IINZ calls for immediate halt to NZ funding of hate and incitement

11 June, 2021

Media Release, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

The Israel Institute of New Zealand is calling on the New Zealand government to stop funding hate and incitement. Co-director, Dr David Cumin says “A recent EU-funded report has shown what has been clear for d... Read More...

EU study confirms New Zealand is funding hate

IINZ

10 June, 2021

Must View, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

New Zealand has been giving at least $1m to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) despite decades of clear evidence that their schools in the West Bank and Gaza have been teaching children to hate and ... Read More...

New Zealand continues to contribute to the institutional racism of the United Nations

IINZ

28 May, 2021

NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

The United Nations is institutionally racist against the Jewish nation. New Zealand officials have contributed to this systematic bullying of Israel by voting for the disproportionate number and unequally vitri... Read More...

New Zealand officials do not know how many legal Palestinian refugees there are

IINZ

2 May, 2021

NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

For decades, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) officials have recommended funding UNRWA. When presented with evidence of UNRWA schools teaching hate, MFAT officials also tried to justify the practice... Read More...

Ngapuhi Welcomes Incoming Israeli Ambassador at Te Tii Maori, Waitangi

Dr Sheree Trotter

22 April, 2021

Must View, NZ-ISR Relations, Videos

First published on Times of Israel While Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970, for indigenous peoples, living in close connection with the environment and... Read More...

The institutional racism NZ officials contribute to

David Cumin

15 April, 2021

NZ-ISR Relations, Opinion, United Nations

The New Zealand justice system has been called racist. Underpinning that accusation are some powerful statistics. More than half of the prison population is Māori but Māori comprise only 15% of the general p... Read More...

Green MP accepts petition written by terror affiliates and underpinned by flawed report

IINZ

11 April, 2021

BDS, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

On 24 March, Green MP Golriz Ghahraman accepted a petition created by a group with ties to a terror organisation that is based on a flawed report. Anti-Israel activist group, Wellington Palestine, acknowledg... Read More...

NZ Super Fund decision breaches legal requirements

IINZ

6 April, 2021

BDS, NZ-ISR Relations

UK Lawyers For Israel have published an article that outlines a number of reasons why the New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) decision to divest from Israeli banks is an apparent breach of legal requirements. Inte... Read More...

Does the International Criminal Court decision contribute to a peaceful solution?

Guest

29 March, 2021

Conflict, NZ-ISR Relations

On 5th February 2021 Pre Trial Chamber 1 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a majority decision ruled that the ICC is permitted to exercise jurisdiction over events occurring in the West Bank and Gaza... Read More...

Is NZ Labour more tolerant of antisemitism than Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour party?

IINZ

10 March, 2021

NZ-ISR Relations

In January The Israel Institute of New Zealand exposed NZ MPs as members of an online group that frequently posts vile antisemitism. Labour MP for Christchurch Central, Dr Duncan Webb, was found to have posted ... Read More...