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Never again for anyone: Why the NZ Holocaust Centre shouldn’t be involved in developing a new curriculum

Rick Sahar, a former board member of the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, soldier in the IDF, and son of concentration camp survivors had me on his Alternative Jewish Voices...

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre...

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media

ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific...

Palestine protesters told they are ‘rainbow people’ of hope after 150 weeks of Gaza protest

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Palestine protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand celebrated an unprecedented 150 weeks...

Britain’s Big Brother state is already here – we just don’t realise it yet

While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or “Israel haters”, the UK state is...

CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video crew of four

Pacific Media Watch The Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement today that it is appalled to learn of the killing of an Al...

Caitlin Johnstone: Dare to hope over Palestine and justice

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone At least 100,000 Australians, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, marched for Gaza across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the pouring rain...

As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the...

Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court...

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won

Last week, the UN’s highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and provide restitution for...

Caitlin Johnstone: It shouldn’t have taken this much for mainstream voices to start speaking up about Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human...