PSNA’s Minto hits back at Gaza ‘genocide hotline’ critics, insists NZ should deny Israeli soldiers entry| Café Pacific | David Robie
ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through indelible images of malnourished children and grief-stricken families. In her will, she told her colleagues not to […] The post Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them? appeared first on Café Pacific | Davi...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets from over 70 countries simultaneously blacked out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza […] The post 250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza ...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes by the Israeli army against journalists in the Gaza Strip as part of a worldwide action by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders and the community politics organisation Avaaz. On August 25, one […] The post Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to “act decisively” to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. “These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are […] The post NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador and legislating to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist group”. Albanese says the move is because an assessment by the intelligence agency ASIO has concluded that Iran used a “complex web of proxies” […] The post 21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia appeared first on...| Café Pacific | David Robie
By David Robie: Last Saturday, 16 August 2025, I spoke at this Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) rally in the wake of the shocking targeted assassination of six journalists -- four of them working for the Al Jazeera network -- and another person in Gaza City.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality of news reporting about the world’s biggest genocide crisis this century. Speakers at other locations around the country also condemned what they said was biased media coverage. The critics said […] The post Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media appeared first on Café Pacific | Da...| Café Pacific | David Robie
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and against genocide for the past 97 weeks. Yet rarely have the protests across the motu made headlines — or even the news for that matter — unlike the larger demonstrations […] The post Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Pacific Media Watch “Speak Up Kōrerotia” — a radio show centred on human rights issues — has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in this week’s show. Encouraging discussion on human rights issues in both Canterbury and New Zealand, Speak Up Kōrerotia offers a forum to provide a voice for affected communities. Engaging in […] The post Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s so revealing how Israelis keep begging Trump to end the killing in Gaza, because they understand that the US President has the power to force Israel to stop. It seems like Israelis understand this far better than Americans do. Six former Israeli hostages and the widow of a slain hostage […] The post Caitlin Johnstone: Israelis understand that Trump can end the nightmare in Gaza. Americans should know this too appeared first on Café Pacific | David Ro...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Democracy Now!: Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report: Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior III last night to be wary of global “storm clouds” and the renewed existential threat of nuclear weapons.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By David Robie: Forty years ago today the French secret service bombed the Rainbow Warrior and killed our shipmate Fernando Pereira in what the New Zealand prime minister at the time, David Lange, called a “sordid act of international state-backed terrorism”.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Chris Hedges: Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end.| Café Pacific | David Robie