Politics

Māori identity is not a political access pass: Why the recent delegation to Israel demands accountability

ANALYSIS: By Raewyn Kapa The recent trip by a group of Māori individuals to Israel -- publicly framed as a “Māori delegation” -- has raised significant contention across Aotearoa and...

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits back after Netanyahu’s attacks during UN speech

COMMENTARY: By Brett Wilkins New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has hit back after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Israel funded the lawfare assault on Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

The Zionist Federation of Australia’s legal assault on Israel critic and journalist Mary Kostakidis was financed by the...

Pioneer of Palestine protest in NZ warns against the IDF ‘obscenity’ becoming normalised

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A pioneer of Palestine protest in Aotearoa New Zealand today warned...

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

The Zionist Federation of Australia has withdrawn its case of “racial hatred” against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who...

John Minto: Kudos to Jane Campion for saying no to apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival

By John Minto Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) congratulates New Zealand film director Jane Campion over her request for her 1989 debut film Sweetie to...

Flashback 1989: Rising storm in the Pacific

On 10 July 2023 -- marking the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior -- Television New Zealand began broadcasting a BBC/Oxford Scientific...

Fiji judge dismisses lawyer Richard Naidu’s guilty conviction over ‘scandalising court’ case

By Rashika Kumar in Suva Suva lawyer Richard Naidu is a free man after the Suva High Court ruled this week that no conviction be...

Israel’s arms and spyware: Used on Palestinians, sold to the world

Journalist and critic of Israeli apartheid Antony Loewenstein wrapped up his New Zealand tour with another damning address in Auckland last night but was...

Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu Tangi Matua Reid’s unspeakable violence

By Martyn Bradbury My daughter came into the kitchen early today to tell me her friends were downtown in Auckland at Britomart, the transit hub...

Yes, Oppenheimer isn’t opening in Japan this week – but the country has a long history of cinema about the war

ANALYSIS: By Peter C. Pugsley While Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is opening in much of the world this week, a Japanese release date has...