Tag: Palestinian rights
Nine editors double down in ‘tense’ war on Gaza editorial ban...
By Cam Wilson in Sydney
A senior Nine staff journalist has resigned and readers are angrily cancelling their newspaper subscriptions as Sydney Morning Herald and...
Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy...
Asia Pacific Report
The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and...
John Minto: NZ’s Labour refuses to recognise Palestine – even after...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) supporters are livid Labour is refusing to recognise the state of Palestine a full 104 years...
Nakba Day – 75 years of Palestinian statelessness, but also persistence
NAKBA DAY ADDRESS: By Rand Hazou
Although Israelis celebrate 1948 as the birth of the Jewish nation, for Palestinians this date is referred to as...
Palestinians uphold traditional Ramadan rituals – despite the Israeli Occupation
By Wafa Aludaini in Gaza
During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims from all corners of the globe come together to celebrate. Each country has...
John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
During World War I, the New Zealand government took a big area of land at Raglan from the local Tainui Awhiro...
Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Today is Nakba Day -- "the great catastrophe". This is the day marking the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians...
John Minto: NZ government and media must own up to their...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The absolute impunity which the Aotearoa New Zealand government has given to Israel’s racist apartheid regime over many decades and the...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A friend of Aotearoa NZ and a champion...
OBITUARY: By John Minto
Palestine has lost a champion of the struggle against Israeli apartheid with the death of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, aged...
Reinstate victimised Palestinian journalists’ union leader, says IFJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The International Federation of Journalists has called for the urgent reinstatement of Nasser Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate,...
Marilyn Garson: Ceasefire, but we cannot let this go the same...
COMMENT: By Marilyn Garson in Wellington
I lived in Gaza from 2011, through the attack of 2014, and for one year after. I am not...
Protest in Bandung rejects Papuan Otsus, militarism, war on Palestine
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Activists from the Papua People's Solidarity (Sorak) have protested against Indonesia's policies in the Papuan region, militarism and Israel's war on...
Ghahraman condemns ‘disappointing’ NZ response over attacks on Gaza
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The foreign spokesperson for New Zealand's Green Party, Golriz Ghahraman, is "disappointed" by the government’s response to escalating attacks by Israel...
Robert Fisk’s message: Journalists should challenge the narratives of power
A clip from This Is Not A Movie, a 2020 documentary by about Robert Fisk. Video: Doc Edge Festival
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, who for...
John Minto: The truth behind the lies being told about Palestine
ANALYSIS: By John Minto
Tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna tātau katoa
The topic of this talk is about the lies told about Palestine by the pro-Israeli...
200 protest in Auckland as NZ rallies target illegal Israeli land...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 200 people protested in Auckland as demonstrations took place in at least nine New Zealand cities and towns today against...
NZ silent over ‘backdoor’ Israeli deals, says Palestinian support group
Pacific Media Watch
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has accused the New Zealand government of developing a "backdoor policy entanglement" with Israel.
PSNA had discovered that...
Five Palestinians cheering for France at the World Cup 20 years...
By Marwan Bishara
Twenty years ago, I was asked by the General Council of the Parisian suburb Seine-Saint-Denis to invite four Palestinian youth to attend...
Gaza under siege – but Palestinians ‘will never give up’, says...
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Palestinian author and a journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud vowed today that Palestinians would never be defeated by the Israelis and...
NZ pro-Palestinian ‘justice’ protesters target Israel Day waterfront events
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
About 50 people gathered in Auckland’s Silo Park today to protest over the 70th year of Nakba - also known...
Palestinian rally in Auckland supports ‘Day of Rage’ for free Jerusalem
As Palestinians protest against US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Democracy Now! profiles the issues....