[4] During the 2008–09 Gaza War, opposition parties SWANU and the Namibian Democratic Movement for Change called for the severing of relations.

In January 2008, Alexactus Kaure, a Namibian academic and writer, wrote an op-ed piece published in the state-run New Era newspaper which criticized Namibia's relations with Israel, calling them controversial and comparing them to relations with apartheid South Africa.

[6] A year later during the Gaza War, Herbert Jauch, head of research and education at Namibia's Labour Resource and Research Institute published an op-ed in the New Era calling Israel's actions "...an act of cold-blooded murder and a crime against humanity", while calling for the international isolation of Israel.

[7] The South West Africa People's Organisation and the Palestine Liberation Organization have historical ties.

[11] Namibia was critical of Germany for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice against the charges of genocide of Palestinians bought by South Africa.