The missing interview and dead link were later noted by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, who posted about it on Instagram.
Legend.
The URL of the removed article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-26/pms-gaza-comments-too-late-says-advocate/105338640
I’m currently on https://www.abc.net.au/news/contact providing “Feedback” criticising the ABC for this decision. In my message, I’m noting:
- The ABC’s legislated requirement to provide a broad range of perspectives
- The growing international consensus that Israel is committing genocide
- The ABC’s recent history of caving to pro-Israel pressure (and the waste of taxpayer resources in taking their Lattouf case to court) and how this latest case is showing a trend that damages the ABC’s reputation for impartiality
And calling on the ABC to explain why this was removed, immediately reinstate the interview, and commit to ensuring they do better about representing human rights in the future. I encourage others to do the same.
edit: after completing that form, I was informed that actually I should be submitting here: https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=6354974197519 to “make a complaint”. I am saying “Bias” best describes my issue, on the ABC NEWS website.
edit the second: in making the complaint, I decided to also add a bit about:
- The ABC’s duty to fair and honest dealing with interview subjects. Mashni should have been informed by the ABC that they took down his interview and why. It should not come to his attention when readers tell him they couldn’t find the interview.
Someone has an archive of the video: https://xcancel.com/JonesHowDareYou/status/1927235160472215770
It looks like Nasser or his team had already uploaded a copy to Instagram and it also seems to be a higher quality copy:
Streisand effect, go!
Oh awesome!
So he is calling for the elimination of Israel? Or is he calling for a one-nation state where a Palestinian majority will supposedly conduct a democracy without misogyny, homophobia ignoring the Hamas agenda to expel all Jews?
Am well aware there are a growing number of Jews with an agenda to expel all Arabs from Gaza. I wouldn’t want ABC propagating sloganeering from them either.
He’s calling for an end to the genocide, and for the Australian government to cease promoting genocide by doing two-way arms trade with the genocidal state.
Anything else is whataboutism.
The Post is literally summarised here in my Lemmy feed with:
During the interview, Nasser Mashni made a pointed remark that it was time ‘for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea’
That could well be why the interview was pulled. One could argue whether that slogan is sinister or not. If sinister they could have aired it without the slogan (but some would argue against platforming someone with that view).
These are the actual issues it seems, certainly not whataboutism.
EDIT: Turns out this Crikey article is not paywalled (unlike most of Crikey). So I read it and platforming should not be an issue since it says the guy is a regular.
The closing paragraphs are:
Crikey received a statement from the ABC on Wednesday morning, a day after this story was published, which said the interview had been uploaded to the broadcaster’s website and iview accidentally.
“The original content was done as a live-to-air interview as part of broader coverage and was not intended to be published as a stand-alone clip. It was mistakenly uploaded and when that was noticed it was taken down,” a spokesperson said.
Ah interesting. That edited statement was not there when I first read the article. Frankly, I don’t believe the ABC’s claim. If it were true, that’s an answer that could easily have been provided in time for publication. They’ve come up with a post-hoc excuse after seeing how much play this story was getting. They had initially hoped to quietly acquiesce to the pro-genociders without attracting as much attention as the last time they did so.
And since they went through the bother of “accidentally” uploading it, why did they go through the extra bother to remove it?
They play both sides. Am sure they have their own internal battles of which side to support since they do not seem consistent to me.
From what I can tell, the average ABC worker is on the right side of this. But ABC management seems to have a direct line to the genocide supporters. And when the Israel lobbyists tell Kim Williams (or formerly Ita Buttrose) to jump, he (she) asks “how high?” We only need look at the Lattouf case or, less sensationally, Sandy Gutman, to see that.
That’s why what repeatedly happens is the right thing happens at first. Then management gets wind of it, usually because of DMs from lobbyists, and orders a reversal.
In this case, I think what probably happened is it got uploaded as normal. Because that’s what they do. Any vaguely interesting segment of television gets uploaded to their website and iView. Then the Israel lobby saw it, saw that he was calling out their genocide, and got on the like to Williams or Hugh Marks or someone else on the board or management, and they sent down the instruction to nix it.
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Maybe. I couldn’t find the report if it did, but that’s not a huge surprise given how hard this is to google for.
I’d be extra interested if it happened under the current Media Watch host, who has ties to zionist organisations (he studied at Moriah College, a member of the zionist “Jewish Communal Appeal”), and started on Media Watch in February or March this year.
From what I can tell, the average ABC worker is on the right side of this.
The average worker is Left wing and therefore agrees with Hamas’ position. I am Left but often disagree with them on the Gaza issues. In fact their dodgy reporting on Al Ahli hospital early on lost them their credibility.
I have not seen any news organisation consistently report “fairly”. The only example of even-handedness was a pair of entries from a blogger a couple of months into the war (probably still valid - let me know if it has dated)…
https://yoavfisher.medium.com/israel-has-lost-the-war-d7b9b3934f73
https://yoavfisher.medium.com/hamas-has-lost-the-war-5bea9813fcf3
I think it’s very important to start from the place of acknowledging that nothing Hamas does or has done is relevant. Whether someone condemns Hamas or wholeheartedly supports them, or (as most people probably do) sit somewhere in between, really doesn’t matter. Because genocide is absolutely, totally, inexcusable. Even if Hamas were committing genocide themselves, that does not excuse Israel’s genocide. And the fact is that Hamas isn’t committing genocide. They literally could not if they wanted to. They haven’t the power necessary for it.
Any organisation that is censoring people who accuse Israel of genocide, or who play whataboutism games by trying to ensure that condemnations of Israel are always followed by condemnations of Hamas, are abetting genocide.
This meme summarises it nicely.
You can’t be “left” when you’re pro-genocide
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