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Israel calls Palestinian villagers 'squatters'
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 10:00 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
In a letter sent earlier this month to the EU Ambassador to Israel, Emanuele Giaufret, and to ambassadors from the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Italy, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Liberman,described ... More >>
Open Request to Winston Peters for clear statement
Sunday, 23 September 2018, 11:38 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
We ask you to respond to a speech made by US National Security Advis e r John Bolton to the Federalist Society on 10 September 2018, in which he outlined the Trump Administration’s clear commitment to undermine the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ... More >>
Say no to the Israel Institute's call
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 11:10 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Israel Institute of New Zealand director, Dr David Cumin, is calling on the Government “to distance itself from a decision by Labour MP, Dr Duncan Webb, to host a meeting featuring Unite Union National Director Mike Treen in which Mr Treen will be speaking ... More >>
Defend human rights law and call Israel to account
Sunday, 29 July 2018, 11:28 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Defend human rights law and call Israel to account Press Release: Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz | 27 July 2018 No one should be surprised at the recent Israeli Parliament's passing of the “ Basic Law – ... More >>
Population transfer and refugees
Sunday, 15 July 2018, 6:26 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
On 13 July, United Nations Member States (the United States excepted) agreed to an all-encompassing Global Compact to better manage international migration . The United States had withdrawn from the negotiations at the end of last year, under orders ... More >>
Israel Institute repeats falsehoods on Iran
Monday, 14 May 2018, 1:26 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
In a Press Release dated 12 May 2018 , the Israel Institute's director, Dr David Cumin, welcomed US President Trump's reckless and destabilising decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of world powers. The Institute's Press ... More >>
PHRC response to the Zionist Federation
Monday, 9 April 2018, 4:29 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
PHRC Press Release In a Press Release on 8 April , the Zionist Federation took issue with FIANZ President Hazim Arafeh's recent observation that “Israel has no regard for the sanctity of human life”, by claiming that “Israel has absolute regard ... More >>
PHRC response to Israel Institute Press Release
Saturday, 23 December 2017, 10:35 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Palestine Human Rights Campaign Press Release | 23 December 2017 Leslie Bravery – www.palestine.org.nz More >>
Open Questions for David Parker
Monday, 4 September 2017, 12:53 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
In August 2017, Debbie Abbas, on behalf of the Palestine Solidarity Network (PSN), sent a request to the Labour Party for information on its policy towards Palestine and the New Zealand-sponsored UN Security Council Resolution 2334. More >>
Israel's defiance earns Brownlee's respect
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 11:40 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
A request in early May this year to Bill English from Dr Vacy Vlazna , Co-ordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters ,requesting that New Zealand end diplomatic relations with Israel and that Foreign Affairs Minister Gerry Brownlee be sacked, was finally ... More >>
No safe place for Palestinians in their homeland
Saturday, 22 July 2017, 4:25 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
www.palestine.org.nz A Shalom Kiwi article entitled “Where is there a safe space for Jews?” asks the wrong question.The seemingly anonymous writer's website is called Shalom Kiwi, which ought to suggest thatthey should feel safe in New Zealand. ... More >>
Brownlee's betrayal
Thursday, 15 June 2017, 4:19 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Last Tuesday, 13 June 2017, The Jerusalem Post (JP) celebrated New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English's expression of regret over what he called the damage done to relations with Israel as a result of this country's sponsoring of UNSC Resolution ... More >>
Israel's war without end
Monday, 5 June 2017, 7:22 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Israel's war without end Press Release: 5 June 2017 | Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz On 5 June 1967, Israel launched its Six-Day War for territorial expansion and population-control in what was left of Palestine ... More >>
Brownlee's approach to Israel betrays UNSC Resolution 2334
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 4:44 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
According to the Jerusalem Post of 3 May 2017 the New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Gerry Brownlee has written a letter to Mr Netanyahu with congratulations on the Zionist state's National Day, expressing a desire for the “ Israeli-New Zealand relationship ... More >>
Zionists incite hatred towards UNWRA
Saturday, 25 February 2017, 1:20 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Zionists incite hatred towards UNWRA A Shalom Kiwi Press Release UN agency continues to incite anti-Semitic violence claims that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is guilty ofinciting Jihadist terrorism and anti-Semitism. ... More >>
Hate-speech claim raises serious questions
Friday, 3 February 2017, 1:13 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
On 27 January this year, the NZ Holocaust Centre issued a Press Release on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Referring to the recent targeting of minorities in the US and other Western countries, the statement included the following ... More >>
McCully rewarded with ingratitude
Saturday, 14 January 2017, 10:34 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Leslie Bravery | www.palestine.org.nz Because it has overreached itself, Israel is in a state of fury and its Zionist mouthpieces around the world are in overdrive. Shalom Kiwi's press release McCully's explanation reinforces bias, flawed logic cannot, ... More >>
Israeli hijacking of Women's Boat to Gaza
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 2:28 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
we ask you to strongly condemn the illegal Israeli hijacking of the Women’s Boat to Gaza,Zaytouna-Oliva, in international waters, 70 kilometres from the Gaza shore. Will you call for the release of the all-female crew that included parliamentarians, ... More >>
Open Letter to Murray McCully
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 4:55 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The New Zealand Government acknowledges that there is great danger for shipping passing through Palestinian waters off the coast of Gaza. Specifically, the New Zealand Government travel website warns that vessels face the “threat of kidnapping and potential ... More >>
Comment on Education Minister's visit to Israel
Sunday, 2 October 2016, 11:00 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Press Release | 02 October 2016: Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz The New Zealand Government issued a Press Release on 1 October 2016 concerning what it called Education Minister Hekia Parata's significant visit ... More >>