Were you shocked by Naz Shah’s outbursts on social media? Were you baffled that an aspiring MP would call to “relocate” (that is, destroy and deport) Israel to America? Did you baulk, wondering why on earth a self-respecting politician would ask supporters to vote in an online poll because “the Jews are rallying”? Don’t be. Because Naz Shah, and everything she said, is normal politics in Bradford. George Galloway became Bradford West’s MP in 2012. By the time I started visiting the town in 2015, as a reporter for Jewish magazine Tablet, he had made local politics about Palestine. I contacted all the candidates vying to replace him. Most had photos exhibiting themselves at pro-Palestine rallies. One Labour hopeful responded, rather bizarrely, to my request for an interview with a video of herself speaking at a pro-Palestine rally. Naz Shah herself, whom I contacted over Twitter, stopped responding to me when I explained Tablet was a Jewish publication. Within months, every local candidate was imitating the man in the fedora. Across town, in the constituency of Bradford East, the Liberal Democrat MP David Ward was using Twitter to question how long the “apartheid state of Israel” could last, and tweeting that he too would probably “fire a rocket” if he lived in Gaza. Later, he declared himself “#JeSuis #Palestinian” in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks on a kosher supermarket, after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Swept up into his absurdistan – as Respect Party double-deckers hooted around Bradford, as teenage Gallowites tweeted like machine guns about "Zionists", Palestine and "#BradfordRising" – Naz Shah voted for the grinning Mister Galloway in 2012. It appeared to me that she came to loathe him, to resent his perceived manipulation of working class Muslims, to worry about his West London lifestyle, part-funded by his appearances on Russia Today.And it was Naz Shah that beat him in 2015. But, as her gross social media posts show, the ‘outsider’ – gone like a bad dream from Bradford the night the ballots came in for Shah – had also shaped her, just like he has shaped all other Bradford politicians. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...re-about-the-town-she-came-from-a7005336.html
Tbh I got as far as the 1st 2 lines. He's trying to immediately tell me what I can and can't think about Israel. It's an old and boring tactic.
He's talking about Bradford and the reasons why Ms Shah made the comments she did, because they are populist vote-winners in Bradford, George showed the way and everyone else copied his rhetoric. Allegedly.
Criticism of Israel is no more controversial than criticism of any other nation or state. But you may wish to bear in mind that delusions about Zionist plots are a common symptom of schizophrenia, so if Jew related paranoia begins to overwhelm you at any point, it may be worth getting your head read. Just a thought.
Just trying to help really. People who bang on about Jews and Israel a lot often tend to have mental health issues.
George Galloway politics. Pick who are the most paranoid in what ever constituency he happens to be whoring himself at that given moment and tell them what they want to hear.
