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This thread highlighting the gross hypocrisy of
@MFATNZ
&
@winstonpeters
is possible thanks to the diligence of
@IMPACT_SE
&
@UNWatch
.
MFAT officials like Deb Collins, Jonathan Kings, Chris Seed, Stuart Horne, & Jonathan Curr know of the issues and still recommend funding. Why?
Officials at
@MFATNZ
and
@winstonpeters
say they support a two-state solution. They also fund, with our taxes, schools that educate children for a future without Israel.
Do you believe their words or their actions?
#nzpol
Image from
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Scenes in Auckland yesterday (Oct 28).
These are not protests for peace.
These are not protests for Palestinians.
At best, these are hateful protests against Israel.
And the next generation is being indoctrinated.
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The
@nzlabour
party want Hamas to be part of a peace process. We await their media release asking ISIS to similarly be part of peace in Mali; for Boko Haram to be part of peace in Nigeria; and for the Taliban to provide peace in Afghanistan. It's almost as if
@chrishipkins
hasn't
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Our nation's largest newspaper (
@nzherald
) won't run the attached paid advert without massive cost to bolster security because they fear being attacked.
How can we trust their journalism isn't influenced by the same thugs?
#nzpol
#antisemitism
@CAMERAorg
@HonestReporting
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Take note,
@aucklandmuseum
. This is how to honour the memory of victims of terror.
It is shameful that not one of your board has seen fit to resign. You are not worthy custodians of the memory of the Holocaust when you feel you have to appologise to thugs for the worst slaughter
This is beautiful. The town hall in Vilnius, Lithuania is lit with 1,400 candles in memory of Israel's 1,400 victims
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Is David Seymour really the only anti-racist in parliament willing and able to call out antisemitism (which is at record levels in NZ and around the world)?
Disgraceful that an MP would tweet a phrase used by Hamas, a terrorist group that calls for the destruction of Israel.
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.
@MaramaDavidson
thinks an army of a democratic country that warns before strikes and takes extraordinary precautions to avoid collateral damage as much as possible is equivalent to the Islamist terror groups that set hones alight to gun down the fleeing families, who raped women
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This is the headline
@radionz
decided to run with. And they can't understand why trust in media is so low.
@HonestReporting
@CAMERAorg
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Right on SH1 on the only way into Bluff, so everyone gets to see it flying proud.
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Auckland in support of Israel and calling for the release of hostages.
credit: Smoke Photography
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A friendly reminder to you all as you take to the streets to stand with Palestine this weekend:
- Before October 7th, everyone was in a ceasefire. Then, Hamas, the terrorist government of Gaza, killed 1,400 people on October 7th in the most gruesome way possible, breaking the
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@NanaiaMahuta
Compare and contrast your statement with other political leaders in democratic nations and see how you minimize terror.
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On November 10th, recently elected
@nzlabour
MP for Nelson,
@rachelboyack
, met with members of the Nelson Jewish Community alongside other members of local government.
The purpose of the meeting was for the Jewish community to share their concerns for their safety in the Nelson
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There will always be evil in our world. What is more upsetting is that
@aucklandmuseum
knew about the planned stunt and chose to leave the lights on, not increase security, and make no comment.
The board is not fit to be custodians of the memory of the Holocaust or the soldiers
Last night was 1 month since Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1500 Israelis & raped & kidnapped others in a day of utter barbarism in the name of Palestine.
Activists chose to light up Auckland Museum in Palestinian colours to commemorate this.
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So when you hear
@BBC
news or articles, know there are journalists working for them who think Hitler was right.
Tala Halawa is a "digital journalist" for the
@BBC
.
Halawa directly influences and creates news content watched by many millions around the world.
In what world can someone like this work for a professional news outlet?
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.
@maori_party
have so little understanding of the situation that they actually think there is a NZ consulate in Israel. Wait until they hear what Hamas did, and has been doing for decades.
h/t
@nzisraelhub
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It is disturbing to see how
@ptwyfordmp
(Phil Twyford) was treated at the anti-Israel protest today, having to be escorted out by police for saying he condemned the murder of Israelis by Hamas and wished to see hostages returned safely.
There has been few leaders willing to
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As Auckland Central MP, will you condemn this
@_chloeswarbrick
?
A swastika and "free Palestine" was painted on statue of a former Auckland City mayor who happened to be Jewish.
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Billboards in Wellington, NZ.
Thank you ShalomNZ!
#BringThemHomeNow
#BringThemHome
#BringThemAllHomeNow
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Thank you, Fiji! A principled and moral stance against terror.
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Nothing about murdered, mutilated, kidnapped civilians. No condemnation of Hamas terror; only chanting their slogans in our streets.
We see you,
@_chloeswarbrick
#nzpol
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Wonderful to have open support of the Iranian refugee community of NZ at the pro-peace rally in Auckland, standing in solidarity with Israel, against terror.
👊🏽🇮🇱
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NZHerald demanded a 'security fee' to run the letter below as an advert. Today, the NZHerald published a grossly biased and misleading open letter by John Minto. Presumably security was not an issue. That's one of the major differences between those who are against Israel and
Our nation's largest newspaper (
@nzherald
) won't run the attached paid advert without massive cost to bolster security because they fear being attacked.
How can we trust their journalism isn't influenced by the same thugs?
#nzpol
#antisemitism
@CAMERAorg
@HonestReporting
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While the horrors of the Hamas attacks are circulating: women and children and elderly civilians murdered, mutilated, kidnapped, raped... we ate starring a thread here with all the Kiwis who have expressed solidarity with the evil.
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"Ethnic Cleansing" is a bold charge to make without evidence. Any junior lawyer should know to be careful with such accusations. Then again, Ms Ghahraman has been reckless with grotesque claims before.
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Since its establishment 15 years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 95 times compared to the 142 against all other countries in the world combined.
Is there any clearer example of institutional bias?
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It's great that NZ media scrutinised
@_chloeswarbrick
over her genocidal chant.
It's a shame that it was only because
@dbseymour
drew attention to it, otherwise they may have also been interested in
@UniteUnion
leader, Joe Carolan, calling to "globalise the intifada". Or
@UCNZ
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When best intentions (and we're being charitable here) end up rewarding terror.
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Remember when
@MaramaDavidson
went on the boat trip with vile antisemities to try and break the legal blockade that helps stop weapons getting to Hamas? She doesn't regret helping their cause.
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Israel does not only have the right but also the duty to bring the hostages back home.
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Foreign Minister
@NanaiaMahuta
rejected
@MFATNZ
advice to condemn terror.
We have obtained documents under OIA from MFAT regarding the NZ position immediately after the start of the Oct 07 massacre.
They show that Foreign Minister Mahuta's office disagreed with the wording of a
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All eyes on Rafah?
How many eyes will see this? 👀
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Israel gave up Gaza in 2005.
The terror came.
Israel built a security fence.
The terror came.
Israel built bomb shelters.
The terror came.
Israel developed the iron dome.
The terror came.
Israel destroyed tunnels.
The terror came.
Israel destroyed some of the infrastructure.
The
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Is there any "Pro-Palestinian" group in NZ that has unequivocally condemned the ISIS-style torture and slaughter of 1400 men, women, children, infants, and elderly?
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If
@FIANZ_NZ
or anyone else wants to boycott Israel, they should do so properly and boycott all Israeli technologies that New Zealanders use; otherwise, their recommendation will be incomplete.
Israel has been one of the top exporters of technological, medical, and agricultural
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NZ media seem to have missed this for some reason.
@radionz
@NewshubNZ
@nzherald
@NewstalkZB
@NewsroomNZ
Hamas rockets have hit Israel's Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon for the second time in a month.
Has it made the news where you live?
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We are hearing reports that a
@UCNZ
Lecturer, as part of his class, justified the Hamas massacre and went on to say that we might see similar acts in NZ because of 'colonisation'.
There is no justification for the slaughter of 1300+ civilians, murder of babies, mutilation of
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Vigil in Auckland last night.
(credit: Smoke Photography)
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If
@MaramaDavidson
and
@NZGreens
cannot tell ISIS and the NZDF apart, how can they be trusted to govern our democracy in any way?
#nzpol
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There was no clear condemnation of the 07 Oct Hamas slaughter of Israelis in Christchurch today. No appeal for the hostages to be released. No calls for Arab leaders to start building a state and provide human rights to the people they govern.
There were chants of the Hamas
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If a speaker at a protest requires a Police escort to leave the venue because of an angry crowd, it's unlikely the protest was for peace.
#nzpol
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We aren't sure about who made the decision to light
@aucklandmuseum
.
It is deeply upsetting that they now feel they have to apologize for comiserating with the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust: 1300+ Israelis who were slaughtered (including babies and elderly) and the
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Congrats, Eden!
Despite the protests, the boos, the antisemitism, and the adversity,
@golaneden
has made it to the Eurovision finals!
We're so proud of you!
#Eurovision2024
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Why is it so hard for "Pro-Palestinian" activists to separate the innocent Arabs in Gaza from Hamas and to condemn the latter for their barbaric Islamism that has also severely harmed the peace-loving people they rule over?
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Rotorua, New Zealand, 22 Oct 2023. More support for terror, antisemitism, and anti-Western sentiment cloaked in concern for Arab Palestinians.
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Our media is focussing on a rebuke of
@cjsbishop
's comments, more than
@chrisluxonmp
's condemnation of Hamas terror and support for Israel. That is their prerogative.
However, none of them have taken the time to fact-check Mr Bishop's comments. We will do that so there is no
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Massey Professor of Communication, Mohan Dutta, confuses a free market with mafia-esq intimidation. Requiring extra security to publish material is not free speech; it's a thugs veto.
When
@nzherald
plainly refused to publish the dictionary definition of a woman for
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Please sign share this petition far and wide.
- designate the whole of the Hamas organisation (both political and military wings) as a terrorist organisation
- demand that Hamas immediately release all hostages
- increase support for agencies working to locate and free the
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This aged about as well as her tweet refusing to condemn the Hamas-led rape and slaughter of Oct 07.
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Apparently anti-Israel activists are driving around the Auckland Museum
@aucklandmuseum
waving Palestinian flags in an attempt to intimidate them out of the idea of lighting the building in blue and white to show support for the 1,300+ slaughtered Israelis and the 150+ kidnapped
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There is no law of war or nature that says you can start a war, massacre innocent civilians in their homes, kill young people at a rave, and then the moment you start to lose the war that results, say “actually, let’s call off guys”.
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Today, there were chants for "intifada, revolution" they went unchallenged by our authorities, and Police previously said a man yelling "bash the Jews; cut their F**n heads off" wouldn't breach HRA... yet they threaten this man with HRA offense for holding an Israeli flag and
2 Police officers just came around warning me about speaking out against Terrorism and Yahya Sinwaah.. They don't want me to go down Tomorrow after the ICJ ruling and stand at the palastinian Rally? Warning me they could add this to my already existing charges?
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Whatever your views on the ME conflict, targeting Jews in New Zealand with vandalism and arson must not be tolerated.
Neither should Police need to protect an MP for making comments on the conflict.
The inflammatory rhetoric just fans flames of hate that clearly smoulder within
Last night a Jewish community centre in Epsom was vandalised & its fence doused in petrol and set alight. Meanwhile, not far away, activists lit up the museum in Palestine colours. One month since the terror attacks on Israel.
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NZ Police, dealing with part of the mob that hounded an MP off the stage for condemning Hamas: "you are under arrest"
Mob: chant "Let. Him. Go."
Police: release him
Mob: chant "Allah-u-Akhbar."
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We are in the midst of one of the greatest, most sophisticated, and most successful disinformation campaigns in modern history.
We need to fight back.
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Today, Joe Carolan of Unite Union once again publicly announced his desire to "globalise the intifada". This is chilling to hear on the streets of Auckland, and to hear a crowd cheer it on.
Joe Carolan, the same man who stood by as a man blamed Israel for the Chch terror attacks (), leads a chant for "intifada, intifada... globalise the intifada..."
"Intifada" is synonymous with terror - including suicide bombings
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Thank goodness the IDF decided not to listen to
@winstonpeters
' asking them not to enter Rafah. The hostages are free.
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Good to know what some Kiwis really think.
They are not "Pro-Palestinian". They are anti-Israel.
The old tropes of Jews as baby-killers, "resistance is not terror", and the Hamas slogan "from the river to the sea..." seem strong. We've not seen the PacMan cartoon to depict the
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Helen Clark knew.
Now we all know.
What remains to be seen is how
@winstonpeters
@NewZealandMFA
will respond.
#nzpol
They cannot say they didn’t know.
Mr. Guterres knew.
The head of UNRWA knew.
The United Nations knew.
They simply chose not to act.
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Tell us again about (((Zionist))) control of media.
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The last UNRWA head who reported to Helen Clark - Pierre Krähenbühl - resigned after allegations involving nepotism, abuses of authority, and having an affair with an employee.
An investigation found "managerial issues that need to be addressed.”
He now heads the Red Cross.
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According to
@nzpolice
, this sign stating facts about Oct 07 "is just antagonizing".
The people who were allegedly antagonised were allowed to protest freely. The person holding the sign was not.
It's almost as shameful as the
@metpoliceuk
treatment of
@GhorbaniiNiyak
.
#nzpol
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@UnPressed
No wonder she is wanting this to all go away and the money to keep coming. A full and proper investigation will find that she has been part of the problem.
For 8 years, she oversaw the use of UNRWA facilities by terror groups (tunnel building and weapons storage etc) and the
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Sadly, we are starting to hear this refrain in NZ. I wonder how many are aware of its meaning?
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For decades, there has been evidence of corruption in UNRWA, hate taught in their schools, and ties to terror.
For decades,
@MFATNZ
refused to brief NZ's foreign minister, and blindly believed UNRWA excuses. They also hid behind other donor nations that decided to continue
UK, US, Australia, Italy, Canada, Finland cease funding UNRWA after evidence their employees took part in genocidal attacks on Israel. Every UNRWA employee, the UN Secretary General, UN officials & member states have known about UNRWA’s backing of Hamas & incitement of hatred
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In 2016,
@MaramaDavidson
jumped on a terror-led boat filled with antisemites to try and allow Hamas more weapons.
She still has said nothing about the barbaric actions of Hamas over the past days.
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Dear
@NanaiaMahuta
,
On what grounds did you refuse the
@MFATNZ
draft message that “Aotearoa New Zealand [flag] unequivocally condemns rocket and terror attacks from Gaza into Israel and calls for their immediate cessation. With a high risk of escalation, the protection of
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Dear Prof Jan Thomas (
@MasseyUni
VC).
You banned
@DonBrashNZ
from your campus for fear he might emotionally harm staff and students by talking about his career.
Do you have any comment at all about Prof Dutta's support for the acts of Hamas, which have included rape, slaughter,
.
@MasseyUni
Prof Dutta expressed solidarity with the horrific acts, and presumably wants Maori to follow Hamas' lead to 'decolonise' Aotearoa.
#theysupportevil
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Almost half a page of
@nzherald
was dedicated to 'US military aid to Israel'. It omitted important information, but we ask why has there never even been a brief article in NZ media about our government aid to schools that glorify the murder of Jews.
Surely, after Oct 07, the
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"The UNRWA Chief, who used to work for me when I was at UNDP [2009-2017]..." - Helen Clark is fighting for her reputation also. Either she knew about the serious issues and did nothing, or she was incompetent.
#nzpol
#DefundUNRWA
We must find ways to support Palestinians without
Former prime minister Helen Clark has urged the Government not to cut funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after allegations against several members of its staff.
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Dear
@HelenClarkNZ
,
Given the head of UNRWA reported to you for 8 years, during which time there were numerous allegations and published evidence (including the 2014 carpark issue) of UNRWA ties to Hamas and abuse of UNRWA facilities, do you still claim ignorance also?
#nzpol
Just last week, the WSJ wrote:
In 2014, part of the parking lot at the Unrwa headquarters in Gaza began sinking, likely from a Hamas tunnel dug beneath. “No one talked about what was causing the collapse,” a former Unrwa official said, “but everyone knew.”
And here is the head
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In these difficult days, it can be hard to see much light. But we must seek it out and highlight it and amplify all those who have the moral clarity to know that Hamas is evil, and that Israel must protect her citizens from any future slaughter, and that innocent Gazans must be
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