Author: Marilyn Garson

How shall we speak and act now?

For six years, Alternative Jewish Voices has spoken in an aspirational voice. This is intentional. Research shows, the voice that mobilises new political engagement is a voice of moral clarity which invites others to join the work of making a better world.

We ground our voice in facts, and today’s facts are shattering. We share the outrage that we hear. However, outrage alone does not make change. It has to be channeled forward into principled action.

Hope is resistance. AJV met this week to ask where we find that hope now, while grief and anger feel overwhelming.

With unprecedented Western permission and complicity, Israel’s genocide is ongoing. The IDF has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians and decimated the built environment of Gaza. They are queueing up more of the same in the West Bank. The tonnage of IDF poisons will affect generations. Israel has killed 271 and injured 622 Palestinians since the ceasefire. Gazan Palestinians are living in atrocious conditions as winter closes in. Israel is preventing UN agencies and NGOs from responding, despite the International Court of Justice’s October finding that Israel is obligated to provide for Gazan Palestinians and not to impede others from doing so. Along the way, Israel has bombed half a dozen countries which are not at war with it.

The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline. They will settle for negotiating the speed of Israel’s new crimes against the survivors of Palestine.

We utterly reject their selective amnesia—but each time we call out our complicit government, we need to call them forward and judge them against something better.

We do that by placing the value of human life at the centre of our understanding. People have laboured for a century and a half to embed a rights-based vision of human dignity and equality. Rights are not an opinion; rights are the basis of international law and institutions. That today’s governments spit on Palestinians’ rights does not invalidate Palestinians’ rights. It raises the stakes. Now we must fight for the vision even as we wield it.

Our baseline is a world in which people flourish with their basic needs and dignity ensured. We protest the deficits from that standard. We judge Israel and its powerful accomplices against the standard of an accountable, just peace for all who live between the river and the sea.

Even as our allies have taken the step of recognising Palestine, Luxon, Seymour and Peters cosy up to Donald Trump. We are reeling from their daily erosion of our democracy. Our government’s position on Palestine and the value it places on our own lives follow from a single agenda. This government is harming far more people than it is benefiting. We find hope in the work that brings together a majority for change.

While Palestine has become the cement of a broad global movement, Zionism is shifting. Israel used its years of Zionist-Jewish permission to consolidate new sources of support. It is no longer dependent upon Jewish social license. Christian Zionism, long the majority of Zionism, is now an insider shaping American policy. Israel dedicates new budgets to influencing American Christians.

Christian Zionist influence is now being unsettled in turn by the far Right, as Zionism attracts support from the eschatological, racist and fascist extremes. Trump’s MAGA world is grappling with the rise of more radical White racist nationalism. Those extremists are seeking narrative position and influence.

In Aotearoa, Israel’s deputy foreign minister has met with Christian nationalist Brian Tamaki and Alfred Ngaio. There are five rabbis in this country, while 130 Christian Zionist clergy wrote together of their representatives’ time with Winston Peters before Peters declined to recognise Palestine. In order to lend effective support to the liberation of Palestine, our protest needs to target the evolving structures and financial flows of Aotearoa’s Zionism.

This does not relieve the Zionist-Jewish community of responsibility. Globally, Zionist-Jewish institutions have eagerly wrapped Israel’s violence in the guise of Jewish identity, in order to place Israel’s genocidal actions beyond challenge. Aotearoa’s Zionist-Jewish spokespeople still imagine only the peace of the graveyard, after which there might be a nicer Zionism.

A significant segment of Liberal-Zionist Jews seems to have turned against the war—although not against Zionism. That speaks to some capacity for change despite the institutions.

We welcome every effort to end this genocide. However, as principled anti-Zionists our goal is greater than the cessation of firing. In our own community and in Palestine, we must change the conditions that give rise to genocide. We need to decolonise the Jewishness that taught us to stake our future on the oppression and slaughter of others. There is no nicer Zionism.

To realise a liberatory Jewishness, we need new institutions with genuinely new communal leadership. We work for a future without Jewish supremacy or exceptionalism. Two-thirds of Jewish New Yorkers aged 18-44 just voted for Mayor Mamdani in one such act of qualitative, visionary change.

We will not displace this toxic new Right power by emulating their perpetual outrage. That would only turn us into the thing we oppose. Outrage alone leaves one numb with grief and alienation. It stokes the identity politics which deny that we can live together. It leads to the despair which hardens the status quo.

We will only displace this power with an aspirational, broadly based vision of something better. We learn from the long, great works of our time: the works of peace, Indigenous rights, the common cause of dignified life in the hardest places.

That quality of holistic movement has coalesced around Palestine. We have never heard so many people acknowledge that the change must reach to the tangled roots of colonisation, racism, capitalism and fascism.

AJV brings to this our Jewish inheritance which recognises that social, ecological and material justice are inextricable. Together we will place life and justice at the centre of the work that needs doing, here and there.

In this dark time, hope is resistance and these are our ways forward.

In outrage and in aroha, we are Alternative Jewish Voices of Aotearoa

Media release from Global Jews for Palestine, Nov 9 2025

globaljewishcollective@gmail.com

Israel says, “You cease, we fire!”

Ceasefire means that the firing ceases. By October 29th, at least 211 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 600 injured in 125 ceasefire violations by Israel since a ceasefire was declared, as outlined by Al Jazeera. No Israelis had been killed.

In the deadliest 24 hours since the “ceasefire” began, Israel claimed it hit more than 30 targets. Israel claimed that the targets were “terrorists in command positions within terror organisations”. However, the world (again) saw babies, children and other civilians being pulled from the rubble, dead or destined for hospitals which lack the capacity to assist them.

Mainstream Western media continue to highlight Israel’s allegations, giving far less time to its many violations of the agreement.  There have been no repercussions against Israel for its violations, as it continues to occupy 58% of the Gaza Strip, moving the gangs it has supported behind the “line” and shooting Palestinians who cross that ill-defined invisible line. 

While Hamas is blamed for the slow return of the bodies of Israeli hostages, Gaza does not have the forensic equipment needed for examining human remains extracted from rubble.Israel is denying access for the machinery that is needed to lift the rubble and recover the many bodies that lie buried. The great majority of the people whose bodies await recovery beneath that rubble are Palestinian.

Not only does the “peace” promised by Donald Trump feel a long way off, but even the desperately needed respite is proving elusive for Palestinians. As is food: Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement which promised a minimum of 600 trucks filled with aid each day. Palestinians continue to go hungry. They await medical treatment. They live in dire conditions, many still in need of shelter, as winter arrives.

Our governments have immediate obligations. We must not normalise or support this illegal regime, and we must act to protect and save lives. We call on all our governments to expel the local Israeli ambassador; recall their own ambassador from Israel; end all arms sales; and impose sanctions on Israel until it ends the genocidal war on the people of Gaza, stops ethnic cleansing and settler violence in the West Bank, and commits to full equality and justice for Palestinians in accordance with all Palestinian rights under international law. 

We also call on our governments and legacy media to stop conflating Israel with Jews or Zionism with Judaism.  Israel’s claim to act in the name of the Jews of the world, to weaponise antisemitism and exploit the Holocaust of our people for genocidal ends must be rejected!

Read this statement on our website

GLOBAL JEWS FOR PALESTINE

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We are Jews from many countries, who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and multigenerational and our members embrace a broad range of viewpoints on Jewish religious and ethical traditions. We are connected by our involvement in the struggle for Palestinian rights, and by our determination to work for justice. We oppose Zionism and all forms of racism and colonialism.

We believe that it is our particular responsibility to challenge Jewish organizations whose alliances and actions undermine Palestinian human and national rights, promote Jewish exceptionalism, and overturn Jewish social justice traditions. At the heart of our work is the fight for Palestinian liberation and the struggle for a world free of racial and ethnic hierarchy, colonial domination, and unbridled militarism.
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Alternative Jewish Voices is a member of Global Jews for Palestine

J-Wire is reporting that Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskell will slip into Auckland this weekend, quietly as a thief in the night. Winston Peters has been known to set his diplomatic encounters to music, but not this one.

If you’re not familiar with Heskell, here is her calling card.

Recall that this week’s Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice unanimously found that:

the State of Israel, as an occupying Power, is required to fulfil its obligations under international humanitarian law. These obligations include the following: … to ensure that the population of the Occupied Palestinian Territory has the essential supplies of daily life, including food, water, clothing, bedding, shelter, fuel, medical supplies and services.

Now watch as Haskell calmly justifies bombing the Al Shifa and Nasser hospitals in Gaza.

Our government makes threadbare comments about law and humanitarian concern. Then they issue a visa to a front-row proponent of Israel’s genocide. Token words, followed by acts of complicity and permission.

And what will Israel’s genocide defender be doing in Aotearoa? According to J-Wire, she will be shoring up business ties with anyone willing to forget that on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice admonished all states not to normalise, support or perpetuate Israel’s illegal occupation.

The profitable business ties that Heskell seeks are precisely those that the court has told us to end. Heskell’s visa mocks the tens of thousands of New Zealanders who have taken to the streets for law and justice.

To our disgust, she will also be bolstering Israel’s ties with the Zionist-Jewish community. Every one of our Jewish institutions has failed to condemn Israel’s genocide and call for Israel’s accountability. They have failed to value non-Jewish lives. For any Jewish institution to invite or interact with a minister of the Israeli government (whose leaders are wanted for genocide) is a Shonda – a shame of scandalous proportions.

We are a collective of Jewish New Zealanders from the Far North to Dunedin. On the day that Israel elected a pack of butchers, the tone of our statements changed. Israel’s current government did not represent a new direction of travel, but it manifestly did represent an escalation of the violent madness that has rampaged through occupied Palestine for more than two years. Our world has been altered by the experience of witnessing slaughter while being governed by its accomplices.

We reject utterly the boards, the decision-makers of Jewish institutions who have stayed silent and passive through two years of annihilation. We need new institutions.

The same goes for a government that mumbles about the rights of human beings and the laws of states while carrying on normal diplomatic and economic relations with the state of Israel. If we want that to change, we must change our government.

Sanction Israel. Suspend normal relations. Support war crimes investigations.

Recognise the state of Palestine. Demand the immediate, sufficient and unimpeded provision of humanitarian supplies by the UN and NGOs.

End the illegal occupation which is the cause of this carnage.

Alternative Jewish Voices

We welcome the cessation of firing with so many emotions. We are relieved for each Palestinian family who knows that their relatives can sleep in safety, even as we are horrified by the devastation around them. We are indignant that Palestinians have been forced to choose between such a neocolonial plan—a plan to give Israel what it wants at the expense of law and justice—and ongoing starvation and annihilation.

Israel’s onslaughts have never really ended in Gaza. There have been cessations of bombing, and plans which were not meaningful beyond their first few bullet points. Bombing has been suspended, and Gaza has lived in the interim between attacks. But peace? Peace is built upon justice, and Gazans have enjoyed none of that.

We know all of the reasons for cynicism and rejection, but we will not give in to them. Our role is to support Palestinians in their choices, to share in their best hopes and stand by them while they begin to feel everything that had been postponed by the hourly desperation of 732 days of genocide.

Even in these very first days, we also know that an urgent task lands on all of our shoulders. Donor states have historically delivered only a small fraction of their grand pledges for Gaza’s recovery. In the twelve months after the bombardment of 2014, donors sent just 6% of their recovery pledges. They said that they wanted to see if the quiet would last. Their stance ensured that Gaza’s deprivation continued.

That absolutely must not happen again. Winter is approaching. Gazan Palestinians need warm shelter and blankets, food and water, medications and baby supplies. They need machinery to search for their loved ones who lie beneath the rubble of their homes. They need functioning health, education and food distribution infrastructure to replace what Israel has so mercilessly destroyed. Experts must be granted entry to Gaza to document Israel’s crimes and begin the essential work of holding Israel to account.

Gaza needs all this, and they need it now. Winter is coming. Securing actual donor-state contributions to deliver essential supplies, in sufficient quantities: this is an immediate task for our advocacy.

Alternative Jewish Voices

Are we doing enough?

by Diego Lewin

It is a new anniversary for the October 7th attacks and the question that we should ask ourselves to truly honour the memory of the people that were killed that day,  is how to avoid this to happen again, and to answer that, we should be honest and confront the question of Why did it happen in the first place.

We could say that the core issue is that Palestinians don’t want peace and they have refused every opportunity that they had.

But are we doing enough?

– In 1948, when the state of Israel was created 700.000 people (palestinians) were displaced (1) known by Paelstinians as the Nakba (catastrofe).

– Israel granted only to the Jewish people the right to citizenship (Law of return) ,  meanwhile Israel denied the right to return for the people displaced.

– In 1967, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, known as Naksa by Palestinians, and with a new displacement of 300.000 (2) people (Palestinians), since then,  the remaining  non Jewish population lives under military occupation. This is 58 years of military occupation.

– Since then (1967) until today, the amount of Jewish settlers in the occupied land increased steadily to around 700.000 settlers (3).

Today is the second anniversary of the October 7th  attacks, and the one writing this article deeply believes in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at the same time I can not avoid linking both stories, the history of Palestinian displacement that continues until today and the attack of October 7th.

Israel response to the attack is the ongoing killing of 70.000 people in Gaza majority civilians, destroying most school,  mosques, universities, infrastructure, housing  making Gaza unlivable, displacing the population internally many times, and starving the remaining people in Gaza

I keep thinking, how a deliverate starvation and on going genocide (4) with the clear intention of ethic claeansing of Gaza can honour the memories of the October 7th victims and how we can talk of the 7 th of October victims without talking about the ongoing suffering and geocide that the Palestinian people are suffering.

How these actions described since the creation of the state of Israel (and even before) are contributing to peace, but instead creating the conditions for a new 7th of October, we have seen this play again and again, so many times, too many times, too many lives.

Also, what this means for the children of Israel, to be part part of a country that from its inception displaced an opress other people and that now is actively commiting genocide.

We need now more than ever a different path, and not for some, but for all people living in the land.

Justice and  Peace goes hand by hand, one cannot exist with the other. We need equal rights for all, no more occupation, no more genocide, we need justice and respect the right of the Palestinians displaced to return to their homes,  we need basic human rights for all, and we need it now.

This is not only the right thing to do as a human being, but also the way to honor life, all life.

Each day, each week that passes, Israel goes to a new low, more extreme, more brutal,  from the diaspora, all people with conscience, we have the obligation to stop this madness against the Palestinian people as Israel by itself is clearly unable and unwilling to stop.

(1) UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians | UN News

(2) Naksa – Wikipedia

(3) Israeli settlement timeline – Wikipedia

(4) Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds | OHCHR

by Diego Lewin

It has been two years, 730 days of annihilation and the sheer heartlessness of starvation. This day and every day, we send our deepest aroha to our Palestinian whānau who live this nightmare.

With contempt we have watched this government’s degrading courtship of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu—a convicted felon and a wanted war criminal—at the expense of law, rights, morality and human dignity.

Israel’s genocide has broken our hearts, but not our spirit.

Two years of witness and marching have changed us. Look at this movement: in two years, we have laid foundations that will last.

We mark this day with deep gratitude for the generous vision of our Palestinian leaders; for the wisdom of Māori tikanga and the invitation of Te Tiriti to co-exist in mutual respect.

We march within a broad-based movement that is forward-looking, anti-racist, built with aroha and resolve. We stand among professional groups who have adopted their Gazan counterparts, unions, faith groups, university and community organisations who have embraced Palestine.

All around us, we notice the number of people who have used social media to form sustained relations with Palestinian families in Gaza. In these two years, Gaza has become personal.

We hear the language of solidarity as people make connections between issues. We see people turn up across the issues, because they recognise that liberation can only be collective.

In our own community, we welcome each person who throws off the tribal and the nationalist, and falls in love with humanity. Join us.

It should not take two years to alert the world to a livestreamed genocide!

Perhaps those in power thought that we would get tired and give up. Instead, here we are on the 730th day, a larger and more resolute movement than ever.

We will move this world. Palestine WILL be free, and on that day, our Jewish community will begin to be free as well.

Alternative Jewish Voices with our friend, Sarah Cole

Radio New Zealand has done it again!

RNZ has interviewed the ambassador of a state widely recognised as conducting genocide and a well-known Zionist for a lengthy article which denigrated the Palestinian right to self-determination, with a third Jewish voice added in at the end for ‘balance’. No Palestinian was given an opportunity to respond. Palestinians were portrayed simply as the sum of Zionist-Jewish fears, as if Palestine itself is no more than a discussion between Jews.

RNZ uncritically conveyed three harmful untruths.

1. Both speakers seem to believe that they withhold or grant inalienable rights to other human beings. They are wrong in their arrogance; Palestinians have rights and their right to self-determination in their land has been affirmed by the highest court in our international system. RNZ, which other people would you denigrate by implying that they have less than a full complement of rights?
2. Both speakers conflate Palestine with Hamas, and use that as a pretext to deny Palestinian rights. They are wrong, first because Gaza is not Hamas. To imply otherwise is to discount the civilian protections of two million people against whom Israel has conducted a nightmarish campaign of annihilation for nearly two years. Beyond that, rights are not a reward and they are not conditioned on the niceness of those in government or bearing arms. Israel’s prime minister is wanted for crimes against humanity. His cabinet colleagues are banned from Aotearoa for their filthy politics, and Israel’s military is carrying out genocide. Yet your speakers have not invalidated the rights of Jewish Israelis or rescinded their recognition of Israel.
3. To reduce any people to a single attribute, as these speakers reduce Palestinians to their supposed threat, is the very essence of racism. As our Human Rights Commission published under its former commissioner, to do so with respect to Palestinians builds on our history of regarding Muslims (and those we presume to be Muslim) as threatening.

RNZ, you must stop broadcasting such racialised, dehumanising and factually incorrect views.

Our government has shown that it is intent on erasing Māori history. It acts as if settlers did not disrupt independent, sovereign Māori iwi. So we should not be surprised that yesterday, our government chose to align with Israel’s similar acts of attempted erasure.

But we still need better from our national broadcaster. Why is RNZ failing to broadcast Palestinian voices?

Alternative Jewish Voices

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 27, 2025

Alternative Jewish Voices (AJV) is deeply disappointed by this government’s decision to regard Palestinian rights through the lens of politics yet again. The International Court of Justice has clearly affirmed that Palestinians have a right to self-determination in their land, that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land is illegal, and that third-party states are legally obliged to take every step possible to bring that illegal situation to a rapid end.

The states we generally follow in our foreign policy have now recognised the state of Palestine.

The United Nations and the vast majority of human rights organisations and genocide scholars have recognised a genocide being perpetrated in Gaza by its illegal occupier, Israel.

New Zealanders have turned out in our tens of thousands to demand effective action including the recognition of Palestine as a state and the sanctioning of Israel for its crimes.

Rights, law, diplomacy, fact and conscience all point in the same direction: Palestine must be free and self-determining.

Ignoring all that, our government fails to see genocide and this morning it failed to acknowledge Palestinians’ right to statehood. Our Foreign Minister has chosen instead to court the favour of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu; a convicted felon and a man wanted for war crimes. This is not merely a failure of leadership. It is a failure even of followership. It’s a disgrace.

If we want to live in a world of human dignity and rights, if we want change, we have to change this government.

Alternative Jewish Voices of Aotearoa

Delivered at high volume on the terrace of Radio House Sept 19 2025, regarding the director of the Holocaust Centre’s co-hosting of The Panel. Image from Peace Action Wellington

Radio New Zealand, our public broadcaster, gives airtime each month to a genocide denier. Her professional title carries the moral authority of the Holocaust. And what does she do with it? On the 711th day of someone else’s Holocaust, this guest rattled off the list of things that she expects Palestinians to give up before she would talk about granting them their right to a state.

RNZ responded to complaints by saying that this person expressed her opinions and the show was balanced. D’ya think?

Dear RNZ, the International Court of Justice has affirmed that Palestinians have a right to self-determination in their state. Israel’s occupation is illegal in its entirety and again in its actions. Israel is grossly violating Palestinians’ inalienable rights. In fact and in law, Palestinians don’t need to satisfy your guest because she does not bestow their rights. No one made these factual corrections on air. RNZ did not have – again – even one Palestinian voice to assert the rights that the courts keep affirming.

Why is any person who denies the humanity and the fact of Palestinian rights a legitimate commentator on RNZ – in the very week that the UN Human Rights Commission confirmed all the other findings of genocide?

Balance, says RNZ, is found in a diversity of opinions – but human rights are not an opinion. Genocide is not an opinion. It is a fact, living, ongoing nightmare and a crime against humanity. 86% of the world’s genocide scholars recognise genocide in Gaza. Somehow, RNZ hasn’t heard about it.

If the RNZ editor-in-chief came across a lynching, would he broadcast the pros and cons in a balanced way? Would he give a torturer, a murderer the microphone to read out their manifesto? I’m sure that he would reply to me, it would be morally reprehensible and harmful. Those are crimes.

Well, here are the names of 65,000 murdered. Here are the graves of 20,000 children. Here lie 400 human beings, murdered by starvation. And here is the international warrant to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for these crimes against humanity.

RNZ, why would you broadcast a defense of it? There are not two sides to genocide. You are betraying your mandate to bring us unbiased journalism. Unbiased journalism pursues truth, and truth does not lie at the midpoint between genocidaire and the survivor of genocide. Principled journalistic reporting on genocide takes place within the frameworks of human rights, civilian protections, and the International Court’s findings of law and justice.

RNZ, if your head of news doesn’t get that, then why is he your head of news?

I hear your audience is declining. A consultant has told you that I’m your demographic. So allow me to offer a little guidance. I want to hear from Palestinians and the Tangata Whenua who recognise and stand beside them. I want to hear their ground truth. I want them to tell us the meaning of this genocide that our government is failing to stop. I’ll be tuning in wherever I can hear them.

Friends, how do we change this? It’s not mysterious. When my book came out and RNZ cancelled its coverage, my OIA required them to disclose their reason. A producer had written to the presenter, saying ‘given the number of formal complaints’ they get from Zionists, the presenter was not allowed to do a Gaza story without promoting something – anything – about Israel. Given the number of formal complaints they anticipate, they preventatively deny Palestinians and Palestine stories access to our airwaves. They make policy by volume.

We don’t complain because we tend to have given up on such spineless media – but that leaves the airwaves to Israel’s advocates. To change this, we need to engage. Your complaint won’t change it but our thousand complaints will. Change is cumulative, so let’s accumulate some. Start writing it down.

Finally, to the journalists inside this building: the time for your silence is long past. You know that Israel has killed hundreds of your Palestinian fellow journalists. You see; you’re news junkies and you are letting yourselves be held back from covering the news. If you keep your head down now, you’ll be hanging your head forever. Speak up inside this building. Do the job that I’m sure you want to do.

With thanks to Rick Sahar for remembering to be angry enough to act.

Marilyn Garson, September 19 2025

September 17, 2025

To whom do you answer, Prime Minister?

The UN Human Rights Commission has found that Israel is committing genocide:

“The acts of Israeli political and military leaders are attributable to the State of Israel. The Commission therefore concluded that the State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide and the failure to punish the perpetrators of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”

Israeli leaders, already wanted for crimes against humanity, openly boast that ‘Gaza is burning’ while they pound a captive, defenceless community and destroy what remains of Gaza City. They are pulling a city down upon the hundreds of thousands of civilians who remain in it.

Former chief of Israel’s military acknowledges they have killed and wounded ‘over 200,000’ Palestinians, largely civilians. He boasts that legal concerns have not restrained Israel’s actions at all.

Israel and its contracted killers have slaughtered 3000 people who were seeking food in the midst of Israel’s manufactured famine, in areas under the humanitarian banner.

These are among two days of headlines; two of the 711 days of genocide that we have all watched. In those same two days, one of your cabinet ministers has trespassed priests who peacefully protested in Auckland, while another cabinet minister has denigrated the priests who peacefully protested in Wellington.

Our Five Eyes allies, who you so slavishly follow, will largely recognise a Palestinian state in the coming days. There. You needn’t even lead in conveying our outrage to the world. You can merely follow.

You say that a decision has been made but we will not be informed.

We ask, to whom are you accountable, Prime Minister – which back room? Which lobbyist? To whom do you answer, if not to the outraged, heart-broken people of this country?

We demand your condemnation of this genocide. We demand that you comply with the directions of the highest court in the United Nations system, to bring this illegal occupation and this genocide to an end. We demand that you recognise the state of Palestine before Israel swallows it as a possibility.

Grow a spine, Prime Minister. Your inaction costs lives and we are ashamed of it.

Alternative Jewish Voices of Aotearoa