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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Tag: Palestine
Why doesn’t New Zealand sanction Israel?
“New Zealand must actively challenge Israel over its systemic violence, which has now escalated to the killing of civilians in Lebanon and Iran.” — John Hobbs.
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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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A more principled approach to Palestine
“It’s not a coincidence that Aotearoa has moved in lockstep with our Anglosphere allies over their endorsement of the genocide in Gaza through silence and military support. What we’re seeing in Gaza mirrors our own settler colonial history and its dominant white Anglo identity.” — John Hobbs.
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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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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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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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