Sitting On The Fence

Is New Zealand complicit in the Gaza genocide?  

By 'sitting on the fence' did the New Zealand government fail to act to prevent this genocide? 

Does it have the blood of Gaza on its hands? 

Under article 1 of the Genocide Convention, all states including New Zealand are required under international law to take all measures to prevent a genocide.

Sitting On The Fence is a 69 min documentary film on the New Zealand government's complicity of inaction to the Gaza genocide. 

This is a self-funded, independent, non-profit, public interest documentary production. 

All funds raised on Boosted will go to cover production costs only.

This is a self-funded, non-profit production. All funds raised will go to cover production costs only.  

Funds raised on boosted will pay for copyright clearances of third-party media and footage, production costs and insurance. 

This documentary is a challenge, that discovers if our govt did anything about it or just hid behind words of diplomatic platitudes and political rhetoric. Did a lack of action enable Israel?  

We follow the protest movement calling for stronger sanctions, sending the Israeli ambassador home, speaking out and condemning Israel’s military actions. When New Zealand was put on notice of a plausible genocide, all of these things are required by New Zealand under international law outlined in the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s latest report – The Economy of Genocide.  NZ was also obligated to stop all trade, military and economic ties with Israel, stop making parts for smart bombs, stop sharing intelligence, stop sending spy satellites into space, stop the NZ police force contracts with Israeli companies. 

In a story driven by the voice of it's people vs those in power, it is unashamedly political, vital and urgent, in its critical challenge to a colonial settler block country, that supposedly lives up to its responsibilities as an international citizen by adhering to an international rules based order, whilst in practice doing anything but…

The genocide must be confronted by all nations including New Zealand. I believe our audience is not remaining silent anymore. They want our government to act.  It’s time to take a stand, to declare Palestinian statehood, to sanction an illegally occupying power, and to sanction the apartheid state of Israel.  

In this way, it is an audience driven, social impact documentary.  The story is current and urgent. 

The documentary will have maximum impact if released as soon as possible. It is aimed to reach a wide audience to put as much public pressure on our government to act.  It is hoped the documentary will encourage people to speak up and call on our government to get off the fence, and to act on their obligations to international law, and to stop all trade with Israel by sanctioning a genocidal regime.