{"id":21913,"date":"2014-08-13T22:33:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T02:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21913"},"modified":"2014-08-13T22:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T02:35:03","slug":"george-galloway-finds-a-way-to-entice-jews-to-bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/george-galloway-finds-a-way-to-entice-jews-to-bradford\/","title":{"rendered":"George Galloway finds a way to entice Jews to Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult to find any compelling reason to visit Bradford; I accidentally passed through it once when I became lost on my way to somewhere more interesting. George Galloway, the eccentric, or as some would have it, congenitally unbalanced politician for Bradford West (a <em>particularly<\/em> uninteresting subdivision of the already excruciating dull City of Bradford), has devised an ingenious scheme to lure Jews, for whom he clearly has a particular affection, into his constituency: he is employing reverse psychology:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Galloway: Bradford is an Israel Free Zone\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMSM5vvAmYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The devious plan has worked:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2724181\/George-Galloway-investigated-police-declares-Bradford-constituency-Israel-free-zone.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, just eight days after Mr Galloway\u2019s comments, a Jewish and Israeli group led by Rabbi Shneur Zalman Odze visited Bradford to \u2018prove a point\u2019 and claimed they had received a \u2018nice reception even from those who weren\u2019t pro-Israel\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first Jews to set foot in Bradford for 300 years; well done, George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult to find any compelling reason to visit Bradford; I accidentally passed through it once when I became lost on my way to somewhere more interesting. George Galloway, the eccentric, or as some would have it, congenitally unbalanced politician &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/george-galloway-finds-a-way-to-entice-jews-to-bradford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[2154,2180],"class_list":["post-21913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","tag-george-galloway","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}