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Anne Frank’s Diary translated into te reo Māori | Stuff

Boyd Klap has led the project to have Anne Frank's diary translated into te reo Māori. Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine will be published in June 2019.
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Boyd Klap has led the project to have Anne Frank’s diary translated into te reo Māori. Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine will be published in June 2019.

Parihaka felt like the right place to speak about discrimination.

That’s what Dutch businessman Boyd Klap reckoned.

His visit in 2017 to the settlement that symbolises peaceful resistance was to talk about Māori involvement in the Anne Frank travelling exhibition, to show the parallels between discrimination during the war and what Māori faced in colonisation.

At question time during that Parihaka visit after his talk at a marae there one woman asked if  Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl had ever been translated into te reo Māori.

The story of Anne and her family, who were hidden in an annexed apartment in Amsterdam by non-Jewish friends for three years during the Nazi occupation of Holland during World War II, has been translated into more than 70 languages and published in 60 countries.

But translated into te reo? He didn’t know.

So began his next project for the diary which has been the subject of two exhibitions, both accompanied by a focus on discrimination in the modern world.

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→ 23 April 2019
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The Frenchman who used games to save Jewish children | NZ Herald

Georges Loinger

Heartwarming….

It had all started as a game. During World War II, when hundreds of Jewish children were hidden at chateaus in the French countryside, kept out of sight from the nation’s Nazi occupiers and Vichy collaborators, Georges Loinger entertained them with calisthenics, football matches and ball games.

Tall and athletic, Loinger was a Jewish engineer turned physical-education teacher, whose blond hair and blue eyes helped him “pass” as a non-Jew while he travelled across France, secretly visiting the chateaus and other makeshift refugee centres to keep his young wards healthy with exercise.

But as anti-Semitic legislation gave way to mass deportations and murder, his exercise routines turned into a morbid form of training, preparation for the day in which Loinger would, if everything went smoothly, smuggle the children across the border into neutral Switzerland.

As a grim backup, it was also preparation in case the children were discovered and sent to a concentration camp.

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→ 19 April 2019
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US State Department Updates maps of Israel to include Golan Heights

The updated map

That’s right, they have!

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→ 19 April 2019
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Max Christoffersen’s widow shocked to find Stuff columnist’s words twisted into Nazi rant | Stuff

The grieving widow of a Stuff columnist whose work was stolen by a blogger and twisted into a Nazi-themed rant under his name is shocked its web host fobbed off her requests to remove it in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings.

The mens rights blogger had copied an entire column Max Christoffersen wrote in December on male violence against women, but replaced the words ‘men’ with ‘jew’ and ‘woman’ with ‘aryan’.

The column was one of dozens of legitimate news stories and opinion pieces from reputable sources altered in an apparently twisted attempt at irony by switching out the portrayal of gender issues with Nazi-themed anti-semitic language. Stuff has chosen not to name the blog.

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→ 19 April 2019
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Otago dealer to continue to sell Nazi memorabilia | NZ Herald

Barry White, Nazi Memorabilia Dealer

An Otago second-hand dealer is defending his range of Nazi memorabilia and says he has sold several swastika badges since the Christchurch attacks.

The New Zealand Jewish Council said while it recognises the legal right of people to profit from Nazi memorabilia, it hopes they appreciate the suffering seeing such items causes vulnerable communities.

Trash Converters owner and manager Barry White sells a wide range of Nazi memorabilia at his Palmerston store.

He said it was mostly imitation, including swastika badges and armbands, plus Waffen SS insignia.

He also offers military memorabilia from a host of other countries, including Allied forces, though toys are his biggest seller.

Among his most popular Nazi items were lapel badges bearing a swastika.

Three of the badges had been sold since the Christchurch terror attacks, he said.

In the same cabinet as the badges was a large red coffin sash, again bearing a swastika.

Also available for purchase was the Skull and Crossbones insignia of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf, or the “Death’s Head” division.

It was responsible for several war crimes, including the mass execution of Jews in Poland, and the Le Paradis massacre, where they machine-gunned 97 British troops captured during a retreat.

Asked about the crimes of the Nazis, White remained unapologetic.
 
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→ 18 April 2019
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A dive into Israel’s mermaid community | Stuff


Shir Katzenell and her son Erez. “I realised I was part of something big.”

Last year, Shir Katzenell made a drastic life change, leaving a prestigious job in the Israeli army to pursue a childhood dream: becoming a mermaid.

Ever since getting hooked on Disney’s The Little Mermaid as a kid, Katzenell confided, she has longed to turn into one. While her friends moved on, Katzenell’s enchantment with mermaids endured.

She fantasised about swimming underwater alongside fish in a 10-pound tail and sequined bikini. Then she actually gave it a try.

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→ 16 April 2019
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Dark Days | AIJAC

Jacinda Adern

New Zealand’s Jewish community has opened up its arms and heart to the country’s Muslim community in the wake of the devastating Christchurch mosque terror attacks.

On Friday March 15, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles killed 50 people who were worshipping in two separate mosques in the country’s third largest city. The killer, who posted an extremist manifesto which identified him as a white supremacist moments before embarking on his murderous rampage, filmed and live streamed the attacks on social media. 

It was the deadliest attack in New Zealand’s history, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern describing it as “one of New Zealand’s darkest days” and an “extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence”.

As a nation, New Zealanders were left shocked, horrified and grieving. However, most people soon rallied to support the Muslim community and also to present a strong united front against the attack and all that it symbolised.

Among them was the Jewish community, which was quick to condemn the attacks as well as to show its support for, and offer its assistance to, the Muslim community. 

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Israeli group says it will make a second attempt to land on the Moon | Ars Technica

The moon, taken by Beresheet at an altitude of 500km

On Saturday, just two days after the Beresheet spacecraft crashed into the Moon, the president of SpaceIL said the organization would move forward. Beginning this week, Morris Kahn said, a new task force would learn from the organization’s failures and begin developing a new plan for a Beresheet 2 spacecraft.

“We’re going to build a new spacecraft, we’re going to put it on the Moon, and we’re going to complete the mission,” said Kahn, a billionaire who personally donated $40 million to the private Israeli effort.

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→ 11 April 2019
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Airbnb reverses decision to remove Israeli West Bank homes from website | Guardian

The US home-sharing company Airbnb has announced it will continue to list Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank, in a reversal of a previous decision.

The announcement came after Israeli lawyers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of property hosts and others, following the decision last year by Airbnb that it would remove such listings.

That move had come after years of accusations that the company was benefitting from rentals in the illegal outposts.

On Tuesday night, after admitting it was a controversial issue, Airbnb said in a news release that it was settling all lawsuits brought by hosts and potential hosts and guests who had objected to its most recent policy.

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→ 11 April 2019
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Palestinian activists protest Israeli musicians in Nelson | Stuff


Palestinian activists protest Israeli musicians in Nelson

NZFOI:  This article slipped through unnoticed, so it is a few weeks old but what is disturbing is that the event organizers are overtly adhering to BDS guidelines for assessing whether the Israeli quartet should be subject to boycott.

An Israeli chamber music ensemble will be the focus of a political protest in Nelson later this week. 

The Jerusalem Quartet will be guests at the 2019 Adam Chamber Music Festival, which runs from January 31 to February 9. 

However, Nelson’s Te Tau Ihu Palestinian Solidarity group, who are aligned with the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) are planning to stage a protest.

The BDS movement categorises Israel as an “apartheid” state, with the aim of the movement to establish a single, bi-national state in Palestine/Israel.

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