{"id":2647,"date":"2018-07-18T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:08:57","slug":"is-it-just-bad-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/07\/is-it-just-bad-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it just bad advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The past week’s revelation that the officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade are\u00a0comfortable promoting an event that advocates BDS and a one-state solution<\/a>\u00a0is shocking (even leaving aside the speaker and his terror affiliations).<\/p>\n These same officials advise the Minister and other representatives. The retweet and lack of apology suggest that the advice given to Ministers of Foreign Affairs and other representatives is not going to be balanced.<\/p>\n It might also go some way to explaining why New Zealand has not only been\u00a0quiet about Hamas terror<\/a>, but also about Iranian terror and about Russia’s nefarious actions – the advisors to the Ministers may simply have a different world view to most average Kiwis.<\/p>\n