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Israeli Ambassador Summons

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 21 May 2026

A satirical political podcast critiques government policies on social housing, exposes inconsistencies in moral condemnation, and questions the rationale behind targeting vulnerable populations while protecting wealth-holding classes.

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Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

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  • Um, the Israeli ambassador has been summoned to come and uh have a cup of tea with Mr. Peters over some bad shit. Finally, well, do you know what? I'll say this out loud, Chewy. Um, sometimes when we talk about uh people saying the right thing, but maybe for the wrong reason, the Jewish council have come out this evening, uh condemning the words of is it Ben Gavir who said these words? And it's like, wow, this is interesting. Uh normally the Jewish council would be the ones who are fully on board and and no matter what to whatever the Israeli government does to Palestinians in Gaza in the West Bank in Iran, wherever. So I I'm interested as to why is this incident the tipping point? Why is that the tipping point? And not I don't know before as well. I don't know, snipers in Gaza. Why wasn't that the tipping point? It's a very bizarre thing.
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