New Zealand – Israel ambassador criticizes news article

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand has slammed as “outrageous” an article in a national newspaper which called Israel a “terrorist state” and suggested that the Israeli government could adopt the Nazis’ genocidal policy to crush the Palestinians in Gaza.

Yuval Rotem, also Israel’s envoy to Australia, said the column Herald on Sunday by Matt McCarten, a former left-wing political activist, was the worst he had read in his 21-year diplomatic career.

“We have every intention to pursue it in the highest possible manner, including with the owners of the newspaper,” Rotem told.

“The fact that the newspaper is giving a platform to someone to spread hatred and incitement of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel feeling is outrageous.”

Source: thejc.com

Date: Feb 1, 2008

By Dan Goldberg

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