# The National Press Club of Australia Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists - Read by Eunice Wong

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Podcast: [The Chris Hedges Report Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680)
Published: 2025-10-29T14:05:00+00:00
Episode link: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-national-press-club-of-australia-61a
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## Resource

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published October 3, 2025. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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. It is true that I know only one side of the picture from the seven years I spent covering Gaza. I was on the receiving end of Israeli attacks, including being bombed by its air force and fired upon by its snipers, one of whom killed a young man a few feet away from me at the Netzarim Junction. We lifted him up, each person taking hold of an arm or a leg, and lumbered up the road as his body swayed like a heavy sack. I saw small boys baited and shot by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Younis. The soldiers swore at the boys in Arabic over the loudspeakers of their armored jeep. The boys, about 10 years…

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