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Poll shows strong Kiwi support for Israel

A new poll on the attitudes of New Zealanders to Israel, commissioned by the Israel Institute of New Zealand and conducted by Curia Research, shows four times as many kiwis support Israel as are opposed to the Jewish State. Fifty-five…

Dominion Post editor launches fanciful anti-Israel polemic

Who recently stated that Israel has “warmongering tendencies” and is engaging in a “deliberate balkanisation programme aimed at sabotaging the twin-state (sic) solution”? You would be forgiven for thinking it’s Hamas, as their charter contains very similar language. But, in…

10 Questions for Bill English on NZ’s ‘longstanding policy’

After months of evasion, the New Zealand Prime Minister has finally admitted, in response to another question from Winston Peters about UN Security Council Resolution 2334 in Parliament earlier this week, that the resolution was not put to cabinet for approval….

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…

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….

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…

How ‘long-standing’ and ‘balanced’ is New Zealand’s position?

Thousands of New Zealanders have expressed their concerns to the Government regarding UN Resolution 2334, in letters, petitions, protests, and in comments on social media. Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s response in the NZ Herald today merely serves to confirm that…

A “Judenrein” Jerusalem? New Zealand’s shame

A respected British commentator recently described New Zealand as “a stupid country of no other significance”. She was referencing NZ co-sponsoring UN resolution 2334, which effectively bans Jews from living in certain areas. I am not convinced that New Zealand…

Israel’s history part 4 – Land settlement policies

In this 4-part series, Professor Dov Bing examines the historic connections of Jews and Muslims to Israel and the more contemporary establishment of the State of Israel. Part 1 concerned the indigenous Jewish presence in the land. Part 2 examined…

New Zealand’s dangerously deluded Foreign Minister

New Zealand Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, is a man on a mission. Undeterred by the failure of Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, John Kerry, Condoleezza Rice and Joe Biden to bring the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to a peaceful…

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…

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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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Settlements

Poll shows strong Kiwi support for Israel

Dominion Post editor launches fanciful anti-Israel polemic

10 Questions for Bill English on NZ’s ‘longstanding policy’

Trevor Norwitz: Why President Obama Should Have Vetoed Resolution 2334

Doctor has more sympathy for Palestinian terrorists than their victims

Are Israeli settlements illegal?

How ‘long-standing’ and ‘balanced’ is New Zealand’s position?

A “Judenrein” Jerusalem? New Zealand’s shame

Israel’s history part 4 – Land settlement policies

New Zealand’s dangerously deluded Foreign Minister

Why Biden’s peace plan failed

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The University of Auckland apologises in private

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Radio New Zealand’s biased sources

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