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August 29, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell “Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has ‘lost the plot’ and has condemned attacks on Gaza. “It is among the strongest language the New Zealand leader has used against Netanyahu and comes amid reports of intense aerial attacks on Gaza after Israel’s decision to launch a fresh ... <a title="There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians based on biblical justification" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/29/there-is-a-plot-mr-luxon-its-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-based-on-biblical-justification/" aria-label="Read more about There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians based on biblical justification">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to “act decisively” to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. “These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are ... <a title="NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/nz-media-workers-call-for-decisive-action-by-luxon-over-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador and legislating to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist group”. Albanese says the move is because an assessment by the intelligence agency ASIO has ... <a title="21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/28/21-questions-about-the-claim-that-iran-orchestrated-antisemitic-attacks-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about 21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Those brave individuals are smeared as Hamas operatives and terrorists by Israel and its supporters. But the real story behind this, beyond just Western racism and dehumanisation ... <a title="Antony Lowenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/antony-lowenstein-israels-murderous-killing-spree-against-palestinian-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Antony Lowenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2025
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as a “betrayal of journalists” and accusing it of “justifying and enabling” the killing of 245 journalists in the Palestinian enclave. “At this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain ... <a title="Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/27/photojournalist-resigns-from-reuters-over-its-betrayal-of-journalists-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
Pacific Media Watch An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel’s trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies covering the war on Gaza as treating Palestinian reporters like “robots”. “You see how Palestinian journalists are treated. There’s no protection when they are alive,” Hind Khoudary told Al Jazeera ... <a title="Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/palestinian-journalists-treated-like-robots-by-western-media-says-gaza-reporter-in-wake-of-latest-israeli-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of latest Israeli killings">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Greg Barns If it were China or Russia, the imposition of sanctions and threats of harm to prosecutors and judges of the International Criminal Court would be front page news in Australia- and in New Zealand. The Australian’s headline writers and columnists, for example, would be apoplectic. Prime Minister Albanese, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland ... <a title="Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must be defended" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/why-the-international-criminal-court-is-under-attack-it-must-be-defended/" aria-label="Read more about Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must be defended">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of action demanding that the Labor government sanctions Israel and stops the two-way arms trade. It comes after 300,000 people marched, in driving rain, across Sydney Harbour Bridge on August 3 ... <a title="200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/200000-plus-march-in-australia-to-demand-canberra-sanctions-israel-ends-arms-trade/" aria-label="Read more about 200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant ever could: it has become the most dangerous country on earth — for its own people. Not because of rockets or boycotts, but because its government has decided that the ... <a title="Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/is-israel-becoming-the-nightmare-prophecy-it-was-meant-to-escape/" aria-label="Read more about Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Three media spokespeople addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century. Speakers at other locations around the country also condemned what they said was biased media coverage. The critics said ... <a title="Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/rallies-across-nz-honour-gaza-strip-journalists-condemn-own-news-media/" aria-label="Read more about Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for “immediate and independent” foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month, an Israeli strike in the city killed six journalists — four Al Jazeera correspondents and cameramen, and two other media workers. The Israeli military admitted in a statement to ... <a title="NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/22/nz-joins-calls-for-urgent-independent-foreign-media-access-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
During the past 22 months in Gaza, the pattern has become unbearable yet tragically predictable: A journalist reports about civilians; killed or starved, shares footage of a hospital corridor, shelters bombed out, schools and homes destroyed, and then they are silenced. Killed. At the Committee to Protect Journalists we documented that 2024 was the deadliest ... <a title="When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/when-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-are-killed-we-lose-access-to-truth-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about When journalists like Anas al-Sharif are killed we lose access to truth in Gaza">Read more</a>
