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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
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The US Department of Justice is being urged to condemn and cease its reliance on the “Insular Cases” — a series of US Supreme Court opinions on US territories, which have been labelled racist. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin called them “a stain ... <a title="‘A stain on our country’: Criticism of ‘racist’ Supreme Court rulings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/29/a-stain-on-our-country-criticism-of-racist-supreme-court-rulings/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A stain on our country’: Criticism of ‘racist’ Supreme Court rulings">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 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 An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in his open letter marking the ... <a title="Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/australian-author-leads-silence-protest-over-blood-debt-owed-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans">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 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were working on stories linked to ... <a title="200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/200-journalists-targeted-over-their-environment-reporting-warns-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about 200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF">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>
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April 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day 2024. Praising the courage and ... <a title="OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/opm-leaders-open-letter-condemns-australias-treachery-over-papua/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It’s not as if we haven’t done so before. When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the government didn’t say: “Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself.” No, it arrested, prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned and deported the ... <a title="Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before over spies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/murray-horton-get-tough-on-israel-weve-done-it-before-over-spies/" aria-label="Read more about Murray Horton: Get tough on Israel – we’ve done it before over spies">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Security forces reinforcements were sent from France ahead of two rival marches in the capital Nouméa today, at the same time and only two streets away one from the other. One march, called by Union Calédonienne party (a component of the pro-independence FLNKS umbrella) and its ... <a title="French security forces in Nouméa ahead of two opposing marches today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/french-security-forces-in-noumea-ahead-of-two-opposing-marches-today/" aria-label="Read more about French security forces in Nouméa ahead of two opposing marches today">Read more</a>
