Are You Racist? | George Galloway | Oxford Union

[Music] if I said in a debate that I would not debate with a Pakistani I would rightly be called a racist my question for you is are you a [Applause] racist [Applause] why are you applauding that indeed why you what kind of people would applaud that am I a racist you've sat through the last hour and a half of me speaking and you're applauding someone asking me if I'm a racist what kind of people are you or do you just applaud anything would you just applaud anything you made a better job of it than your friend I'll grant you that talking to me in a language I don't understand and then waving an Israeli flag in my face was not I suspect the finest moment that he will experience in what I hope is a long life in public affairs I I'll let you in on something you don't know I'm one of the few people on the left in Britain who traveled the length and breadth of aparte South Africa as an underground agent of the African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela then in pmore prison in Cape Town therefore the subject of aparte is particularly important to me the question of racism is particular ly important to me and in parenthesis let me tell you this that throughout the entirity of my time Underground in South Africa under aparte every house I slept in every dinner I ate every car I drove in was provided by Jewish activists of the African National Congress so Jews don't have to be on the side of aparte they don't have to be on the side of racism Jewish Jewish Heroes amongst my blood brotherhood like Dennis Goldberg who served 27 years on Robin Island in pmore prison but who never was able to touch Mandela and his comrades because they were on one side of the aparti prison wall and he and a few other Jewish Heroes of the African National Congress were on the other Dennis goldber Alby saaks Joe slovo Ruth first perhaps you've heard of these people if you haven't look them up Jews don't have to be on the side of aparte they can stand up against it and I say to those who imagine that they are friends of the state whose flag was just waved in my face turn away from the racist aparte ideology of Zionism turn back to where Jews were before the emergence and the hegemony of Zionism the greatest people on the Earth were Jews the lead ERS of the Socialist Communist Trade union liberal Enlightenment throughout the 17th 18th 19th centuries were great Jews Marx himself was a Jew none of them believed that as Jews they should go and take somebody else's country and drive millions of them around the world as refugees all all of them would have turned their back against such an ideology but because of my experience South in South Africa which included by the way being battered and blooded by a Scottish South African policeman called Campbell it's one of the reasons why I hate Alistar Campbell so much in Google to police station in the Google guu Township in Cape Town although the policeman had eventually to wash my feet in public in penitence but that's another story because of my time in South Africa because of the Decades that I worked against aparte in South Africa do you imagine that I would turn up at a university and debate aparte with a supporter from South Africa of the aparte system I'd rather punch him in the face than debate with him why because AP partite is a racist poison it is the worst kind of fascism and I would never debate with any supporter of South African aparte why should I debate with a supporter of Israeli [Applause] aparte [Music] w

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Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2013