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August 18, 2025
RNZ News Protesters staged pro-Palestinian demonstrations across Aotearoa New Zealand at the weekend, calling on the government to place sanctions on Israel for its war on Gaza. The government announced last week it was considering whether to join other countries like France, Canada and Australia in recognising Palestinian statehood at a United Nations leader’s meeting ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/pro-palestinian-protests-across-nz-call-on-government-to-sanction-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England A New Zealand policeman pushed over an elderly man who was doing nothing but waving a Palestinian flag at a solidarity rally in Ōtautahi yesterday. Yes the man employed to protect the public committed a violent assault. Not a wee shove, a great big push that caused the man to fall ... <a title="Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/why-we-need-protection-from-brutality-of-some-thuggish-nz-police/" aria-label="Read more about Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic attempt to erase an entire people from history on the basis of their ethnic identity. As a result, Israel is isolating itself as a pariah state on ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/16/gordon-campbell-the-lack-of-spine-in-new-zealands-foreign-policy-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Union members of Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) have made a video honouring the 242 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by the Israeli military since October 2023 — many of them targeted. The death toll has been reported by the Gaza Media Office since the latest killing of six ... <a title="‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/stop-killing-journalists-in-gaza-plea-by-media-alliance-advocates/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stop killing journalists’ in Gaza plea by media alliance advocates">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example. Yet that reputation doesn’t hold true when it comes to Gaza and the Palestinian desire and right to self-determination. Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, states must take positive steps to prevent genocide. ... <a title="John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/john-hobbs-new-zealands-shameful-stance-on-israel/" aria-label="Read more about John Hobbs: New Zealand’s shameful stance on Israel">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report It was a bit like the old days — the heyday of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement in the 1980s, leading up to the Rarotonga Treaty for a nuclear free Pacific zone that was signed on 6 August 1985 just weeks after the Rainbow Warrior bombing. The New Zealand nuclear-free law followed ... <a title="Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/nagasaki-day-and-aro-valley-peace-talks-recall-nuke-free-heyday/" aria-label="Read more about Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for ... <a title="Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israel-has-deliberate-strategy-of-killing-palestinian-journalists-like-anas-al-sharif-warns-un-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif, warns UN expert">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament New Zealand’s Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is “utterly appalling” and Israeil Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot”. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s comments came on a tense day in Parliament today, where the Green Party’s co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick was “named” for refusing ... <a title="Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israeli-pm-has-lost-the-plot-says-nzs-christopher-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend. Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed ... <a title="MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/meaa-condemns-targeted-attacks-on-gaza-journalists-as-a-war-crime/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro New York Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution. The Trump administration continues to deploy political, economic and military measures aimed at the overthrow of Venezuela’s government and the reversal of advances in regional ... <a title="Washington’s Escalating War on Venezuela: Narco-Myths and Imperial Designs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/washingtons-escalating-war-on-venezuela-narco-myths-and-imperial-designs/" aria-label="Read more about Washington’s Escalating War on Venezuela: Narco-Myths and Imperial Designs">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military’s “disgraceful tactic” to cover up war crimes in the wake of the killing of six journalists in Gaza on Sunday. It has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to stop the massacre of journalists, ... <a title="RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/rsf-calls-for-emergency-un-security-council-meeting-after-targeted-israeli-strike-kills-six-media-professionals/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli strike kills six media professionals">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2025
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament’s debating chamber and told to leave for the rest of the week after a fiery speech about the war in Gaza. The incident occured during an urgent debate this afternoon which was called after the ... <a title="Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of week after fiery Gaza speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/12/greens-co-leader-chloe-swarbrick-barred-from-nz-parliament-for-rest-of-week-after-fiery-gaza-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of week after fiery Gaza speech">Read more</a>
