Tag: War on Gaza

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: Gaza academics and administrators We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Asia Pacific Report The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff,...

Asia Pacific Report Ngāti Kahungunu in Aotearoa New Zealand's Hawkes Bay region has become the first indigenous Māori iwi (tribe) to sign a resolution calling...