Academic terrorist sympathisers call for sanctions on Israel According to the NZ Herald a number of NZ’s ‘leading academics on conflict resolution have slammed the country’s “dangerous double standard” on the Israel-Palestine problem’. These “leading academics” include two University of Auckland Dance Studies lecturers, a senior lecturer of…
We should be standing up to, not standing over, hate speakers There’s an old joke about a Jewish Robinson Crusoe who, when washed ashore on a desert island, built two synagogues just so he could have one that “he never sets foot in“. This sense of disagreement is a fundamental part…
Trevor Norwitz: Why President Obama Should Have Vetoed Resolution 2334 …Saddest of all are what Lenin might have called the “useful idiots,” decent but distant countries like New Zealand and Japan who, although not immune to peer pressure, may actually have thought that all they were doing was registering their…
Reverend’s prayer evokes applause at Holocaust remembrance ceremony A United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day event was held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on Fri, 27 January. As the event drew to a close, prayers were offered by the Kaumatua, Rabbi Friedler, and Rev. Arthur Comery. The prayer…
Reflections on the Holocaust Tomorrow, January 27, has been set aside by the United Nations as an annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The New Zealand Jewish Council has invited these statements in the belief that as…
Israeli settlement resolution ‘not end in itself’ I am not sure it [resolution 2334] covers us [New Zealand] and the rest of the international community in glory. The purpose is not to get any sort of resolution as an end in itself. It is whether the resolution…
Chris Trotter’s dark reading of Israel’s dilemma In one of the most polarizing trials in Israeli army history, 20 year old Sergeant Elor Azaria, who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, was found guilty of manslaughter. Three judges presiding over the military court ruled…
Doctor has more sympathy for Palestinian terrorists than their victims Dr. Robin Briant claims to have lived in the West Bank and Gaza in 2003-2004 while working for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders/MSF). MSF consistently abuses its status as a humanitarian organization, with anti-Israel political campaigns that excuse Palestinian terrorism….
London Klezmer Quartet coming to New Zealand Much-loved international klezmer ensemble, the London Klezmer Quartet, start their debut tour of New Zealand on January 25th with their latest hit album, ready to share with old and new fans alike. The London Klezmer Quartet’s fourth album, ‘To the…
Are Israeli settlements illegal? Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been tried in the New Zealand court of public opinion and found to be illegal. Waikato Professor of Law, Alexander Gillespie, recently declared in the NZ Herald that “There is no question in…
Pumping waves in The Promised Land without a noah in sight ”Israel wasn’t what I expected…“ so begins the article in Stab magazine, continuing “…the media that reaches the west about the middle east is almost exclusively negative and regularly violent. But by the end of the week, the first day…
No place for hate speech in UN resolution debate Almost three quarters of a century since Auschwitz was liberated (the 72nd anniversary is January 27), there are still those who either deny the Holocaust happened or wish for another one. Such sentiments are brought to the fore and amplified…
The Paris conference will drive peace further away Another spectacle. Another photo-op to say “I care” and to feel like “I’m doing something”. But the cause of peace will be set back. This is what the Paris Middle East Peace Summit is about. It’s in Paris but it’s…