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February 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today. Flags of Fiji, Tonga and West Papua were featured alongside the sea of Palestinian banners and at least one group declared themselves as “Tongans ... <a title="Pacific protesters feature in NZ demo against Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/04/pacific-protesters-feature-in-nz-demo-against-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific protesters feature in NZ demo against Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Palestinian Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Dr Izzat Abdulhadi, last night appealed for “unity”, “strategy” and “networking” for the pathway forward to an independent state. Responding to speculation about “the day after” when Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is finally over at a community event in Auckland’s Western ... <a title="Palestinian envoy calls for ‘unity’ and ‘strategy’ for pathway to just future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/03/palestinian-envoy-calls-for-unity-and-strategy-for-pathway-to-just-future/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian envoy calls for ‘unity’ and ‘strategy’ for pathway to just future">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto. COMMENTARY: By John Minto In 2003, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s “apartheid wall” being built through Palestinian territory was a violation of international law and should be dismantled. Israel ignored ... <a title="Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/03/pressure-must-go-on-israel-to-comply-with-world-court-genocide-rulings/" aria-label="Read more about Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Several democratic, progressive and socialist organisations in Indonesia and in the Melanesian region of West Papua have come together in solidarity with Palestine and formed an alliance called the People’s Movement for Palestinian Independence (GERAK Palestine). In a statement released by GERAK Palestine, the group declared full support for the Palestinian people ... <a title="Indonesian and Papuan protesters call for ‘Palestine independence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/31/indonesian-and-papuan-protesters-call-for-palestine-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian and Papuan protesters call for ‘Palestine independence’">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who has been documenting the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip, has left the enclave for Qatar and gave his first interview there with the Doha-based Al Jazeera global news channel. Azaiza announced on Instagram yesterday that he was leaving the besieged enclave before boarding a ... <a title="Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza evacuates from Gaza – ‘thank you . . . you’ll return to a free Palestine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/24/photojournalist-motaz-azaiza-evacuates-from-gaza-thank-you-youll-return-to-a-free-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza evacuates from Gaza – ‘thank you . . . you’ll return to a free Palestine’">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson. The official reason for Lattouf’s dismissal was ordinary: she shared a post by Human Rights Watch about Israel “using starvation of civilians as a ... <a title="Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/cancelling-the-journalist-furore-over-abcs-coverage-of-israel-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
RNZ News Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman — a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and justice for Occupied Palestine — was subject to “pretty much continuous” death threats and threats of violence, says party co-leader James Shaw. She has resigned as a Green Party MP ... <a title="Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/former-green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-faced-continuous-death-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report South Africa has accused Israel of “genocidal intent” over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an interim order demanding Israel halt its military offensive in the embattled territory, reports Middle East Eye. South African lawyer Adila ... <a title="South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/12/south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-over-gaza-chilling-in-detail/" aria-label="Read more about South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail">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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November 26, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Protesters were out in force at 17 centres around Aotearoa New Zealand — from Rawene in the north to Invercargill in the south — this weekend calling for a “ceasefire now!” in the War on Gaza. “This is the largest number of centres ever taking action as New Zealanders express their abhorrence ... <a title="NZ pro-Palestine protesters slam ‘tea break’ and call for full Gaza ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/26/nz-pro-palestine-protesters-slam-tea-break-and-call-for-full-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about NZ pro-Palestine protesters slam ‘tea break’ and call for full Gaza ceasefire">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2023
REVIEW: By David Robie Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and researcher Antony Loewenstein published an extraordinarily timely book, The Palestine Laboratory. In it he warned that a worst-case scenario — “long feared but never ... <a title="Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/25/behind-the-war-on-gaza-how-israel-profits-globally-from-repression/" aria-label="Read more about Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression">Read more</a>
