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May 5, 2024
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 was planned to take place on campus calling for support for the rights of Palestinians. This week, the University of Auckland warned that while it supported the right of students ... <a title="Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/05/auckland-academics-call-out-university-stance-over-pro-palestine-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
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, saying such threats could constitute an offence against the “administration of justice” by the world’s permanent war crimes court. The Hague-based office of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a ... <a title="ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/icc-demands-end-to-threats-against-court-amid-gaza-war-probe/" aria-label="Read more about ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2024
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 for a “ceasefire in Palestine”, reports Te Ao Māori News. Reporter Te Aniwaniwa Paterson talked to Te Otāne Huata, who has been organising peace rallies each Sunday at the Hastings ... <a title="Ngāti Kahungunu becomes NZ’s first iwi to call for a Gaza ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/01/ngati-kahungunu-becomes-nzs-first-iwi-to-call-for-a-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about Ngāti Kahungunu becomes NZ’s first iwi to call for a Gaza ceasefire">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Pacific state of Hawai’i’s House of Representatives has joined the state’s Senate in calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza, becoming the first state to pass such a resolution, reports Hawaii News Now. In March, the Senate passed a ceasefire resolution with a 24–1 vote, and now the House ... <a title="Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza ceasefire resolutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/pacific-state-of-hawaii-first-in-us-to-pass-dual-gaza-ceasefire-resolutions/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza ceasefire resolutions">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today — and yet few people in the West even know his name. Absolutely no one in Gaza or the West Bank does not know him. That difference speaks volumes about who dominates the media narrative that we are spoon-fed every day. ... <a title="27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/27-years-in-captivity-free-marwan-barghouti-palestines-mandela/" aria-label="Read more about 27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga Square — the heart of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city — today as speakers urged people to take a stronger boycott against Israeli products. The rally by hundreds of protesters ... <a title="Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up in boycotts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/29/palestine-protesters-stage-gaza-die-in-as-leaders-call-for-step-up-in-boycotts/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up in boycotts">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2024
The protest outside the White House correspondents’ dinner hotel. Image: Anatolu video screenshot APR More than two dozen Palestinian journalists had called for a boycott of the dinner, writing an open letter urging their American colleagues not to attend. “You have a unique responsibility to speak truth to power and uphold journalistic integrity,” said the ... <a title="Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll of 142" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/28/biden-hails-press-freedom-democracy-but-ignores-gaza-media-death-toll-of-142/" aria-label="Read more about Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll of 142">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps. And students at Columbia and other US universities remain defiant as campuses have witnessed the biggest protests since the anti-Vietnam war and anti-apartheid eras in the 1960s and 1980s. But ... <a title="US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/us-student-palestine-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-inspire-global-action/" aria-label="Read more about US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global action">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail to Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port authority, and the cargo has been loaded and prepared for the humanitarian trip to the besieged enclave. However, organisers received word of an “administrative roadblock” initiated by Israel in ... <a title="Israel delays Gaza Freedom Flotilla departure with bureaucratic ‘block’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/israel-delays-gaza-freedom-flotilla-departure-with-bureaucratic-block/" aria-label="Read more about Israel delays Gaza Freedom Flotilla departure with bureaucratic ‘block’">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2024
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” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side gate entrance for media workers ... <a title="Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/26/palestine-protesters-challenge-tvnz-over-israeli-ambassadors-propaganda/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
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 istanbul as the ships prepare to sail for Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. Mandela is also the ambassador for the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. When he met with ... <a title="Nelson Mandela’s grandson joins Gaza flotilla, slams ‘genocide complicit’ leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/nelson-mandelas-grandson-joins-gaza-flotilla-slams-genocide-complicit-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Nelson Mandela’s grandson joins Gaza flotilla, slams ‘genocide complicit’ leaders">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
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 similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of infrastructure haunted Gaza with Israel’s ... <a title="Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/sydney-university-students-set-up-gaza-solidarity-camp-as-war-marks-200-days/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days">Read more</a>
