!["My greatest worry is that [Netanyahu] does believe that his only chance of being reelected is still to have a war going on"](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Israel-on-the-brink-DN-680wide-218x150.png "Israeli historian Ilan Pappé: Despite ceasefire, Palestinians still face ‘elimination, genocide’")
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch is compiled for Asia Pacific Report as a regional media freedom and educational resource by a network of journalists, students, stringers and commentators.
NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for "immediate and independent" foreign media access to Gaza.
Earlier this month,...
Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show
Pacific Media Watch
“Speak Up Kōrerotia” -- a radio show centred on human rights issues -- has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in...
When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to...
Journalists like Anas al-Sharif who report the truth in Gaza to the world and are targeted by Israel deserve protection, not just sympathy.
COMMENTARY: By...
Suspended Green MP tells Al Jazeera NZ must stand on ‘right...
Pacific Media Watch
The New Zealand Green Party co-leader suspended over criticising government MPs over a "spineless" stance over Gaza has called for action.
Greens co-leader...
‘Will I make it back alive?’: Gaza journalists tell of being...
Pacific Media Watch
Palestinian journalists have long known Gaza to be the most dangerous place on earth for media workers, but Israel’s attack on a...
Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel
RNZ News
Protesters staged pro-Palestinian demonstrations across Aotearoa New Zealand at the weekend, calling on the government to place sanctions on Israel for its war...
Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if –...
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto
This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in...
‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates
Pacific Media Watch
Union members of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) have made a video honouring the 242 Palestinian journalists and media workers...
‘If I die, I die steadfast … I bear witness …...
Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, last Sunday has triggered protests around the world, including journalists in Israel. He left behind...
Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the...
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime
Pacific Media Watch
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of...
RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military's "disgraceful tactic" to cover up war crimes in...
Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau.
We watched...
Another Gaza injustice. Israel targets Anas in Al Jazeera media crew...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Another truth-teller targeted and killed in Gaza. I wish the journalists -- some of whom I taught to master the skills...
CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video...
Pacific Media Watch
The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al...
France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific affairs and media commentator Dr David Robie reflected on the 1985 Rainbow Warrior mission to Rongelap atoll to help US nuclear...
Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...
Pacific Media Watch
The New York Times recently revealed that the Israeli military has “never found proof” that Hamas has “systematically stolen aid from the...
Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend...
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate
After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is...
Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on...
Pacific Media Watch
Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not...
As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...
‘We pose no threat – our aim is to break the...
No New Zealanders were on board the Handala in the latest arrest and abductions of Freedom Flotilla crew on humanitarian siege-busting missions to Gaza....
Handala freedom ship loaded with Gaza aid bracing for Israeli forces
Asia Pacific Report
An activist on board the Handala, a Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid to the besieged enclave in a bid to break...
!["My greatest worry is that [Netanyahu] does believe that his only chance of being reelected is still to have a war going on"](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Israel-on-the-brink-DN-680wide-100x70.png "Israeli historian Ilan Pappé: Despite ceasefire, Palestinians still face ‘elimination, genocide’")
