British MP Galloway Released after Being Brutally Beaten over ’Israel’ Views

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George Galloway has been released from hospital a day after being attacked in London, for his anti-"Israeli" views. His spokesman said the UK MP appears to have some broken ribs and bruising to his head.

Galloway, who is a MP for the Respect Party, was posing for pictures in the Notting Hill Gate area of west London, when he was attacked Friday evening.

His spokesman believes he was set upon because of his views on "Israel". The attacker, who police say was a 39-year-old man and has since been arrested, allegedly called the MP "a Hitler" and also leapt on him.
"George was posing for pictures with people and this guy just attacked him, leapt on him and started punching him," the spokesman said.

He further added: "It appears to be connected with his comments about "Israel" because the guy was shouting about the Holocaust."

It was initially feared that Galloway, 60, who has his own show on RT, "Sputnik - Orbiting the World with George Galloway," had suffered a broken jaw, but his spokesman said that this was not the case.

The MP for Bradford West, in the north of England, is one of the UK's most outspoken lawmakers, but is also known for his harsh stance against "Israel".
At a rally to support the Palestinian cause in July in London, he said in a speech: "We are here to stay. As long as one Palestinian remains alive we will be with them." Galloway has been particularly vocal about "Israel's" aggression into Gaza, which has martyred well over 2,000 Palestinians, the vast majority civilians.

In early August, Galloway went as far as to declare his constituency an "Israel-free zone." The MP, whose constituency has one of the highest Asian populations in the UK, urged people not to buy "Israeli" goods or services and even to reject tourists.
"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," the MP said. "We don't even want any "Israeli" tourists to come to Bradford, if any of them had thought of doing so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself "Israel"."

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