Our next UK import: The Terrorism Protest Speech Suppression Act On Sunday August 24, both the Guardian and the New York Times carried articles worrying that the far Right was increasingly bold and…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
2 posts published by Marilyn Garson during August 2025| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Get out! At each step of its genocidal campaign, Israel’s leaders have accurately assessed the world’s indifference, played on it and nudged it further. Over a period of decades, they eased the world from a settler-colonial theory that implied Palestine’s erasure, to a blockade that ensured Gaza’s strangulation. Now, over a period of months they … Continue reading "Get out!"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Starvation is not an issue between the Muslim and Jewish faiths. Image Abdel Kareem Hana/The Associated Press We are not in accord with the ‘harmony accord’. Mark Mitchell’s Minis…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
A joint statement by leaders of Alternative Jewish Voices, Justice for Palestine and Dayenu: NZ Jews Against Occupation: We in Aotearoa have been fortunate to work in a rights-based, antiracist par…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
5 posts published by Marilyn Garson during July 2025| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Here are two very different paths from Zionism to last week’s (very successful!) fundraiser at the Olive Branch in Carterton. First, Rick Sahar’s story: Growing up in Detroit as the son of two Holocaust survivors, my parents never spoke about their lives, before or during the Holocaust, so I knew very little about them while … Continue reading "An AJV 2-fer! Two paths to activism"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
For Immediate Release: July 22, 2025 Government faith initiative misaligned, say groups who declined to join On Tuesday July 22, a government-sponsored ‘harmony initiative’ will be signed by some Muslim and Jewish groups. The initiative originated with government recognition that the consequences of Israel’s actions in Gaza are impacting Jewish and Muslim communities in Aotearoa, … Continue reading "Government faith initiative misaligned, say groups who declined to join"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Philip Matthews in Stuff, June 28 2025 Jewishness is more than fear and Israel In the last two stories I’ve seen on the Jewish community, Stuff has twice re-posted a harmful image of antisemitism a…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
A Global Jewish Manifesto for Collective Liberation July 3, 2025 Introduction Founded in 2019, Global Jews for Palestine is a coalition of 25 Jewish groups in 19 countries that are part of the rapidly growing Jewish movement for Palestinian rights. Our condemnation of Israel’s apartheid regime and its genocidal war on Gaza is unconditional. We … Continue reading "A Global Jewish Manifesto for Collective Liberation"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Please note that the time in Aotearoa will be July 25, 7:00 am. Please join us for a discussion with Global Jews for Palestine, a coalition of anti-Zionist Jewish groups from 20 countries across th…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
A study published through the Harvard Dataverse uses location mapping and data to assert that nearly one-fifth of the population is missing from the Gaza Strip. Of Gaza’s 2023 population of 2.227 million, 377,000 people no longer appear. They are absent. Gaza’s population appears to be 1.85 million. Those of us with Gazan friends have … Continue reading "The absent people of Gaza"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 19 / 20, 2025 Contact: Global Jews for Palestine globaljewishcollective@gmail.com Israel’s terrorist attack on Iran: for what? For 20 months, Israel’s government and occupation forces have pursued a campaign of genocide in Gaza, interspersed with destruction and land grabs in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. Now Israel has indulged its … Continue reading "Press statement from Global Jews for Palestine"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
For 100 days Israel has starved the people of Gaza openly, in plain sight. This 100th day is a Tuesday morning, and already this is a week of bitter pills to swallow. Gazan Palestinians continue to…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)