George Galloway, a British MP. Pictured on the right literally cuddling one of the most senior members of Hamas, who organised the Oct 7 pogrom. He won an election based in large part on an appeal to Muslim voters in Rochdale, in an election in which the other leading candidate - Azhar Ali - claimed Israel wanted Hamas’ massacre to happen.
His response to (yet another) murderous attack by Islamic extremists that has claimed over 100 innocent Russian lives? To try to place the blame on the US. Rather than standing against genocidal, supremacist jihadism, the conspiratorial left and their Islamist allies can be relied upon to deflect, to whip up lies, to deny, to blame the west, and of course, to vilify and seek to implicate Israel.
His reaction is no surprise. But it does nicely encapsulate some of the darker trends in Western socio-political life.
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