George Galloway

At 69 years old, George Galloway has this physical status:

George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer.

Between 1987 and 2015, except for a period between 2010 and 2012, he served in Parliament for four constituencies, first for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party.

In the 2019 UK general election, he ran as an independent candidate for West Bromwich East and has since founded the eurosceptic Workers Party of Britain.

He served as the general secretary of the Glasgow-based charity War on Want from 1983 to 1985 general election, youngest ever chair of the Scottish Labour Party.

Galloway was banned from the Labour Party in 2003 for bringing the party into disrepute, including calling on Arabs to fight British troops, later known as the Respect Party.

He stood for Respect in the 2005 general election for Bethnal Green and Bow, defeating sitting Labour MP Oona King and serving for one term.

He did not campaign for the 2010 general election and returned to the House of Commons in 2012, but lost his seat in the 2015 general election.

Galloway ran as a Respect candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, but fell to Sadiq Khan, a Labour nominee, who finished in seventh place with 1.4% of the vote.

He ran as an outsider in parliament in 2017, winning 57% of the vote. Galloway was initially an enemy of Saddam Hussein, but David Aaronovitch and Christopher Hitchens has accused him of supporting the Iraqi leader even though Western policy not to.

Galloway testified before the United States Senate in 2005 over suspected illegal payments from the UN' Oil for Food Program.

Galloway, who opposes Zionism, and was involved in the Viva Palestina aid convoys in September 2015.

He endorsed a "Leave" vote in the 2016 EU referendum, campaigning with the cross-Brexit group Grassroots Out, while on Twitter, saying he would favor Nigel Farage's Brexit party "for one-time only."

Personal life

Galloway has been married four times.

He married Elaine Fyffe in 1979, with whom he has a daughter, Lucy (born 1982). In 1987, the couple married in 1999 and divorced in 1999.

Galloway married Amineh Abu-Zayad, a Palestinian biologist, in 1994 at a non-legally binding Islamic festival; a legally binding civil service followed in March 2000. Abu-Zayyad was granted a divorce in February 2009 after several years of disgrace for "unreasonable conduct"; her petition was not heard.

Galloway married Rima Husseini, his former scholar, in 2005 at a non-legally binding Islamic wedding. Galloway's two sons, Zein (born 2007) and Faris (born 2011), were both married with Husseini, a Lebanoni.

Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, a Dutch-Indonesian anthropologist, married in Amsterdam on March 31, 2012. The initial function was followed by a traditional Javanese wedding in Sumatra and a civil marriage at the House of Commons in September 2012. Perpetwi works as a consultant for a Dutch consultancy company and as a co-presenter of Galloway's television show Sputnik. The couple have three children: Toren Mustaqim, born on July 15, 2014; Orlá Dhien's daughter born in 2017; and the other daughter, ban Amaria, was born in August 2020.

Galloway has spoken out in favour of religious liberty. Galloway was raised and now identifies as a Roman Catholic, although he has long stated that his religious convictions are a private matter. Galloway sparked controversy by claiming to be a Roman Catholic, he would not feel secure in a non-independence Scotland given the historically bigoted views held by many Scottish nationalists against Catholics.

Galloway has recruited Muslims to fill important positions on his staff. "We stand for justice and haqq" at a 2012 rally, but "A Muslim is someone who is not afraid of earthly power but who is concerned about Judgment Day." I'm set for that; I'm planning for it, and it's the only thing I worry about." His last three wives were Muslims and they were married in an Islamic ceremony. Galloway converted to Islam about 2000, according to Jemima Khan, writing for the New Statesman in April 2012, and his shahadah was performed in Kilburn, London, in the presence of Muslim Association of Great Britain members. Khan claims that while Galloway has warned "those close to him," he did not reveal his conversion to the public. Galloway said the shahadah had never occurred: "I have never been to any such service in Kilburn, Karachi, or Kathmandu." It's simply and categorically untrue." He went on to reiterate that religious convictions are a "personal matter."

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Early life and career

Galloway was born in Dundee, Scotland. George Galloway Sr., his father, was a Scottish trade unionist, although his mother, Sheila O'Reilly, was of Irish descent. He was born in an attic in a slum tenement in Dundee's Irish quarter, which is also known as Tipperary." His father began as an electrician before becoming an electro-mechanical engineer at NCR. He retrained as a teacher after being made redundant. His mother was a housekeeper and then a factory employee. According to Galloway, his father was patriotic, while his mother, who had Irish nationalist sympathies, and remained skeptical of perceived British pretensions in the world. He appeared on both of his mother's charges and has long been a long-time promoter of Sinn Féin and Irish reunification. People who knew both father and son have expressed largely Marxist views, as in the local Labour movement of the time.

He grew up in Charleston, Dundee, and attended Harris Academy, a non-denominational academy, as well as for the West End United U12s, Lochee Boys Club U16s, and St Columba's U18s. Galloway says he grew a moustache at the age of 15, but refused to shave it off when his headmaster refused. He decided not to drink alcohol at the age of 18, but not because of father's words, and he has described alcohol as having a "very deleterious effect on people."

Galloway, a young man, joined the Labour Party Young Socialists aged 13 (although he claimed he was 15) and was still a youth when he became the Dundee Labour Party's secretary.

Galloway became vice-chairman of the Labour Party in Dundee and a member of the Scottish Executive Committee in 1975. He contested his first election in Scotland's north district elections on May 5, 1977, but the independent Bunty Turley defeated Dundee's safe Labour Gillburn ward. He was the secretary organiser of the Dundee Labour Party in 1977 and was the youngest ever chairman of the Scottish Labour Party in March 1981, a position he held for a year after being denied the vice chairman post for a year.

Galloway became a supporter of Palestine after a trip to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1977, pledging to devote the remainder of my life to the Palestinian and Arab cause "right a week after my return from prison." When it flew the Palestinian flag over the City Chambers building, he endorsed Dundee City Council, and he was instrumental in the twinning of Dundee with the Palestinian West Bank town of Nablus (Shechem) in 1980.

Galloway was interviewed for the Scottish Marxist in late 1981, when Galloway supported the Labour Party's membership to the Labour Party in the same manner that the Fabian Society does. He believed that democratic reflection by members of the CPGB would have solved the problem better. (He was later opposed to Militant's removal.)

Denis Healey, Labour Party's deputy leader, attempted and failed to exclude Galloway from the list of prospective Parliamentary candidates. Healey lost his election by 13 votes to five. Galloway once boasted that, if you're looking for a £1.5 million deficit that had risen in Dundee's city budget, you could hang buckets of water over us at 20p a time."

Galloway attempted to stand for Rhonddda's safe Labour seat after the Welsh Transport and General Workers' Union and the National Union of Miners had both nominated him to replace Alec Jones, who had died. He hoped to be voted in Dunfermline East, where no one was standing at the time. Galloway was not chosen for either seat, with Rhondda and Dunfermline East selecting the Exchequer and later Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the Exchequer and later Prime Minister.

Galloway finished in 16th place in 1986 as a candidate for a seat on the Labour Party National Executive Committee, out of a large field of 18 candidates.

Galloway, the general secretary of War on Want, a British charity battling poverty around the world, from November 1983 to 1987. He travelled extensively and wrote eyewitness accounts of the famine in Eritrea in 1985, which were published in The Sunday Times and The Spectator. "If you went into a fight with George, you knew you would never walk out with a win," Simon Stocker, his deputy at the charity, said.

Galloway had invested £20,000 in bills and had been "enjoying a life of luxury" on October 28, 1986, according to a front-page story by Alastair Campbell. An internal probe and then an independent auditor ruled that there had been no evidence of misusing money, but he did pay £1,720 in disputed expenses. "Even if the problems were not of his own, his way of dealing with them heightened tensions," War on Want's official history about Galloway.

Political career (1987–2005)

Galloway was elected as the MP for Glasgow Hillhead in 1987, after losing by a majority of 3,251 votes to Roy Jenkins. Galloway was never a member of the Campaign Group despite being known for his left-wing political convictions.

Galloway said in a 2002 The Guardian interview that he had supported the Soviet Union and that its conclusion was "the biggest tragedy of my life." "I am not a pacifist," he told Robert Chalmers of The Independent on Sunday: "I am not a pacifist." I am a rebel. I am a Socialist who doesn't like Capitalism and who dislikes Imperialism less. I am a revolutionary and I support the armed struggle where there is no alternative."

A journalist questioned him about his personal arrangements during the War on Want conference on the Greek island of Mykonos last year, as Galloway had stepped down as the organization's general secretary. "I travelled and spent a lot of time in Greece, many of whom were women and some of whom were known carnally to me," the new MP said. "I had sexual relations with some of the Greeks" in the past. Galloway made front-page news in the tabloid press at the time when separating from his first wife. Many years later, in a 2016 New Internationalist interview, he argued that an experience of sexual assault from a colonel, which he suffered when he was 12, triggered a "lifelong fear of being gay, which culminated in a "lifelong fear of being gay," which culminated in an "ostentious, rapacious heterosexual promiscuity."

The executive committee of his constituency Labour Party won a vote of no confidence in him by 15 to 8. A fortnight later on February 22, the constituency's general management committee voted 54-to-44 in favor of the motion, but just three of the 25 members in the trade union section supported it. According to Tam Dalyell, the new Member of Parliament was "the only one" of Parliament "I can remember making remarks about human rights in Iraq."

Galloway gained re-election when being challenged by Trish Godman (wife of fellow MP Norman Godman) in June 1989, but the electoral college did not have a majority. This was the worst result for any sitting Labour MP who had been reelected, but Galloway gained 62% in total in the final election. Galloway promised his family that there would be a "summer of peace and conscission" in his acceptance address, but this didn't happen. Many members of the Christian Party who had voted for Godman allegedly refused to serve for Galloway in the forthcoming referendum, including Johann Lamont, who later became the Scottish Labour Party's Leader in 2011. Following Lamont's resignation, 13 of the constituency party's executive committee resigned, including Lamont. Galloway "has done nothing to create bridges with the Members of the Executive [Committee of the Constituency Labour Party] who opposed his nomination, according to her." "The quarrel we have is all about accountability and democracy — not personal concerns."

Galloway voted for the then-winning candidates, John Smith for leader, and Margaret Beckett for deputy leader after the 1992 Labour Party leadership election. Galloway declined to vote in the leadership race in 1994, one of only three MPs to do so). Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party leader, responded to one of Salmond's insults against Labour by saying, "I don't give a fuck what Tony Blair thinks."

Galloway's Glasgow Hillhead constituency was dissolved in 1997, and Galloway's Glasgow Hillhead constituency was voted out of office in 1997, despite being up for re-election as the candidate for Glasgow Kelvin. He was unchallenged for the nomination for the 2001 general election. He was elected with majorities of 16,643 and 12,014 votes respectively. In the 1997-2001 parliament and the majority (27 votes out of 209 or 12.9%) in the period before he was barred from the Labour Party, he voted against the whip 32 times out of 665 (0.8%). During a demonstration at Edinburgh's Faslane nuclear base in February 2001, he was one of many politicians detained, resulting in his resignation of a breach of the peace and fined £180.

Galloway condemned the 1991 Gulf War and was skeptical of the effects that subsequent sanctions had on Iraqi civilians. Galloway's book I'm Not the Only One (2004) states that Kuwait is "clearly a piece of the greater Iraqi whole, looted from the motherland by perfidious Albion," though Christopher Hitchens stated that the state existed long before Iraq had been recognized. According to Galloway, the massacre of Kurds and Shias just after the 1991 Gulf war was "a civil war that required intense brutality on both directions."

David Aaronovitch, a writer for The Observer, argued that Galloway reaffirmed his view of Saddam Hussein under the belief that my enemy is my friend." Or, in the context of the modern world, any anti-American will do. When Iraq stopped being a West Friend, it became a George's friend."

Galloway received some of the best criticism on his return from a Middle Eastern tour in January 1994, where he had met Saddam Hussein. "I salute your courage, your zeal, your indefatigability, as you described it in his meeting with the Iraqi president...." I can honestly tell you that there was not one single person to whom I told I was going to Iraq and wishing to meet with people who did not want me to reveal their heartfelt, fraternal greetings, and support." "I salute your courage, your tenacity, and your indefatigability," he said at the end of his speech. In the address, he said he was saluting the Iraqi people rather than Saddam Hussein, which was accurately translated for the Iraqi leader.

"I deeply regret Mr. George Galloway's inflammatory remark in Iraq," Labour leader John Smith said in a tweet. In no way did he represent the Labour Party, and I wholly condemn his remarks." Galloway was given a "severe reprimand" by Labour Chief Whip Derek Foster for his unauthorised trip to Iraq a few weeks after his return. The MP apologised for his conduct and promised to follow future instructions from the whips.

Galloway was dubbed the "MP for Baghdad North" during his visit to Saddam, Galloway. Galloway said, when he addressed the United States Senate on May 17th, that he had "met Saddam Hussein precisely the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him." Galloway had "met him to try to bring an end to sanctions, pain, and war" whereas "Rumsfeld met him to sell his arms," Galloway said.

Galloway founded the Mariam Appeal in 1998, which was designed, according to its website's welcome page, "to protest sanctions on Iraq which are having devastating effects on the ordinary people of Iraq." Mariam Hamza, a child moved from Iraq to the United Kingdom by the fund, was chosen to receive leukaemia treatment. The intention was to raise the possibility of hundreds of thousands of other Iraqi children, due to poor health conditions and a lack of appropriate medications and facilities, and to advocate for the removal of the Iraq sanctions, which many believe were to blame. Galloway was chastised for spending Christmas in Iraq with Tariq Aziz, Iraq's then Prime Minister at the time. Galloway said he had many meetings with Aziz and that the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations had a friendly relationship. In total, he has consented to more than ten meetings with Aziz.

The fund was scrutinized after a lawsuit that Galloway used some donated funds to pay for his travel expenses during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He responded by stating that the expenses were incurred in his capacity as the appeal's chairman. Although the Mariam Appeal was never a registered charity and never meant to be such, the Charity Commission looked into it. The Mariam Appeal's report, which was released in June 2004, found that the Mariam Appeal was doing charitable work (and that, therefore, should have disclosed with the commission), but did not establish that any funds had been misappropriated. Galloway had appealed in a letter dated 24 April 2003 to Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, to suspend the investigation into the Mariam Appeal many years later. Galloway mistakenly stated that the complaint "received no money from Iraq" after the letter was released under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a Times article.

According to a new Charity Commission Report, the appeal had received funds from Fawaz Zureikat that resulted from the Oil For Food program, which concluded that:

Galloway's reply: "I've always denied the Commission's retrospective belief that a campaign to achieve a reform in national and international policy was a charity."

Galloway was "not just an apologist, but a mouthpiece for the Iraqi regime for many years," the Foreign Office Minister said in a House of Commons debate on March 6, 2002. Galloway branded the minister a liar and refused to withdraw on the grounds that Bradshaw's assertion was "a clear imputation of dishonour," but the meeting was postponed due to the controversy. Bradshaw later resigned following his allegation, and Galloway apologised for using unparliamentary terms. In an article published by The Guardian in March 2000 about a visit by Galloway to Iraq and the Middle East, the politician says he supports the Iraqi people and the Ba'ath Party, but not Saddam Hussein himself.

Galloway returned to Iraq in August 2002 and spoke with Saddam Hussein for the second time. According to Galloway, the trip was designed to convince Saddam to re-admit Hans Blix and the UN weapons inspectors into the country.

Galloway, who testified in his libel versus The Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2004, said he regarded Saddam as a "bestial tyrant" and would have praised his deposition from office, but not by means of a military attack on Iraq. Galloway also said he was a vocal critic of Saddam Hussein's administration in the 1980s, as well as the role of Margaret Thatcher's government in encouraging arms sales to Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. "Just as Stalin industrialized the Soviet Union, so on a different level Saddam plotted Iraq's own Great Leap Forward," he wrote in his memoir. "He managed to hold his country together until 1991," he continued. In addition, he is expected to have been the leader in Iraqi national identity, and he has enriched Iraq and the lives, health, and education requirements of his own people.

Galloway's eldest son, Saddam's eldest son, was greeted with the term "Excellence" at Uday's palace in 2006. Galloway has been seen on television that he will be with Uday "until the end." Galloway shared with members of Saddam Hussein's government how to cope with a potential American invasion by his own account: "I'm Not the Only One."

Galloway became the vice president of the Stop the War Coalition in 2001. He often delivered addresses from StWC platforms at anti-war protests, being actively involved. Galloway said the government had the option of whether half a million people attend the rally or half a million protesters in a riot after permission for a rally in Hyde Park on February 15, 2003, or half a million citizens in a march.

Galloway said in an interview with Abu Dhabi TV on March 28, 2003 that Tony Blair and George W. Bush had "lied to the British Air Force and Navy" when they predicted that the war in Iraq would be quick and easy. They assaulted Iraq like wolves, and the next step for British troops is to refuse to obey unlawful orders. This incitement for "British troops to defy orders" was one of the formal reasons for his expulsion from the Labour Party later in the 1980s.

The Sun published an interview with Tony Blair on April 18, 2003, who said: "His remarks were disgraceful and inaccurate." It will be handled by the National Executive." "I think he is a deeply committed, committed politician, and a man of deep sincerity about the causes he takes up," Labour MP Tam Dalyell said in Galloway's defense. Galloway was suspended from serving in the Labour Party on May 6, 2003, after a hearing on allegations that he breached the party's constitution by "bringing the Labour Party into disrepute by conduct that is prejudicial or grossly damaging to the party." Galloway said he stood by every word of the Abu Dhabi interview when speaking on BBC Radio.

Former cabinet minister Tony Benn, among other things, testified at a meeting on October 22nd to discuss the charges, including evidence from Galloway himself, attending media interviews, and hearing character testimony from former cabinet minister Tony Benn. Galloway's allegations of "bringing the party into disrepute" were dismissed by the commission the following day, and Galloway was barred from the Labour Party. In a speech, he congratulated a spirited anti-war candidate from the Socialist Alliance in Preston, but was disapproved.

Galloway was the only Labour MP who "incited foreign forces to rise against British troops" in the Iraq War, according to Ian McCartney, Labour Party chairman at the time. After the NCC had ruled on his dismissal, Galloway said: "This was a politically motivated kangaroo court whose decision had been published in advance in the best tradition of political show trials." At the time, he said that other MPs who opposed the war, such as Bob Marshall Andrews and Glenda Jackson, would be barred in due course, but that no other Labour MP was suspended from the Labour Party because of their views regarding the Iraq war. Galloway wrote in his diary in June 2004 that if he had requested that the NEC not to exclude him, Galloway would have been "a member of a 'blood-splatted, lying, crooked faction of war criminals,' despite his article's narrating. In a very basic way, it put me off George Galloway.

Galloway named President George W. Bush the world's "most dangerous terrorist" during the Iraq war in 2005.

In appearances on Middle Eastern television channels, Galloway defended Iraqi rebels attacking Western forces as "martyrs" in August 2005, referring to Iraqis who were working with the allies security forces as "collaborators" and saying it was "natural" for them to be suicide bombers. "These poor Iraqis, who have ragged people with their sandals and their Kalashnikovs with the best and most basic of weapons, are writing the names of their towns and towns in the film, which have made the country ungovernable." We don't know who they are, we don't know their names, we don't know their names, we never saw their faces, and we don't have any pictures of their martyrs, so we don't know the names of their martyrs. Galloway was questioned by the BBC but deny making the "martyrs" remark.

Galloway continued to praise Tariq Aziz. During Al Jazeera's general election bid in April 2005, he characterized Aziz as "an eminent diplomat and intellectual person." Aziz was "a political prisoner" in his view and argued for his freedom.

Political career since 2012

Galloway returned to parliament in March 2012, defeating Labour MP Marsha Singh due to sickness, with Galloway calling it "the most remarkable victory in British political history." His 36% vote, defeating Labour candidate Imran Hussain, was one of the largest in modern British political history. In a tweet, Jeremy Corbyn, a backbench Labour MP, congratulated him. Galloway described the result as a "Bradford spring" (after the Arab Spring) and said that it represented the "complete rejection" by voters of the three leading political parties.

Galloway's campaign was marred by controversies, including concern over sectarianism, Baradari (clan) networks, and allegations regarding rivals' lack of "Islamic values" in wards, according to Andrew Gilligan of The Daily Telegraph that the campaign was marked by controversy, particularly over sectarianism, as well as those with a majority Muslim population. In a role that has not followed national trends in the past, BBC political editor Nick Robinson said it was "a one-off political coup by a political one-off" in a one-off political coup. Galloway's "campaign shamelessly courted Muslim intolerance in smaller matters such as alcohol, according to Howard Jacobson, who portrayed himself as more Muslim than the Muslim Labour candidate who was accused of liking, shock horror, and a tipple." "It says something about the comatose nature of British politics that an effective critic of... failed wars like Mr Galloway, who defeated an established party, should be instantly savaged as a self-serving demagogue," Patrick Cockburn said in The Independent on Sunday.

Galloway said in October 2013 that being an MP was "less exciting than serving" and that being an MP was "22% frightening, with 98% trepidium."

Galloway became the Respect Party's leader in late 2013.

Galloway was chastised for making remarks on August's media show involving Wikileaks' Julian Assange. "I think Julian Assange's personal sexual conduct is something sordid and disgusting, and I condemn it." Prosecutors in Sweden wanted to challenge Assange in connection with the suspected sexual assault of two women, a charge he has denied.

"But even if the charges made by these two women were true, 100% accurate, and even if a camera in the room caught them, they don't constitute rape, at least not rape, as anyone with any sense can possibly recognize it." Galloway continued by adding, "But even if they weren't rape." "Not everyone needs to be asked prior to each insert," he said. He continued by saying that the allegations, even if true, "don't constitute rape" because starting sex with someone who is sleeping after a sexual encounter the previous night is not rape (one of the women, she said), "woke up to him [Assange] having sex with her again, something that can happen, you know." Assange's suspected behavior, he said, amounted to no more than "poor sexual behavior," and he did not accept the woman's tale even though it was not true.

Galloway's account of rape is not correct under English law, according to British barrister Felicity Gerry. Anti-rape campaigners blasted Galloway's remarks as "ignorant," "very unhelpful," "offensive," and "deeply concerning." Galloway's remarks were described as "deeply sad and inaccurate" by the nation's Respect Party leader Salma Yaqoob. She resigned from her position and the company in the process. Later, Yaqoob said that having to choose between Galloway's "anti-imperialist stances" and standing up for women's rights was "a mistake."

Galloway also left his position as a columnist for Holyrood, a Scottish political magazine, for failing to apologize for his remarks and being subjected to a No platform policy by the National Union of Students.

Galloway walked out of a public debate on February 20th after finding out that his opponent had Israeli citizenship. "Israel should evacuate immediately from the West Bank," the talk, hosted by Oxford University's Christ Church, was on the subject "Israel should flee immediately from the West Bank." Galloway asked whether he was an Israeli, and Eylon Aslan-Levy, a third-year PPE student, was questioned about whether he was an Israeli. Galloway spoke up and said, "I don't recognize Israel, and I don't discuss with Israelis," as Aslan-Levy expressed his joint British-Israeli nationality. Galloway wrote about his Facebook page: Galloway wrote: 'Spelloway's action on Facebook.'

Galloway later posted on Twitter that he had been "misled," adding that "Christ Church never told us that the discussion would be with an Israeli." It's straightforward." "At no time during my email exchange with Mr Galloway's secretary was concerned about what his opponent's nationality is," the speaker said.

Julian Huppert, a Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, attacked Galloway's behavior, according to The Times and Julian Huppert, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee issued a statement a few days later stating that, although it endorses a "boycott of Israel," the campaign continues to condemn an individual "because she or he happens to be Israeli or because they express such views."

Galloway compared debating Israeli Zionists to that of defending South African apartheid in a debate at The Oxford Union in October. Galloway said he had collaborated with Jewish anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, implying that Jews do not have to be on the side of apartheid." These remarks were criticized by Marc Goldberg, writing for The Times of Israel: "By naming Jews as Jews rather than seeking atheist ideology, Galloway makes it clear that the Jews' attempt to remove their Jewish skin and join the international community of the employees failed." Galloway is lauding these people, but he's doing so by presenting them as good Jews that others should imitate, not as anti-apartheid campaigners who everyone should imitate."

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Galloway's words drew scathing criticism from British politicians and Jewish leaders alike. Galloway's words, according to Conservative MP and pro-Israel activist Robert Halfon, are "ill-considered rant that would cause great offense to many," and that "most Bradford citizens are like British people as a whole: compassionate and generous" and that "most Bradford residents are like British people as a whole: compassionate and generous, with whom they are treated with contempt." Galloway "is so generous that he can't bear to have someone with an opposing viewpoint in his neighborhood," Jonathan Arkush, then vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said.

Daniel Taub, Israel's ambassador, visited Bradford on August 18th in response to an invitation, where he met with local councillors, faith leaders, and community representatives. Taub said in an interview that his visit to Bradford was proof that "the people of Bradford [have] sent a strong message that George Galloway does not represent them." "I cannot make Bradford an Israel-free zone as has been shown," Galloway told a BuzzFeed reporter, "I am positive the Israeli ambassador was not welcome." Galloway accused the councillors of fraternizing with a "mouthpiece for murder."

West Yorkshire Police investigated two reports to see if Galloway's words were hate speech (British law prohibits discrimination based on nationality). Galloway was questioned by the police under caution, and the inquiry was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service. Galloway subsequently blasted the police probe, saying it was "an absolute and despicable effort to limit my freedom of expression." Galloway will not be charged for his remarks on the grounds of "insufficient evidence," according to the West Yorkshire Police, although West Yorkshire Police had "recorded this case as a hate crime" in October 2014.

Galloway was assaulted in Notting Hill by Neil Masterson, a convert to Judaism, on August 29, 2014, with bruising on his head and face. Masterson was charged with religiously aggravated assault and sentenced to 16 months in jail. After being released from jail in September 2015, he soon returned to prison for a month after breaking a restraining order barred him from calling Galloway. Masterson was also banned for bullying.

Galloway abstinent from a vote in the House of Commons on October 13, 2014, because the motion also acknowledged Israel. He advocated for a one-state approach on the Respect website.

Galloway appeared on BBC's Question Time debate show in Finchley, London, within a constituency with Britain's largest Jewish population. Galloway's appearance on this version of the programme attracted a lot of media attention at the time due to his anti-Israel sentiment. Antisemitism and Galloway's opposition to the allegation that he has anti-semitic views was strongly opposed during the debate. (After winning a libel lawsuit against Jewish station Jcom Radio in 2008, Galloway said, "the slur" was "categorically wounded," after he declared "Kill the Jews, Kill the Jews." "Galloway has said and done things that cross the line from anti-Israel to antisemitic," Hadley Freeman, a columnist for The Guardian, tweeted five days later.

Galloway also said he would bring a defamation lawsuit against her. Some who had retweeted Freeman's remarks were sent a letter from Chambers Solicitors, asking for an apology and a £5,000 plus Value Added Tax (then levied at 20%) to cover the letter's expenses. By early March 2015, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, which investigates professional misconduct, was aware of the problem. Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London Eric Heinze wrote a tweet asking if she could provide evidence for her argument that Galloway is antisemitic. "Any example she could cite would obviously persuade some people, not others," Heinze wrote. Even if a majority of the people were dissatisfied, a widely circulated opinion does not lead to a concretely valid conclusion. A year ago, Chambers Solicitors' conduct was the subject of a SRA warning. A libel lawsuit must be launched within a year, and there has been no official announcement of one.

During a hustings meeting in Galloway's Bradford West constituency on April 8, heated conversations between Galloway and Labour candidate Naz Shah erupted. Galloway accused her of lying about her forced marriage, which had been the subject of an open letter written by Shah and released to the media after she was chosen as a candidate. Shah was in error in claiming that she was "subject to a forced marriage at the age of 15. You were not 15, but not 15. You were 16 and a half years old when they were announced. He then issued what he called her nikah, or a Muslim marriage certificate.

Shah pleaded with the fact that Galloway's representative impersonated her deceased father to obtain the nikah. Ron McKay, Galloway's spokeswoman, said there was no dishonesty in gaining access to the document through an intermediary in Pakistan. Shah's nikah, a copy of her Shah's nikah that states she was 15 at the time of her forced marriage, was given to media outlets by Labour. Shah was assaulted during the marriage by her own account, but McKay, The Guardian's northern editor, denied that it had been forced marriage at all.

Galloway accused Shah of favoring Israel over Israel. Galloway sent a tweet of Israelis waving Israeli flags with the caption "Thanks for choosing Naz Shah" during the campaign. The photograph was juxtaposed with another showing Palestinians celebrating his own ostensibly triumphant victory. Shah said she has participated in marches in favor of the Palestinian cause.

Galloway was defeated in the 2015 general election. Naz Shah gained a majority of 11,420 votes over him, reversing the majority of 10,000 that he had gained at the by-election three years ago.

Galloway declared on May 10, 2015, that they intend to challenge the result, alleging that inaccurate claims and misconduct related to postal voting during the campaign meant that the election's result should not be changed, but did not do so. "The continuing resistance of failed Respect Party candidate George Galloway to Shah's election, according to Fawcett, is the culmination of a sexist electoral campaign led to Galloway's." Jeremy Corbyn said in July 2015 that he found "... the tactics he used against our candidate were appalling." It was appalling," I was surprised.

Galloway's reimbursed expense claim for the rent of his constituency office in Bradford West was submitted by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), which was then at the early assessment stage.

Galloway, who lost in 2015 general election bid for Bradford West, has stated that if he ran for mayor in London in 2016, he would campaign for London mayor in 2016, which he confirmed on Twitter on May 28.

Galloway is accused of making "cutting personal threats" against Labour candidate Sadiq Khan, a Muslim whose "Galloway... appears to have considered myself an inadequate practitioner of his faith," not "intentionally concerned" who was "not missed by people who care about these things). Galloway came seventh in the final result, receiving 37,007 (1.4%) first preference votes. Sadiq Khan, London's mayor, was the second choice after the second preference was unaccounted for.

Galloway supported Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election in July 2015. "Congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn MP and good luck in the labour leadership race," Trump tweeted. "If Corbyn is elected as the Labour leader, it will change everything." He also stated that if he wins it would become a Labour Party activist "pretty damn fast." "George Galloway has not applied to rejoin the Labour Party and will not be receiving an invitation," a Labour spokeswoman told The Times: "George Galloway has not applied to rejoin the Labour party and will not be getting an invitation." During a chat with New Statesman editor Jason Cowley in July 2015, Corbyn confessed that he was disgusted with Galloway's tactics when protesting his seat against Naz Shah (Labour) during the general election. Galloway's remission to the party was a decision not within his powers, according to Huffington Post reporter Paul Waugh in December 2015.

Galloway supported Livingstone's argument after Ken Livingstone's widely criticized remarks regarding Adolf Hitler and Zionism in late April 2016. Livingstone's remarks were antisemitic, according to Galloway. In May 2016, Netanyahu tweeted, "The Israel lobby has just destroyed the Labour Party." "It's an amazing achievement."

Galloway supported Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party's leadership race in July 2016. "If Corbyn wins a big victory – and I suspect he will – then that should be fine, and it is also the final burial of Blair and Blairism," he said.

On August 18, 2016, the Respect Party "voluntarily deregistered" from the Electoral Commission.

Following Sir Gerald Kaufman's death in February, Galloway declared on 21 March 2017 that he was running as an independent candidate in the Manchester Gorton by-election scheduled for 4 May. At the 2015 general election, Gorton was one of Labour's safest seats. Following the announcement of the 2017 snap general election, which was postponed on June 8th, the by-election was postponed. Galloway then resigned in the general election. Labour won a landslide at the general election; Galloway came in third with 5.7% of the vote.

Galloway also dropped a libel lawsuit brought by Aisha Ali-Khan, his assistant's for six months in 2012. He had denied pursuing a "dirty tricks" campaign against him and the Respect Party, and she had slept at his house with her then-husband. The lawsuit was heard in the High Court. Galloway's counsel apologised on Galloway's behalf, acknowledging that he had made "defamatory allegations." Ali-Khan will be paid in terms of both her injuries and her legal fees. Both Galloway and Ali-Khan have agreed not to make any further public announcement about the litigation nor defame each other. Galloway pleaded guilty to 26 times, which Ali-Khan admitted, and the High Court sentenced Ali-Khan to a year in jail for ten weeks for contempt of court, describing her conduct as "deliberate, flagrant, persistent, and inexcusable" in 2018. Ali-Khan had been found guilty of contempt of court on a previous occasion. Ali-Khan had lodged a petition for Galloway's bankruptcy in 2017.

Galloway ran for the West Bromwich East seat as an independent in the 2019 general election, claiming to be both supportive of Corbyn's leadership and also supportive of Brexit. He came in 6th with 489 votes.

Galloway formed the Workers Party of Britain on December 14th, which describes itself as "economically radical with an independent foreign policy" and "unequivocally committed to class politics." Galloway is the party's leader.

Galloway, a vivacious MP who faces a potential recall petition, announced on November 16th, 2020, after being accused of violating COVID-19 rules.

He led All for Unity in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election and announced his intention to vote for the Conservative Party in the constituency referendum and for his own party in the list vote. This contradicted numerous other occasions in which he said that voting Conservative was something he would never even consider. Unity gained 23,299 votes in the 2018 election, or 1.9 percent, putting the party 7th nationally and giving them zero seats.

Galloway declared on May 27th, 2021, that he would run for the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election. Galloway finished third with 21.8 percent of the vote and said he would contest the results of the election in court as he said lies were revealed about him during the campaign.

Galloway was strongly chastised for his suspected apologies of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the run-up to and during Ukraine's 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Galloway attributed the conflict to "the west" and said on Twitter that the invasion was "not what I wanted" but pinned the blame on the US and "pumping Ukraine full of NATO arms." These and his colleagues, as well as Britain's Workers Party, culminated in the formation of the anti Scottish Independence Alliance 4 Unity party, led by Jamie Blackett, who announced that the group's relations with Galloway were broken. Galloway's "association with RT has given credence and authority to a hostile regime's propaganda machine," Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said.

His Twitter account was branded by Twitter as "Russian state media" because of his work by RT. "Dear @TwitterSupport I am not "Russian State Affiliated media," Galloway tweeted in response. I work for NO. #russian media. I have 400,000 followers. I'm the leader of a British political party and served in parliament for almost 30 years. "I will take court action if you do not delete this word from my name." Galloway's connection with Russian state media outlets was spelled out in his profile, and his details were stripped from his website after Twitter users announced that he was pointing to them.

George Galloway, who lived in Batley and Spen in 2021 by-election, wrote a video in mid-May 2022 announcing that he would "put my own hat in the ring" and run in the 2022 Wakefield by-election for the Workers Party of Britain, criticizing Labour's selection process. Galloway, on the other hand, said that he would like for a local candidate among the Labour ranks to stand.

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