NZ protesters condemn ‘IDF kill chain’ link to Gaza genocide
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific From Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters have again spotlighted the country’s stake…

David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific From Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters have again spotlighted the country’s stake…
“This isn’t just a war against Gaza, it’s a war against journalism. Journalists are being targeted, killed and defamed. Without them, who will alert us to the famine?”
Three media commentators address the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century.
Jenny Nicholls of the Waiheke Weekender reviews the new edition of the classic Rainbow Warrior book by David Robie four decades on from the bombing by French secret agents in a failed bid to stop antI-nuclear testing protests.
“Grow a spine for Palestine!” was a frequent theme among about 5000 people protesting in the heart of New Zealand’s largest city today as the protesters demanded that the coalition government should recognise the state of Palestine and stop supporting impunity for Israel.
Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend. But NZ journalists remain silent.
Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they were to blame over misinformation and the worsening catastrophe.
Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland on Saturday across the Viaduct to the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior — and met a display of solidarity.
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds.
About 2000 New Zealand protesters marched through the heart of Auckland city today chanting “no justice, no peace” and many other calls as they demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli atrocities in its brutal war on the besieged Palestinian enclave.