Eugene Doyle
Eugene Doyle is a writer based in Wellington. He has written extensively on the Middle East, as well as peace and security issues in the Asia Pacific region. He hosts the public policy platform solidarity.co.nz.
Eugene's recent articles
24 May 2024
The liberation of Kanaky: resisting France’s brutal colonial overlordships in the Pacific
“Only the struggle counts … death is nothing.” Eloi Machoro – ‘the Che Guevara of the Pacific’ – shortly before he was gunned down by a French sniper on 12 January 1985.
18 May 2024
We “share values” with people committing genocide
Western leaders like to talk about values, shared values, common values. They talk about this a lot. America itself is obsessed with two things: conflict resolution through violence and moral preening. Nowhere is this contradiction more glaringly on display than in the genocide being committed in Gaza. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) says the US and Israel have a partnership based on shared values. I believe them.
13 May 2024
Is New Zealand slurping the AUKUS Kool-Aid?
Drinking the Kool-Aid is not only believing a foolish and dangerous idea but acting on it leads to unnecessary self-destruction. It refers to the 900 American cult members who drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid at Jonestown in Guyana in 1978 in an act of “revolutionary suicide”. Critics of AUKUS on both sides of the Tasman think our governments need to change their drinking habits.
2 May 2024
Free Palestine’s Mandela -Twenty years in captivity
He is by far the most popular Palestinian leader alive today - and yet few people in the West even know his name. Everyone one in Gaza or the West Bank knows him. That difference speaks volumes about who dominates the media narrative that we are spoon-fed every day.
20 April 2024
Joining AUKUS not in NZ’s national interest
Helen Clark, o how I miss you. 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.
11 April 2024
It is time to de-demonise Hamas
Who would not condemn the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 when hundreds of Israeli civilians, as well as hundreds of military and security personnel were killed? Why then is Hamas so popular amongst Palestinians and in the wider Muslim world?
6 March 2024
Remember their last words
A few days ago, on 25 February, US serviceman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington in protest at the US and Israels genocidal actions in Gaza. His last words on this Earth, as the fire consumed him, were: Free Palestine!
20 February 2024
Things are not what they seem
We are homo dramatis, the species that tells stories. Today more and more of us are rejecting America and Israels stories and are searching for a better script. That is a good thing because History is calling us to be actors, not spectators, in the drama playing out in Gaza.
14 February 2024
Silencing Francesca Albanese
It was with a sense of disgust rather than despair that I read in the Jerusalem Post this week: 'Antisemitic' UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese banned from Israel. Were being gas-lighted again and this is a chance to push back against the narrative that to support victims of Israel is to somehow be antisemitic.
5 February 2024
The edge of war, our battle for truth
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell, 1984.
2 February 2024
New Zealand goose-steps towards the moral abyss
With its decision to suspend or pause funding to the United Nations key organisation that is providing assistance to Gazas famished, desperate population, New Zealand could open itself up to a charge of participating in a genocide.
29 January 2024
Houthis save the world: Why New Zealand is on the wrong side of history
The State of Israel can butcher thousands of innocents but New Zealand would not lift a finger to provide support to its victims. IDF soldiers can gun down old men and women waving white flags, shell lines of refugees queuing for aid and deprive hospitals of power and medicine and all New Zealand does is a collective shrug. When, however, Yemens Houthis disrupt the passage of frozen meat, pizza bases and iPhones through the Red Sea, suddenly New Zealand goes on the warpath. We have declared war on Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and sent a strike force of six...
23 December 2023
Christ is born in Gaza
Why was Christ born in a stable? Because the Israelis bombed all the houses. Truly. 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 man about to be born in Gaza.
10 November 2023
The Holocaust should be a lesson not a template
Jewish people exterminating men, women and children in a concentration camp is _______.