© Lewis Whyld/PA WireRespect MP George Galloway is in "pretty bad shape" after the attack.
Mr Galloway was posing for pictures with people in Notting Hill, west London, when the incident happened.
The spokesman said: "George was posing for pictures with people and this guy just attacked him, leapt on him and started punching him.
"It appears to be connected with his comments about Israel because the guy was shouting about the Holocaust.
"George is badly bruised but OK. He has bruising to his head and face and is in a pretty bad shape."
Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of ABH and taken to the south London police station where he remains.
The motivation for the attack is unclear but Mr Galloway caused recent offence when he announced Bradford was an "Israeli-free area".
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True, but it is Jews and Jewish organizations, NOT the state of Israel, that created the "Holocaust industry" and continue to milk it for all they can get. Many Jews the world over continue to play the "Holocaust card" whenever they feel they can extract special sympathy and/or special consideration from individuals, organizations, and even countries, and act deeply affronted whenever the term is applied to anything other than "their" Holocaust.
The state of Israel does the same, playing the "Holocaust card" to excuse their actions, whenever people are critical of its policies.
To his credit (and unlike most politicians), Galloway is not cowed by these tactics, and says what he believes about most everything, to include Israeli policies. Even if one doesn't agree with everything he says, one has to respect a public figure willing to utter truths, independent of whether they are politically correct or not. It's almost certain that that is why he was attacked.
It's because the public blindly believe Israel's all -pervasive media. They also blindly believe the media campaign of hatred against all Muslims and are firmly behind the genocide of innocent people, as long as they're Muslims. All Muslims are evil by association it seems.
What a sick sick world it is.