As the New Zealand and Australian media fuss and bother over tourists stranded in New Caledonia, the Kanaks are gripped in an existential struggle with a heavyweight European power determined to keep the archipelago firmly under the control of Paris. We need better, deeper reporting from our media – one that provides history and context.

Before New Zealand decides, by joining AUKUS Pillar 2, that we want to be America’s Friend with Benefits (cyber warfare tools, missiles, etc), we should at least pause for a moment and consider who we are getting into bed with. Australia also has time to reconsider its hasty AUKUS tryst.

Jeremy Rose is founding member of Alternative Jewish Voices. He responds to the mass killing of journalists by the Israeli army with this powerful article centred on the life of one journalist, Ahmed Alnaouq.

New Zealand’s government has been considering joining Pillar 2 of AUKUS – a military alliance aimed firmly at China, our biggest trading partner. The Americans haven’t hidden their delight at New Zealand’s perceived shift in stance. Will New Zealanders have a say?

Marwan Barghouti. He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today - and yet few people in the West even know his name. Absolutely no one in Gaza or the West Bank does not know him. That difference speaks volumes about who dominates the media narrative that we are spoon-fed every day.

The former New Zealand Prime Minister – the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held in Parliament’s old Legislative Chambers on April 18.

Is Hamas a resistance or a terrorist movement? It is time for the West to stop demonising Hamas and understand, in their own words, what drives them. Hamas has the support of the majority of the Palestinian people who have lived through events far worse than October 7th - but with little support from the international community.

When Middle East analyst Annelle Sheline turned her back on her dream job at the US State Department and resigned in protest this week at the US war on Gaza, she joined an elite group of human beings: those who have the courage of their convictions.

Anyone who remembers the Black September attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics or the various protests, boycotts and expulsions of recent games may, in the shadow of today's Gaza, wonder whether Paris 2024 could be a long hot Summer Games.

Not even at the height of the Cold War was either side mad enough to fire missiles into the other’s territory. Germany, egged on by the US, France and the UK, is planning to do just that.

Winning director compares Gaza to Auschwitz

At the Oscars this week Jonathan Glazer went nuclear. The director of Zone of Interest, the Best Foreign Film, directly compared the Auschwitz death camp to what is happening in Gaza.

Burning Man: Aaron Bushnell’s message to us all.

It’s high time the Europeans and Americans climb down from their high horses. Let’s melt down all the statues of the American generals, the degenerate kings and the projects that shame our species.

Gaza is an historical turning point. Search for a better script and understand how cultural hegemony works.

Make sure the attempt to silence defenders of Palestine fails.

We stand on the edge of a greater war. Can we stir ourselves?

New Zealand’s moral compass is pointing somewhere just south of Hell, while the Houthis, along with South Africa, in their own distinct ways, have become champions for human decency as they confront the genocidal state of Israel and its powerful enablers.

South Africa just stepped onto the moral high ground with its blockbuster testimony at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. 

New Zealand should have no part in this sabre-rattling by an imperial power that has wreaked havoc across the planet for far too long. New Zealand should be on the side of the victims of this onslaught.

Every year Jesus is born, dies and is reborn.  He is reborn into our world – that is part of what makes Christian symbology meaningful.  This year Christ is a brown skinned Middle Eastern child about to be born in Gaza.