A Colonialist state founded on the theft of Maori land blames Israel for its own crimes - by Liel Leibovitz

...Given the brute ugliness of its colonial past, New Zealand seems like an excellent place for the diplomats in Israel’s Foreign Ministry to try out a new model that puts solidarity with other indigenous peoples on an equal footing with traditional government-to-government relations. Israel might start by sending some of the money it cut from the aid budget to Senegal—which joined New Zealand in sponsoring the anti-Israel vote at the UN—to help the impoverished Maoris build the capacity to organize themselves politically against centuries of dispossession.

Liel Leibovitz..
Tabletmag.com..
26 December '16..

Last Friday, New Zealand introduced a resolution in the UN Security Council that pronounced “settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967” to be illegal, a definition that includes the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, and other historically-recognized parts of the Jewish State. While the United States made headlines by abstaining from the 14-0 vote, less attention was paid to the resolution’s sponsor—and to the dark history that lies behind a small South Pacific nation’s passionate feelings about a property dispute in the Middle East.

New Zealanders are no strangers to settlements—or to the cavalier denial of the rights of an indigenous people in their historic homeland. Coincidentally or not, this December marks the 153rd anniversary of The New Zealand Settlements Act, which shows that the denial of indigenous rights, and the deliberate destruction of a two-state solution in favor of an illegal land grab, are the bedrock on which the modern state of New Zealand was founded. Given that history, and the current realities of New Zealand’s treatment of its indigenous Maori population, the country’s steering of a UN Security Council resolution pronouncing the Jewish connection to our historic homeland to be illegal passes well into the territory of historical denialism.

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Israel-hating Lefto-Fascists Protest the Knesset Speaker's Visit to Auckland, New Zealand (video)

Daphne Anson
14 April '11

Here they are, earlier this month outside the local Jewish community centre, all worked up and raucous, yelling against Reuven Rivlin ("blood on your hands"), Israel ("a police state") , getting very angry against the Auckland police (screams of "police protect the Zionists!") and civic authorities, and making general prats* of themselves:



*prat: Basically someone who's a major idiot, or is delusional and dumb. Acts against logic and thinks he's self-righteous. AKA: Major dumbass.


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"Greens, Greens, Your Paint's Peeling Off (Video)": The Antisemitism of Boycott Derangement Syndromers Exposed

Daphne Anson
02 March '11

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/04/greens-greens-your-paints-peeling-off.html

A bonzer song and a beaut video, inspired by the sheer hypocrisy and perceived racism of the Green Party in New South Wales voting to boycott the one democracy in the Middle East, and ignoring human rights abuses where they really occur. Although this targets the NSW Greens, it is a stinging rebuke to all BDSers everywhere. They should bloody (that's the "great Australian adjective," for anyone who doesn't know) well be ashamed of themselves.



See also: http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-grubby-beneath-some-green-sydney.html for an instance of NSW Green antisemitism this week, and (hat tip: reader Shirlee) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/business-slaps-down-boycott-talk/story-e6frg6nf-1226032282547

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Of Sheep, Kibbutz, Xmas and Spies in New Zealand

Adam Levick
CiF Watch
27 December '10

A Guest Post by AKUS

Many years ago, shortly after I joined my kibbutz, a raging feud broke out over the future of the kibbutz’s sheep “department “or “branch” – the “dir”, as it was known. The manager of the “dir” – let’s call him Yossie – had invested a large part of his life in building up this flock of about 50 or so sheep, and was convinced that he could maintain it as a profitable branch of the kibbutz. The main produce of the “dir” was sheep’s milk, plus the annual wool that was sheared, and, no doubt, some meat from the more superannuated members of the flock.

Yossie’s enthusiasm for his branch was not shared by many other members. Sheep tend to need grazing space, and there were more profitable uses of the kibbutz’s limited land. Milking sheep was hard work, done at miserable hours of the early morning, and it was hard to get kibbutz members to work in the “dir”. The price for sheep’s milk was going down – this was in the days before the PC crowd got going and would pay higher prices for sheep’s milk. The smell was awful – if you are at all familiar with the smell of a dairy farm, add-on that that a sort of sickly smell that seemed to be part and parcel of the “dir”, which would cling relentlessly to the bodies of those who worked there.

There were also dark accusations that the head of the dairy branch was trying to get the sheep milkers to join his group to milk in the growing and more profitable dairy business, and was undermining Yossie’s business.

The reality was, of course, that raising a small flock of sheep in an arid country like Israel is simply not a profitable business. It can be a hobby for those who want to make cheese from sheep (and goat’s) milk, but there is no comparison with the sheer volume of milk and the automation possible when dealing with a well-run dairy herd. The “dir” was closed down. Yossie, to this day, has never forgiven the kibbutz and reconciled himself to the economics of raising sheep.

This week we were treated to the presumably heartrending story of how the Israeli occupation of the West bank has ruined the sheep herding business there.

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Wikileaks: New Zealand used spy flap to help sell lambs to Arabs

Elder of Ziyon
22 December '10

From The Guardian:

US diplomats disparaged New Zealand's reaction to a suspected Israeli spy ring as a "flap" and accused New Zealand's government of grandstanding in order to sell more lamb to Arab countries, according to leaked cables.

The arrest and conviction in 2004 of two Israeli citizens, who were caught using the identity of a cerebral palsy sufferer to apply for a New Zealand passport, caused a serious rift between New Zealand and Israel, with allegations that the two men and others involved were Mossad agents.

"The New Zealand government views the act carried out by the Israeli intelligence agents as not only utterly unacceptable but also a breach of New Zealand sovereignty and international law," New Zealand's then-prime minister, Helen Clark, said after the arrests.

But US officials in Wellington told their colleagues in Washington that New Zealand had "little to lose" from the breakdown in diplomatic relations with Israel and was instead merely trying to bolster its exports to Arab states.

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