Brendan O'Neill: Why Western ‘solidarity’ is a death sentence for Palestinians

The Battle of Northern Gaza confirms that Hamas and its woke apologists are the greatest threat to Palestinians.

Many grim things are happening in northern Gaza right now, as Israel puts the screws on Hamas. But there’s one thing in particular that leapt out at me from this bloody showdown between the Israel Defence Forces and the army of anti-Semites that started this infernal war with its pogrom of a year ago. It’s a thing that isn’t being widely reported. A fact you will need to dig deep to find. You certainly won’t spy any mention of it in the toilet of Israelophobia known as social media. It’s this: the IDF is pleading with Palestinian civilians to leave northern Gaza, while Hamas is instructing them to stay.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: We don't need Chlöe Swarbrick creating fear among Jewish and Palestinian communities

I'm not about to tell Chlöe Swarbrick that she shouldn't have used that phrase.

Right-minded people don't make a habit of policing what people say, I don't think it crosses the line at all or incites people into violence, so it's not going to break the law and she can technically say it if she want to.

But she might want to really consider whether she wants to be saying that phrase.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 13/10/23

Exodus from Israel – Mahuta explains what the government is doing to enable Kiwis in war-ravaged region to take flight

Listen up, folks. This could be the last announcement from Nanaia Mahuta to be posted on the government’s official website before voters opt to call for a changing of the guard.

More than that – who knows? – it might be the last announcement, pronouncement, self-congratulation or speech from any minister in the Hipkins administration before he and his colleagues learn from the vote count about their prospects of keeping their jobs.