Politics

Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace, face the truth

COMMENTARY: By Saige England Celebration time. Some Palestinian prisoners have been released. A mother reunited with her daughter. A young mother reunited with her babies. Still in prison are people who...

Gaza and the Western media (including NZ and the Pacific) – complicit in genocide

COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan New Zealand’s One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the...

Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle A litmus test of Israel’s commitment to abandon genocide and start down the road towards...

Netanyahu’s war on Hamas backfires as Gaza resistance holds strong

An Al-Jazeera Arabic special report translated by The Palestine Chronicle staff details how Israel’s military strategy in Gaza,...

Gaza genocide protesters welcome ceasefire but will fight on for justice

Asia Pacific Report About 200 demonstrators gathered in the heart of New Zealand’s biggest city Auckland today to welcome...

Caitlin Johntone: Israel is turning hospitals into mass graves while the West fixates on ‘antisemitism’

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone A mass grave created by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been uncovered at a Gaza hospital, where Palestinian civilians appear...

Activists defy Israel with Gaza-bound ‘freedom’ flotilla and humanitarian aid

By Salwa Amor in Istanbul Palestine solidarity activists are preparing a flotilla to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, vowing to break Israel’s blockade...

Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans

Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to...

Have New Zealanders really been ‘misled’ about AUKUS, or is involvement now a foregone conclusion?

ANALYSIS: By Marco de Jong and Robert G. Patman When former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against New Zealand potentially compromising its independent foreign...

Reaping what you sow, Iran isn’t the aggressor here

COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández On Saturday, April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on...

Gordon Campbell: On Winston Peters’ pathetic speech at the UN

COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Good grief, Winston Peters. Tens of thousands of Gazans have been slaughtered, two million are on the brink of starvation and...