Shatter attacks former RTÉ star Murphy over Israel comments

Shatter was responding to comments that Mike Murphy made on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live programme last Monday, during which he said that Israel had become 'an apartheid regime'

Former Fine Gael TD Alan Shatter has accused the ex-RTÉ broadcaster Mike Murphy of anti-Semitism and challenged him to a live debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Shatter was responding to comments that Murphy made on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live programme last Monday, during which he said that Israel had become “an apartheid regime”.

Murphy also said that it was “a shame” that the Israeli and Jewish people had gone through the Holocaust and ...