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.
Media Release: Grand Chief Lynda Prince on Canadian Antisemitism
"As the original inhabitants of this land, we, the First Nations peoples, have welcomed the Jewish people into our lands and territories ... We call on our governments at all levels to not just provide security but to combat and prevent Jew hatred, implement the IHRA recommendations, call out lies and bigotry against the Jewish State..."
The Famine Libel and What it Tells Us
For months we have been hearing reports about starvation in Gaza and even the claim that Israel is using hunger as a war strategy...
Understanding Indigeneity
Understanding Jewish Indigeneity to Israel was produced by Allied Voices for Israel.
Defrocking Decolonisation’s Priesthood
If you happen to be brown but don’t buy into the ideology, behold, you are actually white. The fact that the majority of Israelis are brown is irrelevant. They are still white, according to the dogma. One’s skin colour grants political advantage, but as it turns out, only for those on the Left who are not Jewish.
CAEF Bulletin: Jewish Indigeneity is Supported by Indigenous People
“Near the front of the 50,000 Canadian Jews and allies who participated in the Walk With Israel 5km on June 9th were representatives of the recently founded Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, who arrived from New Zealand, Edmonton, Thunder Bay and Sault St Marie.”