“New Zealand should follow South Africa’s lead and end diplomatic relations with Israel” says John Minto, National Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa.
South Africa’s parliament yesterday voted 208 to 94 to downgrade Israel’s Embassy in South Africa to a Liaison Office.
The motion was moved by the small NFP party but with overwhelming support from other parties, including the African National Congress.
In a statement the NFP, which moved the motion, said…
“The state of Israel was built through the displacement, murder, and maiming of Palestinians. And to maintain their grip on power, they have instituted apartheid to control and manage Palestinians. As South Africans, we refuse to stand by while apartheid is being perpetrated again.”
The NFP went on to say the downgrade should…
“serve as a catalyst to start the process of progressively and completely isolating Apartheid Israel”.
There is ample reason for New Zealand to act after last week’s Israeli settler pogrom against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. It wassupported by Israel’s Minister of State Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, and Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who has since called for the Palestinian town at the focus of the settler attack to be “wiped out”.
Genocidal rhetoric from another government demands New Zealand action.
“If this were a pogrom against Jews anywhere in the world or the call for a Jewish town to be ‘wiped out’ the government would, quite rightly, condemn it and take immediate action against the regime responsible” says John Minto, “but for Palestinians facing genocide our government is silent”
In the 1980s David Lange’s Labour government downgraded the South African consulate in Wellington by closing the consular section and leaving the trade section in place.
Labour can do it again. Our self-respect as a country demands no less.
…and relations with the expansionist, genocidal PRC? *crickets chirping*
Our just end relations with PRC and business as usual with Israel.
lol imagine pretending that China is some upstart pretend nation created from nowhere and the zionist entity is a real country. JIDF aren’t sending their best.
South Africa is no country to follow as an example – in anything.
Ah, a proud proponent of apartheid and genocide.
No. More likely just a realist who actually knows what’s happening in South Africa.
And this “apartheid” word. You keep on using it. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity “committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or
Amnesty International has name Israel as an apartheid regime its not rocket science.
If the yanks ever turned the tap off–cash, arms and spying–the filthy Israeli State and Military would be gone by lunch time.
Cultural Boycotts and BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) are what the rest of us can do in the meantime while the international political campaign to isolate Israel builds.
https://bdsmovement.net
Apartheid Israel is the only democracy in the M.E. Its a country that derives it’s name from a book called the bible. It support for far-right entities and govt globally can’t be disputed. Israel targets countries that have a strong leftist indigenous movement like Guatemala where Israeli trained paramilitary squads massacred significant numbers of Indigenous peoples. Israel is a country that has been instrumental in the destabilization of Central America country that have strong left leaning progressive policies. Its supports neo-fascist policies that are designed to undermine indigenous peoples similarly what they do to the indigenous palestinians.
South Africa are smart to take these actions NZ are puppets to the Zionist regime, we kiss arse we buy weapons of the Israelis who have field tested those weapons on the people they militarily occupy.
Free Palestine.
Feel free to go to Palestine yourself Stephen to give Hamas a hand . . I’m sure Hamas will be more than gratuitous hosts and you will sort out the IDF in no time.
Been there done that and why does the DB site let parasites like you post crap deemening other peoples comment adding nothing but ad Hominem attacks? Its baffling that Pakeha bigots get a free pass to spew their racism/bigotry troupe
Stephen they take their country’s name from the bible because they wrote the Old Testament between 200 and 1200 BC which is the original Hebrew bible. That’s how long they’ve been in that area. Your other comments about South America is waffle. I agree with John Minto that Israel needs to be reigned in and Im bemused that the silence from Wellington is deafening.
New+view, STFU and learn something would yah????
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/israels-support-for-the-far-right-in-latin-america-goes-back-decades
New+view So Hebrew are a race meme BS is all ova the Daily Blog for all to witness if you believe in the bible?. This racializing a monotheistic religion is zionist in nature. This is one of the tools that zionist use to indigenize the Jews in Palestine/Israel even thou Jews aren’t a race but a religion made up from a variety of races. The Arab jews aren’t discuss in its entirety when acknowledging Jewishness in Israel. And what about the Yemenis Jews or the Moroccan Jews or the Egyptian Jews that has a diaspora in Israel, or the African jews, the Chinese Jews, etc…
Stephen. People use the word racism or racist to describe discrimination between people from different places or religions. In NZ people talk of racism toward Maori from Pakeha even though by your own description Māori can’t be a race as only Polynesian can be described that way. The same happens in Israel as 20% of the population are Muslim and are Israeli citizens. As in NZ Maori tend to have lesser jobs and have been treated by previous Governments in an unfair or discriminatory manner. Your hang up over the word race is is your problem not mine. My argument is simple. Jews and Muslims have a right to be in either Israel or Palestine. Israeli tactics to increase their land share is wrong. As far as modern history goes Palestine became a State 40 years after Israel became a state. Before that both peoples squabbled over the area for 2000 years and longer. If you don’t agree I don’t give a fuck. Move on.
I certainly won’t be influenced by action taken by South Africa.
It’s one of the most corrupt societies in the world.
May be but SA no longer has laws on its books stating one race/religion is supreme over another. All societies are corrupt to greater or lesser extent the issue under discussion is apartheid pogroms not corruption.
Is Gaby really Erin? Just curious.
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