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

11 April, 2021

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...

MFAT CEO questioned about NZ funding hate

IINZ

5 March, 2021

NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

The CEO of the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Chris Seed, said NZ's funding of schools that teach hate and incite violence is a "serious issue". Yet New Zealand is set to give another $1m to the orga... Read More...

NZ Super Fund undermines NZ’s reputation as a fair actor

IINZ

3 March, 2021

BDS, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

The New Zealand Government superannuation savings vehicle, the NZ Super Fund, is ostensibly joining the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel - a movement deemed racist by many of New... Read More...

The Māori Queen’s Support for Israel

Dr Sheree Trotter

2 March, 2021

History, Must View, NZ-ISR Relations

“Ten measures of beauty were bestowed upon the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem, and one by the rest of the world.”1 This quote from the Babylonian Talmud of late antiquity, conveys the magic and mystery... Read More...

MFAT officials changed one piece of flawed advice to stop aiding terror

David Cumin

8 February, 2021

NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

In 2018 a resolution was put to the United Nations to - for the first time ever - condemn Hamas, the terror group that rules Gaza. However, a procedural motion was raised and the General Assembly voted to requi... Read More...

Massey University Master of Arts thesis justifies terror

IINZ

2 February, 2021

Conflict, NZ-ISR Relations

Massey University has awarded a Master of Arts in Politics for a thesis that reads more like propaganda than academic literature. The thesis, supervised by Dr Nigel Parsons, essentially legitimises Hamas and it... Read More...

Can you tell White Supremacists from anti-Israel activists? – New Zealand version

IINZ

17 January, 2021

BDS, Conflict, NZ-ISR Relations

The Israel Institute of New Zealand has previously exposed a "Pro-Palestinian" Facebook group - Kia Ora Gaza, run by Roger Fowler - as promoting and tolerating antisemitism. Prime Minister Ardern was a membe... Read More...