A shameful silence
“The gap between the government’s insincere words and its willingness to take real action mirrors the coalition’s approach to Māori.” — John Hobbs on New Zealand’s inaction on Gaza.
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Nadine Mortaja: Finding my calling
“It was a way for me to let out my frustration and to feel like I was doing something, even if it was just a little part. Chanting genuinely gave me a purpose, a way to keep going.” — Nadine Mortaja, who led last week’s March for Humanity in Auckland.
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Starvation as a weapon of war
“As I witness the hunger in Gaza today, I’m struck by the chilling parallels. Like Bengal, Gaza’s hunger is manufactured. And like Bengal, it demands our outrage and resistance.” — Dr Mohan Dutta.
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Our shameful stance on Israel
“Our ministers have chosen carefully crafted diplomatic language buried under joint country statements to influence the situation in Gaza, while at the same time protecting relationships with allies, particularly the US.” — John Hobbs.
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Time to drop the rhetoric on Palestine
“NZ’s current lack of action is deeply rooted in its problematic approach to this issue in the past — a past which straddles an involvement in Palestine since the First World War, through to today.” — John Hobbs.
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How do we face this moment, and not turn away?
“I realise that I’m looking for an action that will feel as effective, as true to who I am as becoming vegan. Action driven by what I feel when I watch coverage from inside Gaza: a feeling of incineration, of urgent helplessness.” — Simone Kaho.
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Tusiata Avia: A strange dance with friends
“I’m not here to cheer up anyone who has blood on their hands. Or anyone who is determined to be blind to the bloody hands around them. For those in Israel who are opposed to the genocide just over the border, I can only imagine how they live with that each day.” — Tusiata Avia.
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The path to peace is not through war
“The American imperial moment is coming to an end; the Israeli genocide lays waste to whatever values the collective west claims to hold. The question is: Are they going to take us all with them?” — Glen Johnson.
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Joanna Kidman: Standing for peace in an angry world
“If we stop talking about peace — and peace is not simply the absence of conflict — if we take it off the agenda altogether, then the only option left is war without end.” — Professor Joanna Kidman.
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We can’t carry it alone, but we can carry it together
“Part of showing aroha to yourself is accepting that you can only do what you can do. Some people can do more than others, and some people go about it differently, and all of that is okay as long as you’re doing something. The little things that we’re all doing come together to make a difference.” — Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki.
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Time to put your hands up
“It’s important to rehumanise the discourse, because this has gone too far,” Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories, talking to Moana Maniapoto.
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Chris Tooley: Understanding Palestine as a colonising process
“Any government, including ours, which is serious about contributing to an international solution, would call for an immediate ceasefire. And then, secondly, keep reinforcing the fact that they support a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.” — Dr Chris Tooley.
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