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‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed over ignoring plea

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me here to kill me.” These chilling words by detained and tortured Palestinian...

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’

ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists...

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Mānawatia a Matariki! Flashback 41 years on: One year ago marking the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the...

‘If we don’t save Dr Abu Safiya, he’ll die in prison’ – released detainees on Gaza doctor

By Qassam Muaddi On June 10, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya appeared on a screen before Israel’s Supreme Court via...

The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media response

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch A friend and colleague, Solidarity columnist Eugene Doyle, posed a brief question...

Caitlin Johnstone: Six months of hell on Earth

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Six months of this now. Half a year. Half a year of genocide apologia. Half a year of the most outrageous lies you...

APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over Israel’s war on Gaza

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, describing...

Three NZ Arab doctors joining Kia Ora Gaza humanitarian aid mission

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealand doctors — two Palestinian and one Iraq-born — are planning to join the charity Kia Ora Gaza in its...

Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...

From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom

ANALYSIS: By David Robie On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the...

Caitlin Johnstone: The plan is to turn Palestine into a historical footnote so it’s too late to save it

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Zionist plan for the Palestinians is to kill them and drive them off their land by whatever cruelty is necessary,...