Israel propagandists prepare for illegal attack on flotilla by targeting… George Galloway?

Israel plans to attack people taking aid to the people in Gaza it has been killing and starving for two years. And to justify that assault, Israel has targeted… UK politician George Galloway.

Two years into its genocidal crimes in occupied Palestine, the apartheid state’s ongoing impunity has normalised the idea that it will illegally attack humanitarians outside its territory without thinking twice. But going after Galloway ahead of its new assault on the aid volunteers in the Global Sumud Flotilla takes its propaganda into new territory.

“An absurd but deadly smear” from Israel against George Galloway

Israel’s propaganda machine is trying to justify it future crimes, as it always does, by painting the humanitarian aid mission as ‘Hamas‘ – and confusing George Galloway as someone else, while claiming he is part of Hamas. That might be funny if Israel hadn’t already murdered countless journalists and civilians using the same argument.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s propaganda against the Global Sumud Flotilla has sunk to new lows: to smear a humanitarian mission bringing aid to starving civilians, it pointed to a photo of long-time British politician, broadcaster, and activist @georgegalloway and claimed the… https://t.co/G4BRFhgtEA pic.twitter.com/eZ07beBjhA

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 30, 2025

Galloway, the former MP and current leader of the Workers Party of Britain, responded by calling the Israeli propaganda:

an absurd but deadly smear against Greta Thunberg and the flotilla bound for Gaza

He added:

For the record: I have nothing to do with Hamas or the flotilla.

After Saturday’s encounter with the Terrorism Act on Tuesday the Israeli government has published my photographs with a target circle round my head in an absurd but deadly smear against Greta Thurnberg and the flotilla bound for Gaza. A British Palestinian man Zaher Birawi who…

— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) September 30, 2025

Galloway’s party asserted:

Keep your hands off our leaders, fascists…

We warn you, this will be taken down and used in evidence.

Keep your hands off our leaders, fascists.

Did our Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood take instructions to arrest George and Gayatri at the weekend?

We warn you, this will be taken down and used in evidence. https://t.co/5HegIhtSmB

— Workers Party of Britain (@WorkersPartyGB) September 30, 2025

Israeli-British attacks on anti-genocide voices

In recent days, as well as Israel the British state also targeted George Galloway by detaining him and his wife Gayatri at Gatwick Airport. He said authorities had told him:

You’re not under arrest, but you are not free to leave, and that you have a legal obligation to answer any and all questions.

His party added:

The detention of our leader this weekend should worry everybody. Detention, discrimination, intimidation and interference in what is left of the democratic life of our country.

It’s a battle for democratic freedoms. We are in the leadership of this historic fight. We must unite with everybody who is willing to sink this extremist Home Secretary and her genocide supporting colleagues.

Galloway also referred to Britain’s draconian crackdown on anti-genocide voices, warning about how much politics has changed since he was a child:

I grew up in a brief period of social democracy. Nobody would dream of telling you you were under arrest for holding a placard

Galloway’s detention came as Richard Tice, deputy leader of Britain’s dominant far-right party Reform UK, was in Israel visiting war criminals.

An Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla seems imminent. As Jewish campaigner David Adler insisted early on 1 October:

Last night, several Israeli naval ships menaced our convoy. They attacked our vessels, intimidated our crew, and disabled our communications.

We recognize these tactics from previous flotilla missions. We know that they are the precursor to what we have long feared: illegal Israeli abduction in international waters.

As I write this, we are preparing ourselves for such an imminent attack.

Featured image via the Canary