Dr Liz Gordon: A tie! A tie! My whole cultural identity for a necktie!
The origins of the necktie are in Europe, where a string of encounters between cultures, some ending in the mandatory…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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The deep-seated racism at the heart of the New Zealand Jewish Council
In their desperation to defend Israel, they are actively pressuring government ministers, members of parliament, newspaper editors, editorial staff, editors of blogs and public officials of all sorts and using the threat of the label “anti-semitic” to encourage these groups to “self-censor” in their criticism of Israel.
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How fast are we building state houses?
By any measure the Jacinda Ardern’ government’s effort to build new state houses is pitiful.
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Sanctions needed to restrain Israel – NOT polite talks
This year, on 28 January, the Israeli Army of Occupation destroyed a nature reserve in the Palestinian West Bank, uprooting not only a forest of 10,000 trees but also 300 olive trees
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USP staff, students condemn Fiji ‘Gestapo’ tactics, demand Ahluwalia’s return
The University of the South Pacific community has protested over the draconian deportation today of USP’s reformist vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife and called on the government to issue a formal apology to the academic, a Canadian, for the violation of human rights.
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The Woke Supremacy
Only when the drum-beat of right-wing populism starts to shake New Zealand’s windows and rattle its walls, will wokeism’s fondness for silencing its enemies finally begin to make a kind of desperate sense.
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Government must speak out on Israeli plans to demolish Palestinian medical clinic
…and continuing refusal to vaccinate 4.5 million Palestinians under its occupation and control
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Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism
To blunt increasing criticism of its brutal treatment of Palestinians Israel is trying to have opposition to Zionism, the doctrine on which its brutal policies are based, made synonymous with anti-Semitism, and so declared illegal.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Hang your heads in shame
Those of you who follow my writings on various topics (how are you both today?) will know that the transformation of women’s prisons in Aotearoa is one of my passions.
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Dr Liz Gordon: It was always going to be trouble
There is something very old-fashioned about this. The old cultural cringe of New Zealand, where people used to think that anything that is from outside our shores must be better, brighter, more innovative and more important than what we can produce ourselves.