David Cumin

Book Review: Speaking for Israel

17 December, 2019

Book Review, Conflict, History, Opinion, United Nations

The United Nations spends a disproportionate amount of time condemning Israel. So the Israeli representative to the international body has a lot of work to do and many speeches to give - inside and outside the ... Read More...

New Zealand joins bullies at UN again and supports online incitement

David Cumin

17 November, 2019

Conflict, News, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

The United Nations just passed eight resolutions against Israel and zero against any other country. New Zealand participated in this bullying again, voting for seven and abstaining on one. In contrast, tradi... Read More...

Do New Zealand officials take terror seriously?

David Cumin

13 September, 2019

Conflict, NZ-ISR Relations, Opinion

Our Prime Minister has been outspoken about the need for social media companies to stop the spread of violent and inciting material. Particularly in the wake of a terror attack on New Zealand soil, this would s... Read More...

National Party MPs call for moving embassy to Israel

David Cumin

30 August, 2019

News, NZ-ISR Relations

Two New Zealand National Party Members Parliament have challenged the government to move the Israeli embassy from Turkey to Israel. Todd McClay, a former ambassador for the Cook Islands and Niue to the Europ... Read More...

How Immigration NZ erased Israel from the map

David Cumin

28 August, 2019

News, NZ-ISR Relations

In June, The Israel Institute sought answers as to how an Immigration NZ ‘fact sheet' was published with politicised distortions of history and a map that totally erased Israel. Once the document was exposed... Read More...

New Zealand continues to proudly fund corruption and extremism

David Cumin

2 August, 2019

Conflict, News, NZ-ISR Relations, Opinion

New Zealand is proud to support a UN agency that has recently been accused of serious corruption and other abuses of power and no official or minister has even acknowledged any issue. In May this year the Pe... Read More...

Another United Nations mockery and New Zealand’s hypocrisy

David Cumin

26 July, 2019

News, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

Many years ago, the Israeli statesman, Abba Eban, said "if Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abste... Read More...

The essence of the issue

David Cumin

5 June, 2019

BDS, Conflict, History, Sideroom

A number of news stories this week have struck me as highlighting the essence of the conflict. None more so than the riots on the Temple Mount - the holiest site in Judaism. Arabs threw chairs and stones becaus... Read More...

NZ Labour should stand up to MP bringing them down

David Cumin

30 May, 2019

BDS, NZ-ISR Relations, Opinion

New Zealand’s Labour Member for Christchurch Central Dr Duncan Webb is not only out of touch with his own party’s policy, he is out of touch with mainstream opinion around the world. In May, the Israeli city... Read More...

Israel shows off diversity to 200,000,000 viewers

David Cumin

28 May, 2019

Sideroom

It seems strange that Australia and Israel participate in “Eurovision” but that’s not necessarily the strangest feature of the music extravaganza that, this year, featured an Icelandic BDSM punk band and a yode... Read More...

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