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Writer, Editor. A Jew who lived and worked in Gaza 2011 - 2015. Author of Still Lives - a memoir of Gaza. Co-founder of Alternative Jewish Voices
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Wellington, last night.
Gaza habibi, from around the world we are working for your safety, demanding your freedom and remembering the terrible cost.
Thank you to
@Just4Pal
for lighting it up and sharing these wonderful images.
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Proud day for Aotearoa's Jews who find all life precious. In Auckland, in Pōneke, or shutting down Grand Central Station in New York - Jews stand beside Palestinians to call for ceasefire NOW, for aid to Gaza, and for justice.
Peace is the seed, justice will be the flower.
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The Wellington Mayor has prevented a public display of Palestinian colours on Nakba Day. Min Foreign Affairs advised that "displaying the Palestinian colours could result in complaints from the Israeli ambassador and other Israeli groups."
@MFATNZ
, whose voices count here?
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@TameeOliveFern
@mjdutt
There has been such an organised effort to confuse Zionism with Judaism. This needs to be repeated over and over.
Occupation is not about Jews. It's an exercise of power, not religion. We oppose it because it is wrong, illegitimate.
Resistance is against oppression, not Jews.
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We are anti-Zionist Jews, founders of Alternative Jewish Voices and Dayenu.
When Israel takes the name of all Jews, it recruits us against our will. Zionism is not our Judaism, and Netanyahu's devastation of Gaza is not our war.
Read our kaupapa.
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From RNZ's article. 6 words are a distraction.
"I think the longer we can keep the focus on the speaker, in this case, Chlöe Swarbrick, the longer we spend not talking about the fact that people are dropping bombs on the community of Gaza."
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Disgusting and wrongheaded. NZ Jews are not responsible for Israel or the IDF.
Whoever did this does not want Palestinian equality. They want to advance a hatred of Jews - hear that different agenda, become attuned to it and reject it.
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NZ Jewish Council has politicised what should be a serious study of antisemitism. Of its 18 criteria, 9 are about Israel not Jews. The criteria draw from the IHRA def of antisemitism which has no standing in this country, none, nada. Ergo, most findings not meaningful... /
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@MayorAndyFoster
and
@MFATNZ
, I am a Jewish Wellingtonian. You don't help Jews by marginalising our Palestinian neighbours. The Jewish community is politically diverse. Your suppression of Palestinian colours offends both Jews and Palestinians, and democrats across the board.
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I am feeling for
@golrizghahraman
this evening. We are all imperfect beings. She has stood up for her beliefs and taken so much punishment for them.
Kia kaha, do whatever is right, thank you for your fearlessness. Parliament needs more voices like yours.
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If The Post can write a story about what one Jew considers 'not a great message', might a Palestinian speak to the messaging of carpet bombing, mass displacement and destruction, strikes against hospitals, starvation, govt statements of genocidal intent?
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Racism rests on the manufacture of an Other who we value less than ourselves. On March 15 we remember that 51 people are not with us because of hatred. And we must remember to elevate, hear and love those who are still being devalued today.
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Who is paying the bills to mainstream imported conspiracy with promotions like this large billboard at Ghuznee and Victoria in the Wellington CBD?
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Re the NZ Jewish community. We don't know who many of us are, because if you aren't a member of a Jewish synagogue or institution, you are entirely unrepresented. Institutions are Zionist, so non-Zionists may feel unwelcome. Zionist boards appoint the Jewish Council. No votes. >
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@byroncclark
I worry when unfocused rage becomes fixated and irrationally personal. Really, this is worrisome territory.
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Press release: NZ Jewish and Palestinian groups gather at Parliament to urge new Minister to call for ceasefire. This time calls for courageous and compassionate leadership.
Read the full briefing to the incoming minister, and join us at parliament!
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Rather than worrying about offending Israel's ambassador, we ask our Prime Minister to summon him and demand an explanation for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. An open letter from
@Just4Pal
Palestinian Youth Aotearoa and Alternative Jewish Voices.
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@Luke_Wihone
As a justice-loving 60+ Jewish lady who loathes all forms of violence, I hope I would settle my bifocals, stand up to my full 153 cm and educate that fellow loudly about the shame he is causing his mother... while hoping like hell that someone intimidating has stood up behind me.
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We at Alternative Jewish Voices tautoko Dayenu's statement calling for Aotearoa to speak up in support of South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ.
NZ Jews want the justice that underlies real peace.
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Who represents the NZ Jewish community?
The NZ Jewish Council's claim is based on a structure which turns out to be rather hollow.
And - teaser - who hasn't refreshed their mandate since 2006?
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Lovers of Palestinian rights are natural allies of all rights inc Jews. Harsh anti-rights Zionist voices rebuff our allies, sowing fear and division. Reach past them.
We are not Jews vs Pals. We are lovers of life with lifesaving mahi demanded of us all.
Ceasefire now. Free Gaza.
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If it's Tuesday, it must be the language police . . .
Palestinians have the right to exist as a nation, occupied people have a legal right to armed resistance and refugees have a right to return.
These words are 'code' for UN-mandated rights, nothing more.
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Why are we who defend the lives of Palestinian civilians forever accused of being driven by hate, of approving of Hamas's atrocity on Oct 7 . . .
While those who approve of this bombardment insist they are driven by a beautiful ideal rather than its bloody, Netanyahu reality?
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Petitioning parliament to recognise the State of Palestine and end the ongoing Nakba.
Motions at Wellington City Council to recognise Palestine and twin Wellington with Ramallah.
Alternative Jewish Voices is proud to tautoko these initiatives!
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Jewish pluralism and solidarity in a small community: if we do not speak, who will speak for us?
Alternative Jewish Voices and Dayenu are merging so that we can extend a radical welcome to more and more Aotearoa Jews.
Come and speak freely.
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NZ has joined the IHRA, who define anti-Zionism as antisemitism. If we are to preserve our protest speech and combat the real antisemitism of the White / Right, it's urgent that we distinguish antisemitism from its political use to advance Zionism.
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We are not now the victims. Our Jewish community must situate itself within a new moral geography.
We are not now divided between pro- and anti-Zionism. Now we are divided between those who condemn war crimes and those who don’t.
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A person dear to me in Gaza has not been heard from in one month. No Gazan stays offline for a month if they have any choice in the matter. Connection is like a compass behind that wall.
I feel like I could scream and not stop screaming, and this is one of 2.3 million stories.
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At last. Ngā mihi nui,
@MaramaDavidson
.
'Are we hearing from Palestine?' - Greens demand consistency over Zelensky invite
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Ah yes, here come the Zionist insults. My generic reply:
Our universal, equal human dignity and rights are a core principle of my understanding of Judaism.
I reject the nationalist cooptation of my religion. Zionism is not my Judaism.
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Ergo,
1 understand the limited constituency of the council
2 we keep recommending some real outreach
3 Jews and Jewish institutions are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli govt. Racism here will not save one Gazan life.
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As a term of liberation, the phrase may be politically threatening because it unifies a space that successive Israeli regimes have fragmented. And it speaks to the scope of a solution: the regime of power needs to change from the river to the sea.
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The Jewish Council should not have spoken as they did in Christchurch, and they do not speak for all NZ Jews.
Antiracism is our shared task. We wish wisdom and unity to all participants at the hui. We will all benefit from your kaupapa.
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Imagine the population of greater Auckland, Hamilton and all of Northland cut off for a fortnight from everything: fuel, medicines, power, food and water supplies, soap - everything.
How much would 20 truckloads help - and the trucks are arriving without fuel for distribution.
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To understand the
#GazaReturnMarch
, peel away the political positioning and ask, "Why do tens of thousands of human beings believe that standing unarmed before soldiers is their best hope - and why aren't they allowed to walk on their own land?"
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The NZ Jewish Council must stop calling Green MP Ricardo Menendez March names for using a phrase that is in common use, including by Jewish journalists and rabbis.
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Dayenu and Alternative Jewish Voices - Aotearoa Jews say stop the genocide.
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At midnight, I am 63 years: Jewish-not-Zionist!
Let Gaza live, walk free, return home. Justice 4 Palestine will be good for all who live between the river and the sea.
For my birthday, please skip a meal and donate the food $ to WFP or others to feed those who are being starved.
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@damienmgrant
There is something wrong when you cannot recognise Jews within 'children', 'civilians', 'babies' and so on. Do you somehow place us in a different category?
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@NanaiaMahuta
For anyone to be safe, Palestinians must be free and civilians must be protected. It's not going to happen without int'l action on the basis of law and universal rights to safety & self-determination.
I hope you are on the phone mustering support for just that.
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Al Fakhoura school, 200+ killed last night. Hit with white phosphorous 2008, hit in 2014 and now the scene of an atrocity.
UN schools are precisely marked on military maps. Logos are painted on the roofs. The IDF absolutely knows they are protected.
Our govt is letting it happen
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Before the sun goes down, do one thing:
write to your MP
write Hipkins Luxon Mahuta someone
sign a ceasefire petition
donate to an NGO working in Gaza
commit - pass up a latte or a meal, forego a shop or a meal. Commit those funds to Gaza. Everything is needed.
Then enjoy sunset
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Wellington
@MayorAndyFoster
met twice with illegal occupiers of Parliament grounds - but he has again ruled out meeting with Palestinians to explain why he banned their colours on Nakba Day.
We protest, in full living colour.
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@secondzeit
If the slogan were really the problem, maybe. But in my experience, the very same response follows ANY statement for Palestinian equality & self~determination. It is the equality which attracts the accusations, and that's not reason to stop calling for it.
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@TameeOliveFern
This hysterical demand to blindly acquiesce to Israel's army, wrapped around the most expansive Jews-as-only-victims identity, is poison. It frightens some, deters and confuses others.
Do not silence your human concern. Raise your caring, outraged voice against Zionism, not Jews
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MFAT advised that “displaying the Palestinian colours could result in complaints from the Israeli ambassador and other Israeli groups.”
Alternative Jewish Voices protests the silencing of Palestine and MFAT's strange priorities.
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Dear NZ Twitter, I am so proud to share this news . . .
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Our media uncritically import Israel's racial language, and a few at the IINZ-FSU are harnessing Gaza to their local agenda. We should know that implacable hatred is not content to live online. It will manifest in real life somehow, at a terrible cost.
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Thank you
@RNZ
for the chance to speak to the
@aucklandmuseum
's display of support for Israel / apparent inability to see Palestinian civilians in mortal danger.
It is the antithesis of a war memorial's mission to choose these civilians and ignore those.
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This week, Zionists including a member of the NZ Jewish Council spoke badly about Palestinians, reducing them repeatedly to one decontextualised moment. Now the spokesperson for the Jewish Council is keeping that spirit alive, lobbing one farfetched insult after another . . ./2
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@Thunderchild_00
The Israel Institute is a majority-Christian entity with many overlaps in rightwing lobbies. I heartily wish the Jewish community would disavow it, but you can't think of it as a Jewish entity.
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Public discourse has learned to separate Judaism from Zionism, and more Jews should learn to do the same. We must unshroud Jewishness from the Zionism of our institutions. The occupation is not a religious experience!
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One of the 12,000 killed was a waiter named Ali. We spoke often, and the first time I met him he made me feel very special.
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How many? 6500 Palestinians killed; is any Jew made safer? Does it protect us to leave wounded civilians to die in agony without medication? Are we protected by making children hungry? This vengeful immiseration of two million human beings behind a wall does not make anyone safe.
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What good company we are in!
Cease. Fire. Now.
The Green Party supports the call from Alternative Jewish Voices, Palestinian Youth Aotearoa, Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation, and Justice for Palestine for the NZ Govt to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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This is the current map of Israel Institute directors' overlaps with TPU, FSU, Christian Zionist, and Jewish orgs - as best we can discern them. Credit to my co-founder who does the painstaking research. All from publicly available information - no secrets here.
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1. There are allegations that a few UNRWA staff broke policy, and UNRWA is responding. Major donors pause funding.
2. Leaders of Israel's elected government - policy makers - are defending genocide charges. Same donor states continue to fund their weapons.
Which worries you most?
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The NZ Jewish Council study claims that if you believe Israel has no right to manufacture an ethnic majority, partly on occupied Palestinian land, then you must be antisemitic. Where does this leave Palestinians? If they assert their equal human and political rights ...
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Jewish grps in 14 countries state our abhorrence for the many ways in which Israel-supporting Jewish organizations in our countries have stoked the flames of racism and embraced genocidal military violence through their support of Israel’s war on Gaza...
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Some people are not lighting candles this Chanukah, but I am. Zionism implicates the symbols of my faith, and I am going to take them back.
The battered Chanukiah was my mother's. In her 90s, I learned that she was not Zionist.
Let the lights of resistance be seen.
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Anyone who has ever been through the indignity, the ugliness, the screeching noise and the gratuitous nastiness of the Erez checkpoint is celebrating this.
Burn that wretched monument to cruelty down to the ground.
Aljazeera Arabic:
- Israel has lost control over the Erez checkpoint (Beit Hanoun crossing) and another military base.
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@NanaiaMahuta
Thank you - and please, let us unequivocally condemn all the illegal acts of annexation. That includes Israel's outright annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, and its creeping de facto annexation of the West Bank.
Please uphold the law, not just this one violation.
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#Palestine
refugees have rights (hear that, Trump - RIGHTS), including humanitarian assistance while their land is occupied. Read on
@Mondoweiss
why
@UNRWA
is so greatly preferable to the alternative providers.
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It reports that anyone who agrees with the world's major human rights legal teams on Israel's apartheid is antisemitic. The Israel questions make the occupation all about Israel - no question asks about Palestinians or their rights. This survey turns Pal rights into racism. .../
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When people fear antisemitism in protest, I will tell them about Pōneke today:
We are here because we have learned from genocide. We are here to do the work of never again. Never again to anyone, not in my name and not in my lifetime.
Cease your fire, stop this genocide.
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Nice news from Stats NZ. They will review the ethnic stats category 'Israeli/Jewish' later this year. They will notify Alternative Jewish Voices to make a submission, and we will let others know as well.
We are Jewish citizens of Aotearoa, not Israel!
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Jewish solidarity with Gaza is growing. Come and stand with us at the next march, and the next. Or join Alternative Jewish Voices or Dayenu.
Come and speak freely about justice and Judaism.
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I feel sick with apprehension. I had just begun to correspond with the friend who was hit, along with her children, in the hours before the ceasefire. I really fear that people are breaking. It is beyond tolerance.
We need to draw every eye back. Start again.
Ceasefire NOW.
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Hamas has responded to Israeli settler-state violence. For anyone to be safe, Palestinians must be free and civilians must be protected.
Alternative Jewish Voices calls on our government to act as per law and our universal rights. Read our statement here:
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To understand antisemitism, just read the first set of 'classical antisemitism' statements. That's what antisemitism is. The rest should not have been published, just muddies the waters.
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On the eve of Nakba Day, Alternative Jewish Voices and friends stand in solidarity with Palestinians to commemorate their living catastrophe and to imagine a peaceful, pluralist, democratic future for all who live between the river and the sea.
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After a decade in Afgh and Gaza, I know what it means to inhabit a body whose gears are stuck at the extremes of post-traumatic distress. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
I wish Golriz time, space and safety to integrate all this. She has many years in which to improve the world.
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@Econgrad5143
@MFATNZ
@radionz
To be accurate, this decision was taken by our Mayor and MFAT without receiving any complaints. Complaints "might" have been received from an ambassador or some Zionist-Jewish groups. An ambassador is not a citizen and ought not to be driving municipal policy.
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Here we go.
BREAKING: Belgian transport unions will stop all weapons shipments to Israel.
"While a genocide is underway in Palestine, workers at various airports in Belgium see weapons leaving for a war zone. Loading and unloading these weapons helps provide organizations with the ability
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Voices from Jewish organisations in Canada, US, France, UK, South Africa, Australia and Aotearoa (and this is just the first installment).
We are members of the International Jewish Collective for Justice in Palestine, and we demand a ceasefire.
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Israel's bombardments of Gaza have always, only, been limited by the withdrawal of diplomatic permission.
Protest, rally, write to MPs, sign petitions, join rights-based organisations, follow, speak, learn, engage, have the hard conversations.
Your presence is turning the dial.
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For the IDF to beseige, forcibly militarise and operate in a hospital at the direct expense of civilians and wounded people ... looks an awful lot like what they said Hamas was doing, doesn't it?
Except that this is actually happening while that was denied by everyone present.
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Dear friends, if you are NZ Jews please read / sign this open letter calling for constructive Jewish communal leadership. Make this your Solidarity Day action.
We have 70+ signatories, but we want to reach beyond the shuls.
Ceasefire and visionary leaders
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Statement of the NZ Israeli Embassy in response to the ICJ genocide suit.
As a Jew I am aghast at his use of history but not surprised. This is the statement of a belligerent and should be read as part of their defense.
Tell it to the judge, Mr Defendant
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Damn, we are many!
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I consulted 2 yrs for UNRWA. The long campaign against it is deeply political. UNRWA is mandated to serve Palestinians as one dispersed people. If UNRWA is dismantled, that unifying mandate will be scattered among 1000s of NGO local budget lines...
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This is your reminder: Israel bombs until int'l diplomacy closes the window of permission. Just read the Israeli report on 2014 from its own office of the comptroller.
WE end this. Do everything. Write to your MP, go to a demo, sign petitions. Every single thing. Help end it.
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On top of all the urgencies, I also feel deeply, sadly aware that part of the rhetoric simply aims to drive us all further apart.
Somehow, somehow, we need to grow arms long enough to wrap around each other even as we feel further and further apart. That is hard, essential work.
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@TameeOliveFern
I agree completely. A ceasefire isn't about what we want. It is what Gazans want, that we support and try to bring about.
Ceasefire now. Right now.
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Would you like to join the rabbi-led Jewish Fast for Gaza? We will fast every Sunday until there is a ceasefire. We’ll then fast monthly thereafter until the crushing blockade on Gaza is lifted. In Jewish tradition, we fast in crisis, as an act of mourning and a call to action.
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I find I am recommending The NZ Project by
@maxdnharris
often lately. It does two essential things. It names an aspirational principle to organise and join up the issues. It widens the 'we' who can share the vision.
We need more of that right now.
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There was a vote. They spoke poorly and were aligned with Christian Zionist speech that was even less appropriate - and they lost. Handle it. To respond by publishing nonsense insults about the Jewish community your constitution claims to represent is a transparent tantrum.
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They become antisemitic on at least 4 counts (opposing Jewish majority & apartheid, claiming their indigeneity and democracy). The Jewish Council has made Palestinian equality antisemitic, and implies that Palestinian identity is dangerous to Jews. We need to loudly reject this.
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Kia kaha
@MaramaDavidson
.
Such a determined voice you have, drawing attention to the real issues.
Still thinking good thoughts your way, and hoping that the wave of noise is receding.
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Statistics NZ records the entire NZ Jewish population as Israeli / Jewish. Alternative Jewish Voices has asked Stats Minister David Clark to correct the coding.
We are Jewish citizens of Aotearoa, not Israel!
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Ngā mihi nui to
@Just4Pal
for today's heartfelt, elevating Pōneke gathering to honour Palestine and fortify ourselves for all the work to come.
Big, beautiful turnout. Read AJV's korero:
"Justice is the project of spacious, fearless hearts"
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Never too old to stir.
BREAKING: Hours before the annual White House Hanukkah party, 18 Jewish elders chain themselves to the White House gates demanding
@POTUS
stop funding and arming the genocide in Gaza.
Follow
@JewishElders
for more
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Sari Bashi is from Human Rights Watch.
We didn't find evidence of military use of the ambulance struck by Israeli fire. Using an ambulance for military purposes would unlawfully endanger civilians. But that's not enough to strike it. Laws of war require warnings and special protections.
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The Zionist heckler's veto failed at Wellington City Council. They opposed twinning with Ramallah citing values. We turn that back on the speakers who have displayed racism and menace since losing.
They are inviting trouble.
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@TameeOliveFern
The coopting of Jewish religious symbols for the IDF's acts of such violence cuts through me like a knife. Hanukah is a festival that honours resistance and celebrates the power of light to hold back the darkness.
Let the lights of resistance shine this year!
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I have never felt so aware of the language.
We are told of Jews' need to feel safe - check. But media uncritically broadcast Netanyahu calling this a war of civilisation against the barbarians. They speak of Gaza being rendered unliveable.
Palestinians' need to feel safe . . .?
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A day after the ICJ elevates humanitarian aid to Gaza into global headlines, govts cut their funds to UNRWA, by far the major provider to such aid to 2 million Gazans and Palestinian refugees in West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
How is this not collective national punishment?
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