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. … Continue reading "RNZ has done it again"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
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 … Continue reading "A failure, even of followership"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
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 Zea…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
2 posts published by Marilyn Garson and Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices during September 2025| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
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 … Continue reading "To whom do you answer, Prime Minister?"| Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
Joint Statement on Proposed Amendments to the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 Date: 1st September 2025 Issued by: Islamic Council of New Zealand (ICONZ), Alternative Jews Voices (AJV), Pal…| Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ)
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)
