NZ Friends of Israel Association Inc
Fighting racial intolerance in New Zealand and beyond
PARIS (AP) — The U.N. culture and education agency has teamed up with the World Jewish Congress to launch a website to counter Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and WJC President Ronald Lauder unveiled the interactive “Facts about the Holocaust ” site at the cultural agency’s Paris headquarters on Monday.
Dame Susan Devoy, NZ Race Relations Commissioner
The Race Relations Commissioner has published and condemned a series of antisemitic social media posts as New Zealand’s Jewish community renews calls to curb racism ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Friday marks United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, with public ceremonies to be held across the country.
Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy this week called for Kiwis to “recognise the seeds of hate and to call them out” and on Friday backed up the call by releasing a series of recently posted antisemitic Facebook messages, many from New Zealanders.
This week in Paris, the executive board of Unesco, the United Nations entity charged with looking after matters related to education, science and culture, will vote on a resolution called “Occupied Palestine,” which attempts to redefine the capital of Israel as a supranational city to which Muslims, Christians and Jews have equal claim.
Perhaps not coincidentally, an exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City makes the same case. For the sake of Jerusalem, both need to be exposed as the attempts at historical revisionism that they are.
JERUSALEM (AP)
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a resolution adopted by the U.N. cultural agency denies the Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem and is a “theatre of the absurd.”
The UNESCO resolution, sponsored by several Arab countries, marginalizes Jewish ties to the Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical temple compound, and to the plaza that Jews revere as the Temple Mount and Muslims revere as the Noble Sanctuary.
Netanyahu asks on his Facebook page: “Is it any wonder the U.N. has become a moral farce when UNESCO, the U.N. body tasked with preserving history, denies and distorts history?”
