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Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland’s downtown Te Komititanga Square today recalled the 1917 colonial “Balfour betrayal” and condemned it for...

UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death toll spirals

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis...

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts...

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ media genocide response

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch My message today is really simple but brutal. Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...

Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’

Asia Pacific Report Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas...

Eugene Doyle: Christ wasn’t born in a stable so that Palestinians could be born in tents

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I have just attended a wonderful Christmas concert at St Mary of the Angels in Wellington - the Bach Choir, the...

Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Syria, where tens of thousands of people gathered at the Great Mosque of Damascus for the...

Francesca Albanese, public intellectuals and the industry of pro-Palestine defamation

COMMENTARY: By Layth Malhis You, the reader, are the public intellectual. Unfortunately, this message carries immense weight: those who engage with Palestine bear a collective...

Eugene Doyle: The demon in the mirror. Trump exposes who we are

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle They “will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of...