"You don’t get to just sit there and enjoy it."

By now you’ve probably seen the footage of two protesters disrupting Jerry Seinfeld’s show at QUDOS Bank Arena in Sydney on Sunday.

The footage used by most media outlets was shot by Australian Jewish Association CEO Robert Gregory, who also did an extensive round of sympathetic media appearances on Monday, including on Channel Nine, Channel 7 and FOX News.

Surprisingly, no media outlet used footage of the protest taken by one of the protesters themselves. It was published on the Instagram page of Little Palestine at Albo’s, the months-long protest encampment outside Anthony Albanese’s electorate office in Marrickville.

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Aboud was one of the protesters who disrupted Seinfeld’s show on Sunday night. He was born in Jordan after both sides of his family were expelled from Palestine during the 1948 Nakba.

He says he’s not surprised that the way most media reports have framed the story.

“I wasn’t expecting the media to report on it fairly, given what we’ve seen over the last eight months,” he says. “I haven’t bothered to read the articles. I’ve seen the headlines, which kind of made me laugh — they were saying I was ‘savaged’ by him, but his responses were so weak. If anything, their reactions revealed them for the racist genocide-enabling ‘savages’ that they are."