Whakatāne has a small population and voted yes by a wide margin. I'm sure sure that there are simple answers to where voted how.

Yes I saw an analysis that said that. Haven't checked myself, but I agree that it is useful to understand that.

TBH this is much better than I expected, given the demographics and embedded racism in our country. 40% of areas chose to keep Māori wards.
In areas that lost, I'd love to know whether the numbers have improved since any previous referendum on it.

so many levels of stupidity

lots of people now think that Mandela was a pacifist. The founder of Umkhonto We Sizwe lol

I'm not here much & only recently active. The genocide in Gaza has been acute during that time, so it's been a focus. Point is, I'm not a partisan in a propaganda war. I started off very pro-Israel, before evidence about what was happening in the Occupied Territories became overwhelming

not if it's actual scholarship rather than right wing propaganda. I've provided real evidence from multiple independent or Jewish sources.

I read as far as I could before it wanted me to sign up. It was a weak defence to that point. It'll take the view of the actual genocide expert thanks.

I have posted on socmed about Ukraine, women in Iran, US in the middle east, the Uyghurs & Tibetans, Western Papua, Western Sahara etc.
But the west isn't funding those to the tune of billions of dollars a year
Neither is the scale comparable.
Unlike you I condemn all war crimes, not just my enemies

you're joking surely?
You're putting an op ed by a pro-Israel right wing US think tank up against a number of legal analyses by numerous distinguished genocide scholars, including Israeli ones?
C'mon now.

this guy must be Hamas
www.npr.org/2025/07/17/n...

My opinion is irrelevant. As is yours.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...

1. OP was talking about Arab countries around Palestine, so not sure yr point
2. I'd call Oct 7 an atrocity & a war crime.
3. Genocide scholars, incl. Israeli ones, are saying that Israel is, in fact, committing genocide. Sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la la la" changes nothing

Just listen to your leaders. They aren't disguising anything.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

It is hard to understand. Many holocaust survivors are equally bewildered.
As to your 1st point - that's ironic from a guy who says that almost every international human right org, media channel and intergovernmental organ is wrong and only the IDF is trustworthy.
Cognitive dissonance is real.