Indigenous of the Nations in Solidarity with Israel and the Jewish People
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Another stream of the political lineage Ngata espouses has a dominant Marxist foundation. It looks to the likes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and PLO leader Yasser Arafat, two men responsible for the murder of thousands.
The UN has shown a determination to sever all Jewish association with Jerusalem. This constitutes a denial of history, an infraction against self-determination under international law, and a violation of indigenous rights in ancestral lands.
One of the more obvious examples of the disconnect between rhetoric and reality is in the area of language loss, a matter of deep concern to Indigenous cultures worldwide.
“Forget the Jews for a while and focus on your own backyard.” This unsolicited morsel of advice left me taken aback. I had just spent two weeks at Oxford attending a course on Critical Contemporary Antisemitism by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Such a rebuke gave me cause for reflection. Why should an indigenous person from distant New Zealand care about what happens to Jews in the Middle East and elsewhere?
It is heartening to see that the awareness of the Indigeneity of the Jewish people is growing. According to Google Trends, there has been a steadily rising interest in search combinations such as Israel indigenous, Jewish indigeneity, Palestinian indigeneity, Zionism indigenous, and indigenous Israel.
I stand before you on the land of my ancestors to say what the prime minister should have said: “Anti-Zionism is a libel-driven hate movement that incites violence and the targeting, exclusion, and marginalization of Jews in the diaspora and has as its ultimate goal wiping Israel off the face of Mother Earth and the death of all beings within it.”
Mansour’s presentation, “Structure of Erasure – Past and Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine” predictably consisted of a carefully curated one-sided tale of Palestinian victimhood buttressed by cherry picked quotes and devoid of historical or geo-political context.
Two Palestinian academics, Dr Lamma Mansour and Dr Yousef Kamal AlKhoury are currently touring New Zealand for a series of talks, held mostly in Anglican churches, but also in at least one university. They have been presenting one-sided, heavily truncated accounts of the complex Israel-Palestinian conflict. While we acknowledge their right to tell their story, we believe the lack of context and historical depth presents a false, distorted and harmful picture. This is the first in a series of articles that will address these concerns.
Former Senator and Olympic gold medallist Nova Peris has submitted a deeply personal and historically grounded submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, arguing that the rise of antisemitism in Australia represents not only a threat to Jewish Australians but a profound challenge to the nation’s democratic values and social cohesion.
If you support indigenous people's rights, you should also be a Zionist. Because Zionism is the national liberation movement of an indigenous people who never truly left their land, and who finally came home. If you are Indigenous, you are a Zionist. You just may not have known it yet.
Dr Sheree Trotter spoke at the Beit Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto about the Resonances between Jews and Indigenous peoples.
The Bondi Commission matters beyond Australia because it exposes how ancient Jew-hatred now borrows the vocabulary of human rights, decolonisation, and social justice.
(Image: Reuters Jeremy Piper)
Harry LaForme challenges the trivialization of the word ‘genocide’. “Is it simply a case of wilful ignorance that prompts the use of such phrases, or is it that genocide has simply become the descriptive word defining any war? Or is it exclusive to Israel and military action it undertakes in its defence?”
Register for this free online seminar led by Joshua Dabelstein of MAAZ - Movement Against Antizionism.
Debunking the lie that Israel desecrated ANZAC war graves in Gaza. That is not what happened.
The IDF constructed a defensive earth barrier (a berm) after identifying Hamas terror tunnel infrastructure and rocket positions in and around the Gaza War cemetery. Palestinian terrorists had used the site to launch attacks on Israeli soldiers from its vicinity.
Labour Zionism, Religious Zionism, Political Zionism, Practical Zionism, Cultural Zionism, Christian Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, and more. What most have in common is the conviction that the Jewish people have an ineradicable connection to the Land of Israel. Enter Indigenous Zionism: a Zionism that recognizes that such connection is an indigenous bond…
“Jews are indigenous to the land not metaphorically or sentimentally, but biologically and historically,” said Deych, bluntly adding, “the anti-Zionist fantasy that Jews are foreign interlopers or descendants of medieval steppe nomads belongs in the same category as flat-earth cosmology.”
Some time ago, scholars gathered in Montreal, Canada, to discuss “Jewish conceptions of indigeneity in Zionist thought”—that is, Zionist indigeneity and its Jewish roots (rather than the fabricated indigeneity of supposed “non-Jewish Israelis” or various “Canaanites”). They discussed the genuine indigeneity of a continuous and ancient Jewish people that was uprooted, exiled, and returned twice; a people that, until its return, maintained for centuries an indigenous attachment to the Land of Israel—like other indigenous peoples who survived and aspire to return.
The Khazar theory is currently being propagated by Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and others. Dr Michael G Wechsler is a linguist, historian and Bible scholar. He filmed this rebuttal of the Khazar theory in Jerusalem's Old City.
In November 2025, Yifat Goddard, an Israeli citizen of New Zealand led a delegation of Māori leaders on a trip to Israel. The invitation to come and see the reality led to an eye-opening trip that impacted hearts and minds.
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Images from the recent Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem Academic Symposium 2025 and Solidarity March.

