Tag: Occupied Palestine
How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide
COMMENTARY: By Walden Bello
I am alarmed by reports that Filipino journalists were flown in by the Israeli government to participate in what is essentially...
There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians...
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has 'lost the plot' and has condemned attacks on Gaza.
"It is...
NZ is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s...
ANALYSIS: By Treasa Dunworth, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
It’s now more than a week since Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced his government had...
Saige England: Why I have spent a decade proudly standing with...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
I unequivocally support Irish author Sally Rooney with all my heart and soul. The author risks imprisonment for donating funds from...
Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism
Why the recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia is an important development. Meanwhile, New Zealand still dithers. This article unpacks the hypocrisy...
Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if –...
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto
This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in...
Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The world’s most important hostage -- must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the...
NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood,...
Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?
Al Jazeera
International public opinion continues to turn against Israel for its war on Gaza, with more governments slowly beginning to reflect those voices and...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right? Who would criticise 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...
Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers
By Isaac Nellist of Green Left Magazine
Australian-Lebanese journalist and commentator Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the public broadcaster ABC in the Federal...
NZ Greens call on state to condemn US over ‘dangerous’ attack...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's opposition Green Party has called on the government to condemn the United States for its illegal bombing of Iran and...
Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme
Asia Pacific Report
A leading Middle East analyst has pushed back against US President Donald Trump's dismissal of the conclusion of his own national intelligence...
Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem
Kia ora koutou,
I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
95 lawyers demand stronger NZ stand over Israel amid Middle East...
Asia Pacific Report
Ninety-five New Zealand lawyers -- including nine king’s counsel -- have signed a letter demanding Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Foreign Minister Winston...
Issa Amro: Youth Against Settlements – ‘life is very hard, the...
RNZ News
Palestinian advocate Issa Amro has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his decades of work advocating for peaceful resistance...
Why Israel’s shock and awe has proven its power but lost...
COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein in Middle East Eye
War is good for business and geopolitical posturing.
Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington in...
NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing...
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current
The New Zealand Foreign Minster's decision to issue a travel ban against two Israeli far-right politicians...
US criticises allies as NZ bans two top far-right Israeli ministers
RNZ News
The United States has denounced sanctions by Britain and allies -- including New Zealand and Australia -- against Israeli far-right ministers, saying they...
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...
Analyst condemns US ‘utter isolation’ after fifth Israel veto at UN...
Asia Pacific Report
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, has highlighted the growing isolation of the United States at the United Nations over its...