• @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      374 months ago

      The article quotes him saying more:

      The five-minute piece is dedicated to the journalists of Gaza and was written for Gillham, according to D’Netto’s website. On Wednesday morning, Gillham’s team released the full transcript of what he said while introducing Witness.

      “Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than one hundred Palestinian journalists,” Gillham told the crowd on Sunday.

      “A number of these have been targeted assassinations of prominent journalists as they were travelling in marked press vehicles or wearing their press jackets. The killing of journalists is a war crime in international law, and it is done in an effort to prevent the documentation and broadcasting of war crimes to the world.

      “In addition to the role of journalists who bear witness, the word Witness in Arabic is Shaheed, which also means Martyr.”

    • @EurekaStockade@lemmy.world
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      104 months ago

      Nah it wouldn’t be that, those sorts of land acknowledgements are very common in Melbourne, especially in the Arts, that would have been perceived as utterly uncontroversial by the MSO

      • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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        4 months ago

        Land acknowledgements devoid of teeth are common, where someone flaccidly admits that Indigenous people exist and have some unspecified connection to the land, not where someone actually states out loud the crimes that put their opera house on that land.

        This was a good acknowledgement that actually implicates the current ruling class. That’s why they cancelled him.

        Edit: he actually went on to say more, but I stand by the fact that this wasnt just a standard acknowledgement.

    • @fine_sandy_bottom
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      14 months ago

      This is absolutely untrue.

      He probably did say this, but he was cancelled because of his comments about israel.