COMMENTARY: By Tracy-Moana Campbell
A country currently indicted for genocide has no business training our teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand on the topic of genocide. The notion is ludicrous.
Under this National policy Kiwi teachers are going to be trained about genocide by Israelis.
It is intended that some Kiwi teachers will be sent to Israel for indoctrination tours.
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Kiwi teachers will be able to meet happy Palestinians in Israel. That is what South Africa’s apartheid government used to do — come meet the happy Blacks in Johannesburg. Soweto? Where’s that?
Israel is currently indicted for genocide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has an arrest warrant out for him issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) — for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory to be unlawful on 19 July 2024.
Any and all Israeli presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful. Notwithstanding that, Israel carries on its slaughter as though the law itself does not exist.
It is beyond belief that a New Zealand government could have come up with a policy so ludicrous and so deeply offensive.
Tracy-Moana Campbell is an employment relations advocate based in Masterton and an activist on Palestinian human rights. She had a commercial orange grove in Lebanon 10km from the Israeli border in 2005-2011. Israel bombed her oranges in 2006. It is a war crime to destroy civilian food sources. This commentary was originally a social media post but has been republished with the author’s permission.
This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.