Israel Offers the Pacific Water. Labour Offers a Veto
There is something almost comical about the New Zealand Labour Party's reaction to Israel becoming a partner of the Pacific Islands Forum. Almost, because the underlying attitude is considerably more troubling.
On that Dark Day a Genocide was Stopped
Anyone intellectually honest who has looked at the facts knows the genocide label is a libel. But those who use it are impervious to evidence and reason. It is a rhetorical rocket, the chief weapon in their arsenal against Israel and the Jewish people.
Controversy over Māori Delegation: Evidence Immunity and Antizionist Bigotry?
A recent Māori delegation to Israel has generated considerable controversy amongst Māori communities in New Zealand. Questions have been raised about who funded the visit, why Māori leaders would travel to Israel given reporting on the situation in Gaza, and whether participants were exposed exclusively to an Israeli perspective. These may be legitimate questions for journalists to ask. But is it really journalism when a contested issue is approached with a presupposed conclusion, one that is impervious to falsification?
Jewish Indigeneity and International Law in Judea and Samaria
The international community’s attempts within United Nations’ fora to reduce Israel’s legal claims to “Judea and Samaria” also known as the “West Bank” – to illegality are basically failures to adequately consider the prevailing law and historical facts.
Indigenous Supporters of Israel Speak
From Sweden to the Pacific, North America to Australia, India to Aotearoa New Zealand, a growing body of Indigenous peoples support Israel and understand her position as the Indigenous people of the land of Israel.
Growing Recognition of Jewish Indigeneity
Indigeneity speaks of emergence of a distinct people in a particular land from which a unique language and culture develops. For the Jewish people, that land is historically known as Israel and Judea. Jerusalem became the political and spiritual centre of Jewish life.
Palestinian Christian History: An Invented Past?
AlKhoury applies settler colonial theory to the history of Palestinian Christians, which assigns guilt to Israel and casts Palestinians as hapless victims. However, AlKoury fails to meet the most basic standards of academic rigour and historical accuracy.
IEJ Joins Global Stand Against Genocide Libel
The recent visit to Israel of a Māori delegation has caused a furore amongst many who have uncritically embraced an anti-Israel narrative. Most who take the time to visit Israel quickly realise the accusations they’ve been exposed to - that Israel is guilty of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide - do not stand up to scrutiny. The Israel portrayed in much of mainstream media is largely fictional. There’s no better way to gain an accurate picture than to go and see for oneself.
Arizona Center for Judaic Studies: Scholarship Opportunity
The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona (UA) is pleased to offer students a chance to participate in a variety of our online courses that focus on Jewish and Israel studies. These courses are offered at no cost.
Marked Increase in Understanding of Jewish Indigeneity
It is heartening to see that the awareness of the Indigeneity of the Jewish people is growing. According to Google Trends, there has been a steadily rising interest in search combinations such as Israel indigenous, Jewish indigeneity, Palestinian indigeneity, Zionism indigenous, and indigenous Israel.
How Canada’s Indigenous Story is Being Twisted to Spread Antisemitism
Over the past few years, anti‑Israel and antisemitic activists have increasingly wrapped themselves in the language of Indigenous struggle, borrowing the symbols, vocabulary, and moral authority of Indigenous peoples to advance a political agenda that has little to do with Indigenous rights and even less to do with historical truth.
Harry LaForme: I stood on my ancestral land and said what Carney would not
I stand before you on the land of my ancestors to say what the prime minister should have said: “Anti-Zionism is a libel-driven hate movement that incites violence and the targeting, exclusion, and marginalization of Jews in the diaspora and has as its ultimate goal wiping Israel off the face of Mother Earth and the death of all beings within it.”
How Palestinian Academics Inflame and Distort the history of 1948 and the Present
Mansour’s presentation, “Structure of Erasure – Past and Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine” predictably consisted of a carefully curated one-sided tale of Palestinian victimhood buttressed by cherry picked quotes and devoid of historical or geo-political context.
Palestinian Christian Antizionism: A Series
Two Palestinian academics, Dr Lamma Mansour and Dr Yousef Kamal AlKhoury are currently touring New Zealand for a series of talks, held mostly in Anglican churches, but also in at least one university. They have been presenting one-sided, heavily truncated accounts of the complex Israel-Palestinian conflict. While we acknowledge their right to tell their story, we believe the lack of context and historical depth presents a false, distorted and harmful picture. This is the first in a series of articles that will address these concerns.
How do we forget those who lifted us?: Nova Peris makes the case against antisemitism
Former Senator and Olympic gold medallist Nova Peris has submitted a deeply personal and historically grounded submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, arguing that the rise of antisemitism in Australia represents not only a threat to Jewish Australians but a profound challenge to the nation’s democratic values and social cohesion.
If you are Indigenous, you are a Zionist
If you support indigenous people's rights, you should also be a Zionist. Because Zionism is the national liberation movement of an indigenous people who never truly left their land, and who finally came home. If you are Indigenous, you are a Zionist. You just may not have known it yet.
Resonances between Jews and Indigenous Peoples
Dr Sheree Trotter spoke at the Beit Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto about the Resonances between Jews and Indigenous peoples.
When Antizionism Becomes the Respectable Language of Antisemitism
The Bondi Commission matters beyond Australia because it exposes how ancient Jew-hatred now borrows the vocabulary of human rights, decolonisation, and social justice.
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Oh Jerusalem: An Iranian perspective
As someone from the Middle East, I have long felt an inexplicable pull toward Jerusalem without fully understanding why. There is something about this land; so layered with stories and so ancient that draws one to the very essence and roots of the region.
The Lands Between Us
In September 2025 a delegation of Indigenous leaders from Canada visited Israel, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and organised by International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, Canada. This video, produced by Crystal Clear Productions captures that journey.