Tag: Israeli war crimes
Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries
In a joint statement, more than two dozen Western countries, including New Zealand, have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza....
Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim
"If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds."
This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...
12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...
ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall
Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of...
Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...
Asia Pacific Report
Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged...
Israeli soldiers ‘ordered’ to fire at Gaza aid seekers – 70...
The New Arab
Israeli soldiers have said that they were ordered to open fire at unarmed Palestinian civilians desperately seeking aid at designated distribution sites...
The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and...
By Richard Larsen, RNZ News producer -- 30' with Guyon Espiner
The former head of Human Rights Watch -- and son of a Holocaust survivor...
US strikes: Ignore the propaganda, 10 forces will shape the Iran-Israel...
The US-Israeli attack against Iran will intensify the forces that are already destroying international law legacies and the UN system in the Middle East...
As Israeli attacks draw tit-for-tat missile responses from Iran and shuts...
A New Zealand journalist on the ground in the Middle East summarises events from the occupied West Bank.
UPDATES: By Cole Martin in Occupied Bethlehem
Fifty...
Why Israel’s ‘humane’ propaganda is such a sinister facade
COMMENTARY: By Cole Martin in Occupied Bethlehem
Many people have been closely following the journey this week of the Madleen, a small humanitarian yacht seeking...
Israeli forces intercept Gaza freedom aid boat Madleen – cut communications
Pacific Media Watch
Contact has been lost with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid boat Madleen after Israeli commandos intercepted it in international waters.
The commandos...
New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs
It is difficult to understand what sits behind the New Zealand government’s unwillingness to sanction, or threaten to sanction, the Israeli...
Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell
Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade...
Financial Times: The West’s shameful silence on Gaza – do...
EDITORIAL: The Financial Times editorial board
After 19 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and drawn accusations of war crimes...
NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over...
Asia Pacific Report
A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand...
The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it...
Massacre at 2 am – Israel resumes indiscriminate attacks against Gaza,...
Israel says President Donald Trump green lit a scorched-earth bombing of Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other...
NZ must protest Israel’s latest ‘weasel out’ war crime cutting humanitarian...
Asia Pacific Report
One of the leading Palestinian solidarity groups in Aotearoa New Zealand has demanded that the government condemn Israel’s cutting off of all...
Barred European Union politician brands Israel as ‘a rogue state’
Asia Pacific Report
Israel has now banned another European Union parliamentarian from entering the country, reports Al Jazeera.
The government gave no reasons why Lynn Boylan,...
John Minto: A triumph of the human spirit
LETTER: By John Minto
With the temporary ceasefire agreement, we should take our hats off to the Palestinian people of Gaza who have withstood a...
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...
Abducted Gaza doctor’s life in danger due to torture – call...
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
The fate of Palestinian Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was "arrested" by Israeli...
The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Scully, University of New England; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University, and Stephanie Brookes, Monash University
Michael Leunig -- who died in the early...