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
Pacific Media Watch Palestinian journalists have long known Gaza to be the most dangerous place on earth for media workers, but Israel’s attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City last week has left many reeling from shock and fear, reports Al Jazeera. Four Al Jazeera staff members were among the seven people killed […] The post ‘Will I make it back alive?’: Gaza journalists tell of being targeted by Israel appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), France’s foreign intelligence agency The ship was destroyed at Marsden Wharf on 10 July 1985 by two limpet mines attached below the waterline. As New Zealand […] The post Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for environmental activism appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Ramzy Baroud The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of barbarity, sustained by an international conspiracy of moral inertia and silence, will not be relegated to history as just another “conflict” or a mere tragedy. The Gaza genocide is a catalyst for major events to come. Israel […] The post The Arab, the Left and those who remained silent: History will not forgive you appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report “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. More than 62,000 people, mostly women and children, have […] The post Luxon ‘grow a spine’ chants as big rallies call for NZ to recognise Palestine state appeared first on Café Pacific | Davi...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Netanyahu’s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West’s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As […] The post The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba appeared first on C...| 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
By Caitlin Johnstone: Within the storytelling of Western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Democracy Now!:Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, held talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom yesterday in Geneva as Israel’s attacks on Iran entered a second week.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Mark Pearson: The United States has its Pulitzer prizes. Australia has the Walkleys. And journalism education in the region has the Ossies, the Journalism Education Association's awards recognising excellent journalism produced by students.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Emma Page: In April 2025, several of the Greenpeace crew visited Matauri Bay, Northland, the final resting place of the original flagship, the Rainbow Warrior. This article was one of the reflections pieces written by a oceans communications crew member.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report: Labour MP for Te Atatu Phil Twyford criticised the New Zealand government today for failing to take stronger action against Israel over its genocide and starvation strategy in Gaza, saying that at the very least the ambassador should be expelled.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Jonathan Cook: If you imagined Western politicians and media were finally showing signs of waking up to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, think again.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Caitlin Johnstone: Well it looks like the US is on the precipice of war with Iran again.| Café Pacific | David Robie
PSNA’s Minto hits back at Gaza ‘genocide hotline’ critics, insists NZ should deny Israeli soldiers entry| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Stanley Simpson: I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with — Motarilavoa Hilda Lini of Vanuatu.| Café Pacific | David Robie
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Archive: By David Robie in Suva: It is too easy to generalise about the media or those who work in it, especially over coverage of the Fiji insurrection -- the third attempted coup in 13 years.| Café Pacific | David Robie
