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Kiwi Commentators Reveal Holocaust Ignorance

Amongst the recent legitimate outcry about the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents on the southern border of the United States, many commentators around the world have been quick to raise analogies with the treatment of Jews…

What is BDS really about?

What is BDS really about? What about apartheid? BDS tactics BDS is shrouded in the stench of antisemitism Don’t be fooled What is BDS really about? BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, dishonestly brands itself as…

Commentary that ”Palestinians innocent, Israelis evil” is morally bankrupt

Donna Miles-Mojab wrote that the language used about Palestinians is putting their lives at risk. I agree that the language used by most mainstream media to report and analyse the events in Gaza is shameful and it does risk Palestinian lives….

NZ called out at UN: ‘Shocking and shameful’

This week New Zealand’s Prime Minister, yet again, pointed an accusing finger at Israel for the “devastating one-sided loss of life” in the conflict on the Gaza border. Ms Ardern could perhaps be excused for getting it wrong, in speaking…

The Gaza clashes: 10 things the media isn’t telling you or asking

The mainstream media in NZ and elsewhere is currently awash with bias, ignorance and misinformation about the conflict on the Gaza border that resulted in the deaths of 60 Palestinians. Here are 10 points you are very unlikely to hear:…

Recounting 70 years (and still counting)

Seventy years ago Hitler’s war against the Jews was no longer raging. The Holocaust had finally been checked. The Crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau and of other of Hitler’s extermination centres had been snuffed out. However the furnaces were still smouldering in…

Israel at 70

Israel, a country half the size of Canterbury, is often in the news, but rarely for positive reasons. On 14 May the Jewish homeland celebrates 70 years since its rebirth as a modern state under the mandate of the UN,…

New Zealanders Show Support for Israel

Late in 2016 many New Zealanders were appalled at the stance taken by our government in co-sponsoring UN Resolution 2334, which was seen as a biased, counter-productive and unbalanced censuring of Israel. A large number of Israel supporters responded with…

Exploring the Kiwi connection as Israel turns 70

Last week Israelis began a series of events in celebration of 70 years of statehood since the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. While New Zealand’s relationship with Israel has in recent years been frosty,…

Michael Wood’s 2018 Yom HaShoah Address

Tonight is about remembrance. Recalling the evil barbarism of the Shoah. Remembering the courage and humanity of those who suffered and were murdered, along with those who heroically resisted. Also I think, it is about remembering and acknowledging the collective…

Green MPs Davidson and Ghahraman show selective concern for human rights

Green MPs Marama Davidson and Golriz Ghahraman demonstrated selective outrage last week, suggesting that their concern for human rights in the Middle East extends only so far as Israel can be blamed. In the space of one week they stridently…

Dayenu

Passover has always been my favourite festival. It’s not eating a cardboard-like substance, sinus-clearing horseradish and other artery-clogging food that makes it so. Even as a child, I recognised intuitively that there was something special and rich in meaning in…

From Paris to Auckland: “I’m very happy that we’re here. I’m breathing again”.

Last Friday, 85 year old Jewish Parisienne and Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll, was murdered in her home, allegedly by her neighbour and an accomplice. The attackers stabbed her 11 times and then set her and her apartment on fire. Two…

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@StateSEAS: 🇺🇸 supports the broadly accepted IHRA working definition of antisemitism. In an era of rapidly rising global antisemitism, now is not the time to discard one of the most fundamental tools we have to combat it. https://t.co/2brlYfJogE

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@KimKardashian: Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.

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@hearnimator: “I can say antisemitic things, and Adidas can’t drop me. Now what?” - Kanye West #adidaSS https://t.co/DPJQ5RIDFU

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@HillelNeuer: Meet Shatha Hammad, a Palestinian journalist with Al Jazeera & Middle East Eye. She just won a @Reuters award. She also loves Hitler & glorifies terrorism. Award judges: @MeeraSelva1 @angusreuters @lindseyhilsum Advisors: @SamanthaJPower @amanpour Ceremony: Oct. 26-27, London https://t.co/eiubltgVmb https://t.co/DLLc7uJaLF

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@Yair_Rosenberg: Kanye's tweets exemplify why antisemitism is so hard to uproot: it’s a self-affirming conspiracy theory. The antisemite claims that Jews control everything. Then, if they're penalized for their bigotry, they point to that as proof. Heads they win, tails Jews lose. https://t.co/GPZRS7xGGm

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Kiwi Views On Israel & Jewish Matters

Kiwi Commentators Reveal Holocaust Ignorance

What is BDS really about?

Commentary that ”Palestinians innocent, Israelis evil” is morally bankrupt

NZ called out at UN: ‘Shocking and shameful’

The Gaza clashes: 10 things the media isn’t telling you or asking

Recounting 70 years (and still counting)

Israel at 70

New Zealanders Show Support for Israel

Exploring the Kiwi connection as Israel turns 70

Michael Wood’s 2018 Yom HaShoah Address

Green MPs Davidson and Ghahraman show selective concern for human rights

Dayenu

From Paris to Auckland: “I’m very happy that we’re here. I’m breathing again”.

Selected articles

Marti Friedlander’s eye for the extraordinary ordinary

Hezbollah, Iran’s Proxy, poses a threat that needs to be taken seriously

In the End, Israel will still be here

Some always blame the Jews

World tour of leaders’ remembering: NZ disappoints

New Zealand director tells story of righteous couple

When is criticism of Israel anti-Semitic?

Fairfax takes extremist line on Lorde controversy

Happy Purim from Shalom.Kiwi

Aid offered from Government and people of “enemy” nation

A “Judenrein” Jerusalem? New Zealand’s shame

Te Jewry – Māori and Jews

Reverend’s prayer evokes applause at Holocaust remembrance ceremony

Canterbury University’s academic credibility found wanting

Maori TV panel discussion on Gaza

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