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October 20, 2023
RNZ News Te Pāti Māori wants the incoming and outgoing governments of Aotearoa New Zealand to use the country’s strong international voice to insist on an urgent ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. And they say the government should be prepared to “kick the Israeli ambassador out” if the fighting does not stop and humanitarian aid ... <a title="Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire, ‘absolute peace’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/20/te-pati-maori-calls-for-nz-to-insist-on-israel-gaza-ceasefire-absolute-peace/" aria-label="Read more about Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire, ‘absolute peace’">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2023
By Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report As we prepared for this podcast, representatives of Arab states have presented a united front at the United Nations, criticising the UN Security Council of doing nothing to protect civilians from Israeli bombing and missile attacks on Gazan civilians and locations. Since then, the UN Security Council has ... <a title="When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning, Paul Buchanan assess the crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/20/when-all-the-worlds-failings-end-in-gaza-selwyn-manning-paul-buchanan-assess-the-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about When all the world’s failings end in Gaza – Selwyn Manning, Paul Buchanan assess the crisis">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto The Aotearoa New Zealand government announcement of $5 million in humanitarian aid to “Israel, Gaza and the West Bank” is a cowardly, shameful response to Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. The priority for Gaza is not bandages and aspirins — they need loud voices condemning Israeli genocide. ... <a title="John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/18/john-minto-a-shameful-nz-response-to-genocide-of-palestinians-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in Gaza">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The referendum on the indigenous Voice in Australia last Saturday was an historic event. Australians were asked to vote on whether to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia in the Constitution through an indigenous Voice. The voters were asked to vote “yes” or ... <a title="‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous voice – a devastating wake-up call for resistance to colonialism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/17/no-to-australias-indigenous-voice-a-devastating-wake-up-call-for-resistance-to-colonialism/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous voice – a devastating wake-up call for resistance to colonialism">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even more terrifying attacks on Palestinian urban neighbourhoods in Gaza, the media across many parts of Asia tend to take a more neutral stand in comparison with their Western counterparts. A ... <a title="Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/15/asian-states-shocked-by-hamas-raids-but-no-blind-support-for-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for Israel">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Israeli occupation forces are intentionally targeting Palestinian journalists in the besieged Gaza Strip, media outlets warned after three reporters were killed Tuesday bringing the total number of journalists killed since Saturday to seven, reports Middle East Monitor. The Government Media Office’s Monitoring and Follow-up Unit in Gaza has documented dozens of attacks and crimes against ... <a title="7 journalists killed since beginning of Israeli aggression on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/7-journalists-killed-since-beginning-of-israeli-aggression-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about 7 journalists killed since beginning of Israeli aggression on Gaza">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media statement said that decision followed Stuff’s increasing concerns about the volume of mis- and disinformation being shared, and the “damaging behaviour being exhibited on and enabled by the platform”. ... <a title="NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/13/nzs-stuff-media-group-quits-x-twitter-over-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Stuff media group quits X (Twitter) over ‘disinformation’">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again been caught with its pants down. On this occasion its briefs were dangling from its ankles as well. Operation Al Aqsa Storm, as Hamas named its 7 October 2023 offensive ... <a title="Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/11/operation-al-aqsa-storm-how-why-and-where-to-now-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why, and where to now in Gaza?">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, Fred Albert, Sue Berman and Justine Sachs of the Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ) Hamas has responded to Israel’s escalating violence with an unprecedented attack. This is not a new tragedy; it is an extension of the same old cycle. We grieve all the losses of this calamity, and we call on ... <a title="Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/gaza-blockade-hamass-tragic-attack-a-response-to-longterm-and-escalating-immediate-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they repost stories from the BBC, AP and Reuters which bend the truth in favour of Israeli narratives of “terrorism” and “victimhood”. The worst comes from the BBC which is dutifully ... <a title="John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/john-minto-systemic-nz-misreporting-on-israeli-occupation-of-palestine-and-palestinian-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi — an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years — has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran,” her courage and determination. Persecuted by the Iranian authorities since the late 1990s ... <a title="RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/rsf-hails-decision-to-award-nobel-peace-prize-to-iranian-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Pacific Media Watch New Caledonia’s daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed — but with a big difference. It is online only and free, almost. The return of the news outlet which had been an institution for half a century is welcomed in many quarters, but some local mayors would ... <a title="Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/noumeas-newspaper-les-nouvelles-is-back-free-and-online-only/" aria-label="Read more about Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only">Read more</a>
