PRIME MINISTER Christopher Luxon has indicated that his government is not averse to a conversation about whether to ban public displays of Nazi imagery and the Nazi salute. Australia has already imposed such a ban and the use of Nazi symbols is illegal in several other countries as well.
Nazi imagery, of course, is a reminder of the time, some eighty years ago, when Fascist Germany waged war across Europe and the Soviet Union. And sent six million Jews to the gas chambers.
While many might see the public display of Nazi symbols as offensive, nothing has been said about the equally troubling public displays of the Israeli flag, featuring the Star of David. It even regularly appears in television news bulletins. TVNZ's Jack Tame was sitting in front of a Israeli flag when he interviewed the Israel's ambassador to New Zealand in April.
The Star of David is the generally recognised symbol of both Jewish identity and Judaism. Unfortunately it has also been attached to the Israeli flag and other Israeli propaganda, in an effort to suggest that Jewish identity resides in the Israeli state. This is far from the truth.
While the Zionist-controlled New Zealand Jewish Council acts as a propagandist for the Israeli regime, that can't be said of the Australian Jewish Council. It has stated:
'It cannot be ignored that Israel and its military have misappropriated the Star of David in grotesque ways which makes it difficult for people to distinguish between the Israeli state and Jewish symbols. Israel's soldiers have been documented emblazoning the Star of David on Palestinian prisoners, graffitiing it on the walls of houses they loot in Gaza, and using tanks to sear it into the rubble of what used to be recreation parks for families. These actions place all Jewish people at risk by tarnishing us with these egregious human rights abuses.
'It is important for all of us who are advocating for Palestinian freedom, justice and liberation to continue to distinguish between the State of Israel and Jewish people as a whole.'
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