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...

APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over Israel’s war on Gaza

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, describing...

Three NZ Arab doctors joining Kia Ora Gaza humanitarian aid mission

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealand doctors — two Palestinian and one Iraq-born — are planning to join the charity Kia Ora Gaza in its...

Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold

Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to...

From Gaza to West Papua, the long struggle for justice and freedom

ANALYSIS: By David Robie On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the...

Caitlin Johnstone: The plan is to turn Palestine into a historical footnote so it’s too late to save it

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Zionist plan for the Palestinians is to kill them and drive them off their land by whatever cruelty is necessary,...

USP faces a ‘gathering storm’ over leadership and a looming strike

Asia Pacific Report The University of the South Pacific — one of only two regional universities in the world — is facing a “gathering storm”...