{"id":340085,"date":"2025-08-13T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340085\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:06:11","slug":"mp-removed-from-new-zealand-parliament-in-heated-debate-over-palestinian-recognition-new-zealand-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340085\/","title":{"rendered":"MP removed from New Zealand parliament in heated debate over Palestinian recognition | New Zealand politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">New Zealand parliamentarian Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick was ordered to leave parliament on Tuesday during a heated debate over the government\u2019s response to the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An urgent debate was called after the centre-right government said on Monday it was weighing up its position on whether to recognise a Palestinian state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/aug\/11\/australia-recognise-palestinian-state-palestine-statehood\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close ally Australia<\/a> on Monday joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/palestinian-statehood-recognition\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada, the UK and France<\/a> in announcing it would recognise a Palestinian state at a UN conference in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Swarbrick, who is co-leader of the Green party, said New Zealand was a \u201claggard\u201d and an \u201coutlier\u201d and the lack of decision was appalling, before calling on some government members to support a bill to \u201csanction Israel for its war crimes\u201d. The bill was proposed by her party in March and is supported by all opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIf we find six of 68 government MPs with a spine, we can stand on the right side of history,\u201d said Swarbrick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Speaker Gerry Brownlee said that statement was \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d and that she had to withdraw it and apologise. When she refused, Swarbrick was ordered to leave parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Brownlee later clarified Swarbrick could return on Wednesday but if she still refused to apologise she would again be removed from parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/aug\/09\/albanese-and-luxon-urge-israel-to-reconsider-gaza-city-takeover-during-warm-generous-meeting\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Zealand has said it will make a decision in September<\/a> about whether it would recognise Palestine as a state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been strongly critical of growing international moves to recognise a Palestinian state. \u201cTo have European countries and Australia march into that rabbit hole, just like that, fall right into it,\u201d he said earlier this week. \u201cThis canard is disappointing, and I think it\u2019s actually shameful. But it\u2019s not going to change our position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Netanyahu went on to claim Israel was \u201cactually applying force judiciously, and they know it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Foreign minister Winston Peters told parliament that over the next month the government would gather information and talk to partners, which would inform cabinet\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be weighing this decision carefully rather than rushing to judgment,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Along with the Green party, opposition parties Labour and Te Pati Maori support recognition of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Labour parliamentarian Peeni Henare said New Zealand had a history of standing strong on its principles and values and in this case \u201cwas being left behind\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand parliamentarian Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick was ordered to leave parliament on Tuesday during a heated debate over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-340085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019250668348538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}