Tag: Occupied Palestine
Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza
Asia Pacific Report
About 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters marked World Press Freedom Day -- May 3 -- today by marching on the public broadcaster Television New...
Australia ‘Islamic Caliphate’? Dark money and the 11th hour election propaganda...
An 11th-hour blitzkrieg for the Australian election 2025 tomorrow claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish...
RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them...
Pacific Media Watch
After a year and a half of war, nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli army -- including at...
New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case...
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...
Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract...
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s...
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is...
Israel accused at ICJ of using aid as ‘weapons of war’...
By Sondos Asem in The Hague, Netherlands
The International Court of Justice began hearings today into Israel's obligations towards the presence and activities of the...
Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for...
Asia Pacific Report
Activists for Palestine paid homage to Pope Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand today for his humility, care for marginalised in the world,...
PSNA calls on NZ govt to initiate global plea for ‘no...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has appealed to Foreign Minister Winston Peters askingto New Zealand initiate a call for an internationally enforced...
Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump
Asia Pacific Report
Former US President Barack Obama has taken to social media to praise Harvard’s decision to stand up for academic freedom by rebuffing...
Israel destroys only a quarter of Gaza tunnels in 18 months...
The New Arab
The Israeli military has reportedly only destroyed 25 percent of tunnels used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 2023,...
100 children killed or wounded every day since Gaza ceasefire broken
Asia Pacific Report
The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described Gaza as “no land” for children, as two rallies were held...
Stoush breaks out between NZ Human Rights Commissioner and Jewish leader...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
A stoush between the Chief Human Rights Commissioner and a Jewish community leader has flared up following a...
It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West...
By Leilani Farha of The New Arab
"I started filming when we started to end." With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land,...
NZ protesters honour killed Gaza journalists – ‘targeted’ say press freedom...
Pacific Media Watch
Global press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza this week, who died in separate targeted airstrikes by...
Fiji solidarity group condemns Rabuka plans for embassy in Jerusalem
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji-based Pacific solidarity group supporting the indigenous Palestine struggle for survival against the Israeli settler colonial state has today issued a...
Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...
Asia Pacific Report
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called on New Zealand government MPs today to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its...
Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’
Pacific Media Watch
Israel’s most revered jurist, former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, says that he fears the Netanyahu government’s latest actions, including moves to...
Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out
Columbia Journalism School
Freedom of the press -- a bedrock principle of American democracy -- is under threat in the United States.
Here at Columbia University...
Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza
By Mary Merkenich in Naarm/Melbourne
More than 2000 people -- mostly women and union members -- marked International Women’s Day two days early last week...
Gallery: NZ women call for long-term peace and justice in Palestine
Asia Pacific Report
Women from Aotearoa, Philippines, Palestine and South Africa today called for justice and peace for the people of Gaza and the West...
The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of...
COMMENTARY: By Ahmed Najar
'To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!...