Rire Norman - The UN, Israel, and the Genocide Narrative: What Do the Facts Say?

The United Nations has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. But before we accept such a grave charge, we must ask: what do the facts actually say?

The UN, once envisioned as a body for justice and peace, has too often become an arena for self-interest and impunity. From child sex abuse scandals to corruption via lobbyists, its record of accountability is appalling. In fact, the UN frequently shields perpetrators rather than exposing them.

Matua Kahurangi: Māori want to talk about genocide

Just not the genocide they committed against the Moriori

Every time there is talk about an alleged genocide happening in Palestine, you can guarantee there will be loud activist Māori voices screaming about it. Debbie Ngawera=Packer this week started to cry out about injustice, oppression, colonisation, and the suffering of the people in Gaza. When it comes to the genocide their own ancestors carried out against the Chatham Islands' Moriori, they go deadly silent.

Duggan Flanakin: China’s stolen mineral wealth – a product of genocide

When the fledgling People’s Republic of China in 1949 annexed the central Asian region now known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Chairman Mao’s government gained direct control over the region’s great wealth of mineral resources, thanks to capitulation by the Soviet Union. Indeed, Soviet investments in surveys, extraction and processing equipment, and transport infrastructure had created a blueprint for Chinese investment and economic planning.

Graham J Noble: Media Picks a Fight With Trump Over South Africa – Big Mistake

When the left-wing press insists something isn’t happening - it’s happening.

The establishment media has gotten itself into another fine mess, as the late, great Oliver Hardy would have put it. And, once again, it is destined for humiliation at the hands of President Donald Trump. On May 21, he hosted Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, at the White House. This meeting came on the heels of 59 Afrikaners arriving in the United States – white South Africans of primarily Dutch descent who chose to flee a regime that is openly hostile toward them.

Brendan O'Neill: The unhinged crusade to find Israel guilty of genocide

Ireland wants to change the definition of genocide in order to find the Jewish State guilty of it.

It’s not often I feel ashamed to be Irish. But today I do. For the Irish government is plotting something so slippery it boggles the mind. It says it will intervene in South Africa’s cranky, failing legal case against Israel and call for a ‘broader’ definition of genocide. It is worried that a ‘narrow interpretation of what constitutes genocide’ is letting Israel get away with murder. Strip away the legalese, prick the Dublin elite’s outsized view of itself as the plucky saviour of Palestine, and what we have here is a government calling for the laws of war to be tweaked in order that the world’s only Jewish nation might finally get its comeuppance.

Alexander Gillespie: The UN’s top court didn’t call for a ceasefire in Gaza......

......how does NZ respond now?

The provisional measures issued by International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention was, on balance, a victory for Israel.

While South Africa’s application was not thrown out, and the ICJ accepted it could rule on what is happening in Gaza, there was no provisional order for an immediate ceasefire.

Damien Grant: How can genocide be used to describe both Gaza and a policy on Te Reo?

In the Anatolian hinterland sits the Turkish town known as Mus.

There is nothing to see and is not on anyone’s tourist destinations. But in 1915 it was the centre of one of history’s greatest crimes and there to witness and document it was a courageous Norwegian missionary, Bodil Biorn.

Mus, or Mush, was an Armenian town with an estimated 75,000 residents; but 1915 wasn’t a happy time to be Armenian.

Peter Winsley: Colonisation is now to blame for genocide, ecocide and climatechange

Last week Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted the 10th International Indigenous Research Conference. Dr Rhys Jones from Auckland University delivered the keynote address titled: “Indigenous climate justice: from decarbonisation to decolonisation and relational restoration.”

Dr Jones argued that “climate change is really just one manifestation of colonialism or an intensification of the environmental impacts of colonisation.” He stated that “modern colonial societies have really been built on the process of genocide and ecocide, and can only continue through ongoing genocide and ecocide.” He then said “we have got to think not just decarbonisation but decolonisation. What that really means is committing to upholding indigenous rights and restoring indigenous sovereignty.”