Green Left’s Riley Breen caught up with Nasser Mashni, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network President, at the pro-Palestine protest in Boorloo/Perth on June 6, to ask him what the federal government must do to help stop Israel’s genocide. The ABC had recently conducted an interview with Mashni, but then pulled it down.

Do you know why that was, or has the ABC given you any sort of explanation?

I had a phone call from the ABC, and they told me that it was inadvertently posted by a junior producer and that once he realised that he’d posted it, he took it down.

I’ve worked in this space for decades and my voice has been silenced many times; I’ve also been the subject of many smear campaigns. Back in November 2023, when I was slated to appear on Q&A, Zionists, including the new antisemitism envoy, wrote to then-chair Ita Buttrose and Managing Director David Anderson demanding I not be given a platform.

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