The Israel Institute of NZ and their definition of anti-semitism must be challenged
Wait?
WHAT!
So according to the Israel Institute of NZ (they are the NZ Jewish Council’s zionist autistic cousin with the homicidal urges), according to them, if you are concerned about Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleaning war crimes, then YOU ARE ANTISEMITIC.
Hmmmm.
Couple of things to unpack here.
The first is that it is NOT 30 000 dead.
It is over 50 000 dead + 11 000 dead still rotting away under the rubble + 186 000 indirect deaths, so the total number killed in Israel’s immoral and disproportionate violence is over quarter of a million dead.
Alongside all the other horrific and atrocious mass punishment abuses the IDF have meted out.
Like shooting children in the head with sniper rifles.
Or sexually assaulting teenagers in detention camps.
Or the serious sexual assault of drs in prison.
Or the never ending dropping of heavy bombs on heavily populated civilian centres.
Bombing children in tents.
The barbarity performed at the hands of the IDF, the genocidal damage, the description of basic decency the immorality of it all, if you are moved one inch by any of that violent depravity by Israeli then according to the Israel Institute of NZ, you are an antisemite.
Bullshit.
It is true we are more concerned with what Israel is doing in Gaza than the other countries listed, because the occupation there has been ongoing for 50+ years and we have trading arrangements with Israel and one of our direct Allies is selling them the bombs they are committing war crimes with, so yes we have an interest in what is happening in Gaza because the plight of the Palestinian people has been an ongoing issue here and because a country we allow visa free access to is committing crimes against humanity!
The Prime Minister of Israel is currently wanted on war crime charges FFS!
The Israel Institute of NZ is lying about the true casualty rate and then pretending your concern for the appalling violence the IDF are using makes you an antisemite so you are frightened to speak up.
We should never allow zionists defending genocide to paint us as haters of Jews, our disgust and righteous anger at Israeli injustice is because they are committing war crimes, it has nothing to do with them being Jewish!
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Indeed. The problem, or the blame, lays with Israel, with Israelis, not with Jews.
and the misinterpretation and misdirection is deliberate.
Other mass murders and atrocities not listed by the Israel Institute of New Zealand.
50 thousand Chinese killed in the Nanjing Massacre,
200 thousand Japanese killed in the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima,
800 thousand Tutsi killed in the Rwanda Genocide
2 million Vietnamese killed in the Vietnam War
25 million Soviet citizens killed in Operation Barbarossa the German invasion of the Soviet Union,
63 million people in total killed in WWII.
Of these hugely greater mass killings and atrocities, only one – the Rwanda mass killings is considered to be a genocide by historians and experts in the field of genocide studies.
The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin for a crime that had no name, the intentional systematic destruction of a people in whole or in part.
The Israel Institute of New Zealand present a table showing much larger death tolls in other mass atrocities and war crimes as evidence that Israel is not committing the crime of genocide, ie the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part.
IINZ list the much larger death tolls committed in other atrocities and wars, to smear those opposed to the genocide in Gaza as hypocrites and anti-Semites because we allegedly didn’t oppose those other wars and atrocities, when in fact New Zealanders have a proud history of opposing these wars and atrocities, often in large numbers protesting on the streets of this country.
You kind of ignored the over 2 million German civilians killed after the end of WW2 by the allies. Eisenhower put captured German soldiers in barbed wired pens, starved them and hosed them down in the middle of winter for them to die of hypothermia.
When AIPEC spends 100 million buying Somali elections to commit ethnic cleansing then I will speak out.
When the US sends 2000lb bombs to Yemen at the behest of Israel to commit total destruction I will speak out.
When 98% of politicians supported by AIPEC win their elections in Iraq to control the Western media narrative and to keep the weapons flowing i will speak out.
When the Houthis wear T shirts with “1 shot, 2 kills” I will speak out.
When the Taliban snipers deliberately target innocent children with first a shot through the heart and then a head shot I will speak out.
When the Congo brutally murders over 170 infants under 1 years of age I will speak out.
And finally when the Syrian Government gives a standing ovation to a man indicted by the ICC for war crimes I will speak out.
Applying the Zionists own twisted logic, the figure of six million killed in the Holocaust would be insignificant because the total number who died in WW2 is 75 million.
Genocide deniers the Israel Institute of New Zealand, IINZ pose a rhetorical question in all Caps.
“HOW IS GAZA A GENOCIDE?”
Hashtag #GENOCIDELIBEL
To answer their own rhetorical question, IINZ post a list of massacres, atrocities, and wars with much greater death tolls than in Gaza, claiming that these much greater number of killings are evidence that the systematic destruction of Gaza, every means of supporting human life, and the mass indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Gaza, by Israel, is not genocide.
This is known as a ‘False Equivalence’
Q. What is a ‘False Equivalence’? google search.
A. From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning….
Characteristics
This fallacy is committed when one shared trait between two subjects is assumed to show equivalence, especially in order of magnitude,…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence#:~:text=A%20false%20equivalence%20or%20false,%22comparing%20apples%20and%20oranges.%22
“ESPECIALLY IN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE”
According to IINZ, if you don’t accept their ‘flawed or false reasoning’ based on ‘order of magnitude’, “it is because you are an antisemite.”
Israel ‘undoubtedly’ committing genocide says Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg
Israeli researcher from Hebrew University argues that what is happening in Gaza does not need to resemble the Holocaust to qualify as genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net › news › israel-undoubte…
29 Apr 2024 — A professor of Holocaust history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Amos Goldberg, has said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza…..
Holocaust scholar says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/11/22/holocaust-scholar-israel
22 Nov 2024 — Holocaust and genocide scholar Omer Bartov has changed his mind about the war in Gaza. He now believes Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians……
Omer Bartov and Amos Goldberg are not just citizens of Israel, they are Jewish Citizens of Israel, Omer Bartova and Amos Goldberg are not just Jewish citizens of Israel, they are eminent professors of genocide and Holocaust studies.
Let me pose a rhetorical question Are Omer Bartov and Amos Goldberg antisemites, as IINZ would have us believe?
Of course not, Omer Bartov and Amos Goldberg are eminent Jewish professors of genocide studies who know what they are talking about.
Israeli Newspaper PROVES Netayanhu Planned Genocide
Owen Jones
55,285 views Mar 27, 2025
@1:38 minutes:
…..the article is in Hebrew, but when translated into English it says the following – When [Herzl] Halevi presented the IDF’s operations to the cabinet, in the first 48 hours of the war, he noted that the air force had attacked 1,500 targets in Gaza. ‘This is a huge number requiring exceptional intelligence and operational capabilities.’
Netanyahu erupted in Anger, yelling and banging on the table, ‘Why not 5,000!’, he scolded the chief of staff.
‘We don’t have 5,000 approved targets’, Halevi replied.
‘I’m not interested in targets,’ Netanyahu retorted, ‘Take down houses, bomb with everything you have’….