The AJV blog has gone quiet. Our government's indifference to starvation broke my understanding of our governing institutions and left me speechless. What comes after f*** you? ajv.org.nz/2025/04/30/e...

With thanks to Mikaela Nyman, here's a link to our podcast on arts and Palestine solidarity. Look for the solidarity quilt as it travels - it gets more beautiful with each visit, rather like Palestine solidarity itself. open.spotify.com/episode/7kHT...

AJV is sharing a letter by a Palestinian Kiwi who has good reason to use a pseudonym. Call him Goliath. He reminds us to take every private, cumulative step. Our choices count, either as passive permission to continue or effective pressure to end this nightmare. ajv.org.nz/2025/04/16/g...

When I talk about my book, Jewish Not Zionist, groups like Jewish Voice for Labour also want to know why Palestine solidarity sounds different in Aotearoa. Our voice travels further than our numbers suggest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWzL...

"62,000 people are dead. This man cannot bear the sight of a flag being held by a peaceful person? ... It's a way of demanding total silence & it seems to me we are in a new era of this silencing. I don't think he's misinformed. I think there's a performance going on" 💯 @altjewishvoices.bsky.social

#BHN Marilyn Garson on Waikato lawyer Paul Fisher, Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal and the response from the conservative Jewish commentators to BHN's take on debating Zionists BTW YouTube's algorithm doesn't promote this kind of conversation, feel free to share it around youtu.be/fdMHbMrit30

Please join us if you can, to launch Jewish, Not Zionist in the UK! Blog and webinar registration are here: kaygreen.blog/marilyn-gars...

Israel has broken the ceasefire by massacring over 400 civilians in darkness, again with American approval. We join others in demanding that our government represent our outrage. And we urge our friends to move beyond despair, into affirming community. ajv.org.nz/2025/03/19/m...

The Israeli embassy has sprung a leak. Support is gushing away. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

No! Tom Robbins has died. Now I'll have to stop hoping for one more book . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=J12E...

As long as UNRWA keeps delivering food, I will keep speaking to its importance and the illegality of preventing its work. This is from The Forward, a North American magazine. If it feels tame to social media, it will be confronting by the standards of these readers. 😊 forward.com/opinion/6941...

Why is Israel's head of military doctrine addressing a gathering for emerging NZ Jewish community leadership? Read Alternative Jewish Voice's media statement. We ask our community to step back from uncritical militarism. ajv.org.nz/2025/01/31/w...

Last evening, AJVs Rick Sahar hosted a Genocides Remembrance gathering. We sketched the new map of personal connections that acknowledge historic losses. We will make that forum a fixture, because no one should be alone with such losses. ajv.org.nz/2025/01/28/m...

There's still one week to write to government: UNRWA is urgent! Preserve UNRWA and its mandate - and attach consequences to Israel's intended ban. AJV's remarks to yesterday's rally at MFAT. Use these arguments or your own - but write to [email protected] today! ajv.org.nz/2025/01/22/w...

Marilyn Garson (@altjewishvoices.bsky.social) spoke about the vital work of UNRWA in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. You can help defend UNRWA by writing to Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters, asking the government to tell Israel to withdraw its ban. youtu.be/qW66pBwJC5U

Hey Pōneke, let's have lunch! See you tomorrow at MFAT, 12:30. We are not letting go of UNRWA.

The ceasefire comes a week before parliament remembers (only) the Holocaust, with Israel-supporting organisations that deploy Jewish identity as Israel's shield. We call for the commemoration of all genocides, so AJV will hold a separate Genocides Remembrance event. ajv.org.nz/2025/01/20/c...

They really banned TikTok before they banned sending weapons to Israel during a genocide.

A thought for all those submissions that need writing.

Tēnā koe Foreign Minister Peters. Thank you for your consideration, but we will thank you far more for your action. Join Justice for Palestine & Alternative Jewish Voices as we stand up for UNRWA on Wednesday, January 22, in front of MFAT, 195 Lambton Quay at 12:30. ajv.org.nz/2025/01/18/t...

On the day of a temporary ceasefire, I just want to breathe deeply after holding my breath for 15 months. Essential and not enough - I feel both of those. It's essential that the people of Gaza can sleep without explosions - but where will they sleep? ...

The UN says, “the United Nations does not plan to replace UNRWA and the Knesset must reverse its decision to ban it.” UNRWA is the face of states’ obligations to Gaza. It is unthinkable that Gaza would see us toss our obligations away after these 15 apocalyptic months. ajv.org.nz/2025/01/12/u...

On January 7, 2025, a gunman shot dead Lim Kimya, a 74-year-old former member of the Cambodian parliament. Thai authorities should immediately and thoroughly investigate his killing and ensure all those responsible are brought to justice. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

This month, UNRWA is urgent! Join Justice for Palestine and Alternative Jewish Voices as we tell MFAT to stand up for UNRWA.

THIS MONTH, UNRWA IS URGENT!! On 30 January, Israel will ban UNRWA. Don't let it happen. Please read and join this global Jewish call to action. ajv.org.nz/2025/01/06/c...

MFAT office now. Free Dr Abu Safieh and all who are being held.

Chag Sameach to everyone who celebrates Chanukah, our festival of light and resistance.

I'm very happy to share this from Ha'aretz magazine. They agreed that I would also post bc their paywall. There are too few uplifting messages around us right now, but the sound of Aotearoa's Palestine solidarity is one of them. Rest up friends, so much more to do in 2025 ajv.org.nz/2024/12/19/s...

‘As much and as quickly as possible’: Israeli settlers eye land in Syria, Lebanon With the Israeli army advancing into Syria following Assad's fall, a group promoting settlements in Lebanon is casting its gaze eastward. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

My printer likes to sleep late on Sunday mornings.

Navigating the Stars with Witi Ihimaera is so, so magnificent. Not only the creation myths but the sense of being in conversation with creation - what an exploration! www.penguin.co.nz/books/naviga...

You know you're not young when . . . I saw a retro jacket in the recycled shop. First thought: That's not old enough to be retro! I had a jacket just like that . . . . . . 30 . . . or was it 35 years ago.

I don't know who to credit for these shots of Jabalya and Beit Lahiya. Beneath this lie two more associates of the GGateway, our start-up for employment creation.

Dec 5, Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Israel's forces have prevented milk formula for newborn babies from entering Gaza for three weeks.

ASB Bank, you're not getting it yet, but I think you will.

On this day of solidarity with the people of Palestine, we recall that justice is a verb: it needs doing. Alternative Jewish Voices commits to all the work of making justice. ajv.org.nz/2024/11/28/s...

Start your day with some good news. Candace Owens - goneburger. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/candace-o...

Please sign. No child deserves this. ujoin.co/campaigns/33...

Opposing the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, 7 Christian & 1 mostly Christian orgs. Plus the Jewish National Fund (which recently had its charitable status revoked in Canada) and the Z-Fed. To understand Zionism in Aotearoa, query the Christian agenda.

GAZA BIENNALE 2024-2025 Deir Al Balah, Gaza, 20/11 – In April 2024 artists from Gaza began to gather together to utilize art to resist this genocide. Art is essential to life and our survival as a species. A collective project has emerged into a global art event. gazabiennale.org

The opportunity to be able to help - that's a gift that many of us were given this week. Actually, it's an opportunity that we are given many times each day. This week we were reminded.

Watching Trump's maniac-demographic friends sidle into Cabinet is a great lesson in political strategy. The ideological 8% can piggyback on Trump's transactional will to power. Works here, too. Remember National's responsibility for this disaster: #Luxondidthedeal.

This will pick your day right up and restore your faith in poetic justice. The Onion has bought Infowars at a court-ordered auction, and will use it to feature comedy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tēnā koutou www.springload.co.nz mō tēnei! Rawe rawa atu!

Jewish, not Zionist is still on the Wellington bestseller list!! People want to have this conversation: what's the difference between Jewish and Zionist? How can I engage with Palestine, grounded in principle and the vision of a better world? thespinoff.co.nz/books/01-11-...

Legislation to ban UNRWA is murderous. UNRWA is indispensable to survival behind an illegal wall. UNRWA's mandate is also an essential target of Israel.

Jewish, not Zionist - what's the difference? Please join me at the W'ton Fabian Society, 5:30 Thursday Oct 31, or watch the livestream. Bring the questions you have hesitated to ask. Registration link here: www.fabians.org.nz/index.php?op... Livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xI-...

'Our findings indicate that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is organised, systematic, and intended to destroy conditions of life and life-sustaining infrastructure.' ForensicArchitecture's investigations are essential reading. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...