Tag: Occupied Palestine
Money link to illegal Israeli settlements ignites divestment battle in NZ...
By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter
New Plymouth has admitted it has investments in companies active in illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, contrary...
PSNA condemns NZ welcome for ‘genocidal’ Israeli tourists while no humanitarian...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand advocacy group for Palestine has condemned the government for refusing to provide humanitarian visas for Palestinians with family in...
West Papuan leader praises People’s Tribunal ruling as proof of ‘need...
Asia Pacific Report
A leader of a major West Papuan political movement has praised the recent judgment of the Permanent People's Tribunal on the Melanesian...
Amnesty International doubles down on Israeli Gaza ‘genocide, atrocities’ report at...
Asia Pacific Report
Amnesty International officials at a rally in Auckland today doubled down on their global report this week accusing Israel of genocide and...
Nelson City Council joins NZ local bodies voting to sanction Israel
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has congratulated the Nelson City Council on its vote today to boycott companies which trade...
This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore over Gaza
ANALYSIS: By Rami G Khouri
One of the major political developments in the United States that has got little attention in the wake of the...
‘Wanted’ for war crimes over Gaza: Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant face ICC...
Democracy Now!
NERMEEN SHAIKH: In The Hague, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister...
‘Outrageous’, ‘intolerable’, ‘dangerous precedent’ – world condemns Israel’s UNRWA ban
Asia Pacific Report
The United Nations and countries across the globe have denounced Israel after its Parliament -- the Knesset -- overwhelmingly passed two laws...
Binoy Kampmark: Bitter harvests – the killing of Yahya Sinwar and...
ANALYSIS: By Binoy Kampmark
It prompted an outbreak of grim cheer in Israel. In Washington, there were similar pulsations of congratulation.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was...
PM defends Fiji’s UN ‘ambush’ vote – challenged by human rights...
Pacific Media Watch
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has "cleared the air" with the Fijian diaspora in Samoa over Fiji’s vote against the United Nations resolution...
NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's opposition Labour Party has backed Christchurch City Council and called for other cities to block business with firms involved in...
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...
Rightwing astroturfers infiltrate Australian local councils, fire up unrest over Israel
With similar Israel divestment motions having been passed at City of Sydney and Canterbury/Bankstown Councils, many had expected the motion to pass in what...
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...
Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will...
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences.
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook...
Guessing game over when Iran is about to strike Israel over...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Iran may be about to launch a "proper" missile strike on Israel for the first time ever -- in retaliation for...
Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all...
Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return...
Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle...
Asia Pacific Report
Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style...
More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its...
Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to...
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...
Democracy Now!, Diana Buttu analyse ICJ ruling over illegal and ‘rapid...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman.
We end today’s show in The Hague, where the International...
From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific
In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...