Tag: Gaza genocide
UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist
By Jamil Chade
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned Israel, saying it has no right to detain Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila and...
Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges
Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens...
NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has called on the New Zealand government to follow through on its demands that Israel complies...
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity...
Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention
By Charlotte England of Novara Media
Israeli soldiers beat and tortured flotilla organisers Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila after abducting them in international waters near...
Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...
RNZ News
The Global Sumud Flotilla is demanding the New Zealand government intervene to uphold international law, after being intercepted by Israel.
It said 22 boats...
NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...
RNZ News
The wife of one of the New Zealanders in the flotilla intercepted by Israel in international waters says he has a concussion and...
Former Greek minister slams ‘Western complicity’ over brutal Israeli kidnap...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Brett Wilkins
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has slammed European leaders -- and the West at large -- for what he...
‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brooke
1news tonight featured a report on the War in Ukraine. The reporter, a foreign war correspondent, explained to viewers how Ukrainian...
PSNA calls on McKee to condemn Israel’s bulldozing of NZ war...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has appealed to ACT MP Nicole McKee to condemn Israel's deliberate bulldozing of New Zealand war...
Public praise for High Court ruling on NZ Superfund policies on...
Asia Pacific Report
An official of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) praised this month's High Court judicial ruling over New Zealand Superfund "unreasonable and...
Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics
University of Sydney’s appointment of pro-Israel academic Michael Abrahams-Sprod as antisemitism adviser has exposed management to an embarrassing conflict in its approach to freedom...
Sydney Uni appoints antisemitism ‘lecturer’, forgets to tell anybody
University of Sydney’s vice-chancellor Mark Scott appointed a special advisor for the institution's antisemitism training programme, but forgot to tell anyone until months later....
Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’
By Anealla Safdar in London
The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of global human rights, says Amnesty International,...
Fiji defends its isolated UN stance supporting Israel
By Anish Chand in Suva
Fiji’s Ambassador to Israel, Jesoni Vitusagavulu, has defended his country’s voting record at the United Nations, saying it is guided...
US, Israel ‘forced into two ceasefires’ as regional balance of power...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: To look more at the latest developments in Lebanon and the Middle East region, we’re joined by Dr Rami Khouri, a...
South African activist praises World Court genocide case against Israel
Asia Pacific Report
A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today delivered strong praise for his home country's genocide case...
Owen Jones: At The Telegraph, journalist support for Israel is now...
COMMENTARY: By Owen Jones
Britain's Daily Telegraph is being acquired by a German-based media giant -- and now its journalists are formally expected to support...
Gaza’s young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel’s war crimes
Pacific Media Watch
At least 262 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war against the besieged enclave, marking one...
‘Unconstitutional’ – NSW court strikes down Minns’ draconian anti-protest laws
By Stephanie Tran of Michael West Media
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has struck down the state’s draconian anti-protest laws, ruling they impose...
NZ’s $86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights,...
By Keiller MacDuff, RNZ News senior reporter
The managers of the New Zealand's $86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights issues when...
Gallery: Standing up for the people of Iran . . ....
Asia Pacific Report
A massive Stop Wars Aotearoa coalition rally and march on the US Consulate took place in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau last Saturday, 11...



































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