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Galloway wimps out of debate with Israeli student after being ‘misled’ over opponent’s nationality
In a statement late on Wednesday evening Galloway explained that “I refused this evening to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the Apartheid state of Israel.
George Galloway, the Member of Parliament for Bradford West, has been accused by Oxford students of anti-semitism after storming out of a debate, refusing to share a platform with an Israeli.
But students would perhaps be better placed to show that Galloway was unable, rather than unwilling to have the debate, and was avoiding challenge on the issues due to a fear of being shown up, rather than any racial prejudices.
Mr Galloway “stormed out” of a debate at Christ Church on Wednesday evening, upon finding out that his opponent, Eylon Aslan-Levy, a third-year student at Brasenose, was an Israeli citizen.
Mr Galloway had spoken for ten minutes in favour of the motion ‘Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank’, before giving way to Aslan-Levy.