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A post on Gaza leads to turmoil at Australia’s public broadcaster

By Natasha Frost and Damien Cave
New York Times·
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The social media post simply pointed to a report from Human Rights Watch, but it was critical of Israel and came from a Lebanese-Australian journalist whom critics considered biased.

The journalist, Antoinette Lattouf, a well-known figure in the Australian media, was on a brief contract with the country’s main public broadcaster when she posted the Instagram story with the caption: “HRW reporting starvation as a tool of war.”

The next day, as pro-Israel lawyers continued a private campaign to have

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