Judging from last week's coverage of George Galloway's recent appearance at the Palestinian Cultural Center in Allston, it appears the British Member of Parliament successfully portrayed himself as a peace-loving truth-teller intent on alleviating the suffering of people in the Middle East.

It's an amazing feat for an apologist for murderers and dictators in the region.

Galloway has praised the leaders of both Hezbollah and Hamas, and has praised and defended Tariq Aziz, an official in Saddam Hussein's government convicted of crimes against humanity for his part in the summary executions of 42 merchants in Baghdad in and for his role in the displacement of the Kurds.

Galloway has mocked the reformist movement in Iran, stating the protesters were in the streets because the "cookie crumbled the wrong way" in the election that kept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in office. These protesters are being murdered in the street by a tyrannical regime that by most accounts stole an election to stay in power, and yet Galloway mocks them, going so far as to suggest that "foreign hands" were responsible for the protests in Tehran.

In response, Diana Nammi, director of the Iranian and Kurdish Women's rights Organization, a British charity to protect women from the Middle East from honor killings and forced marriage, said "[Galloway] lives in a free country and is hurting that country. Galloway has never lived in Iran. He has never been beaten for criticizing the government. If he could live in Iran for a month, then he could say it is a democracy. He has freedom, but I don't think he lives on this earth. How is it that George Galloway cannot see what is going on?"

Galloway has a different attitude toward elected leaders in the West. In May 2006, he stated that it would be "morally justified" for a suicide bomber to kill British Prime Minister Tony Blair, qualifying his statement by stating, "I'm not calling for it."

And when a Hezbollah rocket in 2006 killed nine Israeli soldiers, Galloway gloated, stating, "They [Israelis] seem to be getting a bloody good hiding on the other half of the screen." (Galloway was being interviewed live by Sky News, which used a split screen to show the carnage from the rocket attack alongside the MP as he was being interviewed.)

During his presentation at the Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace in Allston last week, Galloway defended Hamas, suggesting the organization's only sin is that the U.S., Great Britain and Israel don't like it. Never mind that Hamas's anti-Semitic charter explicitly calls for Israel's destruction, and that its leaders have called for violence against the American people.

Hamas has launched thousands of rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip -- territory that Israel withdrew from in 2005 in hopes of achieving peace -- and murdered hundreds of civilians in suicide attacks. It is to this group that Galloway and his Viva Palestina organization brought a convoy of supplies and money.

As a resident of Brighton, I am deeply concerned that the leaders of the Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace allowed Galloway to bring his dishonest and hateful message to Allston. Galloway's message is not one of peace, but a message of hostility toward Israel, Great Britain and the United States.

Dexter Van Zile is Christian media analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. He is also a resident of Brighton.