Tag: Gaza genocide
Latest Kiwi crew to join Gaza Freedom Flotilla leaves on Sunday
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand activists Youssef Sammour and Rana Hamida have been selected to join the volunteer crew on the international Freedom Flotilla ship...
Education head condemns Israel’s ‘shameful’ ruin of UN schools in Gaza
Asia Pacific Report
Israel’s targeting of educational institutes across Gaza is “shameful" and contributing to a global crisis for students, says the head of an...
Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and...
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs
The New Zealand government remains disturbingly quiet on the unfolding genocide in Gaza.
New Zealand’s silence is clearly undermining its self-image as...
Nick Rockel: RIMPAC 2024 training – NZ’s sabre dance with Israel...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel in Tāmaki Makaurau
This morning I did something I seldom do, I looked at the Twitter newsfeed.
Normally I take the approach...
Israel kills 274 plus Palestinians to rescue 4 captives – US...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yumna Patel
At least 274 Palestinians were killed and more than 698 others were wounded on Saturday in the central Gaza Strip,...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘People of Palestine and Kanaks are in...
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Kanak people in Aotearoa New Zealand are lamenting the loss of family and friends in Kanaky...
John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Good slogans have people nodding their heads in agreement because they recognise an underlying truth in the words.
I have a...
Columbia Law Review website shut down over ‘censored’ article critical of...
Pacific Media Watch
The editorial board of the Columbia Law Review journal -- made up of faculty and alumni from the university’s law school --...
Open letter by Gaza academics: ‘Help us resist Israel’s scholasticide’
OPEN LETTER: Gaza academics and administrators
We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of...
Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military...
Protesters picket Rakon offices and demand NZ halt Israel-bound sales
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestine protesters picketed the offices of Auckland-based electronics manufacturer Rakon today, accusing it of exporting military-capable products for Israel, which is under...
Palestine protesters condemn Google, demand NZ action over Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestinian protesters today condemned Google for sacking protesting staff and demanded that the New Zealand government immediately "cut ties with Israeli genocide".
Wearing...
Global outrage continues over Israeli defiance of World Court Rafah order
Asia Pacific Report
International outrage continues to reverberate as Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to immediately cease its attack on southern Rafah,...
Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue "press" vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media...
NZ students stage Gaza protests in global ‘take a stand’ rallies
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of students across Aotearoa New Zealand protested in a nationwide rally at seven universities across the country in a global day...
Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisis
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell
The split opening up in Israel’s “War Cabinet” is not just between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his long-term rival Benny...
How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance
Asia Pacific Report
For more than 76 years, Palestinians have resisted occupation, dispossession and ethnic cleansing, culminating in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Yet in the...
Open letter challenges Zionist advert missing Gaza ‘injustices’ in Herald
Asia Pacific Report
An open letter to The New Zealand Herald has challenged a full page Zionist advertisement this week for failing to acknowledge the...
Nakba Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be...
Asia Pacific Report
As Israel drives the Palestinians deeper into another Nakba in Gaza with its assault on Rafah, the Palestine Youth Aotearoa (PYA) and...
Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf
Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly...
Fiji abstains from new UN vote on Palestinian membership bid
Asia Pacific Report
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine new rights and privileges, calling on the Security Council to reconsider its...
1000 protest in Auckland over Israel’s war on Gaza, honour Nakba...
Asia Pacific Report
About 1000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand gathered for a two-hour rally in central Auckland today and marched down Queen Street and...