Tag: Gaza genocide
The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice
COMMENTARY: By Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh
A temporary ceasefire and release of some Palestinians in a prisoner exchange is not a "peace agreement" and it is...
Sara Awad: Why Gaza still looks to the freedom flotillas for...
COMMENTARY: By Sara Awad
On October 10, a ceasefire in Gaza was officially announced. International news media were quick to focus on what they now...
Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that...
This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism....
‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive...
RNZ News
Three New Zealanders, who were detained in Israel, after taking part in an international flotilla heading to Gaza, claim they were treated like...
Misleading ‘justification’ column on Peters and Palestine panned
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto of G News
This morning New Zealand Herald columnist and political commentator Matthew Hooton was paid to write an article justifying...
PSNA cautiously welcomes Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has "cautiously welcomed" the Gaza ceasefire and proposed exchange of hostages...
Two years after October 7: Israel’s war, Gaza’s ashes, and the...
ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier
Two years ago, Israel suffered what was perhaps the most jarring day in its modern history. The events of October...
NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says
RNZ News
More than 100 people who were part of the intercepted flotilla to Gaza -- including those from New Zealand -- have entered Jordan.
The...
John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our...
New Zealanders deserve to know how the country’s foreign policy is made, writes John Hobbs.
ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs
The New Zealand government remains unwilling to...
Australia’s National Press Club blocks Hedges’ Gaza media talk, lines up...
One Path Network
The National Press Club of Australia has abruptly cancelled a scheduled address by renowned journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Chris Hedges, who...
Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....
ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett, University of Technology Sydney
Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza...
Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted...
Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...
Israel is boosting its Zionist influence in the Pacific. Australia has exposed such media influence. The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny....
250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...
Reporters Without Borders
In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets...
Police plan for march which will shut Auckland Harbour Bridge this...
RNZ News
New Zealand police say planning is well underway ahead of a pro-Palestinian march that will shut the Auckland Harbour bridge later this month.
The...
How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide
COMMENTARY: By Walden Bello
I am alarmed by reports that Filipino journalists were flown in by the Israeli government to participate in what is essentially...
There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians...
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has 'lost the plot' and has condemned attacks on Gaza.
"It is...
NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet...
Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney
The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian...
New Zealand challenged to vote for Israel’s suspension at UN
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has challenged the New Zealand government to support a move by Türkiye to vote to suspend Israeli...
Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter...
Pacific Media Watch
An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel's trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies...
Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as...