Joint Response to Anglican Archbishops
Why have the Anglican Archbishops not condemned Hamas for persistent violations of international law by conducting attacks from civilian buildings, including medical facilities? Why have they not condemned Hamas for committing the double war crime of targeting innocent civilians while using their own civilian population as human shields?
Hon Alfred Ngaro: Engagement with Pacific Political Leaders
It was an honour to be part of a small delegation to Vanuatu to offer support and advice to the Indigenous leaders from the different tribes and Islands. While I was there we were privileged to meet with the President his Excellency Rt Hon Nikenike Vurobaravu and the First Lady…
Chloe Swarbrick and her politics of desecration
French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose insights on antisemitism shared in a collection of essays entitled Réflexions sur la question juive (1946) remain chillingly prescient. “If the Jew did not exist, the antisemite would invent him.” Is a formulation that could account for the chic moral contortions of our own time, especially on the far Left…
MEDIA RELEASE: IEJ Condemns Swarbrick’s Sanctions Bill Against Israel
We call out Swarbrick’s hypocrisy claiming to stand for Indigenous rights while demanding the expulsion of an Indigenous people from its historical homeland. The Jews have more than 3,000 years of continuous connection in their ancestral lands, Judea and Samaria (“the West Bank”).
Understanding Indigeneity
Allied Voices for Israel’s document: Understanding Jewish Indigeneity to Israel
Defrocking Decolonisation’s Priesthood
If you happen to be brown but don’t buy into the ideology, behold, you are actually white. The fact that the majority of Israelis are brown is irrelevant. They are still white, according to the dogma. One’s skin colour grants political advantage, but as it turns out, only for those on the Left who are not Jewish.
Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem Launched
On 1 February the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem was launched at a formal event held at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem. Gil Haskel, Chief of State Protocol, announced the Indigenous embassy as the 100th embassy in Israel.
MEDIA RELEASE: Te Pāti Māori and South Africa’s case against Israel
South Africa’s accusations are baseless and an example of moral inversion, in which the real victims of a genocidal attack are accused of perpetrating genocide. By supporting Hamas, South Africa itself is in violation of the anti-genocide convention.
The Māori view on Palestine
Jackson, Ngarewa-Packer and Davidson certainly do not own the Māori view on Palestine - there is no monolithic Māori view on any subject, nor should there be. But they demean Māori by standing on the side of barbarism and depravity and by continuing to mislead their constituency.
MEDIA RELEASE: Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa Packer’s reckless statements
We call on Ngarewa-Packer to desist from misusing this painful Middle Eastern conflict for her own political purposes and from bringing shame on our people by aligning with a depraved and genocidal regime.
“Colonization” is a deeply flawed explanation for 7 October
Hamas’s goal, as stated in its charter, is to annihilate Israel, taking all the land "from the river to the sea," by means of uncompromising jihad. Hamas has pursued this goal unrelentingly, pouring millions of dollars into building a terrorist state, including a 500km sophisticated tunnel network.
New Zealand’s Yoni-come-latelies
To the extent it accurately reflects the wider Māori sentiment – and this point really needs to be hovered over – such an unapologetic abandonment of the Jewish state represents something of a historical swerve. Even before the establishment of New Zealand in 1840, relations between local Māori, who now account for around 17 per cent of the population, and the country’s Jewish community, which has never numbered more than 10,000 souls, have been notably good.
Whose Minds are Colonised?
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s infantile analysis and accusations reflect a wider determination to force Israel into a fashionable narrative manufactured in elite European universities. So, whose minds are being colonized here? My cousins in Israel must fight a demonic hatred, but its tentacles reach far – fed by complacency, arrogance and fashion.
Petition of Rev Dr Wayne Te Kaawa
Petition of Rev Dr Wayne Te Kaawa, urging the NZ government to designate Hamas a terrorist organisation.
Gaza and the world’s outrage
Dr Sheree Trotter discusses the complexity of the Gaza situation.
The Māori parallel to the Jewish experience
The situation in the region is both tragic and highly complex. It is a region that has a history, since time immemorial, of war and division. It fires passions of an unholy (and, sometimes, holy) nature. But it is the place of ahi kā for the Jews and always will be.
Māori-led Hui to support Israel
A week after the tragic event of 7 October, a hui was hosted by Māori leaders in the North to show support for Israel and the Jewish people in their time of mourning and trauma.
Māori leaders respond to Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa Packer
Māori leaders have issued a joint statement responding to the anti-Israel position expressed by Te Pati Māori.
EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS STATEMENT
Te Pati Maori: A Response
“Reprehensible.” Dr Sheree Trotter responds to Te Pati Maori.
Joint Statement
We call on the Government of New Zealand to immediately:
Condemn outright, without any excuses or justifications, the actions by Hamas
To proscribe Hamas, and all parts of it, as a terrorist organisation
Support Israel’s right to defend itself and its people