{"id":4619,"date":"2019-11-14T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2019-11-14T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T22:28:24","slug":"the-monomaniacal-focus-on-israels-support-for-kiwi-tertiary-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2019\/11\/the-monomaniacal-focus-on-israels-support-for-kiwi-tertiary-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"The monomaniacal focus on Israel\u2019s support for Kiwi tertiary institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"
A recent petition<\/a> from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanded an end to small annual university prizes funded by the Israeli Embassy. The Israeli Ambassador funds two annual prizes, worth a total of $750 NZD, at Victoria University of Wellington. These are the only New Zealand scholarships funded by Israel. VUW Shalom Student’s Association successfully petitioned Victoria to keep these prizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Israel Institute of New Zealand (IINZ) can reveal these were the only petitions or protests at any of New Zealand’s eight Universities relating to scholarships funded by foreign nations in the past five years. During the same period, many of the world’s most notorious abusers of human rights funded hundreds of vastly more lucrative scholarships and prizes at New Zealand universities. These nations include Saudi Arabia, China, Myanmar, and others.<\/p>\n