Israel Flotilla Abuse Allegations Demand Accountability
If Israel seized peace activists in international waters and they were then abused in custody, statements of concern are not enough. Accountability must follow.

If Israel seized peace activists in international waters and they were then abused in custody, statements of concern are not enough. Accountability must follow.

Ben-Gvir taunting bound Western activists was not outside Israel’s values. It was the mask slipping on what occupation has done to Israel itself.

The Israel embassy’s new Wellington location is already provoking anger, political controversy and calls for diplomatic expulsion.

When sexual torture becomes part of the information war, the question is not who controls the narrative. It is who is being protected from accountability.

Russia was banned from Eurovision. Israel is still handed a microphone while Gaza is butchered. That is not music. That is cultural whitewashing.

The BBC refused to air a documentary on Gaza’s devastated healthcare system, then watched it win a Bafta and trigger fresh accusations of censorship and bias.

Holocaust education should teach universal lessons about racism and genocide, not become a narrow political narrative.

A nation birthed on genocide and built by slavery seems to be turning to fascism. Who is surprised? “Fucking Bitch”…
On my office wall hangs a framed portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh, the inspiring and celebrated American-Palestinian journalist known across the Middle East to watchers of Al Jazeera Arabic, who was assassinated by an Israeli military sniper with impunity.
About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland’s tourist suburb of Devonport on Monday to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing the government of backing genocide in the Middle East.