Tag: Free Palestine
World has ‘failed’ Palestinians, says Palestine’s UN envoy
Asia Pacific Report
Palestine's Ambassador the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has slammed the UN Security Council for failing to secure a ceasefire and bring...
When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share...
Pacific Media Watch
Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital of Suva. There was...
Fiji protesters call for freedom and justice in the Pacific –...
Asia Pacific Report
The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and other protesters took to the streets of Fiji's capital Suva yesterday in a rare...
Latest Kiwi crew to join Gaza Freedom Flotilla leaves on Sunday
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand activists Youssef Sammour and Rana Hamida have been selected to join the volunteer crew on the international Freedom Flotilla ship...
Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks...
Asia Pacific Report
Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and...
NZ protesters call for expulsion of Israeli ambassador over Gaza atrocities
Asia Pacific Report
A leader of one of New Zealand's main Palestine solidarity groups today called on the government to expel the Israeli ambassador and...
NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s...
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against...
Protests demand UNRWA funding restored as Israel starves Palestinians
By Alex Bainbridge, Peter Boyle, Isaac Nellist, Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan Ellis, Alex Salmon, Stephen W Enciso and Khaled Ghannam of Green Left
Thousands marched for...
NZ news media under fire for ‘bias, propaganda’ in Gaza coverage
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...
Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip
While telling today's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland about "good news" over creative humanitarian aid plans to help Palestinians amid the War on Gaza,...
John Minto: Why is mainstream media in NZ so blatantly ignoring...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Why is Aotearoa New Zealand media so silent on the Gaza genocide happening before our eyes?
Amid unreported-in-Aotearoa media stories of horrific...
Muslim Americans decry Biden’s support for Gaza ‘genocide’ – Palestinian envoy...
Palestine's UN envoy Riyad Mansour speaking at the International Court of Justice on Monday. Video: Dawn News
Pacific Media Watch
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...
Fiji human rights group condemns ‘troubling’ support for Israel at ICJ
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji human rights advocacy coalition has condemned Fiji's "profoundly troubling" stance as being one of only two countries supporting continued illegal...
Palestinian foreign minister tells ICJ of ‘besieged, bombed and killed’ Gazans
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki began his address to the week-long "historic" International Court of Justice hearings into the status of the...
Wenda accuses Indonesia of more human rights atrocities in Papua
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan pro-independence leader has accused Indonesia of new human rights atrocities this week while the republic has apparently elected a...
Israeli offensive in Rafah ‘not a way forward’ for Gaza, says...
RNZ News
With an "appalling" loss of life unfolding in Gaza, it's essential Israel halts plans for an assault on the city of Rafah, Prime...
Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award
Pacific Media Watch
The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports...
Pacific protesters feature in NZ rally against Israel’s war on Gaza
Asia Pacific Report
Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel's genocidal...
Palestinian envoy calls for ‘unity’ and ‘strategy’ for pathway to just...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestinian Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Dr Izzat Abdulhadi, last night appealed for "unity", "strategy" and "networking" for...
Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide...
Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto.
COMMENTARY: By John...
Indonesian and Papuan protesters call for ‘Palestine independence’
Asia Pacific Report
Several democratic, progressive and socialist organisations in Indonesia and in the Melanesian region of West Papua have come together in solidarity with...
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel accuses the ICJ of (you guessed it) antisemitism
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s request to dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa yesterday, ruling...