Bradford MP George Galloway is under investigation by the West Yorkshire police for declaring the city an “Israel-free zone,” the BBC reports.
Galloway, from the Respect Party, made his remarks during a party meeting in Leeds on Saturday.
George Galloway, a member of the minority Respect Party, speaks after winning the Bradford West seat in March 2012. (photo credit: AP/PA, Anna Gowthorpe)
“We have declared Bradford an Israel-free zone,” he said. “We don’t want any Israeli goods. We don’t want any Israeli services. We don’t want any Israeli academics coming to the university or the college.
“We don’t even want any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford, even if any of them had thought of doing so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel — and you have to do the same.”
A police spokesman says: “We have received two separate complaints about comments attributed to George Galloway, MP, during a speech he gave at a public meeting in Leeds on the 2nd of August, 2014. We are currently investigating the complaints.”
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