Indigeneity Between Genealogy and Power
In the settler-colonial contexts of the modern West—like the Americas or Australia—these two meanings overlap. The colonized were also the ancestral peoples. As a result, “indigeneity” comes to imply both firstness and oppression—producing a powerful rhetoric of double moral legitimacy: the right of original belonging fused with the moral capital of the victim. But this fusion breaks down in other regions—especially the Middle East.
Indigenous Peoples and the Land of Israel
…my research also gave me the opportunity to continue my activities with the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, who represent Israel supporters amongst indigenous peoples including the Māori of New Zealand, Aborigines of Australia, First Nations of Canada and the United States, the Inuit, and the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, here in Israel.
Antisemitic Assimilation in Academia:When the Academy and Jewishness Collide
One of the ways antisemitic assimilation works in academia is through the structures of authority, respect, and citation. If a scholar embeds antisemitic assumptions into their work—framing Jews as settler-colonial, denying Jewish peoplehood, erasing Jewish indigeneity—and that work gains traction among the (mostly non-Jewish) academic majority, it becomes something everyone is expected to cite and “engage with.”
Israel: 77 years
Antizionism targets and discriminates against the Jewish state as an equal member of the family of nations, under the banner of human rights. Fundamentally, it suggests that the Jewish people’s right to self-determination, guaranteed to us and all peoples in the UN Charter, is illegitimate or “supremacist”, and that Israel, alone among all the nation states of the world, must be dismantled or destroyed.
Joint Statement with Canadian First Nations Leaders
We are deeply disappointed by the Joint statement, co-signed by Canada on “the situation in Gaza and the West Bank”. This call rewards Hamas for the torture and murder of 1,200 innocent civilians on 7 October 2023 and the kidnapping of civilians.
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A People, Not Just a Religion
In today’s world, Judaism is often misrepresented as merely a faith tradition, comparable to Christianity or Islam. This reductive view obscures a central truth: Judaism is not solely about belief in God or religious observance — it is a peoplehood, a shared ancestral identity rooted in common history, culture, language, and land.
Hon Alfred Ngaro: Engagement with Pacific Political Leaders
I was there we were privileged to meet with the President his Excellency Rt Hon Nikenike Vurobaravu and the First Lady. He was a Vanuatuan diplomat and politician who has served as President of Vanuatu since 23 July 2022.
Nova Peris – Standing Up For What’s Right
A lot of Aboriginal people support the Jewish people, but don’t say it. Many Aboriginal people have gone on pilgrimages to Israel. Others are descendants of Australia’s 11th Light Horse Regiment, who fought in the Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in WW1. They saw the fight to give the Jewish people the right to their homeland, and that’s a fight they understand.
Incongruous and Ill-Conceived: Israel as Settler Colonialism
The settler colonialism paradigm, when applied to Israel, becomes absurd indeed. Jews are Indigenous to the land of Israel, with a continuous presence spanning over three millennia. That is a far cry from the experience of other so-called settler colonial states, which involved strangers laying claim to foreign territories. Rather than being driven by a metropole or mother country, the return of Russian and East European Jews to their ancestral land in the nineteenth century was largely in response to the persecution and antisemitism experienced in those nations.
Settler Colonialism, Indigeneity and Activist Purity Laws
Another stream of the political lineage Ngata espouses has a dominant Marxist foundation. It looks to the likes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and PLO leader Yasser Arafat, two men responsible for the murder of thousands.
MEDIA RELEASE: Condemnation of NZ Green MP’s Sanctions Bill Against Israel
We call out Swarbrick’s hypocrisy claiming to stand for Indigenous rights while demanding the expulsion of an Indigenous people from its historical homeland. The Jews have more than 3,000 years of continuous connection in their ancestral lands, Judea and Samaria (“the West Bank”).
Bibas Memorial
What disturbed us more than the evil of Hamas, was the reaction of the western world - the propensity to look away, to turn a blind eye, to make excuses, to justify these atrocities…
A Call to Conscience: Reject Hatred, Protect Peace in Aotearoa NZ
Veteran anti-Israel activist John Minto has gone so far as to publish a poster on social media, entitled ‘Genocide Hotline’, targetting “Israeli soldiers holidaying in New Zealand” and calling on his followers to “track them down so we can let them know they are not welcome”. This is abhorrent.
IEJ Directors on Algemeiner’s J100 List
Dr Sheree Trotter and Hon Alfred Ngaro have been included in Algemeiner’s ‘J100’ list of the top one hundred individuals to have positively influenced Jewish life over the past year.
Ancient Texts and Modern Libels
This great colonialist lie seeks to dismiss Jewish indigeneity and Jewish claims to the land of Israel - and it hurts. It hurts me in the same way that I think it would hurt any minority group. This is not said about any other national or ethnic group in the world.
Times of Israel: Indigenous leaders rally in Jerusalem
“We really wanted to show our support for the Jews as indigenous people of this land,” said Sheree Trotter, co-director of IEJ together with former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives Hon Alfred Ngaro. Trotter, a Maori scholar and activist, is also a founder of the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation in her home country of New Zealand.
7 October, One Year On
One of the many shocking factors of the past year is the reality inversion imbibed by so many when considering the conflict. Within days of the greatest massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, Israelis were being blamed for their own deaths. Even the sexual violence perpetrated against women and men was justified as “resistance”.
The UN’s War On Jewish Jerusalem: A Denial of Indigenous Rights
The UN has shown a determination to sever all Jewish association with Jerusalem. This constitutes a denial of history, an infraction against self-determination under international law, and a violation of indigenous rights in ancestral lands.
Linguistic imperialism: Rhetoric versus reality
One of the more obvious examples of the disconnect between rhetoric and reality is in the area of language loss, a matter of deep concern to Indigenous cultures worldwide.