United Nations – Israel Institute of NZ

Israel Institute demands answers from PM on UN WHO resolution

3 June, 2019

Media Release, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

Israel Institute of New Zealand co-director, Ashley Church, has slammed the Government for its recent support of a UN World Health Organisation (WHO) resolution which singled out Israel for the “health conditio... Read More...

Israel Institute says New Zealand taxpayers are funding extremism

IINZ

20 May, 2019

Media Release, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

Israel Institute of New Zealand co-director, Dr David Cumin, is calling for a moratorium on any further Kiwi taxpayer funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) until serious issues of corrup... Read More...

At 71, Israel as a Jewish state is justified

Guest

19 May, 2019

Conflict, History, NZ-ISR Relations, Opinion, United Nations

A JEWISH STATE WAS NEEDED On the 14th May 1948 the first Prime Minister of the modern State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, proclaimed these words in Israel’s Declaration of Independence: “The catastrophe whic... Read More...

The Israel Report: Episode 2

Perry Trotter

22 April, 2019

BDS, Must View, News, TheIsraelReport, United Nations, Videos

The Israel Institute of New Zealand presents The Israel Report. An up to the minute discussion of developments in Israel and the Middle East along with in-depth analysis of the issues, the history, and the cont... Read More...

Israel Institute of NZ calls on Govt to condemn Hamas attacks on Israel

IINZ

31 March, 2019

Conflict, Media Release, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

Israel Institute of New Zealand director, Dr David Cumin, is calling on the New Zealand Government to follow the example of other liberal democracies and condemn recent Hamas rocket attacks against civilians in... Read More...

UNHRC continues anti-Israel bias, ignores real violations, turns mandate on its head

David Cumin

4 March, 2019

BDS, News, Opinion, United Nations

The recent United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report that alleges "Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law… and may constitute war crimes or crimes agai... Read More...

Amnesty International: From Human Rights To Lies

Perry Trotter

6 February, 2019

BDS, News, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations, Videos

https://vimeo.com/315578435 The recent Amnesty International campaign to outlaw business with Jews living in Judea and Samaria is based on lies and is discriminatory. It is a continuation of the antisemitism... Read More...

Shame, shame, shame on New Zealand

Guest

13 January, 2019

Must View, NZ-ISR Relations, Opinion, United Nations

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel once famously wrote ‘what hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.’ New Zealand’s actions at the UN General Assembly in December... Read More...

National MP Alfred Ngaro on Israel and 2334

Perry Trotter

23 December, 2018

History, News, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations, Videos

Christmas Eve will mark two years since New Zealand's infamous co-sponsorship of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. The then National government joined Venezuela and antisemitic nations Malaysia ... Read More...

UN Security Council fails to take action on Hezbollah

David Cumin

22 December, 2018

Conflict, News, NZ-ISR Relations, United Nations

Just one fortnight on from the United Nations General Assembly's failure to pass a resolution condemning Hamas, the Security Council has failed to take any action in the face of Hezbollah terror tunnels recentl... Read More...