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November 6, 2025
Asia Pacific Report More than 700 academics have this week sent an open letter demanding the university retirement savings scheme UniSaver immediately divest from companies directly linked to Israel and genocide. This latest letter, organised by University Workers for Palestine (UW4P), has been signed by 715 people – almost double the number of 400 staff ... <a title="‘Divest from genocide’ call by NZ university workers to UniSaver" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/06/divest-from-genocide-call-by-nz-university-workers-to-unisaver/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Divest from genocide’ call by NZ university workers to UniSaver">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A global civil society watchdog has condemned Fiji for blocking protest marches over the Palestine genocide by Israel and clamping down on a regional Pacific university demonstration with threats. However, while the Civicus Monitor rates the state of civic space in Fiji as “obstructed” it has acknowledged the country for making some ... <a title="Global watchdog condemns Fiji for ‘blocking’ protest marches over Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/16/global-watchdog-condemns-fiji-for-blocking-protest-marches-over-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Global watchdog condemns Fiji for ‘blocking’ protest marches over Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly endless human rights atrocities committed against you. It’s been seven months of almost complete silence from Mamamia and their most popular writers and podcast hosts. I’ve respected and appreciated their ... <a title="Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/antoinette-lattouf-a-disheartening-feminist-silence-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A Fiji human rights advocacy coalition has condemned Fiji’s “profoundly troubling” stance as being one of only two countries supporting continued illegal occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territories. The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights (NGOCHR) said the occupation had been widely recognised by the international community — including the United ... <a title="Fiji human rights group condemns ‘troubling’ support for Israel at ICJ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/20/fiji-human-rights-group-condemns-troubling-support-for-israel-at-icj/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji human rights group condemns ‘troubling’ support for Israel at ICJ">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Supremacism is a cultural belief that an in-group of humanity is inherently superior to other groups, and that those other groups have lesser human rights as a consequence of their presumed inferiority or corruption. The Jewish religion does have texts which can be understood as supremacist. That doesn’t make Judaism a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay: Supremacism, Israel and Neozionism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/01/keith-rankin-essay-supremacism-israel-and-neozionism/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay: Supremacism, Israel and Neozionism">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Tristan Dunning, University of Queensland, and Martin Kear, University of Sydney While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced — and mostly unnoticed — escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and ... <a title="Since the war on Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has surged in the West Bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/01/since-the-war-on-gaza-began-violence-against-palestinians-has-surged-in-the-west-bank/" aria-label="Read more about Since the war on Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has surged in the West Bank">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this week. The killing of civilians or taking them hostage is a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention and should be universally condemned. However, the Labour government has been deathly ... <a title="War on Gaza: A prime minister with blood on his hands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/27/war-on-gaza-a-prime-minister-with-blood-on-his-hands/" aria-label="Read more about War on Gaza: A prime minister with blood on his hands">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this week. The killing of civilians or taking them hostage is a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention and should be universally condemned. However, the Labour government has been deathly ... <a title="John Minto: A prime minister with Gaza ‘blood on his hands’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/17/john-minto-a-prime-minister-with-gaza-blood-on-his-hands/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: A prime minister with Gaza ‘blood on his hands’">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2023
Asia Pacific Report About 2000 people from Aotearoa New Zealand communities, including many families, staged a vibrant rally in Auckland’s Aotea Square and marched down Queen Street today in support of freedom for #Palestine and an end to the Gaza massacre. Marchers held placards proclaiming “This is a massacre not war”, “Free Palestine – End ... <a title="Big Auckland rally shows solidarity with Palestine over ‘genocidal’ war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/15/big-auckland-rally-shows-solidarity-with-palestine-over-genocidal-war/" aria-label="Read more about Big Auckland rally shows solidarity with Palestine over ‘genocidal’ war">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again been caught with its pants down. On this occasion its briefs were dangling from its ankles as well. Operation Al Aqsa Storm, as Hamas named its 7 October 2023 offensive ... <a title="Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/11/operation-al-aqsa-storm-how-why-and-where-to-now-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2023
By John Minto Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) congratulates New Zealand film director Jane Campion over her request for her 1989 debut film Sweetie to be withdrawn from apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival. The announcement was made by Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) late last night. We are delighted ... <a title="John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/23/john-minto-kudos-to-jane-campion-for-saying-no-to-apartheid-israels-jerusalem-film-festival/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival">Read more</a>
