Gordon Campbell: On The Shameful, Incompetent Decision On PalestineGiven the daily horrors of the Gaza genocide, there could hardly be a more appropriate time for New Zealand to join the community of nations in recognising that Palestine – and Palestinians – have a right to exist. Yet New Zealand has refused to make even a symbolic gesture in that direction. To find a comparable example of New Zealand putting itself on the wrong side of history, you would probably have to go all the way back to 1976, when a New Zealand rugby team chose to tour apartheid South Africa just after schoolchildren had been gunned down on the streets of Soweto.