10 pro-tips for becoming an effective anti-Israel protester 29 July 2017 saw an anti-Israel rally in Auckland’s Aotea Square that had been billed as “Alaqsa solidarity rally” to protest against Israel’s “security measures that require Palestinians to enter through metal detectors to go pray” (sic). These measures were…
Peace Meal – Lamb Shawarma As music is the language of love, food is the language of peace—as much so in the Middle East as anywhere, where business deals, fellowship and declarations of love usually take place around a table laden with good things. And…
Terms misused by anti-Israel activists: A doublespeak dictionary for modern anti-Semites In the seemingly intractable conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, words are just as powerful weapons as rockets or knives. Words can kill, but they are also a casualty of the conflict. You may remember Newspeak, the fictional language in…
How New Zealand could serve justice and peace New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully believes New Zealand could make a real contribution to resolving the long running Arab Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. He may very well be right. But if his recent statements are any indication, he is far more likely…
Why Biden’s peace plan failed The day that US vice-president Joe Biden arrived in Israel, an American tourist was killed and many others wounded in a series of Palestinian terror attacks. This was just the latest recent tragedy; since September there have been 201 stabbing…
I’m for peace I’m pretty sure most, and probably all, of my friends in New Zealand would say that peace is something to aspire to. And if they turned their minds to it at all, they would probably say that they want peace…