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12 reasons why a huge split is opening up in the West over US-Israel’s ‘manifestly illegal’ war on Iran

ANALYSIS: By Nury Vittachi The West is in turmoil over countries’ top legal minds declaring the US-Israel attack on Iran to be illegal, as China did. But Israel-friendly Western politicians, including...

Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than...

NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today were highly...

Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at 77

OBITUARY: By David Robie Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026 Roger Fowler, an activist legend of...

Activists tell of ‘apocalyptic’ ecocide on top of Israel’s Gaza genocide at rally

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Two Extinction Rebellion activists joined the speakers today at an Auckland protest over...

In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide

Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people. ANALYSIS:...

Caitlin Johnstone: Everything Israel wants to destroy is Hamas

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone UNRWA is Hamas. The hospitals are Hamas. The ambulances are Hamas. The journalists are Hamas. The schools are Hamas. South Africa...

It may be genocide against Gaza, but it won’t be stopped

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “The State of...

Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former PM Clark

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it...

‘Ceasefire now’ protesters march on NZ naval base, demand Luxon upholds Israel genocide court order

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland’s tourist suburb of Devonport today to the Royal...

Caitlin Johnstone: Commemorating a past Holocaust while cheerleading the current one

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The United States and eight of its allies have suspended funding to UNRWA, the primary humanitarian agency in Gaza, following Israeli...