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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade Media correspondent

Antoinette Lattouf concedes some of her social media posts on Israel-Gaza ‘may be’ considered controversial

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf (centre) arrives at the federal court of Australia in Sydney on Monday.
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was dismissed three days into a five-day casual radio contract in December 2023. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf has conceded some of her social media posts about the Israel-Gaza war “may be” considered controversial but she was only sharing “facts”, a court has heard.

The comments highlighted by the ABC’s counsel in the federal court in Sydney on Monday included that the state of Israel is guilty of apartheid, that Benjamin Netanyahu is the “most far-right extremist” leader in Israel’s history and that “Gaza is being annihilated hourly”.

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