Tag: Gaza genocide
Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries
In a joint statement, more than two dozen Western countries, including New Zealand, have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza....
NZ and allies condemn ‘inhumane’, ‘horrifying’ killings in Gaza and ‘drip...
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined 24 other countries in calling for an end to the war in Gaza, and criticising what they call the...
PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel's weaponisation of starvation and demand an...
Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?
Al Jazeera
International public opinion continues to turn against Israel for its war on Gaza, with more governments slowly beginning to reflect those voices and...
Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland today across...
Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim
"If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds."
This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right? Who would criticise a...
12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...
ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall
Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of...
UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Bruce King
Almost two months ago, a UN special rapporteur, Dr Michael Fakhri, penned an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper warning that...
Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy
Asia Pacific Report
A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country's traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order...
Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...
Asia Pacific Report
Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged...
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...
Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...
Asia Pacific Report.
In an unprecedented legal move in Aotearoa New Zealand, a national Palestine solidarity advocacy group has filed a referral against the prime...
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...
Eugene Doyle: Why Asia-Pacific should be cheering for Iran and not...
ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle
Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel Aviv or Tehran), I am personally...
Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70...
The New Arab
Israeli soldiers have said that they were ordered to open fire at unarmed Palestinian civilians desperately seeking aid at designated distribution sites...
Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers
By Isaac Nellist of Green Left Magazine
Australian-Lebanese journalist and commentator Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the public broadcaster ABC in the Federal...
The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and...
By Richard Larsen, RNZ News producer -- 30' with Guyon Espiner
The former head of Human Rights Watch -- and son of a Holocaust survivor...
Why most Pacific governments stand with Israel in spite of UN...
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
Amid uncertainty in the Middle East, one thing remains clear -- most Pacific governments continue to align themselves with...