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Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine
Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".
Osman Faruqi
7 October 2025 . 7:52 PM
[image: Chris Hedges, beside a National Press Club of Australia (NPC) sign, holds a message confirming his NPC address]
I was scheduled to give a talk at the National Press Club of Australia on October 20 called “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists.” It was to focus on the amplification of Israeli lies in the press, which most reporters know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel. But, perhaps inadvertently proving my point, the chief executive of the press club, Maurice Reilly, cancelled the event. The announcement of my talk disappeared from the web site. Reilly said “that in the interest of balancing out our program we will withdraw our offer.”
The Israeli Ambassador, retired Lt. Colonel Amir Maimon, who spent 14 years in the Israeli military, is reportedly being considered to speak.
#auspol
The Gaza conflict is just so wrong on so many levels. Hamas should release all the hostages and disband immediately, and Israel should withdraw and relinquish all plans to annex Gaza.
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But neither will happen, the genocide will continue. The civilians will pay the cost. And Hamas will grow stronger, both inside Gaza and outside.
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The more Palestinians Israel kills, the more Hamas martyrs they create. It's a never ending story, and the only winners are the arseholes behind the scenes pulling the strings.
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And a lot of those arseholes are pulling strings inside the Trump administration... and, I suspect, the Australian government.
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International relations are a complex mixture of smoke, mirrors, diplomacy, deception, threat and brute force.
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And we, Australia, have thrown our lot in with the USA and UK. A historic alliance. And our little AUKUS cabal is pro-zionist. So Australia is forced to be pro-zionist. But a large chunk of everyday Australia is appalled at what is happening. We want peace.
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Neville Chamberlain wanted peace, so he refused to confront the Nazis. We all saw how that ended.
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I think we as a nation are reaching a point where we will have to make a decision.
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Do we support Israel, support AUKUS or do we do what is right ?
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It might be cold on our own, but it might be worth it...
Jones, a self-proclaimed self-defence #expert, has previously posted online that people should “train to make it easy to be able to #kill”.”
Show me people who #ASIO and #ASIS take an interest in?
When the DG of the Intelligence services talks about foreign influence, this is what it looks like. What foreign country paid our proclaimed SME for this kind of political action?