Payman's Labor emails revelation
In an exclusive interview, Fatima Payman reveals she was called in to console a Palestinian man whose family members were killed in Gaza after a Labor MP's office sent him a pro-Israel templated answer.
Newly independent Senator Fatima Payman alleges WA Labor asked her to intervene after a local MP accidentally sent a pro-Israel templated answer to a constituent whose family members were killed in Gaza.
Payman, Australia’s first hijab-wearing MP, quit Labor on Thursday after voting against the government over the recognition of Palestine last week, when she declared she was “not elected as a token”.
In an interview with Capital Brief after that decision (read the full transcript here), Payman alleged she was called to the office of a WA state MP — who she did not name — a few months ago to speak to a Palestinian man whose family members had been killed in Gaza.
“I was called in to basically be there for damage control … to put out the fire, and tell this Palestinian man that we care that he's lost so many family members who'd been brutally killed,” she said.
