'No Condemnation Of Israeli Destruction Of Iranian Consulate': George Galloway To Rishi Sunak (Photo Screengrab on X George Galloway MP @georgegalloway)The firebrand veteran British politician and the leftist MP George Galloway yesterday addressed British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over his reaction to the Israeli destruction of the Iranian embassy consulate in Syria’s Damascus. Addressing the Prime Minister, the British legislator elected from the Rochdale constituency in 2023 representing the recently founded Workers Party noted the double standard held by the British Prime Minister in the West Asian conflict.
In his address, Mr Galloway said, “There was not one single word in the Prime Minister’s statement of condemnation of the Israeli destruction of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which is the proximate reason for the event everyone here in the concert condemning. He was not even asked to do so by the front bench opposite. Kay Burley is the only person so far to demand that of a government minister.”
The British legislator who was expelled from the Labour in 2003 following his opposition to the Iraq war further stated that Britain has no treaty with Israel, at least not one that parliament has shown. “And the Iranians are not likely to listen to him. When Britain occupied Iran, looted its wealth and overthrew its one democratic socialist government in my own lifetime,” George Galloway said.
In his response to Galloway’s address, Prime Minister Sunak said that whatever may have happened a few weeks ago, there is “absolutely no justification for launching more than 300 drones and missiles” from one sovereign state towards Israel. Reacting specifically to the question of condemnation, Mr Sunak justified his policy noting that not once did Galloway condemn Iran’s action “or indeed the actions of Hamas in the region.” “There is no equivalent between these things whatever, and to suggest otherwise is simply wrong,” the Prime Minister said.
In another video shared by Al Jazeera, Mr Galloway was heard saying that the mantra that Israel has the right to defend itself “clearly does not apply” to Iran. “The mantra that there is a rules-based order and there is a Vienna convention protecting the inviolability of diplomatic premises of every country in every other country is clearly bunkum”. He further said that that mantra does not apply to those that the Western empire disapproves of, otherwise, every single Western government would have condemned the Israeli destruction of the Iranian Embassy.
George Galloway has been in the headlines for opposing the continuous bombardment of Gaza by Israel since the latest offensive.
In 2003, the UK’s then-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair expelled him from the party due to his strong opposition to the Iraq War. The 69-year-old politician has been accused of anti-semitism in Britain and he has even faced physical assault from a man holding an Israeli flag. His ascent from the Rochdale constituency was described as a sign of the rise in extremism in the UK by Prime Minister Sunak.