“That’s shit. They could at least remember you as the ‘anti-war activist’ who dressed in a cat suit…”

GEORGE GALLOWAY
The left-wing firebrand explains why Saddam was a better company than Bertie Ahern

Throughout your career, you’ve been closely associated with Arab and Middle Eastern issues. What initially inspired you to engage with the politics of this region?
In 1975, when I was 21 years old, a Palestinian student leader named Sa’ad Jabaji came to the door of the Labour party office in Dundee. He spoke to me for two hours in a mesmerising fashion about the catastrophe the Palestinian people have suffered. I became a signed-up member of the Palestinian resistance that day and have remained so ever since. Read the rest of this entry »