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LONDON mayoral candidate George Galloway said yesterday that he would use his position to rally support for Palestine if he wins the 2016 vote.
The Respect Party leader said he would not call for the capital to be an “Israel-free zone” as he did as MP for Bradford West before he was unseated by Labour in May.
But he said that he would promote his “moral position” on the bloody 67-year conflict, which accounted for the deaths of more than 2,100 Palestinians and 57 Israelis last summer alone.
He told the BBC1 Sunday Politics programme: “It would certainly be my aim to encourage the huge swell of pro-Palestinian support in London.
Palestine has more supporters in London than anywhere else in the country.”
Mr Galloway also pitched himself as the most appealing candidate to traditional Labour voters apart from MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington Diane Abbott.
He said she was a “long-time comrade” that he would support.
“My pitch is that we need someone to speak for the great majority of London, not just those that are dripping in gold,” he said.
