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Fairfax takes extremist line on Lorde controversy

Media interest in Lorde’s recent decision to cancel her planned concert in Tel Aviv has been intense, and New Zealand has been no exception. Over the holiday period, newsrooms are sparsely staffed and sometimes juniors are left to run the…

An indigenous gathering in the Land of Israel

Sheree Trotter spoke to Brad Haami about the Welcoming the King of Glory conference held in Abu Ghosh/Kiryat Ye’arim, on October 10-13, 2017. A number of Pacific and Māori communities have, over a long period, spoken of a “deep sea…

New Zealander makes history swimming across Dead Sea

The hypersaline lake at the lowest point on Earth is where people from all over the world take pictures of themselves reading the paper while floating. It’s dangerous to put your face in the water – even a drop of…

Will NZ also stop the BDS rot?

In many countries around the world, human rights are severely lacking. While we Kiwis can do better in some areas, we should be proud of the freedoms and protections we have as a liberal democracy. The types of systematic discrimination…

South Africa was an Apartheid State and Israel is not

What it is necessary to understand is that the movement known as Zionism which, beginning in the nineteenth century, climaxed in the setting up of the state of Israel in 1947, was a response to this long history of persecution….