Tag: Occupied Palestine

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...

Asia Pacific Report Hours ago, the news media reported that Israel has attacked Iran. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition publicly declared that it is reminding the...

Pacific Media Watch This unpublished "heartfelt" letter sent to The Press this week criticising its April 6 editorial about a "turning point" in the deadly...

RNZ News New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an "utter catastrophe" and criticised the...

Asia Pacific Report Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst, says that the US is more likely to move in the “right direction” when it comes...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated...

EDITORIAL: By Pip Hinman and Susan Price Meta, the giant social media corporation, has "unpublished" Green Left’s longstanding Facebook page, which had tens of thousands...

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A petition urging the New Zealand government to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people has been...

Asia Pacific Report A leader of one of New Zealand's main Palestine solidarity groups today called on the government to expel the Israeli ambassador and...

By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with...

By Wendy Bacon in Sydney Twenty-four weeks of city marches and a five-week vigil outside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville have...

Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against...

Asia Pacific Report About 20 pro-Palestinian protesters picketed New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) office in Auckland today, demanding a stronger stance...

Asia Pacific Report Indigenous support for Palestine around the world has been overwhelming -- and Aotearoa New Zealand is no exception, says a leading Māori...

Pacific Media Watch The United States' airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration...

By Peter Boyle in Gadigal Sydney Jana Fayyad, a Palestinian activist, had some sharp words about “the silence of Western feminists” at International Women's Day,...

Asia Pacific Report About 5000 protesters calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli's genocidal  war on Gaza today took part in a...

Pacific Media Watch The Israeli army has raided dozens of homes in the West Bank and detained 20 Palestinians, including two women -- journalist Bushra...

Asia Pacific Report The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should act urgently to establish an international protection force to safeguard Palestinian civilians and ensure...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato Despite the carnage, United Nations resolutions and international court rulings, Israel's war in Gaza has the potential to...

RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has designated the political wing of Hamas as a "terrorist" entity. New Zealand designated the military wing of Hamas as...