I feel like if you’re a political journalist covering the Batley and Spen by-election with regards to George Galloway and the local Muslim community, it really is quite disgraceful to not mention his record of extremist genocidal anti-Muslim bigotry & war crimes revisionism. 
It is simply not good enough to find a few of the most reactionary voices in the Muslim community campaigning for Galloway and hold them up as representative of the community’s feeling towards the current Labour leader while not interrogating Galloway’s dictator apologism.
George Galloway is a virulent antisemite and someone who has also repeatedly smeared Muslim communities under fire in countries like Syria and China as being terrorists. His position on Palestine is motivated by racial and religious hatred, not social justice.
There will always remain a small group of reactionaries who will follow Galloway. If you are simply platforming those views without any level of critical thought, you are merely helping an antisemitic islamophobe spread his poisonous message.
Never in a million years would you find Starmer talk about Muslims the way Galloway does in the screenshots I shared above. If your narrative after that is still that Muslims are turning towards Galloway because of international politics, you’re going to have to explain yourself.
At the very least, you’re going to have to ask the Galloway campaigners what they think of his full throated support for the Assad regime and Uighur genocide denial. If you haven’t done that, I am seriously going to question your intentions.
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