What a brilliant episode of Question Time it was last night.
The BBC showed yet again how "impartial" it is by deciding to throw Britain's most famous anti-Semite - that Far-Left slimeball George Galloway - into the lion's pit by having him appear on the panel on last night's episode of Question Time, which came from Finchley, north London, an area with a large Jewish population. Members of the Jewish community called the decision to allow Galloway to appear on the show "provocative".
Finchley has the largest Jewish community of any parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. Margaret Thatcher was its MP from 1959 to 1992.
During the the hostile hour-long political debate the crowd shouted 'you are not welcome in London' and accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain.
After the recording, pro-Israel supporters waving flags and chanting attacked his car as he left the venue.
There were, however, a few anti-Semitic bigots in the crowd who supported Galloway.
The Respect MP for Bradford West (he was elected by its large Muzzie population) claimed afterwards presenter David Dimbleby mishandled the debate, a question was changed at the last minute and said 'it wasn't an audience it was a hit squad'.
He also shouted at the audience that he has a right to speak under free speech, yet he is a man who previously refused to debate with a student at Oxford University because he was Israeli (the Left only believe in free speech when it is approriate).
Last year, Galloway was interviewed by police on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after he declared his Bradford constituency was an ‘Israel-free’ zone.
MP George Galloway heckled by Question Time audience after 'provocative' decision by BBC to invite him on debate show in Jewish area
Respect MP shouted at throughout this week's edition of Question Time
Programme came from Finchley, home to UK's largest Jewish community
Last year Mr Galloway declared his constituency an 'Israel-free' zone
Audience accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism and backing violence
He tweeted later: 'It wasn't an audience it was a hit squad'
MP said David Dimbleby poorly handled debate and switched question
Finchley MP said the BBC's invitation to MP was 'deliberately provocative'
But the BBC say as an MP, he has a right to appear on the programme
By Martin Robinson for MailOnline
6 February 2015
Daily Mail
Watch Galloway be attacked by members of the audience in Finchley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b0auJa0rEH4
Controversial MP George Galloway was heckled on Question Time last night after the 'provocative' decision by the BBC to invite him on the show in a Jewish area.
During the the hostile hour-long political debate the crowd shouted 'you are not welcome in London' and accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain.
After the recording, pro-Israel supporters waving flags and chanting attacked his car as he left the venue in Finchley, north London.
The Respect MP for Bradford West claimed afterwards presenter David Dimbleby mishandled the debate, a question was changed at the last minute and said 'it wasn't an audience it was a hit squad'.
Hostile: Controversial Respect MP George Galloway was heckled by audience members after a 'provocative' decision by the BBC to invite him to be a guest on Question Time last night
Fury: During the the hostile hour-long debate the crowd shouted 'you are not welcome in London' and accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain
Reaction: After the recording pro-Israel supporters waving flags and chanting attacked his car as he left the venue in Finchley. The MP is circled on the left
BBC bosses caused consternation after they invited Mr Galloway onto the panel in Finchley, which has the largest Jewish community of any parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom.
Last year MP Mr Galloway was interviewed by police on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after he declared his Bradford constituency was an ‘Israel-free’ zone.
He previously refused to debate with a student at Oxford University because he was Israeli.
Tensions boiled over when Question Time audience member Gabriel Rosen asked him: 'Why is anti-Semitism rising in the UK and does a certain member of the panel bear some responsibility?'
As Mr Galloway was about to answer others then shouted: 'You're not welcome here' and called him 'scum'.
Mr Galloway said: 'Am I on trial here? Zionism and Israel are different things from Judaism and Jewishness.
'Anti-Semitism is a foul form of racism that in the 1930s led to the Holocaust. If I had been born then I would have been the first in the line in the recruitment office to fight fascism'.
Another audience member yelled: 'You support Hezbollah' and Mr Galloway was accused of supporting violence against Jews.
He told the crowd: 'You are in favour of some political violence but against other political violence. You're in favour of freedom of speech for some people, but not for others'.
He added: 'You will not stop me speaking however much you shout' and told them: 'You be the lions, I'll be Daniel'.
Crowds: Britain's Jewish community had reacted with fury to the decision to have him on the show and protested in numbers with Israel flags
Security: Police outside the Arts Depot in Finchley, but Mr Galloway said there was not enough security
Other guests on the programme included Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, her shadow counterpart Tristram Hunt and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, who is Jewish.
Britain's Jewish community had reacted with fury to the decision to have him on the show.
Mike Freer, the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said the invitation was ‘deliberately provocative’. He added: ‘The BBC can’t have done it by accident.
‘Given what’s going on in the world it is a slap in the face for the local community. It lacks sensitivity.’
Mr Freer and the Jewish Leadership Council, which brings together major Jewish organisations, wrote to the BBC challenging the decision, and asked whether it is a ‘responsible move’.
The Community Security Trust, a charity which monitors anti-Semitism and organises security for schools and synagogues said: ‘‘If the BBC didn’t understand the strength of feeling in the community about George Galloway, I think they understand it now.’
Mr Galloway giving a speech to Respect party acitivists in Bradford last year, where he declared Bradford as an 'Israel-free zone'
Mr Galloway was thrown out of the Labour party in 2003 but made a comeback with the Respect party in 2005 in East London. He returned to Westminster in March 2012 after winning the seat of Bradford East in a by-election.
He was interviewed by West Yorkshire Police last August after saying at an event, which was filmed: ‘We have declared Bradford an Israel-free zone. We don’t want any Israeli goods; we don’t want any Israeli services; we don’t want any Israeli academics coming to the university or the college.
‘We don’t even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford even if any of them had thought of doing so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel - and you have to do the same.’
In November 2012, during an anti-Israeli demonstration in his Bradford constituency, he told those present: ‘We do not hate Jews. We hate Zionism, we hate Israel, we hate murder and injustice.’
A BBC spokesperson said: ‘Question Time invites panellists who reflect a significant range of opinions on a number of different topics.
Whilst Mr Galloway’s views are entirely his own, as an MP he has a right to appear on the programme and has done so previously.
Subjects for discussion are chosen by our audience ahead of each show and this edition of Question Time will be no different.’
The BBC showed yet again how "impartial" it is by deciding to throw Britain's most famous anti-Semite - that Far-Left slimeball George Galloway - into the lion's pit by having him appear on the panel on last night's episode of Question Time, which came from Finchley, north London, an area with a large Jewish population. Members of the Jewish community called the decision to allow Galloway to appear on the show "provocative".
Finchley has the largest Jewish community of any parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. Margaret Thatcher was its MP from 1959 to 1992.
During the the hostile hour-long political debate the crowd shouted 'you are not welcome in London' and accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain.
After the recording, pro-Israel supporters waving flags and chanting attacked his car as he left the venue.
There were, however, a few anti-Semitic bigots in the crowd who supported Galloway.
The Respect MP for Bradford West (he was elected by its large Muzzie population) claimed afterwards presenter David Dimbleby mishandled the debate, a question was changed at the last minute and said 'it wasn't an audience it was a hit squad'.
He also shouted at the audience that he has a right to speak under free speech, yet he is a man who previously refused to debate with a student at Oxford University because he was Israeli (the Left only believe in free speech when it is approriate).
Last year, Galloway was interviewed by police on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after he declared his Bradford constituency was an ‘Israel-free’ zone.
MP George Galloway heckled by Question Time audience after 'provocative' decision by BBC to invite him on debate show in Jewish area
Respect MP shouted at throughout this week's edition of Question Time
Programme came from Finchley, home to UK's largest Jewish community
Last year Mr Galloway declared his constituency an 'Israel-free' zone
Audience accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism and backing violence
He tweeted later: 'It wasn't an audience it was a hit squad'
MP said David Dimbleby poorly handled debate and switched question
Finchley MP said the BBC's invitation to MP was 'deliberately provocative'
But the BBC say as an MP, he has a right to appear on the programme
By Martin Robinson for MailOnline
6 February 2015
Daily Mail
Watch Galloway be attacked by members of the audience in Finchley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b0auJa0rEH4
Controversial MP George Galloway was heckled on Question Time last night after the 'provocative' decision by the BBC to invite him on the show in a Jewish area.
During the the hostile hour-long political debate the crowd shouted 'you are not welcome in London' and accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain.
After the recording, pro-Israel supporters waving flags and chanting attacked his car as he left the venue in Finchley, north London.
The Respect MP for Bradford West claimed afterwards presenter David Dimbleby mishandled the debate, a question was changed at the last minute and said 'it wasn't an audience it was a hit squad'.
Hostile: Controversial Respect MP George Galloway was heckled by audience members after a 'provocative' decision by the BBC to invite him to be a guest on Question Time last night
Fury: During the the hostile hour-long debate the crowd shouted 'you are not welcome in London' and accused him of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain
Reaction: After the recording pro-Israel supporters waving flags and chanting attacked his car as he left the venue in Finchley. The MP is circled on the left
BBC bosses caused consternation after they invited Mr Galloway onto the panel in Finchley, which has the largest Jewish community of any parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom.
Last year MP Mr Galloway was interviewed by police on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after he declared his Bradford constituency was an ‘Israel-free’ zone.
He previously refused to debate with a student at Oxford University because he was Israeli.
Tensions boiled over when Question Time audience member Gabriel Rosen asked him: 'Why is anti-Semitism rising in the UK and does a certain member of the panel bear some responsibility?'
As Mr Galloway was about to answer others then shouted: 'You're not welcome here' and called him 'scum'.
Mr Galloway said: 'Am I on trial here? Zionism and Israel are different things from Judaism and Jewishness.
'Anti-Semitism is a foul form of racism that in the 1930s led to the Holocaust. If I had been born then I would have been the first in the line in the recruitment office to fight fascism'.
Another audience member yelled: 'You support Hezbollah' and Mr Galloway was accused of supporting violence against Jews.
He told the crowd: 'You are in favour of some political violence but against other political violence. You're in favour of freedom of speech for some people, but not for others'.
He added: 'You will not stop me speaking however much you shout' and told them: 'You be the lions, I'll be Daniel'.
Crowds: Britain's Jewish community had reacted with fury to the decision to have him on the show and protested in numbers with Israel flags
Security: Police outside the Arts Depot in Finchley, but Mr Galloway said there was not enough security
Other guests on the programme included Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, her shadow counterpart Tristram Hunt and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, who is Jewish.
Britain's Jewish community had reacted with fury to the decision to have him on the show.
Mike Freer, the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said the invitation was ‘deliberately provocative’. He added: ‘The BBC can’t have done it by accident.
‘Given what’s going on in the world it is a slap in the face for the local community. It lacks sensitivity.’
Mr Freer and the Jewish Leadership Council, which brings together major Jewish organisations, wrote to the BBC challenging the decision, and asked whether it is a ‘responsible move’.
The Community Security Trust, a charity which monitors anti-Semitism and organises security for schools and synagogues said: ‘‘If the BBC didn’t understand the strength of feeling in the community about George Galloway, I think they understand it now.’
Mr Galloway giving a speech to Respect party acitivists in Bradford last year, where he declared Bradford as an 'Israel-free zone'
Mr Galloway was thrown out of the Labour party in 2003 but made a comeback with the Respect party in 2005 in East London. He returned to Westminster in March 2012 after winning the seat of Bradford East in a by-election.
He was interviewed by West Yorkshire Police last August after saying at an event, which was filmed: ‘We have declared Bradford an Israel-free zone. We don’t want any Israeli goods; we don’t want any Israeli services; we don’t want any Israeli academics coming to the university or the college.
‘We don’t even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford even if any of them had thought of doing so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel - and you have to do the same.’
In November 2012, during an anti-Israeli demonstration in his Bradford constituency, he told those present: ‘We do not hate Jews. We hate Zionism, we hate Israel, we hate murder and injustice.’
A BBC spokesperson said: ‘Question Time invites panellists who reflect a significant range of opinions on a number of different topics.
Whilst Mr Galloway’s views are entirely his own, as an MP he has a right to appear on the programme and has done so previously.
Subjects for discussion are chosen by our audience ahead of each show and this edition of Question Time will be no different.’
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