ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview

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:
https://www.instagram.com/iamthenassman/reel/DKHKBUlTTsZ/
- Streisand effect, go!
- Oh awesome!

Cowards. They're so afraid of blowback that they capitulated to the most disingenuous bastards imaginable.

Ain't mordoch from AU?
Parasite got too much pull over global media. May st Luigi bless his heart.
- Murdoch is an American citizen. He literally chose to give up his Australian citizenship. As far as I'm concerned, that makes him less Australian than the average random American who's never been to Australia. They at least have zero Australianness. Murdoch has negative.

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.
- Listen to the words he actually said
  He said 'for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea'.
  That is a call for Islamic Imperialism, for the end of Israel and the killing of all Israelis including the 20% of Israelis who are Muslim.
Nobody cares about Israel in the main stream opinion
Tell Israeli regime played it self 🤡