Kia ora TVNZ,
In the introduction to the news item on Israel’s war on Palestine the presenter talked about an Israeli military operation in the “West Bank”. The item went on to show an overseas report with video pictures of Israeli troops in action and video of an Israeli government spokesperson who talked about the need to counter armed terrorist groups who were funded and armed by Iran which he alleged wanted to open an eastern front against Israel. Following later were pictures of a Red Crescent worker saying the bombing reminded him of what is happening in Gaza.
My complaint relates to:
- The seriously misleading use of the term “West Bank”. Under international law and in the view of the successive New Zealand governments it should be described as the “occupied West Bank” (ie occupied by Israel) and since last month’s International Court of Justice ruling it should be described as the “illegally-occupied West Bank”.
- The report focused on Israeli narratives, Israeli reasoning, Israeli justifications, Israeli propaganda with nothing from the Palestinian side to put this issue in perspective. If they were allowed to do so on TVNZ news the Palestinian side would say something like:
- the armed Palestinian resistance groups who were the targets of the Israeli incursion are fighting against the illegal occupation of their land by Israel.
- They are fighting ethnic cleansing, violence, murder and mayhem conducted by Israeli settlers with the backing of the Israeli army.
- They are fighting for freedom and self-determination.
- Under international law they have the right to take up arms to fight for their freedom. On the other side the Israeli army has no right to wage war against a people living under its military occupation.
The TVNZ news item presented an inversion of the truth. The victims are blamed for resisting an oppressive racist, apartheid regime (all these adjectives come from last month’s ICJ ruling) In this way the TVNZ report was inaccurate, unbalanced and unfair.
We are familiar with the argument than no single news story can cover all aspects of Israel’s occupation of Palestine but that over time people get a balanced view from a range of news reports. We reject this argument outright. The news item presented tonight was typical of the vast majority of TVNZ reports from Israel’s war on Gaza over the past year.
We look forward to your response without unnecessary delay.
Nā,
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
John – I understand why you need to write this due to your deep sense of justice, however, by promoting Hamas you are causing injustice to both Gazans and Israelis.
So, what does justice look like Nathan?
A O – Killings stop, Gaza develops in a peaceful manner, and Hamas is moved out of the strip…
Killings stop, as in “all” killing stops or….?
Gaza develops in a peaceful manner…peaceful for whom – everyone – or…?
And Hamas is moved out of the strip and then what should happen to them? And will peace reign thereafter or what else….?
Hahahahah, sure buddy.
‘Promoting’ the freedom fighters defending Palestinian humans from murderous, rapey zionists is causing ‘injustice’. Keep smoking that crack.
Mohammed Khan – Freedom Fighters? Oh, you mean Hamas terrorists…the nice people crushing Gazans, and attacking Israelis…
They conquered and pushed off the people much closer related to the ancient Jews. Have you seen how blonde so many of the colonizers are?
If you zionist monsters just stop chasing down Palestinian children to rape and murder, you might not be ‘attacked’.
Terrorists should be exterminated like the rats that are,,,
Fuck up Nathan start showing some humanity? Hamas hasn’t murdered 40,000 plus your rapist IDF have and they Gloat about it on X.
Free Palestine
Nathan, your support of genocide belittles the memory of victims of genocide, past and present. This is the true tragedy of Zionist thought.
The Final Extermination of Palestine Has Begun . . .
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The Final Extermination of Palestine Has Begun . . .
and in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli colonial army has pushed the 2 million surviving Palestinians into an area of less than 15 square kilometers (less than 6 square miles). It continues bombing them. The obvious aim is to push the whole population into Egypt’s Sinai desert and to provide their land to illegal settlers.
The US enables the Israeli genocide while the UK and EU applaud it and criminalize dissent against it. The Arab states stand aside and watch. Which one of them will be next?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/08/29/the-final-extermination-of-palestine-has-begun/
NZ and Western media cover-up distort and reverse the truth to outrageous lies for the inhuman alien genocidal monsters of the Israehell armed to the teeth by the Great Satan of the empire of chaos and death the corrupt U$$$$
Which comes first Media prejudice or society prejudice?
I believe society prejudice and power and the need to make a profit drives the media bias.
Politics is the same.
Serve the majority prejudice and win .
The 2023 election in NZ was based on serving majority White prejudice nothing more nothing less.
As for the issue in Gaza. Well it is quite simple and a little research shows the truth.
Britain stole the land now known as Palestine as a victory trophy after WW1 in 1919.
Jews illegally invaded these lands in 1948 backed by Britain and supported by France.
Since 1950 the USA has armed and backed the Jews illegal invasion occupation and subjugation
of the Palestinian people.
The West supports the USA military base in Israel which now dominates 400 million Muslims.
The West also demonises Hamas the Palestinian freedom fighters.
Yet the West opposes the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and supports the Ukraine fight for freedom.
Racial Religious and political selective hypocrysy at its worst.
So we cant blame the media really.
Because deeply ingrained prejudice, ignorance and power and the small matter of making a profit
out weigh providing balance.
This is simply how Kiwis roll.
Nothing new.
True, but there are other ideologies at work too, not least the western/christiansed idea of “Israel” as ‘God’s chosen people’ and the implications of that belief. The legacy of this idea is very strong in NZ and much stronger in the USA
True about beliefs but don’t discount the ability of money to subvert. For example Zionist interests own the US Congress.
On a historical basis Palestine has been invaded by Crusaders supported by Western money. When the Portuguese rounded the Cape the Levant trade dried up, the money stopped as did Crusader states. Stop the money, no Israel.
LOL the Jews have been there for 3,000 ++ years so who’s the invader again?
The who? Which ones? Do some reading before throwing stupid statements about.
What weird history you reading? Open your mind and read more and deeper.
Jewish journalist say Israel’s horrific actions ‘can’t be hidden anymore’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaGZ9fcYCY
TRT’s new documentary ‘Holy Redemption’ exposes Israeli settlers war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zhrCr9YuVc
In 1948, while the United Nations were forging a Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the embers of WW2, the first Zionist NAKBA in Palestine was in full swing, sweeping 750,000 Palestinians from their lands, into exile.
The Universal declaration stated, among other things, “Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people…”
Who would have guessed the ’barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind’, suffered so cruelly by the Jewish people in Nazi Europe, would be in that same year visited upon the peoples of Palestine by those very same European ‘settler’ Zionists, eager for Palestinian land and property.
Terrorism by any definition.
One matter is certain: If this were the Jewish people trapped inside the GAZA wall; starved and bombed homeless, forced like cattle from one destroyed part to the next to be bombed again in their tents, hospitals, schools; all water and waste treatment and gardening systems wantonly destroyed; at least 200,000 already murdered and maimed and missing under the rubble; it’s Ghetto guarded by an occupying army blocking medical supplies and food and water, torturing their men and women and children in prison, to death in more and more cases, raping them as punishment, stealing their land with no consequence, parading infront of a global audience war-theft of property and filming disgusting acts against a trapped peoples: if these were the Jewish people suffering this barbarism – we would all know exactly what to call it: fascism. Naziism. Genocide.
But, we don’t. Our Government remains more-or-less silent, bound to a world order protecting Israeli genocide and USA/UK’s key role arming and extending it; normalising anti-Palestinian racism and mass-murder. We could, as a moral and ethical nation, Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel. We could recognise Palestinian statehood and we could expel Israeli representation from AotearoaNZ until it ceases and desists. We could back the ICC and ICJ and UN against the war criminal Netanyahu and his grotesquery. But we don’t. We make condemnatory noises here and there.
But, that’s it.
Nothing to do with us.
If anyone ever wondered how the nazi managed genocide in Europe, this is how.
Thanks for your truthful description of events in Gaza. It seems that most New Zealanders are stuck in a 70s time warp where Jews are good and Arabs bad as they do not want to know what is actually happening there now or what actually did happen in the past.
New Zealand is a colonial state. It has issue with its indigenous populations. Like apartheid Israel it uses propaganda undermined it indigenous population. Similarly Israel and New Zealand share commonalities which is british imperialism. Apartheid was also practice in NZ and their are many historic examples of these facts.
Free Palestine
Got to agree, my fellow pakeha are finding it difficult to reconcile the beliefs that were ingrained in their youth, and the exposed realities of colonialism for the tangata whenua. My father is a classic, he was born in the 1920s and still refers to the Empire, a long lost reality. I see the willful blindness of our ruling elite reflected on so many issues. Denial of truth merely makes the cure worse.
Uphold the tiriti.
Free Palestine.
Genocide in Gaza through the eyes of Israeli soldiers | The Listening Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAT9NQ4WkE0
@imatcarletonuni
5 months ago
America, this is what your government funds with your tax dollars. Meanwhile, your government can’t even afford to give you healthcare
@EmrelSalter
5 months ago
This is literally what I’ve been seeing online, and it made my stomach turn. I’ve taken screen recordings too. I’ve been twisting and turning in my bed, unable to sleep, crying intermittently throughout the day, feeling sick to my stomach, praying for Palestine and humanity as a whole all day, and then… I decided to check in on a boy I went to school with, in South Africa, who moved to Israel and joined the Israeli army a few years ago, he made a joke video as the IDF blew up a building in Khan Younis and posted it on Instagram, trying to build clout off of his active participation in genocide. He was laughing, while people were dying. I’m horrified, it’s sickening. Their lack of remorse is the worst part of all of this. They are massacring people in cold blood. The power of systematic far-right indoctrination is scary. This is a humanitarian catastrophe and we’re here witnessing it happen, in real time.
Don’t forget the congress shit show applauding mass genocidal murderer Netanyahu.
Israel is not only winning the war; it is now clearly also winning the propaganda war.
When the mainstream TV News relegates its update on Gaza to a 20 second clip after the sport section you know that Israel can do pretty much as they like and get on with finishing the job.
Andrew, It not winning the propaganda only if you live in a bubble than you believe in the BS, and Hamas is a rag tag gorilla outfit that don’t possess tanks, no airforce no navy but somehow they’ve manage to hang in there for 10 months coming on to a year.
You forgot about Hezbollah to the north setting Galile on fire and 100,000s have left the apartheid state neva to return. Hezbollah successfully attacked 19 military sites blinding apartheid Israel knocking out security installations causing the state headaches and they haven’t used their ballistic missile yet. Israel is ova it just a matter of time & patience before it’s gone and good riddance.
Israel may be winning the propaganda war with ignorant westerners but that will be no help when the inevitable division within Israel will create such a conflict that their very existence will be threatened.
Andrew please read Lobbying for Zionism on both side of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe’s book you might learn a thing or two.
Go you @ J.M. Without you we wouldn’t know. Now it’s up to us to give a fuck. So let’s close the Israeli embassy then deport its staff back to israel.
Here’s the israeli embassy’s address.
Embassy of Israel Wellington, Bayleys Building New Zealand, 36 Brandon Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand.
We should remember too that banking, finance, lobbying and subsequent borrowing to then re invest back to those they’re already disenfranchised in the private sector for pecuniary gain is fascism in lip stick, fish net stockings and high heels. The finance sector lobbies our spineless, dull minded politicians to ram debt mechanisms down our throats and we can’t vote them out and we never voted them in.
Look round!? We’re being harvested by fascists. We need to be on ever higher alert! But instead? We get taylor swift in enamel tights squawking like a parrot while beguiling the moron classes with sugary jingles.
Talk about bread and circuses. Jesus!
The Bayleys Building… Aren’t they the ones big in *real estate?
So… ASB, BNZ, ASB and Westpac? Aren’t they the second most profitable banks in the world by lending into the scam that’s AO/NZ real estate? They’re the most profitable second only to Canada and the Bayleys building’s occupied by the Israeli Embassy? No! Surely not! Nah…Thank God I’m paranoid. I had myself worried there for a minute.
However… What if the israelis, protected by the IDF, have loaned out trillions of USA dollars to world banking, including ours, to keep us on a leash? The U$A is in the shit to $35 Trillion dollars, give or take. The UK is in support of the israeli death squads killing Palestinians and they call it a [war] which, of course, it isn’t. It’s murder. The IDF is murdering their neighbours with impunity and our noble honourable, caring and loving Western allies are looking the other way. Including that most murderous lot in history the British. Why?
Nah. Surely not. Silly me. Take no notice.
*Bayleys Southland Real Estate is part of Bayleys Real Estate – New Zealand’s largest full-service real estate agency with a network of 93 offices nationwide. Aw. Bless.
One could also check out this documentary.
‘The Men Who Stole The World’
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26921474/
Aren’t they all dead yet?
“….video pictures of Israeli troops in action and video of an Israeli government spokesperson who talked about the need to counter armed terrorist groups who were funded and armed by Iran which he alleged wanted to open an eastern front against Israel.”
Do TVNZ journalists and presenters have no shame?
That Iran is the big bogey man behind the Palestinian resistance, is a mischievious planted misdirection that is being repeated by our unquestioning mainstream media hacks as the justification for the genocide in Gaza and now in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
That Iran is behind the Palestinian residance is an unsubstantiated Zionist conspiracy theory, that is used by Israel, (and TVNZ) to justify the colonial project of genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from their homes and land.
The Palestinian popular resistance is not cauised by Iran. it is caused by Israel.
Palestinian resistance is an indigenous rebellion against aparthied, against land theft, against house demolitions, against abitrary detention without trial, against Israel’s assasinations of Palestinian politicians, leaders, artists and poets.
Israel is the outside force that fuels this rebellion, not Iran.
Palestinian resistance will continue until Israel’s brutal fascist style occupation and subjudgation and ethnic cleansing ends.
Hi John,
Let us know the response to your complaint to TVNZ
‘Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return’ : W H Auden 1937
Maybe some of you pro Palestinian commenters can explain to me why Egypt refuses to open its boarders to Gaza.
I thought they were brother Muslims. I was under the impression that many came from Egypt.
That’s an easy answer to a shallow question. Why should any nation be forced to take millions of refugees? Egypt has its own economic issues and you propose to dump people on them? Would NZ take masses of Palestinian refugees?
It might be a shock to the Israeli and conservative Jewish cabal if protests and mourning vigils are held for the sad Israelis and Jews outside, who are being forced to remain clandestine about their disagreement with the vicious retaliatory violent and deathly genocidal attacks on Palestinians.
After the awful mechanised abbatoir treatment of so many Jewish people not only by German Nazis but across Europe in WW2, the recovery to a saner world, of survivors and those encouraged to flee to Israel from other countries indicating similar attitudes, has led to an opening for preaching similar callousness amongst many Israelis.
Now the whole of Israel is being brutalised under the aegis of old men who use war against Palestine as a base foundation to unite the country and prevent dissension as treasonous. Margaret Thatcher did the same in the United Kingdom with the Falkland war. It is so sad to see Jewish people, who seem to be the most sensitive and intelligent of modern society being unable to bring their perceptions to the fore enabling moves to cease from this primitive tribal and unwinnable conflict.
Whatever happens, the Jews have already lost credibility for nobility; the paradox is if they win the war, demolish the Palestinian homeland, resistance and corporeal possession, the Jews will be damned and possessed by guilt, which heretofore has been placed on the world post WW2. It will be a new burden for them to have to seek absolution from their God. Or do they attempt to justify it as retribution to cloak themselves with to avoid self-censure? And on what basis should the Palestinians bear the full weight of this horror?