Why is NZGovernment secretly moving against Palestinian Protestors? Will The Daily Blog be banned in NZ?

Last week, investigative journalist Mick Hall (the very same Journalist fired from RNZ for being falsely accused of being a Russian agent), released a special investigation into how the NZ Government is secretly moving against Palestinian Protestors…

Secretive terror laws review targets protest and dissent

A leaked document has revealed secretive plans to revise terror laws in New Zealand so that people can be charged over statements deemed to constitute material support for a proscribed organisation.

It shows the government also wants to widen the criteria for proscribing organisations to include groups that are judged to ‘facilitate’ or ‘promote and encourage’ terrorist acts.

The changes would see the South Pacific nation falling in line with increasingly repressive Western countries like the UK, where scores of independent journalists and anti-genocide protestors have been arrested and charged under terrorism laws in recent months.

The consultation document, handed to the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties (NZCCL), reveals the government has consulted with a limited number of unnamed groups this year over plans to legally redefine what material support involves, so that public statements or gestures involving insignia like flags can lead to charges if construed as support for proscribed groups.

As part of a proposal to revise the Terrorism Suppression Act, the document suggests the process for designating organisations as terror groups should be changed by “expanding the threshold to enable more modern types of entities to be designated, such as those that ‘facilitate’ or ‘promote and encourage’ terrorist acts.”

…why aren’t the mainstream NZ media looking into this right now? Thomas Beagle is a serious commentator and human rights lawyer, the MSM may hate Mick Hall, but they can’t ignore Beagle!

The Ministry of Justice has been contacted in an attempt to ascertain which groups it has been consulting with and why it believed the changes were necessary.

NZCCL chairman Thomas Beagle told Mick Hall In Context his group was concerned the proposed changes were a further attempt to limit the rights of New Zealanders to engage in political protest.

“When you look at the proposal to expand the Terrorism Suppression Act, alongside the Police and IPCA conspiring to propose a law change to ban political protest without government permission, you really have to wonder what’s going on,” he said.

A report by the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) in February proposed to give police the right to ban protests if they believed there was a high chance of public disorder and threats to public safety.

That would potentially mean bans on Palestinian solidarity protests if far right counter protestors posed a threat of violent confrontation.

…we constantly see Bishop Brian Tamaki calling for his Christofascist Destiny Church to attack Palestinian protestors in the streets to tear down their flags!

The stand-alone legislation would put New Zealand in line with other Five Eyes and NATO-aligned security jurisdictions such as Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

Beagle points out proposed changes to terror laws would suppress freedom of speech and further undermine freedom of assembly and the right to protest.

“We’ve seen what’s happening with the state’s abuse of terrorism suppression laws in the UK and are horrified that they have sunk so far and so quickly,” he said.

Over 100 people were arrested across the UK on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action, a non-violent protest group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British Government earlier this month.

Social media clips showed pensioners aggressively arrested while attending rallies in Liverpool, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro over the weekend.

Independent journalists and academics have also faced state repression under the UK’s Terrorism Act.

…this Government is secretly looking to re-introduce the old Sedition laws with specific focus on anyone who supports Palestinian protestors…

The document says the Government wants to progress “targeted amendments” to the Act, creating or amending offences “to capture contemporary behaviours and activities of concern” like “public expressions of support for a terrorist act or designated entities, for example by showing insignia or distributing propaganda or instructional material.”

It suggests that the existing process for proscribing an organisation is slow and cumbersome, noting that: “Specific provisions need to be followed to designate entities not on a UN list, but the decision-making process is lengthy and the designation period is short. This impacts timely decision-making and the usefulness of designation as a tool to prevent terrorism.”

It proposes to improve “the timeliness of the process, by considering changes to who the decision-maker is” and extending the renewal period from three to five years.

The document suggests consulting the Attorney-General over designation-related decisions to ensure legal requirements are met may not be required and questions whether the designation process requiring the Prime Minister to review decisions twice is necessary. It asks whether others, like the Foreign Minister, should be involved in the decision-making process.

Beagle believes the secretive proposals pose a threat to New Zealand’s liberal democracy.

“Political protest is an important part of New Zealand’s history,” he said.

“Whether it’s the environment, worker’s rights, feminism, Māori issues, homosexual law reform or any number of other issues, political protest has had a big part in forming what Aotearoa New Zealand is today. It’s a right protected by New Zealand’s Bill of Rights and is a critical part of being a functioning democracy.”

The move forms part of a wider trend of moves to intimidate the public and close down dissent and criticism, particularly among academics and journalists, over New Zealand’s foreign policy, now closely aligned with NATO and US interests.

The government is also widening the definition of foreign interference in a way that could see people who ‘should have known’ that they were being used by a foreign State to undermine New Zealand’s interests prosecuted.

The Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill, which passed its first reading in Parliament on November 19, would criminalise the act of foreign interference, while also increasing powers of unwarranted searches by authorities.

The Bill is effectively a reintroduction of the country’s old colonial sedition laws inherited from Britain, the broadness of the law having allowed it to be used against communists, trade unionists and indigenous rights activists.

…this is happening while in England they are arresting anyone for protesting against Israel’s genocide…

HAPPENING NOW: Elderly man arrested by police for holding sign which read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”

46 arrested in total in London, more arrests happening now in Manchester and Cardiff pic.twitter.com/DOVtrbExB1

— ashok | ಅಶೋಕ್ 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) July 12, 2025

…in Australia they are attacking the universities…

Universities threatened with funding cuts under proposed plan to tackle antisemitism in Australia

Australian universities may lose funding if they’re not judged to be doing enough to address anti-Jewish hate crimes, according to new measures proposed by the country’s first antisemitism envoy.

…and they are attempting this in NZ. The zionist apologist Free Speech Fake Union is attempting to gain control of Internet NZ and it is only a mutterer of time before they start a purge on NZ media of any content they consider ‘anti-semitic’.

…remember, this is all secretly happening while the Government removes the Proud Boys as a terrorist group.

White supremacy violence = ok, Palestinian porters = terrorists?

The Free Speech Fake Union is a zionist astroturf organisation backed by Atlas Network that has weaponised free speech for the Right.

They’ve just sent out these voting instructions…

…Israel has already announced that once they are finished committing their ethnic cleansing war crime genocide, they will turn to any criticism of them online…

Netanyahu vows to combat what he calls ‘vilification against Israel’ online

On Capitol Hill, Israeli PM says ‘demonization’ led to drop in support for Israel among US voters, especially Democrats

…if The Free Speech Fake Union gain control of Internet NZ, it’s just a matter of time before they start demanding anti-semitism is purged from the NZ internet.

They are not here to protect free speech, they are here to weaponise it for the Right. Here was the back ground on their recent imported speaker…

ACT Party Hosts White Genocide Conspiracy Theorist As 2025 Party Rally Keynote Speaker – Poneke Antifascist Coalition

The ACT Party will host white genocide conspiracy theorist James Lindsay as their keynote speaker at the annual party rally. James Lindsay is described by ACT as “a globally recognised advocate for free speech, open inquiry, and classical liberal values.”

What ACT fails to mention is that James Lindsay is a globally recognised racist, transphobe and has pushed the conspiracy of queer people being paedophiles into mainstream discourse, particularly by coining the term ‘groomer’.

“ACT describes James Lindsay in vague statements because they know that most people in Aotearoa would reject the dangerous, far-right and frankly weird views he propagates,” said Anne Campbell of Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition.

A proponent of the ‘white genocide’ theory, Lindsay regularly speaks on the supposed plan of Marxists to eradicate the white race. He claims that disparities between white and non-white communities are not the result of racism, but the result of white people having inherent qualities that mean they ‘perform’ better. He also pushes various conspiracies on the communist takeover of the United States via ‘wokeism’.

“It is really telling that this is the person that David Seymour is aligning himself with, but sadly perhaps not that surprising,” said Campbell. “He and James Lindsay are compelled to label the most powerless groups in society as threats in order to divert attention away from the extreme poverty, inequality and homelessness their ideologies create.

“These people have nothing more to offer than the same interchangeable far-right neuroses and hatreds that we’ve already heard ad nauseam,” said Campbell. “Aotearoa deserves better than what they’re desperately trying to sell us.”

…the NZ Right are false champions of free speech!

Australia is currently in the grip of an anti-semitism manufacturing that eclipses the grim truth that Israel has so far killed almost 250 000 Palestinians in a response so disproportionate it’s a clear war crime.

No one wants to talk about Israel’s genocide, but they do want to play the anti-semitism victim game to avoid any focus on Israel’s appalling cruelty and violence.

Caitlin Johnston is one of the most important Australian critics of US Foreign Policy and has quickly taken the mantel of Pilger in terms of journalistic intellect and critical analysis.

Her verdict on the claims of anti-semitism in Australia is brutal…

There Is No Antisemitism Crisis In Australia. It’s A Carefully Constructed Lie.

The Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph has been caught trying to orchestrate what can only be described as a mass media psyop to inflame public hysteria about antisemitism in Australia.

In a project internally titled “UNDERCOVERJEW”supposedly designed to show “what it’s like being Jewish in Sydney”, a man wearing a Star of David hat and video glasses went around targeting Muslim and Arab businesses trying to instigate hostility from staff members trailed by a video producer and a Telegraph reporter.

The man, who is reportedly associated with the Australian Jewish Association, entered an Egyptian cafe called Cairo Takeaway and postured with his Star of David hatwithout getting any reaction from anyone. He then started making comments to cafe staff, who caught on to what he was doing and started recording him. Police were then called and it caused a big scandal.

It’s obvious that the intention here was to instigate something that could be framed as an “antisemitic incident” and provoke a national outcry and draw all the usual fiery denunciations from Australian officials, followed by arguments citing the incident as evidence that Australia needs even more aggressive speech laws to stomp out all criticism of the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.

And it should here be noted that The Daily Telegraph is owned by News Corp, the Murdoch media conglomerate which dominates the Australian press. Rupert Murdoch became the media giant he is with the help of his ties with the Ronald Reagan administration and US government agencies. Also noteworthy is that Murdoch is a board member and significant shareholder of Genie Energy, which holds a contract to drill for oil and gas in the Golan Heights — territory illegally occupied by Israel.

This is just the latest in a spate of incidents in which a narrative about an urgent epidemic of antisemitism in Australia is being marketed to the public based on false information. Just today we learned from The Sydney Morning Herald that the Dural caravan laden with explosive materials we were told a couple of weeks ago was intended for use in a “mass casualty event” targeting Jewish sites was not only full of unusable 40 year-old explosives with no detonator, but was involved in a scheme by underworld crime gangs to help negotiate reduced sentences with law enforcement.

The entire Australian political-media class lost their minds about this story when it first came out. The words “antisemitic” and “antisemitism” were rife throughout the Australian press. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared that “There’s zero tolerance in Australia for hatred and for antisemitism, and I want any perpetrators to be hunted down and locked up.” The federal government’s special envoy on antisemitism, Jillian Segal, called the incident a “chilling reminder that the same hatred that led to the murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust still exists today”.

And it had nothing to do with antisemitism. At all.

We saw a similar incident earlier this month when headlines blared about an “antisemitic attack” at Bondi Beach involving eggs being thrown at a group of young women. A couple of days later it came out that the egging was perpetrated by two teenagers getting up to teenage mischief and had nothing to do with anyone hating Jews.

Right now we’re seeing an uproar over two Arab Australian nurses who were baited by an Israeli influencer into saying on the website Chatruletka that they would kill Israelis if they came into their hospital. The comments by the nurses were obviously extremely ill-advised and unethical, but a police investigation has so far found that they’ve never harmed anybody, and if you watch the extended footage of the exchange it’s clear the influencer went out of his way to inform them that he served in the Israeli military and killed Palestinians. One of the nurses has reportedly lost 70 family members to Israeli atrocities in Palestine.

Without defending the irresponsible comments of the nurses, I don’t think anyone would expect a Jewish person who came in contact with a Nazi soldier in the 1940s to maintain their cool and avoid violent speech, much less so if that person had lost family members in the Holocaust, and even less if they believed they were having a conversation in private. These chat roulette sites are not intended as mass public broadcast forums; people participating in them tend to interact on the assumption that they are having a private conversation, so the exchange should be viewed as angry words being hurled at a perceived abuser, not as a public declaration of intent to harm others. I don’t condone a healthcare provider saying she’d kill Israeli nationals in her hospital, even if she has lost scores of family members in the Gaza holocaust. But I also wouldn’t confuse what I was seeing with evidence of an antisemitism crisis in Australia.

There is a concerted effort to manufacture the illusion of an antisemitism crisis in Australia in order to protect Israeli information interests — and the call isn’t coming entirely from inside the house. Albanese has acknowledged that the perpetrators of a spate of allegedly antisemitic attacks in this country may have been paid actors working for foreign operatives. The prime minister refused to speculate as to which country might be sponsoring these incidents which just so happen to greatly benefit the interests of Israel, but you don’t exactly need to be Sherlock Holmes to narrow it down.

And some of these so-called “antisemitic” incidents are so obviously staged it hurts. When you see graffiti on a synagogue with “Free Palestine” written next to swastikas, it calls to mind the Mississippi man who notoriously claimed in 2015 that his driveway had been vandalized by black activists with graffiti that said “BLACKS RULE”.

Apparently we’re all supposed to take very seriously the idea that either (A) Nazis are spray painting the words “Free Palestine” next to their swastikas, or (B) that supporters of Palestinian rights are spray painting Nazi symbols next to their pro-Palestinian slogans. And we are never meant to consider the possibility that this incident was staged by Israel’s supporters or by paid actors working for foreign Zionists.

It is always okay to express skepticism about dubious incidents of “antisemitism” in today’s political environment. Israel’s supporters are shitty, evil people who support genocide, and faking antisemitic incidents is a standard hasbara tactic with a well-documented history.

There is no antisemitism crisis in Australia. There is an anti-Palestinian crisis in Australia. An anti-Arab crisis in Australia. A pro-genocide crisis in Australia. The fact that our politicians and media have been shrieking their lungs out 24/7/365 about a made-up epidemic of abuse against Jews while standing with Israel and its American sponsors as they demolish Gaza and prepare to ethnically cleanse a Palestinian territory shows that there is indeed something deeply and profoundly sick about our society — but that sickness has nothing to do with antisemitism.

There are of course people with hateful attitudes and superstitions toward Jews to be found in any country, but they are a small fringe group whose beliefs have far less meaningful impact on people’s lives than prejudices against Palestinians, immigrants, or Indigenous Australians. The average Australian spends very little time thinking about Jews and Jewishness one way or the other, and we’d spend far less if we weren’t constantly being bombarded with false messaging about how our country is full of dangerous Jew haters.

Antisemitism exists in the same way discrimination against divorced mothers exists; it used to be a major issue that did great harm, but in terms of how much it actually affects people’s lives in modern secular times it’s mostly just an obsolete relic of the past. As a divorced mother I might run into the occasional weirdo on the internet calling me a harlot if I mention my personal history, but life is infinitely easier for people like me than it was a century ago. Antisemitism is the same.

Generally when you hear people talking about incidents of antisemitism it falls into three separate categories which are too often conflated:

1. People conflating support for Palestinians and criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews. This is the most common category by an extremely massive margin.

2. People conflating October 7 with a Holocaust-like event in which Jews were murdered simply for being Jewish. In reality October 7 was an act of desperation by the oppressed inhabitants of a giant concentration camp, and they would have killed their oppressors regardless of their religion.

3. Real hatred of Jewish people and real attacks on Jews because they are Jewish. This, while relatively uncommon, is being made more common by Israel’s practice of committing genocide under a Star of David flag while claiming to represent all Jews.

Israel apologists always go out of their way to conflate these three categories. The Anti-Defamation League officially made this conflation a standard practice in 2023 by categorizing incidents of pro-Palestinian activism as antisemitic incidents. The Anti-Defamation League recently drew controversy by saying that Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi salute was not antisemitic, while we’re on the subject.

There is no antisemitism crisis in Australia. As The Daily Telegraph and their agent provocateur found out, antisemitism is one crisis we don’t have. They tried to provoke an antisemitic reaction, and they failed. No one cared.

The real crisis in Australia is that we are the kind of country that would sit and watch a live-streamed genocide without moving heaven and earth to stop it. We have a morality crisis. An apathy crisis. A crisis of our hearts, minds and souls. But what we do not have in this country, in any meaningful way, is an antisemitism crisis.

…it is only a matter of time before we see the same tactics used in NZ.

Minto was attacked for being anti-semitic with his dob in a war criminal hotline and news that Luxon has been privately meeting with the very organisations that use the anti-semitism smear to gag criticism of Israel’s horrific war crimes is deeply concerning.

Zionist apologist astroturf fake Union, the Free Speech Union, is currently attempting to force free speech laws onto Universities, it’s only a matter of time before they start playing the anti-semitism game here in NZ.

If these new secret powers go through, Will The Daily Blog be banned in NZ?

The Daily Blog has been relentless in our criticism of Israel’s occupation and their ethnic cleansing war crime genocide and we will only stop being critical of Israel when they stop butchering Palestinians.

The Daily Blog will not bow the knee to zionist apologists and we will continue supporting the Palestinian movement in Aotearoa.

The State will have to take this Blog out of my dead cold hands before I agree to any restrictions in criticising Israel!

 

 

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