Tag: Gaza genocide
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...
Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must...
COMMENTARY: By Greg Barns
If it were China or Russia, the imposition of sanctions and threats of harm to prosecutors and judges of the International...
200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends...
By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left
More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of...
Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames
So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant...
Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media
Pacific Media Watch
Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality...
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,...
PSNA condemns NZ ‘distraction’ over sanctions needed against Israel
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned New Zealand's "deliberate distraction" over sanctions against Israel and has vowed...
NZ is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s...
ANALYSIS: By Treasa Dunworth, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
It’s now more than a week since Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced his government had...
Saige England: Why I have spent a decade proudly standing with...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
I unequivocally support Irish author Sally Rooney with all my heart and soul. The author risks imprisonment for donating funds from...
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...