If Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz, in their editorials and articles are able to recognise and criticise Israel’s racial discrimination laws and practice against the Palestinians, along with a report published by a leading Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, also warning that “a regime of Jewish supremacy” is being practised over Palestinians, why does the New Zealand Government still refuse to condemn Israel’s human rights abuses? Palestinians have a right (denied by Israel) to return to their homeland and to be free and equal in their own country. Another Israeli organisation, Yesh Din (Volunteers for Human Rights), which works to protect the human rights of Palestinians living under Israeli armed forces’ Occupation, has published a legal opinion that “the crime against humanity of apartheid is being committed in the West Bank”.
On 31 January, an open letter was sent to Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, referring to a PSNA Press Release, urging our Government to pull out of a forthcoming on-line AgriTech seminar with the Israeli agriculture sector. The letter asked: “Where do you both stand on these crucial issues? Does your Government unequivocally support human rights and international law? Or does it place greater emphasis on trade and solidarity with our ‘traditional allies’?” No reply has yet been received to these important questions. Do the Ministers unequivocally support human rights and international law — or do they support them only to a degree that does not harm business and other interests? The silence is chilling. Therefore, we offer the Ministers and the Government more evidence to help them decide the degree to which they are prepared to stand up for justice and humanity.
Inside Israel, the Zionist regime’s Citizenship Law Makes Israel an Apartheid State. Last April, in a telling article voicing Jewish critics of Zionism, Washington Report quoted Rabbi Brian Walt‘s appeal that: “We, the Jewish people, must tell the truth. We can no longer cover up the shocking systemic discrimination and oppression of the Palestinians by the State of Israel — a state that relies on our support and acts in our names and in the name of our tradition.” A former Israeli Education Minister and Israel Prize laureate, Shulamit Aloni, has reasoned that “It is well past time for ethical Jews to accept the inherent racist and anti-Jewish nature of Zionism, which has manipulated the Jewish religion to morally justify seventy years of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing and apartheid of indigenous Palestinians.”
In a statement, last year, UN human rights experts warned of an “alarming” rise in Israeli settler violence towards Palestinians. “We are witnessing the highest recorded levels of violence in recent years and more severe incidents”, the statement said. According to UN figures, 370 settler attacks led to property damage in 2021, up from 274 the previous year. A further 126 assaults caused casualties, compared with 84 in 2020. At the same time, settlement building has tripled from the previous year, with the approval of the construction of 4,000 new units, according to Khalil al-Tafkaji, a Palestinian expert on settlement and director of the map unit at the Centre for Arab Studies in Jerusalem. This year is proving even worse.
Just one day of relentless Israeli military Occupation:
Daily reports of the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem, along with the Israeli blockade of Gaza, are slow to emerge but, as an example, on 4 February (8am till 8am the following day), five different areas of Gaza farmland came under Israeli Army fire. In the West Bank, there were five Israeli Army raids during which Palestinian homes were invaded. Three of those raids took place during the night. One attack, on people protesting against the seizure of more Palestinian land for illegal settlement development, left 45 people wounded and caused 87 tear gas casualties.
The Israeli Army supported settlers during one agricultural sabotage raid and altogether that day Israeli settlers uprooted 90 Palestinian olive trees. The same morning, Israeli forces prevented Israeli and other international solidarity peace activists from planting olive trees on an area threatened with land-seizure. Militants, from the Brukhin Occupation settlement, invaded farmland in the Umm Hanun area of Bruqin and uprooted about 50 grapevine seedlings, while flooding the area with sewage from the settlement.
Cosying-up to Israel with profitable trade agreements and co-operation is just what the Zionist regime seeks in presenting itself as non-racist and honestly democratic. Isolating Israel is a necessary step towards bringing an end to 74 years of relentless, racist, military-Occupation domination.
SHOCKING: Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekqJLWx_EjI
Why Israel Is The Jewish ISIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7GbD5USgPI
Terrorists https://youtu.be/8clMNOmX_kk?t=185
Excellent pic. When you’ve been trying to murder your neighbours for over 75 years you can expect security checkpoints. Well done Australia for recently designating the whole of Hamas a terrorist group. And well done our govt for ignoring the haters’ drivel.
The Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah are squatters im Jewish homes and their eviction is just.The only terrorists are Palestinians. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PLO, PFLP.
Gaby I see you don’t feel good about life. But repeating what has been bad in the past, doesn’t improve matters for the future. Caging people was never a good look in wartime and itn’t now.
Shameful of our govenrment not to even reply.
Why would they respond to antisemitic propaganda, Lois? They know evil when they see it. Barely 75 years from the gas chambers and you Bravery and Minto lobby for the destruction of the world’s one tiny Jewish state while ignoring catastrophic murder of muslims by muslims as in Syria.
You are sadly confused, compare the 1917 Balfor declaration area of land allocated to the Jewish people to the area they occupy now and any sensible person can see the source of the conflict.
You mean the land they bought legally in their ancestral homeland while the loser Arabs rejected any land of their own 8 times? Ignorance is sad.
Better stick to the one atrocity that Israel is perpetuating Gaby and justify that without attempting relativity and parallels with other bad happenings around the world. or are you saying they tie in with Israel?
There is much to be distressed about. It can never be forgotten but why add more to it. Other small nations have found stability – Andorra and San Marino come to mind.
This is a must read from The Atlantic which gives more information than will be seen in our papers for a decade.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/is-it-time-for-the-jews-to-leave-europe/386279/
just leave the fuckers to squabble and bicker like the children they are, paying attention to and lending support to either side just encourages BOTH to carry on with there outside funded bullshit..CUT OFF THE SUBSIDIES TO BOTH SIDES they’d be around a table in a week…indulge them and it goes on forever.
“Israel was born a Jewish state and it will remain that way.” Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamist Ra’am Party in Israel’s Coalition govt. Great, honest guy. Of course, he now needs 24/7 protection.
Moved on from disseminating propaganda to writing short form comedy. Not sure which is more amusing.
Cite your evidence that Mansour Abbas said “Israel was born a Jewish state and it will remain that way.” Or did you just make it up as usual?
“Israel has many problems that must be resolved, but Israel is not an apartheid state.” Issawi Frej Arab Israel regional affairs minister.
Israel has appointed a muslim Arab woman as consul general for Shanghai and a muslim Arab man as a judge to the Supreme Court.
Oh yeah, whole lotta apartheid goin’ on!
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