Tag: Israeli apartheid
NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements
Asia Pacific Report
Christchurch, New Zealand's third-largest city, today became the first local government in the country to sanction Israel by voting to halt business...
From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate...
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation.
By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders
Many in the international...
Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against...
By David Robie
Former New Zealand attorney-general David Parker spoke on day 295 of Israel' genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today, condemning the National-led...
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...
‘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...
Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up...
Asia Pacific Report
A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga...
Under pressure, Australia reinstates some visas to Gazans fleeing genocide
By A Firenze in Gadigal/Sydney
Palestinians fleeing war-ravaged Gaza for safety in Australia were left stranded when the Labor government abruptly cancelled their visas.
The “subclass...
Hundreds stage Sydney ‘die-in’ to protest massacres in Gaza
By Wendy Bacon in Sydney
Twenty-four weeks of city marches and a five-week vigil outside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville have...
NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s...
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against...
John Minto: Why are Israeli attacks on UNRWA so much more...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Unfortunately there was no discussion of foreign policy during Aotearoa New Zealand's general election last year. Aside from the odd obligatory...
Back SA over genocide case, ‘don’t yield to pressure’, Hania tells...
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
A Palestinian advocate has appealed to the New Zealand government to call for a permanent ceasefire in...
War on Gaza: The US plan to revamp Palestinian Authority is...
ANALYSIS: By Samer Jaber
For two months now, the United States and other Western countries backing Israel have been talking about “the day after” in...
The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel...
ANALYSIS: By M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University
American President Joe Biden is among the latest Western politicians to land in Tel Aviv in a...
John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Aotearoa New Zealand government announcement of $5 million in humanitarian aid to “Israel, Gaza and the West Bank” is a...
John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they...
Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy...
Asia Pacific Report
The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and...
‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on...
Though the Oslo Accords and its signatories made many promises to the Palestinians, in reality, it carved Palestine up into bantustans and ghettos with...
John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid...
By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) congratulates New Zealand film director Jane Campion over her request for her 1989 debut film Sweetie to...
Israel’s arms and spyware: Used on Palestinians, sold to the world
Journalist and critic of Israeli apartheid Antony Loewenstein wrapped up his New Zealand tour with another damning address in Auckland last night but was...
Palestine a testing ground for Israeli ‘occupation war tech’, says author
Pacific Media Watch
Australian-German investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein argues Israel has used the Occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground to develop weaponry and surveillance...
John Minto: Israeli attacks on Al Aqsa mosque – and the...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The last fortnight has seen a series of brutal, deliberately provocative Israeli attacks on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque in...
John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
During World War I, the New Zealand government took a big area of land at Raglan from the local Tainui Awhiro...