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New Zealand MPs Take A Pledge For Palestine | Scoop

Golriz Ghahraman, MP (Green Party)

At an event to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people three New Zealand MPs took a pledge to form a new parliamentary Palestine friendship group and to “…raise the voices of Palestinian people in New Zealand’s parliament”.

The event, organised by Wellington Palestine, was attended by over 100 New Zealanders including Golriz Ghahraman, MP (Green Party), Teanau Tuiono, MP (Green Party) and Ibrahim Omer, MP (Labour Party). In a speech to open the event Ghahraman – an Iranian born refugee and former human rights lawyer – insisted that New Zealand must divest from companies that were complicit in crimes against international law.

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→ 7 February 2021
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U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Wins Bipartisan Senate Support in Near-Unanimous Vote | Newsweek

NZFOI: The vote was 97-3. Who were the three? Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tom Carper (D-Del).

The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem won near-unanimous support in the Senate on Thursday night when all but three lawmakers voted to retain the diplomatic post in the city, following its move from Tel Aviv under the Trump administration.

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→ 4 February 2021
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Holocaust survivor accidentally discovers ‘hero’ who hid her relatives from the Nazis | TheJC

Wladimir Riszko

NZFOI: A Holocaust story with a New Zealand connection.

A Holocaust survivor has accidentally discovered after 75 years who hid her relatives from the Nazis – and she wants him posthumously recognised as a righteous gentile.  

The man, Wladamir Riszko, is believed to have hidden 16 people in a cellar in the Polish city of Przemysl between 1942 and 1944 – including the woman who later became his wife. 

Rosalie Hart’s uncle and cousin, Meyer and Regina Dornbusch, were among those hidden by Mr Riszko.

Ms Hart, a 91 year-old Krakow ghetto survivor in Maida Vale, had heard snippets of her relatives’ time in hiding over the years. But she never had enough to piece together a full picture.

Then this year, just days before Holocaust Memorial Day, the identity of the man who saved her relatives emerged on Facebook. 

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→ 4 February 2021
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MASSEY UNIVERSITY MASTER OF ARTS THESIS JUSTIFIES TERROR | IINZ

Dr Nigel Parsons, Senior Lecturer at the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University

Massey University has awarded a Master of Arts in Politics for a thesis that reads more like propaganda than academic literature. The thesis, supervised by Dr Nigel Parsons, essentially legitimises Hamas and its terrorism.

Dr Ran Porat of Monash University told The Israel Institute of New Zealand that the 2018 MA thesis by Nicholas Robert Brough “advances Hamas’ narrative about Israel” and

“[Mr Brough] quickly relinquishes any pretence of academic neutrality, and openly expresses positive views of Hamas… In a sense, the thesis can be understood as a tool to present Hamas as legitimate actor, completely ignoring the destructive and oppressive Hamas regime vis-à-vis civilian populations in both Israel and in Gaza and the spread of hatred and antisemitic messages on Hamas sanctioned media.”.Dr Ran Porat

The thesis was supervised by Dr Nigel Parsons, who has shown clear anti-Israel bias in the past. Dr Parsons signed an open letter that called for sanctions on Israel; has demonised Israel and ignored facts when interviewed by Radio NZ; spoke on a “Palestinian Solidarity” panel organised by a hate group; and has strong links to BerZeit University, where Hamas is praised and Jews are not allowed to speak.

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→ 2 February 2021
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After his family perished at Auschwitz, Vogel’s Bread founder fled to NZ for new life | TVNZ

Johan Klisser, a Jewish refugee, escaped the Netherlands after World War II and arrived in New Zealand in the 1950s.

According to his eldest daughter, Helen, Klisser was forced to rebuild his life in a foreign country with little money.

“His mother, father and younger brother… were transported onto Auschwitz, where they perished,” Helen told 1 NEWS.

In 1960, Johan started baking the beloved Vogel’s Bread, making 100 loaves a week. 

By the time he sold the business 30 years later, that figure was closer to 500,000 loaves.

“He and my mother are very proud,” Helen said.

Their story is one of many being recognised for Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 76 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

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→ 23 December 2020
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EU court prioritizes animals over Jews and Muslims in backing ritual slaughter ban | Washington Examiner

Kosher slaughter may now be prohibited in EU

What a way to bookend a year. In January, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. World leaders gathered and solemnly promised, “Never again.”

Here we are in December, and while there is no new Holocaust, Europe is making Jews and Muslims feel remarkably unwelcome in their own homes.

On Thursday, the Court of Justice of the European Union, or CJEU, issued a ruling permitting a ban on religious slaughter in Belgium. In 2017, Flanders and Wallonia, two of Belgium’s three regions, banned animal slaughter that didn’t include preslaughter stunning. Both laws went into effect last year.

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→ 22 December 2020
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Chief Rabbi launches scathing attack on China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims | Times of Israel

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

The Chief Rabbi has launched a scathing attack on China’s persecution of its Uyghur Muslim minority, in an intervention that will add further pressure on governments, companies and consumers to take action.

Writing in The Guardian on Tuesday, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said that, having heard several accounts from Uyghurs who had escaped, “and reflecting upon the deep pain of Jewish persecution throughout the ages, I feel compelled to speak out”.

He said speaking out was a duty, particularly at Chanukah, “when we recall attempts ‘to cause the Jewish faith to be forgotten and to prevent Jews from keeping their traditions’… These words refer back to the cruel oppression of Jews”.

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→ 22 December 2020
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Miss France beauty pageant runner-up gets anti-Semitic hate online after saying her father is Israeli | JTA

April Benayoum

The runner-up in the Miss France beauty pageant received a torrent of anti-Semitic tweets and other online messages after telling a judge in the contest that her father is Israeli.

“I have an array of origins: my mother is Serbo-Croat, my father Israeli-Italian. This gave me a passion for geography and the discerning of other cultures,” April Benayoum told the contest’s audience Saturday night, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The tweets, including one in which the author wrote “Hitler forgot about you,” provoked condemnations from some of France’s top politicians, including Marlene Schaippa, the minister delegate in charge of citizenship.

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→ 21 December 2020
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Shtisel Season 3 is on its way!

Many of us were enthralled by this wonderful Israeli comedy. It’s Israeli Netflix release is on Sunday!

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→ 18 December 2020
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Introducing Ran Yaakoby, the new Ambassador of Israel to New Zealand

Baruch haba from NZ Friends of Israel, your Excellency.

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