Regularly posting on social media urging the genocide of Jews and denying actual events like her supporters shouting "Gas the Jews"--- is certainly enough reason to sack Antoinette Lattouf. The only question is why it took so long to sack her.
Antoinette Lattouf has been axed by the ABC for pro-Palestine posts
Popular ABC radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf has hit back after being sacked over her outspoken posts on social media.
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you just keep digging your grave w/this clownery GWB
The original source of videos appearing to show pro-Palestine protesters chanting “gas the Jews” has shared a new video of the protest as police and independent fact-checkers have been unable to verify whether the chants happened.
Based on these videos, news outlets around the world published reports of the “gas the Jews” chants, including
Reuters (which noted that the video was “unverified”), the
New York Post and
Fox News.
But despite the enormous amount of attention and considerable response to the reports, third parties have been unable to verify the “gas the Jews” claim, and further footage corroborating the chants has failed to emerge.
Crikey has reviewed other footage from the protest captured by other attendees but has been unable to find any corroborating the AJA’s claim.
NSW Police told
Crikey that no charges hade been laid relating to the alleged chant more than two months after assistant commissioner Tony Cooke
told a press conference it was reviewing footage of the protest.
In late November,
The Sydney Morning Herald first reported that NSW Police had sent footage of the protest to an independent expert for analysis, but would not confirm what footage had been provided. On Monday, a spokesperson told
Crikey it has since sent off additional footage for further scrutiny.
Soon after the protest,
organiser Fahad Ali posted on X that he had heard “anti-Semitic chants from a group of idiots who were in a minority”, and who he asked to leave. A further post from the organiser Palestine Action Group’s Facebook page also acknowledged that
a “group of young boys, mostly in their teens chant[ed] ‘fuck the Jews’ “.
Ali confirmed to
Crikey this week that he heard the other chant but did not hear “gas the Jews”, nor had he seen any evidence it was chanted.
The only footage that appears to show the chant has come from the AJA. The posts on X do not credit who filmed the various pieces of footages, who edited it together and who captioned the video.
Crikey repeatedly called and emailed the AJA with questions about the footage, including who filmed it and how it was edited.
But new unedited footage unearthed by
Crikey, an independent audio report and interviews with forensic audio experts have cast further doubt on whether that specific chant was captured in this footage.
Even if these videos don’t depict that chant, it neither proves the phrase wasn’t chanted, nor does it cast doubt on the other (widely reported) anti-Semitic chanting from protesters.
However, a “gas the Jews” chant is both distinct and significant as that specific language would be likely to reach the criminal standard of threatening or inciting violence against protected groups, according to a
briefing reportedly given to the state’s police minister. And the interpretation of the videos will be likely to influence whether NSW Police charge protesters as they have been shown to police.
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New footage and audio experts raise further doubts about Sydney Opera House protest video
Crikey has also uncovered evidence of a previously unreported claim of a protester allegedly inciting violence.
CAM WILSON
DEC 19, 2023
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NEW FOOTAGE OBTAINED BY CRIKEY OF THE OCTOBER 9 PRO-PALESTINE PROTEST (IMAGE: SUPPLIED)
Content warning: this article mentions subjects some readers may find distressing.
Days after the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,100 people on October 7, pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House as it was lit up in blue in solidarity with Israel.
Some protesters chanted anti-Semitic slogans. Soon after, videos of the protest went viral, including one that purported to show marchers allegedly inciting violence with a chant that referenced the Holocaust.
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Against the backdrop of a
documented global rise in anti-Semitism, one group’s videos showing protesters chanting with the caption “gas the Jews” were viewed millions of times online and prompted international outrage and a rapid change to New South Wales’ hate speech legislation.
But new unedited footage unearthed by
Crikey, an independent audio report and interviews with forensic audio experts have cast further doubt on whether that specific chant was captured in this footage.
Even if these videos don’t depict that chant, it neither proves the phrase wasn’t chanted, nor does it cast doubt on the other (widely reported) anti-Semitic chanting from protesters.
However, a “gas the Jews” chant is both distinct and significant as that specific language would be likely to reach the criminal standard of threatening or inciting violence against protected groups, according to a
briefing reportedly given to the state’s police minister. And the interpretation of the videos will be likely to influence whether NSW Police charge protesters as they have been shown to police.
This new footage also appears to capture what one expert said is a protester shouting “We’re gonna kill them all”, a previously unreported allegation of incitement to violence.
Last week,
Crikey reported that police and independent verification experts had been unable to verify the edited videos that had been shared by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) claiming “Muslim mob of 100s chant ‘gas the Jews'”, and that additional evidence supporting the claims had failed to emerge. One protest organiser
confirmed that some attendees had shouted anti-Semitic chants but said they did not hear the Holocaust reference.
The AJA refused repeated requests to provide raw footage or to explain who filmed, captioned and edited the videos.
Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, and is chair of the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association’s (ASSTA) forensic speech science committee whose expertise is forensic transcription. Before
Crikey’
s inquiry, she was aware of the chants and acknowledged that it would shape her understanding of the footage.
Fraser said it could be possible to figure out what was chanted with some confidence but stressed that coming to a rigorous conclusion would need detailed analysis of extended original footage and not “comparing short clips of video and audio with unknown history and unverified captions”.
After reviewing the clips provided by
Crikey, Fraser cast doubt on the certainty with which the AJA and Sky News captioned the videos. She told
Crikey over the phone: “I would like to say that there should be a lot of suspicion around the ‘gas the Jews’ version.”
