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August 24, 2025
Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel’s starvation blockade of the besieged enclave. Here, two journalists report on the Asia-Pacific stake in the initiative. Ellie Aben in Manila and Sheany Yasuko Lai in Jakarta Asia-Pacific activists are preparing ... <a title="Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/24/asia-pacific-activists-ready-to-set-sail-with-largest-ever-gaza-aid-flotilla/" aria-label="Read more about Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2025
RNZ News Protesters staged pro-Palestinian demonstrations across Aotearoa New Zealand at the weekend, calling on the government to place sanctions on Israel for its war on Gaza. The government announced last week it was considering whether to join other countries like France, Canada and Australia in recognising Palestinian statehood at a United Nations leader’s meeting ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/pro-palestinian-protests-across-nz-call-on-government-to-sanction-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in Gaza, the same is the case at The Post and at RNZ. Even the 1News political page is Gaza free but what may stun you over a Sunday morning coffee ... <a title="Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/gerard-otto-on-palestine-genocide-and-the-media-not-if-but-when-but-not-now/" aria-label="Read more about Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for Israel to continue its mass killing and mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Germany and New Zealand were two of the countries to sign a letter yesterday condemning Israel’s plans ... <a title="PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia plans backing for Palestine state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/psna-calls-on-luxon-to-end-support-for-israel-as-australia-plans-backing-for-palestine-state/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia plans backing for Palestine state">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is today reckoning with the fact that showing basic sympathy towards the starving and war-weary people of Gaza is actually a very mainstream sentiment. This explosive moment of self-reflection has rocked ... <a title="Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/australian-media-faces-existential-crisis-after-realising-free-palestine-might-extend-well-beyond-university-lawns-and-instagram/" aria-label="Read more about Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend well beyond university lawns and Instagram">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not just by what Israel is doing in Gaza, but also by the Australian government’s “complicity”. Loewenstein, who also spoke at the rally, told Al Jazeera that Australia has, for many ... <a title="Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/04/palestine-surveillance-author-says-australian-protesters-outraged-by-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2025
Asia Pacific Report WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was among the tens of thousands of protesters in Australia staging a “humanitarians for Gaza” march today across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. The transparency media campaigner and activist, who moved back to his native Australia last year, after reaching a plea deal with the US government to ... <a title="WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins Sydney Gaza humanitarian protest as thousands cross bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/03/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-joins-sydney-gaza-humanitarian-protest-as-thousands-cross-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins Sydney Gaza humanitarian protest as thousands cross bridge">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist’s handiwork in Auckland’s Takutai Square today to condemn Israel’s starvation as war weapon against Gaza and the NZ prime minister’s weak response. Coming a day after the tabling of Budget 2025 in Parliament, peaceful demonstrators wore hand-painted masks inspired by Gaza-based ... <a title="‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/starving-masked-palestine-protesters-condemn-luxons-gaza-appeasement/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately. The partners also said Israel must enable the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to work independently and impartially “to save lives, reduce suffering, and maintain dignity.” Israel imposed a blockade ... <a title="NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/nz-joins-call-for-israel-to-allow-full-resumption-of-aid-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2025
Democracy Now! Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) this week, braving rain and cold to demand the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student. Democracy Now! was at the ... <a title="Jewish students chain themselves to Columbia gates to protest over ICE jailing of Mahmoud Khalil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/04/jewish-students-chain-themselves-to-columbia-gates-to-protest-over-ice-jailing-of-mahmoud-khalil/" aria-label="Read more about Jewish students chain themselves to Columbia gates to protest over ICE jailing of Mahmoud Khalil">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called on New Zealand government MPs today to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its “crazy slaughter” of Palestinians in Gaza. Speaking at a large pro-Palestinian solidarity rally in the heart of New Zealand’s largest city Auckland, she said Aotearoa New Zealand could no longer ... <a title="Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’ Gaza slaughter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/23/green-partys-swarbrick-calls-for-urgent-nz-action-over-israels-crazy-gaza-slaughter/" aria-label="Read more about Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’ Gaza slaughter">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A Palestine solidarity advocate today appealed to New Zealanders to shed their feelings of powerlessness over the Gaza genocide and “take action” in support of an effective global strategy of boycott, divestment and sanctions. “Many of us have become addicted to ‘doom scrolling’ — reading or watching more and more articles on ... <a title="Palestinian solidarity activists call for ‘action’ in BDS boycott over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/12/palestinian-solidarity-activists-call-for-action-in-bds-boycott-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian solidarity activists call for ‘action’ in BDS boycott over Gaza">Read more</a>
