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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…

Young Australian Greens refuse to meet with Jewish students

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students invited members the NSW Young Greens to a meeting with bipartisan young political staffers at the NSW Parliament. However the NSW Young Greens co-convenor, Kleon Toffetti, refused the invitation because “We have a longstanding…

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BSA rules Gaza blockade cannot be reported as “illegal”

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint concerning TVNZ’s coverage of the Israeli maritime blockade of Gaza, on the basis that it breached the required standard of accuracy by stating the blockade of Gaza is “illegal”. In doing so…

The gaping hole in Shuttleworth’s narrative

Green MP Marama Davidson’s ‘Women’s Peace Boat’ mission came to an inauspicious end last week as she was arrested and deported from Israel, having failed to accomplish her mission of reaching Gaza. Of course, she always knew this was the…

Flotilla became ‘Ship Of Fools’

The sovereign integrity of states is one of those building blocks on which the modern world operates. It is a guiding tenet of international law, and one of the founding principles of the United Nations. In the case of Israel’s protection of…

RNZ airs unbalanced anti-Israel tirade on Afternoon Panel show

[UPDATED on 7 October 2016 to include a statement from Colliers International CEO as well as a link to the RNZ interview with Dr David Cumin of the New Zealand Jewish Council – see the bottom of this article.] RNZ has once…

Not all Māori on board with Marama

Green M.P. Marama Davidson’s involvement with the “Peace Boat” to Gaza is purportedly to raise awareness of the struggle of women in Gaza. However, Davidson has involved herself in one of the world’s most intractable conflicts without attempting to understand…

Do National’s MPs understand what they just agreed to?

This week we witnessed a truly absurd turn of events in Parliament. A motion was passed in New Zealand parliament last Wednesday, expressing “support for the Women’s Peace Boat to Gaza”. In other words, New Zealand’s Parliament has just given…

Green Party “Peace Mission” to Gaza: Nine things to consider

Green Party MP, Marama Davidson, is soon to depart on the “women’s peace boat” in an attempt to breach Israel’s legal maritime blockade of Gaza and raise awareness of the Palestinian cause. However, press releases from the Green Party and…

5 Broken Cameras: A distorted lens

Marama Davidson, Green Party MP, has issued an invitation to attend “a very important documentary film” and talk on the topic of Peace in Israel and Palestine at Parliament. This event is also being hosted by Labour MP David Shearer….

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@JulietMosesNZ: I also hope NZ does not attend. In 2009, our Gov boycotted Durban II as did Aust, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Holland, Poland and the US over concerns about antisemitism (the inaugural 2001 conf was a sewer of it) and the promotion of anti-blasphemy laws, and other things. https://t.co/oBLoPjmg0i

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@HillelNeuer: UN Watch commends Australia for pulling out of the UN's anti-Israel Durban IV event to be held in September. We urge other nations to follow. 🔹 Pulled out of Durban IV: 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🔹 Pulled out of similar Durban III event in 2011: 🇦🇺 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇨🇦 🇨🇿 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇱🇻 🇳🇱 🇳🇿 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 https://t.co/xZYAFANEJk

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@JulietMosesNZ: Minto’s Palestine Solidarity Network has decided Israeli Nix player Tomer Hemed “crossed a line” when he wrapped himself in the flag of his homeland. What line is that? The one where PSN thinks it has the right to police Jewish people’s expression of nationality and peoplehood? https://t.co/FE1fdLjm5q

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@Baddiel: There will be no social media outrage about this, no street demonstrations, no cultural traction for change. Because #jewsdontcount https://t.co/sFMVKNwON7

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@EliLake: Why France Refuses to Prosecute an Antisemitic Murderer, by @bariweiss https://t.co/9ChsW8YyKq

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Kiwi Views On Israel & Jewish Matters

Marama Davidson

Green MPs Davidson and Ghahraman show selective concern for human rights

Young Australian Greens refuse to meet with Jewish students

BSA rules Gaza blockade cannot be reported as “illegal”

The gaping hole in Shuttleworth’s narrative

Flotilla became ‘Ship Of Fools’

RNZ airs unbalanced anti-Israel tirade on Afternoon Panel show

Not all Māori on board with Marama

Do National’s MPs understand what they just agreed to?

Green Party “Peace Mission” to Gaza: Nine things to consider

5 Broken Cameras: A distorted lens

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The hypocrisy of Goff

Lo we are forgetting

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Nikki Haley: The UN has done much more damage to the prospects for Middle East peace than to advance them

US and Israel leave UNESCO citing bias