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George Galloway: Protest at Ulster Hall before speaking event
BBC News ^ | 24th August 2013 | BBC News

Posted on 08/24/2014 12:46:39 PM PDT by the scotsman

'About 200 loyalist protesters gathered outside the Ulster Hall in Belfast, where MP George Galloway took part in a public speaking event.

Some of the protesters were carrying Israeli flags.

The event had attracted controversy after the Respect MP made comments urging people in Bradford to reject all Israeli goods, services, academics and tourists.

The staging of the event was opposed by unionist parties in Belfast.

Some city councillors called for a review of it but Belfast City Council said the event would go ahead.

Mr Galloway had said he would not withdraw from the event, billed as Saturday Night with George Galloway.'

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1 posted on 08/24/2014 12:46:39 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

Galloway, on Saddam’s pay, and beholden to lunacy...


2 posted on 08/24/2014 12:48:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: the scotsman

Do most of the Unionist despise him and support Israel?


3 posted on 08/24/2014 12:48:30 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: the scotsman

Even the Labour Party kicked this degenerate out of their party. It’s quite telling that he’s apparently too openly evil for the socialists.


4 posted on 08/24/2014 12:50:47 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: the scotsman

I thought he died long time ago


5 posted on 08/24/2014 12:53:40 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: the scotsman

“Saturday Night with George Galloway.’”

As much fun as having a Molar removed.


6 posted on 08/24/2014 1:05:15 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: SevenofNine

The world would be so lucky.


7 posted on 08/24/2014 1:20:42 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: the scotsman
George Galloway is the only man I know who gets his suicide vests fitted on Saville Row.
8 posted on 08/24/2014 2:12:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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To: the scotsman

Saturday Night with George Galloway? Hard to pull out of something named after you. Someone among the protesters should call him out though on his apparent conversion to Mohammadanism.


9 posted on 08/24/2014 3:07:03 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: elhombrelibre

The Unionists (obviously not all of them) generally support Israel, this is for two reasons.

First the Irish Republicans always received weapons and training from Palestinian terrorists as well as Colonel Qaddafi (a point often overlooked by conservative Irish Americans) so naturally the protestants took to supporting the Israelis. If you travel around Northern Ireland you will frequently know which territory you are in by the flags flying from lamp-posts, Irish Triclour/Palestinian flags: Catholic, British Union Jack/Israeli flags: Protestant.

But the protestants also have a sort of spiritual affinity with the Israelis, regarding themselves as beleaguered little outposts of settlers with a fondness for Old Testament justice among hostile natives, the prods also felt a bit of support for the Afrikaners too back in the day.


10 posted on 08/24/2014 7:49:15 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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To: PotatoHeadMick
I've been to Belfast and seen the murals and flags (the Union Jack the Irish Republic's flag). I agree that many Americans of Irish heritage have historically been blinded to the types of rogues and terrorist the IRA did business with in ways that are, frankly, un-American.
11 posted on 08/25/2014 2:46:47 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
I've been to Belfast and seen the murals and flags (the Union Jack the Irish Republic's flag). I agree that many Americans of Irish heritage have historically been blinded to the types of rogues and terrorist the IRA did business with in ways that are, frankly, un-American.
12 posted on 08/25/2014 2:48:08 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: the scotsman

Was he dressed up as a kitty cat?


13 posted on 08/25/2014 2:59:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Yes.


14 posted on 08/25/2014 8:59:40 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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