By Heather du Plessis-Allan on Newstalk ZB…
Labour’s going to have to sort itself out over this Middle East situation.
This is about Damien O’Connor’s tweet. I was really surprised yesterday when I was listening to Carmel Sepuloni being interviewed on this, as the deputy leader of the Labour Party.
She was asked if he should apologise for his tweet and instead of saying yes, which is the only answer to give, she made excuses for him, saying he feels strongly about the situation as if that makes it OK.
Let me just remind you what he tweeted – “Palestinians have every right to do whatever they did on October 7th”.
And I’ll remind you what Hamas did that day. They raped and murdered innocent people.
Read, and listen to the full op-ed piece on Newstalk ZB here.
