Newly elected Rochdale MP Galloway, who has been voted in seven times, butted heads with Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid in an explosive ITV interview.
Veteran political firebrand George Galloway furiously clashed with the hosts of Good Morning Britain as they took the country's newest elected MP to task over his previous comments on the October 7 attacks.
Galloway claimed those comments were directed at the Iraqi people rather than Hussein himself - but fumed at Madeley and Reid for using what he said were out-of-date comments to attack him. George Galloway met Saddam Hussein in the 1990s, praising his 'courage, strength and your indefatigability' Following Galloway's election, Mr Sunak had described him as someone 'who dismisses the horror of what happened on October 7, who glorifies Hezbollah, and is endorsed by Nick Griffin, the racist former leader of the BNP'.
As he thundered. 'I'm not here on trial,' Reid stepped in to remind him: 'Sorry, you're here for an interview, George Galloway. No one is putting you on trial.' The veteran MP was then pressed on the fact he converted to Islam - a suggestion put to him in an interview with the New Statesman in 2012 by Jemima Khan, who said she was aware he had attended a conversion ceremony.
'I do not dismiss the horror of what happened on October 7. I don't glorify Hezbollah, and I wasn't endorsed by Nick Griffin.' Galloway is a frequent critic of Israel and Zionism but denies supporting Hamas, instead vowing to be on the side of Palestinian people. He did not include any evidence to support his claims, and an AFP investigation last December found almost two thirds of the dead in Israel were civilians.
The remarks were reported in a number of sources, including the Workers Revolutionary Party's News Line newspaper, and later corroborated by Galloway himself in an opinion piece for the Socialist Worker. And as he was sworn in as MP for Rochdale, he made comments that appeared to liken Israel to Nazi Germany by suggesting it was committing a 'holocaust'.
George Galloway gives a statement outside Parliament after being sworn in as the MP for Rochdale in March
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