Immigration NZ fact sheet deletes Israel, becomes mouthpiece for Palestinian Arab expansionism, implicitly recognizes a State of Palestine and undermines NZ Government two-state foreign policy — NZFOI
Immigration New Zealand’s ‘State of Palestine Refugee Quota Factsheet’ presents a one-sided, distorted and politicised narrative of the Israel/Palestine conflict and totally erases Israel from the map.
The fact sheet is on the Immigration New Zealand’s website and its purpose is to inform people about Palestinian refugees coming to New Zealand.
It is entitled ‘State of Palestine’, even though Palestine is not officially recognised as a state by New Zealand or by most western nations. In addition, the map in the document shows the whole of sovereign Israeli territory as “Palestine”.
The geography of the map is so inaccurate that it does not even include the West Bank in what it calls “The State of Palestine” – it simply replaces Israel (according to pre-1967 borders) with “Palestine”.
Update 18 June 2019: The fact sheet has been withdrawn and is no longer available on the Immigration NZ website. National MP Simon O’Connor has promised to investigate the matter.
