Tag: Gaza genocide
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...
UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden...
Pacific Media Watch
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...
US lawyer threatens masked student Gaza protesters with ‘KKK’ felony charges
Asia Pacific Report
Ohio’s top lawyer has warned the state’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used...
Rafah ‘last place of safety’ in Gaza, UN aid boss warns
RNZ News
As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a...
NZ local council calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza as strikes...
By Robin Martin, RNZ News reporter
A New Zealand local authority, Whanganui District Council, has passed a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza,...
‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics
Asia Pacific Report
Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...
End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF...
Asia Pacific Report
The Aotearoa chapter of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Auckland University staff appeal over Gaza protest in solidarity with students
Asia Pacific Report
A group of 65 Auckland University academics have written an open letter to vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater criticising the institution's stance over students...