BDS activists reject Israeli fine, raise $33,000 for Gaza stress health
Lorde cancelled her concert in Tel Aviv days after BDS activists appealed to the singer in an open letter. Image: YouTube screenshot Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Two New Zealand activists have raised thousands of dollars through crowdfunding after an Israeli court fined them for their role in singer Lorde cancelling her show in Tel Aviv, […]
Read More →Why is Israel so afraid of 16-year-old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi?
OPINION: By Ariel Gold and Taylor Morley Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi was back in court last Thursday, with the judge ruling for the third time that her detention be extended – this time for another five days. Over the past week and a half, Ahed has been shuffled between numerous Israeli prisons and police stations. She […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political roundup – Dear Lorde here’s what they’re saying about your boycott of Israel
Bryce Edwards’ Political roundup: Dear Lorde, here’s what they’re saying about your boycott of Israel Dear Lorde Lorde performing in Brisbane.Created: 23 November 2017. Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 – DavidEye. It seems that everyone is writing open letters to you about whether or not you should be performing in Israel. So, I thought I’d […]
Read More →Australia, Pacific nations sidestep overwhelming UN vote on Jerusalem
Palestinians react to the Security Council vote on Jerusalem vetoed by the US earlier this week. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Australia and other Pacific nations did not join almost 130 countries in an overwhelming vote at the UN demanding the United States drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reports RNZ […]
Read More →Gideon Levy: New Zealand, one state for two nations
ANALYSIS: By Gideon Levy in Auckland Late-morning light bathed the landscape in bold colors. It’s early summer here, and the sun was already very strong, broiling. It’s also the season in which the pohutukawa trees burst into crimson blossoms along the roadside. The view from the heights of this Auckland suburb of Orakei is breathtaking, […]
Read More →The Foreign Minister, the Zone and the Convention
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: The Foreign Minister, the Zone and the Convention Last month the relatively new foreign minister of our realm, Hon Gerry Brownlee, steered a wobbly diplomatic course on Israeli settlements, which became leveraged to a political level. In May, he described UN Security Council resolution 2334 […]
Read More →The Security Council and Israel – where power meets law
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: The Security Council and Israel – where power meets law Since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2234, there has been more heat than light shed on the continuing Israel-Palestine crisis and the faltering prospects for peace. Israel, claiming it has been abandoned and betrayed […]
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