Jewish Indigeneity and International Law in Judea and Samaria
The international community’s attempts within United Nations’ fora to reduce Israel’s legal claims to “Judea and Samaria” also known as the “West Bank” – to illegality are basically failures to adequately consider the prevailing law and historical facts.
Settler Colonialism, Indigeneity and Activist Purity Laws
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’s War On Jewish Jerusalem: A Denial of Indigenous Rights
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.
Linguistic imperialism: Rhetoric versus reality
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
“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?