{"id":4367,"date":"2019-06-14T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T05:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2019-06-17T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T23:04:45","slug":"immigration-new-zealand-fact-sheet-erases-israel-and-distorts-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2019\/06\/immigration-new-zealand-fact-sheet-erases-israel-and-distorts-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration New Zealand \u201cfact sheet\u201d erases Israel and distorts history"},"content":{"rendered":"
Immigration New Zealand\u2019s \u2018State of Palestine Refugee Quota Factsheet\u2019<\/a> presents a one-sided, distorted and politicised narrative of the Israel\/Palestine conflict and totally erases Israel from the map.<\/p>\n The fact sheet is on the Immigration New Zealand\u2019s website and its purpose is to inform people about Palestinian refugees coming to New Zealand.<\/p>\n It is entitled \u2018State of Palestine\u2019, even though Palestine is not officially recognised as a state by New Zealand<\/a> or by most western nations. In addition, the map in the document shows the whole of sovereign Israeli territory as \u201cPalestine\u201d.<\/p>\n The geography of the map is so inaccurate that it does not even include the West Bank in what it calls \u201cThe State of Palestine\u201d \u2013 it simply replaces Israel (according to pre-1967 borders) with \u201cPalestine\u201d.<\/p>\n