Antoinette Lattouf: ABC presenter sacked over Gaza post ignites row in Australia - BBC News

Antoinette Lattouf's dismissal has also raised hard questions about Australia's public broadcaster.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Antoinette LattoufImage caption, Antoinette Lattouf inside the ABC Sydney studioBy Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, SydneyOn 20 December Antoinette Lattouf signed off from the Sydney radio show she was hosting with a promise she'd be back the next day.

"Can't wait," she told listeners.

But the veteran journalist and presenter did not return to the airwaves. Later that afternoon she was sacked, with her boss saying the order had come from "above".

She was only three days into a week-long stint filling in as host of the local Mornings show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Just hours earlier she insists she was told it was going well.

But behind the scenes, her appointment to the coveted role had attracted ardent lobbying from pro-Israel groups who accused her of antisemitism and bias.

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