LONDON: A man who attacked British pro-Palestinian lawmaker George Galloway in a London street while calling him “anti-Semitic” was jailed for 16 months.
Neil Masterson, 39, admitted to attacking Galloway in August in a frenzied assault while wearing a pink t-shirt with a logo of the Israeli Defence Forces, and shouting “anti-Semitic little man, I... despise you.”
A recovering drug addict, Masterson told police he felt “morally justified” in attacking Galloway, who weeks earlier had called Israel “illegal, barbarous and savage” and declared his constituency an “Israel free zone”.
An MP for the left-wing Respect party, Galloway was hospitalised for one night for cuts and bruises to his head and ribs.
AFP
