Tag: Gaza genocide
Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of...
COMMENTARY: By Cathy Peters
To be Jewish does not mean an automatic identification with the rogue state of Israel. Nor does it mean that Jews...
An indictment of NZ’s settler colonial and ‘Five Eyes’ spy paranoia...
REVIEW: By David Robie
Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little reported inquiry into New Zealand spy...
Young Israelis ‘don’t want peace’, warns former Israeli top diplomat
Asia Pacific Report
A former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Alon Liel, has warned over a "dangerous" attitude of younger generations in Israel...
Israel orders patients, staff to ‘evacuate’ last two hospitals in northern...
Asia Pacific Report
Israel is forcing two hospitals in northern Gaza to evacuate under threat of attack as its ethnic cleansing campaign continues.
Israeli forces have...
‘Suspend Israel ties’ plea to global medical professionals – Auckland hospital...
Asia Pacific Report
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend...
Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope...
‘Crime against journalism’: Gaza journalists slam PA’s Al Jazeera ban
By Maram Humaid in Deir el-Balah, Gaza
Journalists gathered at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital expressed outrage and confusion about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to...
The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and...
COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab
As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped...
A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s...
Democracy Now!
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the...
Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
My message today is really simple but brutal.
Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...
Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media...
Pacific Media Watch
Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed...
Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in...
By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, has condemned the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless...
Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’
Asia Pacific Report
Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas...
Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’
Asia Pacific Report
“It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of...
Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at...
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji's capital Suva just days before Christmas.
The Fiji...
West and media are ‘erasing’ Palestinian history, say critics
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian history is "deliberately ignored" and is being effectively "erased" as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to...
Civil society groups call on NZ to bar new Israeli envoy...
Asia Pacific Report
A broad coalition of civil society organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand have signed an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters...
Al Jazeera cameraman third journalist killed by Israel in Gaza in...
Pacific Media Watch
An Israeli air strike has killed Palestinian photojournalist Ahmed Al-Louh and five Palestinian Civil Defence workers in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp as...
Australia denies some Israeli soldiers visas over war crimes – PSNA...
Asia Pacific Report
Israeli soldiers have been denied visas to enter Australia over war crime concerns -- and the New Zealand government is now being...
Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Syria, where tens of thousands of people gathered at the Great Mosque of Damascus for the...
UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific nations...
Asia Pacific Report
The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip -- but three of the...
Fiji government accused over human rights violations, free speech curb
By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva
Fiji's coalition government has come under scrutiny over allegations of human rights violations.
Speaking at the commemoration of International Human Rights...