This tweet reports a summary of his remarks: https://x.com/gazaheart/status/1823092772972433916?t=cSmsCSLd1YlDF6MCItAwFQ ( archive: https://archive.is/Uh611 )

Samah Sabawi

@gazaheart

Here is what Jayson Gillham’s said on his Sunday August 11 performance that outraged @MelbSymphony 's Zionist donors. Two of the pieces Jayson played were a cry against injustice and oppression. The first was by Hungarian Jewish composer and holocaust survivor Ligeti. Jayson introduced the piece explaining how Ligeti was twice oppressed as a Hungarian in Romania and as a Jew and how he was forced into a labor camp and survived Auschwitz etc… The second piece was a last minute addition to the program, ‘Witness’ new work by Aust composer Connor D’Netto dedicated to the journalists of Gaza. Jayson introduced this piece by saying in the last 10 months Israel killed over 100 journalists a number were a targeted assassinations. This is a war crime. Journalists were targeted to prevent them from documenting and broadcasting of war crimes. Witness in Arabic means Shahid - from the same root word as Shaheed which means martyr. So there you have it. Two introductions one applauded the other might cost his career. This is what discrimination and privilege look like. #Palestine #MSO #Gaza #Israel #GazaGenocide