TWO OF ISRAEL'S chief propagandists in New Zealand are Juliet Moses and David Cumin. They have strenuously defended Israel's genocidal military campaign in Gaza ever since it began, often firing accusations of anti-semitism at Israel's critics.
Recently, they have both been heavily involved in attempts to smear Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick as anti-semitic. They have gone as far as to seek an apology from Swarbrick because of her use of a popular Palestinian rallying call, 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'.
Given their antipathy toward Chloe Swarbrick, it would not be unreasonable to expect that they would have had plenty to say about Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters comparing Maori co-governance to Nazism. But they have both remained silent.
It has been left to Ben Kepes, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, to make public comment. He has told the media that politicians need to be 'careful with their words' when it comes to speaking about the Holocaust or Nazi era.
Kepes said that the Holocaust was a 'singular event in history' which should not be used for other political ends.
But why no comment from either Moses or Cumin? According to Kepes, they have both been 'indisposed'. They have, however, continued to post to X.
Perhaps the real reason they have both refrained from criticising Peters is that he is a conservative politician with a more sympathetic view of Israel. But if you are, like Chloe Swarbrick, a critic of Israel and oppose its genocidal military campaign in Gaza, then the gloves are off as far as Moses and Cumin are concerned.
Given their antipathy toward Chloe Swarbrick, it would not be unreasonable to expect that they would have had plenty to say about Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters comparing Maori co-governance to Nazism. But they have both remained silent.
It has been left to Ben Kepes, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, to make public comment. He has told the media that politicians need to be 'careful with their words' when it comes to speaking about the Holocaust or Nazi era.
Kepes said that the Holocaust was a 'singular event in history' which should not be used for other political ends.
But why no comment from either Moses or Cumin? According to Kepes, they have both been 'indisposed'. They have, however, continued to post to X.
Perhaps the real reason they have both refrained from criticising Peters is that he is a conservative politician with a more sympathetic view of Israel. But if you are, like Chloe Swarbrick, a critic of Israel and oppose its genocidal military campaign in Gaza, then the gloves are off as far as Moses and Cumin are concerned.
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