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July 9, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country’s traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order due to a “desire not to offend” the Trump administration. Professor Robert Patman, an inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chair and a specialist in international relations at the University of Otago, has ... <a title="Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/09/academic-slams-nz-government-over-compromised-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. It’s time that the nations of the world (or at least the influential western nations) accept the reality that all the lands that constituted 1920-1948 Mandatory Palestine should be formally recognised as a single nation-state; ideally called Palestine Israel or Israel-Palestine, but more realistically called Israel. In other words, the never-viable ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Palestine Israel: Implementing a One-State Solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/25/keith-rankin-analysis-palestine-israel-implementing-a-one-state-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Palestine Israel: Implementing a One-State Solution">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2025
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem Kia ora koutou, I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across the Palestinian and Israeli territories from on the ground. Sixty nine people killed in Gaza, 12 while seeking aid, and 221 injured (172 seeking aid). 11 killed by Israeli ... <a title="Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/21/israel-blocks-gaza-aid-organisations-access-to-fuel-hospitals-running-out/" aria-label="Read more about Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein War is good for business and geopolitical posturing. Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington in early February for his first visit to the US following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, he issued a bold statement on the strategic position of Israel. “The decisions we made in the war [since ... <a title="Why Israel’s shock and awe has proven its power but lost the war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/15/why-israels-shock-and-awe-has-proven-its-power-but-lost-the-war/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel’s shock and awe has proven its power but lost the war">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has “cleared the air” with the Fijian diaspora in Samoa over Fiji’s vote against the United Nations resolution on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and People. He denied that Fiji — the only country to vote against the resolution — ... <a title="PM defends Fiji’s UN ‘ambush’ vote – challenged by human rights advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/25/pm-defends-fijis-un-ambush-vote-challenged-by-human-rights-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about PM defends Fiji’s UN ‘ambush’ vote – challenged by human rights advocate">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report New Zealand’s opposition Labour Party has backed Christchurch City Council and called for other cities to block business with firms involved in Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestine Territories. “It is great that Christchurch is the first council in New Zealand to take up this cause. We hope others will follow ... <a title="NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/24/nzs-labour-calls-on-other-cities-to-follow-israel-boycott-lead/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Today is Nakba Day — this is the day marking the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and off their land by Israeli militias in 1948. For 74 years Israel has refused to allow them to return to their homes and land in Palestine despite dozens of United ... <a title="Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/15/gallery-nakba-day-in-auckland-protesting-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2021
By Roger Fowler in Auckland The multi-billion-dollar NZ Super Fund – New Zealand’s state pension fund – has finally divested from five of Israel’s biggest banks due to their funding of illegal settlement construction in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. New Zealand Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman said the party welcomed the decision, telling The Spinoff: ... <a title="NZ Super Fund dumps Israeli banks for funding settlements in Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/13/nz-super-fund-dumps-israeli-banks-for-funding-settlements-in-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Super Fund dumps Israeli banks for funding settlements in Palestine">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2017
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