Tag: War on Gaza
Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’
Pacific Media Watch
Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda”...
Nelson Mandela’s grandson joins Gaza flotilla, slams ‘genocide complicit’ leaders
Asia Pacific Report
Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in...
From Gallipoli to Gaza: remembering the Anzacs not as a ‘coming...
ANALYSIS: By Olli Hellmann, University of Waikato
When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day today on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who...
Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks...
Asia Pacific Report
Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and...
Malcolm Evans: A new low in NZ media’s record of bias...
REVIEW: 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...
NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters is putting off recognition of Palestine as a state, despite opposition...
Activists defy Israel with Gaza-bound ‘freedom’ flotilla and humanitarian aid
By Salwa Amor in Istanbul
Palestine solidarity activists are preparing a flotilla to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, vowing to break Israel's blockade...
Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions
Pacific Media Watch
Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC's Saturday Extra programme.
Five women...
‘Stop detracting from Israel’s barbaric crimes’ in Gaza plea from Freedom...
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...
Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla
Kia Ora Gaza
A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from...
Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...
NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’
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...
More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’...
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...
APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza
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...
Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold
Pacific Media Watch
The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...
From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and...
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...
Kia Ora Gaza reveals more on Freedom Flotilla plans to break...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand charity providing humanitarian aid for Gaza today revealed more details of the international Freedom Flotilla's bid to break the...
‘Empty plate’ protesters call on NZ govt to demand Gaza ceasefire
RNZ News
Hundreds of people holding empty plates gathered in central Auckland today demanding the New Zealand government call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Protesters at...
16,000 sign NZ petition urging more support for Gaza – tabled...
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...
RSF concern over whereabouts of Gazan journalist in Al Shifa hospital...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog RSF (Reporters Without Borders) has appealed for information about the "disappearance" of Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan.
She...
Next Freedom Flotilla nearly ready to sail for Gaza with NZ...
Asia Pacific Report
Two of the global Freedom Flotilla ships are being prepared in Turkey and almost ready for the upcoming humanitarian mission to Gaza.
It...
NZ protesters call for expulsion of Israeli ambassador over Gaza atrocities
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...