Tag: Gaza
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...
Israel backing Gaza ‘gangs’ to create unlivable chaos, says academic
Asia Pacific Report
While the Israeli government claims it is backing "clans" in Gaza to counter the resistance movement Hamas, the groups it supports more...
Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites ‘a great sin’, says former...
Asia Pacific Report
A former senior UN aid official has condemned the bloodshed at the notorious US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid food depots,...
NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood,...
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...
New Zealand’s shameful role in the 1917 destruction of Gaza
As we’ve watched from afar the tragedy unfolding in Gaza over the past 22 months, it’s worth remembering the part New Zealand troops played...
Fiji ‘failing’ the Gaza genocide and humanity test, says rights group
Asia Pacific Report
The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji has sharply criticised the Fiji government's stance over Israel's genocide in Gaza, saying it...
‘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....
Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and occupied West Bank targeted three business sites accused of being "complicit" in Aotearoa New...
UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...
Asia Pacific Report
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has called on countries to cut off all trade and financial...
The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report...
Asia Pacific Report
In the new weekly political podcast, The Bradbury Group, last night presenter Martyn Bradbury talked with visiting Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal.
They...
Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation
ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges
Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end.
I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during...
Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time
COMMENTARY: By Ahmad Ibsais
On June 22, American warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace and dropped 14 massive bombs.
The attack was not in response to a...
Iran accuses US over ‘torpedoed diplomacy’ – passes bill to halt...
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem
Kia ora koutou,
I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem
Kia ora koutou,
I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
Former Canberra diplomat Ali Kuzak dies on the way to Palestine
Ali Kazak: born Haifa, 1947; died May 17 2025, Thailand
By Helen Musa in Canberra
Former Palestinian diplomat and long-time Canberra identity Ali Kazak died on...
As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in...
Nakba Day today marks 15 May 1948 -- the day after the declaration of the State of Israel -- when the Palestinian society and...
Baptist Church condemns ‘appalling’ Israeli Palm Sunday attack on hospital
Asia Pacific Report
The Baptist Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East has condemned Israeli's Palm Sunday attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the last functioning...
Israel destroys only a quarter of Gaza tunnels in 18 months...
The New Arab
The Israeli military has reportedly only destroyed 25 percent of tunnels used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 2023,...
Chris Hedges: The last chapter of the Gaza Strip genocide
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other...
Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Markela Panegyres and Jonathan Strauss in Sydney
The new Universities Australia (UA) definition of antisemitism, endorsed last month for adoption by 39...