Tag: War on Gaza
Education head condemns Israel’s ‘shameful’ ruin of UN schools in Gaza
Asia Pacific Report
Israel’s targeting of educational institutes across Gaza is “shameful" and contributing to a global crisis for students, says the head of an...
Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and...
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs
The New Zealand government remains disturbingly quiet on the unfolding genocide in Gaza.
New Zealand’s silence is clearly undermining its self-image as...
Nick Rockel: RIMPAC 2024 training – NZ’s sabre dance with Israel...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel in Tāmaki Makaurau
This morning I did something I seldom do, I looked at the Twitter newsfeed.
Normally I take the approach...
Open letter by Gaza academics: ‘Help us resist Israel’s scholasticide’
OPEN LETTER: Gaza academics and administrators
We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of...
Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military...
Protesters picket Rakon offices and demand NZ halt Israel-bound sales
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestine protesters picketed the offices of Auckland-based electronics manufacturer Rakon today, accusing it of exporting military-capable products for Israel, which is under...
Palestine protesters condemn Google, demand NZ action over Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestinian protesters today condemned Google for sacking protesting staff and demanded that the New Zealand government immediately "cut ties with Israeli genocide".
Wearing...
Global outrage continues over Israeli defiance of World Court Rafah order
Asia Pacific Report
International outrage continues to reverberate as Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to immediately cease its attack on southern Rafah,...
Palestine protesters call for Gaza press ‘solidarity’ at NZ media awards
Pacific Media Watch
Pro-Palestinian protesters dressed in blue "press" vests tonight staged a vigil calling on New Zealand journalists to show solidarity with the media...
NZ students stage Gaza protests in global ‘take a stand’ rallies
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of students across Aotearoa New Zealand protested in a nationwide rally at seven universities across the country in a global day...
How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance
Asia Pacific Report
For more than 76 years, Palestinians have resisted occupation, dispossession and ethnic cleansing, culminating in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Yet in the...
Fiji abstains from new UN vote on Palestinian membership bid
Asia Pacific Report
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine new rights and privileges, calling on the Security Council to reconsider its...
1000 protest in Auckland over Israel’s war on Gaza, honour Nakba...
Asia Pacific Report
About 1000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand gathered for a two-hour rally in central Auckland today and marched down Queen Street and...
UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden...
Pacific Media Watch
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...
Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis
By Kamna Kumar in Suva
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental...
US lawyer threatens masked student Gaza protesters with ‘KKK’ felony charges
Asia Pacific Report
Ohio’s top lawyer has warned the state’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used...
Rafah ‘last place of safety’ in Gaza, UN aid boss warns
RNZ News
As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a...
‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics
Asia Pacific Report
Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...
End this ‘cruel, barbaric use of force’ on Gaza – WILPF...
Asia Pacific Report
The Aotearoa chapter of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call...
Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award
Asia Pacific Report
About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of...
Media freedom award for the Gaza journalists who have paid a...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
Along with the devastating death toll – now almost 35,000 people, hundreds of aid workers and hundreds...
Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest
RNZ News
A group of academic staff at New Zealand's largest university have expressed concern at the administration's move to block a protest encampment that...