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May 4, 2025
World Media Freedom Day reflections of a protester Yesterday, World Media Freedom Day, we marched to Television New Zealand in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to deliver a letter asking them to do better. Their coverage [of Palestine] has been biased at its best, silent at its worst. I truly believe that if our media outlets reported ... <a title="‘Dead weight comes to mind’ when thinking about Gazan parents and genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/04/dead-weight-comes-to-mind-when-thinking-about-gazan-parents-and-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Dead weight comes to mind’ when thinking about Gazan parents and genocide">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters marked World Press Freedom Day — May 3 — today by marching on the public broadcaster Television New Zealand in Auckland, accusing it of 18 months of “biased coverage” on the genocidal Israeli war against Gaza. They delivered a letter to the management board of TVNZ from Palestine ... <a title="Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/04/palestine-protesters-march-on-tvnz-accuse-broadcaster-of-bias-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A human rights agency has called for an investigation into the drone attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid ship Conscience with Israel suspected of being responsible. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement that the deliberate targeting of a civilian aid ship in international waters was a “flagrant violation” ... <a title="Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla ship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/03/human-rights-group-calls-for-probe-into-attack-on-freedom-flotilla-ship/" aria-label="Read more about Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla ship">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2025
Pacific Media Watch After a year and a half of war, nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli army — including at least 43 slain on the job. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has brought multiple complaints before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and continues to tirelessly support Gazan journalists, working to halt ... <a title="RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them in death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/03/rsf-condemns-israeli-targeting-of-gaza-journalists-then-slandering-them-in-death/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them in death">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings at The Hague this week into Israel blocking vital supplies entering Gaza. The ICJ’s ongoing investigation into Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave is ... <a title="New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case over Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/new-zealand-condemned-for-failing-to-make-icj-humanitarian-case-over-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case over Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Broadcasting Standards Authority New Zealand’s Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam between local team Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv. The authority found an item on “antisemitic violence” surrounding the match, and another on heightened security in Paris the following week, ... <a title="Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/inaccurate-1news-reporting-on-football-violence-breached-broadcasting-standards-rules-bsa/" aria-label="Read more about Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed, writes Dr Ilan Pappé ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé Responses in the Western world to the genocide ... <a title="On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s silence on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s silence on Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled the country is not a fairy tale, it is not a one-dimensional parable of resurrection, of liberation from oppression, of joy for all — but there is a great deal to celebrate. After over a century of brutal colonial oppression ... <a title="50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/50-years-after-the-fall-of-saigon-from-triumph-to-trump/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls, who is visiting New Caledonia this week for the third time in two months, has once again called on all parties to live up to their responsibilities in order to make a new political agreement possible. Failing that, he said ... <a title="French Minister Valls warns New Caledonia is ‘on a tightrope’, pleads for ‘innovative’ solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/29/french-minister-valls-warns-new-caledonia-is-on-a-tightrope-pleads-for-innovative-solutions/" aria-label="Read more about French Minister Valls warns New Caledonia is ‘on a tightrope’, pleads for ‘innovative’ solutions">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel. This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle posts overnight. “#Fiji is determined to deepen its relations with #Israel as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel, HE Ambassador @AFTarakinikini prepares to present his credentials on 28 April, 2025,” stated ... <a title="Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/29/tarakinikini-appointed-as-fijis-ambassador-designate-to-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Mandy Henk When the US Embassy knocked on my door in late 2024, I was both pleased and more than a little suspicious. I’d worked with them before, but the organisation where I did that work, Tohatoha, had closed its doors. My new project, Dark Times Academy, was specifically an attempt to pull ... <a title="How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/27/how-to-fight-trumps-cyber-dystopia-with-community-self-determination-care-and-truth/" aria-label="Read more about How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and truth">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Activists for Palestine paid homage to Pope Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand today for his humility, care for marginalised in the world, and his courageous solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza at a street theatre rally just hours before his funeral in Rome. He was remembered and thanked for his daily ... <a title="Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/27/homage-paid-to-pope-francis-at-nz-street-theatre-rally-for-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for Palestine">Read more</a>
