Tag: Occupied Palestine
Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening...
RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed
Pacific Media Watch
Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that "violate international law" with...
When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning,...
By Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report
As we prepared for this podcast, representatives of Arab states have presented a united front at the United...
Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire,...
RNZ News
Te Pāti Māori wants the incoming and outgoing governments of Aotearoa New Zealand to use the country's strong international voice to insist on...
War on Gaza: Bombed hospital a turning point? Hegemonic security v...
ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara
The Israeli bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians may have been a turning point in...
John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Aotearoa New Zealand government announcement of $5 million in humanitarian aid to “Israel, Gaza and the West Bank” is a...
Israel-Gaza conflict: NZ govt providing $5m towards humanitarian aid
RNZ News
The New Zealand government is putting $5 million to address urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The initial contribution...
Israel-Palestine conflict: Auckland Museum apologises over light display
RNZ News
Auckland Museum has apologised for the hurt caused after it staged a light display in support of Israel on Sunday night.
Auckland Museum lit...
Pro-Palestine supporters call on Auckland Museum to apologise over lights fiasco
Asia Pacific Report
A peace researcher and other pro-Palestinian supporters are calling on Auckland Museum to apologise over a furore about the "unethical" lighting of...
Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for...
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore
In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even...
Big Auckland rally shows solidarity with Palestine over ‘genocidal’ war
Asia Pacific Report
About 2000 people from Aotearoa New Zealand communities, including many families, staged a vibrant rally in Auckland's Aotea Square and marched down...
IPI calls for respect of journalists’ safety amid Israel-Hamas war
Pacific Media Watch
The International Press Institute (IPI) global network has called on all parties involved in the ongoing hostilities in Israel and Gaza to...
Israel-Gaza crisis: NZ must condemn atrocities but keep pushing for a...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in...
Foreign policy group Te Kuaka calls on NZ to urge immediate...
Asia Pacific Report
A progressive foreign policy group is calling for the New Zealand government to condemn the siege of Gaza, and demand an immediate...
Genocidal language being used to justify a massive death toll on...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The tragic events in Israel/Palestine these past few days have highlighted the absolute failure of Western governments like New Zealand to...
Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in...
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani
Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again...
Palestine a testing ground for Israeli ‘occupation war tech’, says author
Pacific Media Watch
Australian-German investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein argues Israel has used the Occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground to develop weaponry and surveillance...
NZ ‘inert’ over Israel’s ‘flagrant violations’ in occupied Palestine
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
No government likes to be called out for human rights abuses and it’s uncomfortable to do so, particularly when the abuser...
Mediawatch: Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘Kremlin garbage’
External experts are poring over the "inappropriate editing" of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down...
RSF condemns Israel’s ‘scandalous impunity’ over killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Reporters Without Borders
One year after Al Jazeera’s well known Palestine correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while reporting in the West Bank on...