We condemn Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick’s
antisemitic Sanctions bill against Israel.
We call out
Swarbrick’s hypocrisy claiming to stand for Indigenous
rights while demanding the expulsion of an Indigenous people
from its historical homeland. The Jews have more than 3,000
years of continuous connection in their ancestral lands,
Judea and Samaria (“the West Bank”). The most holy sites
within Judaism are in the Old City of Jerusalem (East
Jerusalem), including the Temple Mount and the Western
Wall.
Swarbrick’s bill is based on a number of false
legal assumptions.
“The ICJ Advisory
Opinion and Resolution ES-10/24 misapply international law
on occupation, territorial sovereignty and statehood.
Requiring unconditional Israeli withdrawal behind the 1949
Armistice Lines is a fundamental infringement of the Oslo
Accords and UNSC Resolution 242 (1967), which the parties
and the Security Council have accepted as the foundation for
a negotiated settlement based on mutual security and
recognition.”
Swarbrick’s bill is
antisemitic as it denies Israel, the world’s only Jewish
state, the right to self defense, a right granted to all
other sovereign states.
Swarbrick continues to chant
the “River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”,
universally understood as a call for the eradication of the
Jewish state.
“Under the Oslo Accords, Palestinian
self-determination is inextricably tied to Israel’s right
to secure and defensible borders. These resolutions
undermine Israel’s UN Charter rights to secure
borders”.
We urge the government to reverse its
misguided support for Resolution ES-10/24 and to stand
against this hateful, antisemitic bill.
Dr Sheree
Trotter
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