strong grounds to believe that he is untouchable.
| 20 May 2009, 1:45 pm |
Get a life, you know pretty well Isreal have the strongest armament in the middle east. You know no one can raise a finger at Isreal without being blown into oblivion. Any one or state standing up for themselves are not only blasted into oblivion but also vilified by Isreal’s co sponsored international press….so why the constant demeening of a religion that lived with Jews in harmony for centuries prior to Isreals existance? Live and let live……..pls
| 20 May 2009, 2:06 pm |
A more urgent question, I think, is why wasn’t Galloway arrested when he returned to the UK from Gaza after handing cash to Hamas?
| 20 May 2009, 2:08 pm |
Live and let live……..pls
Learn to spell “Israel”……..pls
| 20 May 2009, 2:29 pm |
I support a world without borders and without nation states. People should be free to live where they choose.
Do you have any thing useful to say?
| 20 May 2009, 2:34 pm |
You know no one can raise a finger at Isreal (sic) without being blown into oblivion
Is that why Hezbollah claimed victory against Israel two years ago, or Hamas claimed victory against Israel earlier this year? Whether or not their claims have justification, neither were ‘blown into oblivion’.
but also vilified by Isreal’s (sic) co sponsored international press
Which papers are you referring to? Clearly nothing in the Arab or Muslim world. And I suspect you haven’t read the Guardian or Independent in the UK (i.e. 2 out of the 4 main broadsheets).
| 20 May 2009, 2:50 pm |
I dream of a world where all people are free.
And do you dream of rainbows, puppy-dogs and soft fluffy kittens, too?
| 20 May 2009, 3:12 pm |
>>> Linda, did you just out yourself as a Muslim hoping for a Caliphate? Well, about time!
Borat, stop posting under my name and then replying.
| 20 May 2009, 3:19 pm |
>>> I dream of a world where all people are free.
>>> And do you dream of rainbows, puppy-dogs and soft fluffy kittens, too?
Yes, why not? Far better than your pathetic anxiety dreams about the islamization of Europe.
| 20 May 2009, 3:22 pm |
>>> A more urgent question, I think, is why wasn’t Galloway arrested when he returned to the UK from Gaza after handing cash to Hamas?
Nah, a more urgent question is why war criminals such as George W. Bush and Bomber Bliar are still walking free.
Especially after the Bomber accepted one million dollars reward from the Zionists.
| 20 May 2009, 3:55 pm |
“Learn to spell “Israel”……..pls”
Don’t immediately dismiss their inability to spell. It’s actually quite useful; I’ve generally found that people who continuously write ‘Isreal’ are the battier, less intelligent elements of the far-left or right. As a consequence, their posts can generally be ignored.
“Nah, a more urgent question is why war criminals such as George W. Bush and Bomber Bliar are still walking free.
Especially after the Bomber accepted one million dollars reward from the Zionists.”
Have you heard of the Daily Mail-o-matic? The online generator of the Daily Mail’s more preposterous and hateful headlines? Well, I feel as if your posts were generated by a program that puts words like ‘Bliar’, ‘war criminals’, ‘Zionists’ and ‘blood money’ into random sentences.
Who is ‘the Bomber’ anyway? I doubt that Arthur Harris accepted money from the Zionists, unless he was being paid by the Stern Gang to pummel Nazi Germany in revenge for the continuing Holocaust. Who knows what other claptrap your brain came come up with.
| 20 May 2009, 4:19 pm |
On the other hand, it obviously has a broad social base since it won by a landslide in the parliamentary election.
I see, so a 3% difference in the popular vote on the national list – where a majority of 56% didn’t even vote for Hamas and where voters tend to base their decisions mainly on the party programme and overall party image, thus more significant in reflecting overall sentiments about parties – is a “landslide”.
Or maybe, K. Rondstadt is just simply enthralled by the block vote electoral system used in the district elections (notwithstanding that those who voted for Hamas on the national list, didn’t cast all their votes for all Hamas candidates in the districts), that by definition don’t produce proportional results and in which it is much more difficult to infer voter preferences.
Or maybe K. Rondstadt is just parroting the uninformed section of the commentariat which wrongly referred to the allocation of seats won by Hamas as a measure of Palestinian voter preferences.
Whatever.
| 20 May 2009, 4:20 pm |
Linda you are parodying yourself now.
| 20 May 2009, 4:26 pm |
Or maybe Linda is just a deluded idiot who sees only what he wants to see.
| 20 May 2009, 5:17 pm |
Ignore the troll already, folks.
| 20 May 2009, 5:33 pm |
K Ronstadt
20 May 2009, 12:43 pm
[...]
I dream of a world where all people are free.
K Ronstadt
20 May 2009, 12:48 pm
Sending the zionist jews back to where they came and establishing a caliph, as it should have been.
| 20 May 2009, 6:24 pm |
“a religion that lived with Jews in harmony for centuries prior to Isreals existance?”
Not in this reality, it didn’t.
| 20 May 2009, 6:42 pm |
‘Cos we can’t stand him here?
| 20 May 2009, 9:29 pm |
Gene
I wrote to the Home Office about George’s obvious support for terrorism but they told me that the CPS would need to make the decision as to whether or not to begin proceedings.
| 20 May 2009, 9:29 pm |
Apparently you’re mistaken if you were expecting a comment displaying at least a semblance of a sense of humour, instead of a humourless sneer from a commenter posting under the moniker Yohoho.
| 20 May 2009, 10:44 pm |
Why is he in the US? Simple, really. We haven’t had a big enough whip-round to send the gobshite to Pluto.
| 21 May 2009, 6:29 am |
Who are you to say who should come into the US? After all, we let Michael Savage live here — why not George Galloway, and he only wants to visit. And I find it creepy that you’re obviously hoping he won’t be permitted in: looks like authoritarianism is firmly embedded in the Brit mindset. Airstrip One, anyone?
| 21 May 2009, 9:58 am |
You do Thomas Paine a disservice by adopting his name as a moniker because you, unlike Thomas Paine, either don’t understand, or if you do, don’t respect American laws and apparently are clueless as well about what authoritarianism looks like.
From a humourless Yohoho to a clueless Thomas Paine, what’s next, an aerophobic Amelia Earheart, or a tone deaf Wolfgang Mozart?
| 21 May 2009, 11:44 am |
Galloway’s remarks, delivered as he stood alongside Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas premier of Gaza,
For your information, George did not make these remarks standing beside President Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza.
Get your facts right before you open your useless fat gob.
| 21 May 2009, 11:48 am |
Israel are the terrorists in this region.
Israel was founded on terrorism, and continues to exist because of their terrorism, supported by the US Govt.
Some cold hard facts about the recent war inflicted by Israel / U.S.A. on Gaza
1455 dead, of which 405 were children, and 115 were women.
5,303 injured, 1,815 of whom were children and 785 women.
5 hospitals destroyed.
33 clinics destroyed
16 medics killed
15 ambulances destroyed
179 schools badly damaged, 10 totally flattened
153 Mosques badly damaged, 51 flattened.
11,000 dunums, 140,965 Olive trees, 136,217 Citrus trees and 10,000 Palm trees were destroyed.
$30 million damage to the poultry and cattle industry.
The total losses inflicted on Gaza after the 23 day Israeli war is $2.8 billion.
| 21 May 2009, 3:36 pm |
If Galloway is here he should be arrested and executed and not in that order. He is a traitor and so is anyone who supports him. All who do should be shot. His chosen side is with the enemy and anyone who is his friend is the enemy. We are at war until the advocates of global Islam are dead. Kill the enemy.
| 21 May 2009, 4:36 pm |
Blane Burns, not only are you just plain stupid, but you are also just plain dumb.
Grow up, wise up, and get a life.
Israel are the terrorists.
I dont see to many people queing up to help Israel except the US govt, who are the world leaders when it comes to terrorism.
| 22 May 2009, 8:57 am |
Any cold hard links for your cold hard facts Frank? And while you’re scrounging around for the links, consider: since you regard the US as the world leader in terrorism and Israel as the premier terrorist state in the Middle East, and since most, if not all Western states enjoy good relations with both the US and Israel, don’t be a hypocrite, destroy whatever goods that are in your possession hailing from either the US or Israel, or from any state that enjoys good relations with them (don’t forget to destroy your computer), boycott all goods from here on in from these states and finally, if you hold a passport from one of these terrorist or terrorist abetting states, burn it too. Or are you not the type to put your money where your mouth is?
| 29 May 2009, 10:42 pm |
Go to the FBI website and type in Jewish Defense League (JDL), and this comes, extremist Jewish organization violent and banned in U.S.
ironically not banned in cananda
.



The Yanks can keep him.