Poll shows strong Kiwi support for Israel …co-sponsorship of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 in December 2016. The resolution demanded that “Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East…
New Zealand’s new Foreign Minister working to right McCully’s wrong One of Gerry Brownlee’s first acts after becoming Foreign Minister was to offer an olive branch to Israel in the wake of Resolution 2334. Brownlee wrote to Israeli Prime Minister…
McCully’s explanation reinforces bias, flawed logic It appears that the persistent criticism of McCully’s sponsoring of the anti-Israel UN Resolution 2334 has hit a nerve. On 12 January 2017 he published a defence of the move…
How New Zealand pushed a trophy resolution through and scored an own goal Since the passing of anti-Israel UN Resolution 2334 on Christmas Eve last year, co-sponsored by New Zealand, there have been questions about what kind of mandate the Foreign Minister had…
Kiwis challenge PM on one-sided, anti-Israel UNSC resolution In the wake of New Zealand taking a leading role in pushing through United Nations Security Council resolution 2334, which effectively makes it illegal for Jews to pray at their…
Prime Minister defers to Foreign Minister on UNSC resolution questions …to co-sponsor and vote for the biased anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution 2334. The same letter also attracted over 2,500 online signatures. After nearly a month, the Prime Minister’s…
Preparing for the election as people of faith: A Jewish perspective …behalf to co-sponsor UNSC resolution 2334 along with Malaysia, Senegal, and Venezuela was deeply concerning. We are grateful that the ambassador has returned and the relationship between our small, isolated,…
At 71, Israel as a Jewish state is justified …Resolution 2334 when Israeli settlements were condemned outright, without respect to secure borders or to the historical connection the Jews have to the land. The ratio of condemnations dished out…
New Ambassador to United Nations stands up to bias …resolution 2334 and recently affirmed the US position that “We stand for peace. We support a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is negotiated directly between the two parties…” She…
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…
Are Israeli settlements illegal? …as the slogans and placards of anti-Israel activists, refer simply to “illegal settlements”. We hear this refrain time and again. UN Security Council resolution 2334 stated that the establishment of…
NZ Government stance on Israel smacks of hypocrisy On Friday, December 23, 2016, Foreign Minister Murray McCully, on behalf of New Zealand, co-sponsored United Nations Security resolution 2334 which labelled all settlements and territories “occupied” after 1967 by…
Academic terrorist sympathisers call for sanctions on Israel …group praised Mr McCully for co-sponsoring UN Resolution 2334, they believe New Zealand hasn’t gone far enough as it failed to impose sanctions on Israel or its products made in…