It should come as no surprise to people that Aaron Bastani is trying to launder Galloway’s racism - that’s because Aaron Bastani agrees with Galloway on much of these issues, and he always has done. Galloway will find a home on the left for as long as Bastani does.
The fact that Bastani is still tolerated by his allies after multiple horrific statements on Syria, China, Iran, antisemitism etc is precisely why he is acting as a Galloway apologist now. He doesn’t care and knows nobody is going to do anything about it.
Every time war crimes apologism is tolerated on the left, this is the end result. When Bastani was putting out videos glorifying the mass murderer Qassem Soleimani nobody even cared, so don’t act surprised to see him whitewashing Galloway, his ideological ally on these issues.
Don’t even try and pretend Bastani is alone, Michael Walker has been engaging in Uighur genocide minimisation for months too. These people don’t give a fuck about human rights, and they don’t give a fuck about you. 
2 years ago was the moment this should have happened. Mike Segalov was virtually the only person to call Bastani out, and nobody has bothered to say or do anything since then.
Here Bastani is favourably comparing Galloway, an explicit supporter of state crimes against Muslim populations in Syria, China and beyond, to people who work on domestic deradicalisation schemes. This is pure evil, there is no other word for what he’s doing.
Aaron Bastani is an Islamophobe and a war crimes apologist. There is no nuance that you are missing, he’s a fascist thug dressed in left wing window dressing.
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