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Davidson and Ghahraman show selective concern
Friday, 20 April 2018, 1:43 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
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. More >>
UN Security Council Resolution 2334 Criticised
Friday, 27 October 2017, 5:45 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Last week New Zealand’s new Prime Minister-elect, Hon Jacinda Ardern, and New Zealand First leader and Deputy Prime Minister-elect, and likely Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, signed a coalition agreement , which revealed the full extent ... More >>
Fairfax makes up quotes to attack NZ-Israel innovation deal
Thursday, 19 October 2017, 12:28 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union, has issued a press release and penned an article to correct false and misleading reporting by Fairfax journalist, Madison Reidy, that gave the impression that the Taxpayers’ ... More >>
The problem with Ardern’s Corbyn endorsement
Wednesday, 13 September 2017, 5:16 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
For many Jewish New Zealanders, their decision on which political candidate to support will at least partly be based on that candidate’s position on Israel and “the conflict”, as well as their sensitivity around anti-Semitism as it exists in 2017. More >>
TVNZ honours Nazi soldier, minimises Holocaust
Tuesday, 5 September 2017, 4:33 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
A recent Sunday programme on TVNZ reported on a “remarkable survivor” of World War II who arrived in New Zealand in the 1950s. This was not a Jewish refugee who survived the war and the horrors of death camps. Nor was the subject of celebration ... More >>
FIANZ statement reveals double standards
Tuesday, 1 August 2017, 1:48 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
President of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ), Hazim Arafeh, issued a press release in which he said the representative body of New Zealand Muslims “strongly condemns the indiscriminate and disproportionate Israeli aggressions…” ... More >>
At Israel’s northern borders we saw the war and the warning
Monday, 24 July 2017, 4:54 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
New Zealand shares borders with no nation, let alone one that is hostile or where war is raging. By contrast Israel is surrounded by hostile and warring states, and for Kiwis it is very difficult to understand what that is like, at least without ... More >>
Where is there a safe space for Jews?
Friday, 21 July 2017, 3:16 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Recent events in NZ and abroad in the last month or so have got me wondering about where there is a safe space for Jews. More >>
UNESCO ignores Jewish and Christian ties to Hebron
Thursday, 13 July 2017, 1:42 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
The delegitimisation of Israel and denial of the historical Jewish connection to the Holy Land continues apace with the latest outrageous UNESCO resolution, registering Hebron as a Palestinian heritage site endangered by Israel. More >>
What sort of relationship does New Zealand want with Israel?
Sunday, 14 May 2017, 9:25 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Both Prime Minister Bill English and new Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee have said they want to repair the relationship with Israel in the wake of New Zealand co-sponsoring anti-Israel UNSC Resolution 2334 . However, they seem to disagree on what that relationship ... More >>
Sunday Star Times publishes vile Sharon Murdoch cartoon
Saturday, 13 May 2017, 3:50 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Sunday Star Times publishes vile Sharon Murdoch cartoon Fairfax media outlet, Stuff, published fake news in January 2017 , which led to a stream of anti-Semitic comments on social media . Now, the most recent edition of Fairfax’s Sunday Star Times has ... More >>
Dominion Post editor launches fanciful anti-Israel polemic
Monday, 8 May 2017, 3:08 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Who recently stated that Israel has “warmongering tendencies” and is engaging in a “deliberate balkanisation programme aimed at sabotaging the twin-state (sic) solution”? More >>
NZ's new Foreign Minister working to right McCully’s wrong
Friday, 5 May 2017, 1:51 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
One of Gerry Brownlee’s first acts after becoming Foreign Minister was to offer an olive branch to Israel in the wake of Resolution 2334 . Brownlee wrote to Israeli Prime Minister expressing his “desire for the Israeli-New Zealand relationship ... More >>
Free speech threatened at New Zealand Universities
Friday, 7 April 2017, 1:33 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
An open letter signed by a diverse group of 27 prominent Kiwis has been sent to New Zealand MPs affirming the importance of free speech on university campuses. Professor Paul Moon led the initiative saying, “It is dangerous and wrong to silence someone ... More >>
An Illusion of Paradise
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 1:04 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
Dr Norman Simms has taught in New Zealand, Canada, France, and Israel for over forty years as a specialist in literature and in Jewish thought and identity. His latest work, “ Jews in an Illusion of Paradise: Dust and Ashes Volume One ” focuses ... More >>
BSA rules Gaza blockade cannot be reported as “illegal”
Monday, 27 March 2017, 4:03 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
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 ... More >>
10 Questions for Bill English on NZ’s ‘longstanding policy’
Friday, 24 March 2017, 1:58 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
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 ... More >>
Israel and New Zealand to do battle on the ice in April
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 11:31 am | Shalom.Kiwi
Ice sports are not usually associated with Israel, just like bobsledding wasn’t associated with Jamaica until Cool Runnings, and baseball wasn’t associated with Israel before their remarkable wins in the 2017 World Baseball Classic , but Israel ... More >>
How New Zealand pushed a trophy resolution
Saturday, 18 March 2017, 8:57 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
How New Zealand pushed a trophy resolution through and scored an own goal Since the passing of anti-Israel UN Resolution 2334 on Christmas Eve last year, co-sponsored by New Zealand, there have been questions about what kind of mandate the Foreign ... More >>
English speaks up on 2334 after conversation with Turnbull
Sunday, 5 March 2017, 7:58 pm | Shalom.Kiwi
English speaks up on 2334 after conversation with Turnbull shalom.kiwi Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken the opportunity of the Israeli Prime Minister’s historic visit to once again condemn the anti-Israel United Nations Security Council ... More >>
