Tag: Israeli occupation
27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today -- and yet few people in the West even know his...
Palestinian foreign minister tells ICJ of ‘besieged, bombed and killed’ Gazans
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki began his address to the week-long "historic" International Court of Justice hearings into the status of the...
Israel blows up last university in Gaza as air strikes continue...
By Laura Pollock
Gaza's last standing university has been destroyed by the Israeli army as military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged...
RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed
Pacific Media Watch
Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that "violate international law" with...
When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning,...
By Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report
As we prepared for this podcast, representatives of Arab states have presented a united front at the United...
Donna Miles: We can condemn the Hamas attacks and Israel’s occupation
An Israeli air strike has hit Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment and shelter from relentless...
Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for...
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore
In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even...
Foreign policy group Te Kuaka calls on NZ to urge immediate...
Asia Pacific Report
A progressive foreign policy group is calling for the New Zealand government to condemn the siege of Gaza, and demand an immediate...
Genocidal language being used to justify a massive death toll on...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The tragic events in Israel/Palestine these past few days have highlighted the absolute failure of Western governments like New Zealand to...
Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in...
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani
Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again...
Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating,...
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, Fred Albert, Sue Berman and Justine Sachs of the Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Hamas has responded to Israel’s escalating violence with...
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...
John Minto: NZ’s Labour refuses to recognise Palestine – even after...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) supporters are livid Labour is refusing to recognise the state of Palestine a full 104 years...
‘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...
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...
New Zealand lacking principles on Israeli occupation of Palestine
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs and Richard Jackson in Dunedin
The New Zealand government’s silence on the thousands of Palestinian deaths in the ongoing Gaza conflict...
John Minto: Ben & Jerry does right thing – will Mahuta...
COMMENT: By John Minto
US ice cream manufacturer Ben and Jerry has announced it will no longer sell icecream in the occupied Palestinian Territories.
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‘Business as usual’ Israeli repression against Palestinians predicted
COMMENT: By John Minto
The swearing in of a new Israeli Prime Minister after 12 years of appalling anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism from former Prime...
John Minto: Time for NZ to speak up clearly for Palestinian...
ANALYSIS: By John Minto
When Nanaia Mahuta was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, there were hopes for a change in government thinking towards the struggles...
Illegal Israeli settler: ‘If I don’t steal your house, someone else...
Israeli settlers’ aggressive takeover of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is part of a decades-long struggle, writes
أيمن حسونة about Israel's system of apartheid leading up...