PSNA Newsletter No 140 - June 12 2024
12 Pipiri 2024
12 June 2024
Newsletter No 140
Kia ora koutou,
National rally for Palestine: Thursday 27 June, Wellington
As we reported in earlier newsletters, a national rally has been planned in Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington for the 27th June. The Palestinian-led rally will begin at 11am at Te Papa and march to the beehive where a letter will be presented to the government demanding action to hold Israel to account for its genocide in Gaza. It will continue on and end up outside the US embassy. The organisers are making an open call for all groups around the country to attend and put pressure on the government to act.
For the latest updates visit the event link on Facebook:
https://facebook.com/events/s/all-out-for-gaza-aotearoa-nati/1697332657339674/
We want to get as many people as possible to Wellington to support this protest event!
And part of that is the…
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Aotearoa Caravan for a Free Palestine
A ‘caravan’ or motor hikoi, where vehicles flying Palestinian flags travel in single file the length of the motu, is being planned to arrive in Wellington to join the national protest march to parliament.
The caravan/motorcade will work like a relay, running between cities and towns on route. As it passes through different areas people can join the caravan in their area for the day, for part of the day, or may decide to continue on to Wellington. There will be events/rallies held at some locations on the way – details still to come.
The expectation is that the caravan would build momentum as it travelled the country, and would gather people along the way.
There will be both a North Island and a South Island Caravan. These will converge in Wellington for the National Action on Thursday 27th June which starts on the steps of Parliament at 11am.
Groups who are not on the main route could form their own caravan to join the main one at an appropriate location. One way to visualise this is as tributaries joining a river which becomes bigger as it heads towards Wellington.
Details and timings are likely to change or will be updated. We have created a facebook page where all updated information will be shared. There will also be further information in next week’s PSNA newsletter.
The facebook page is called Aotearoa Caravan for a Free Palestine https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560822632649
Please like this page to follow it and feel free to message us there if needed.
North Island Caravan
The North Island caravan will start at Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Reinga) on Friday 21st with a dawn ceremony around 6 am and a departure at around 9am. Some people from the Far North will travel the whole way to Wellington.
The main route will be straight down through the North Island passing Kaitaia Kerikeri, Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton, Taupō, Taihape, Palmerston North and on to Wellington. There will be events on route but details are yet to be fully finalised.
Somewhere near Palmerston North would seem to be the logical place for the North Island caravan to come together for the final leg into Wellington.
Provisional timetable for North Island Caravan below (will be subject to change).
Email contact for Northern Caravan is gailaiken20@gmail.com but messages for either caravan can be sent via the facebook group.
Friday 21st June
Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Reinga) - Whangārei
Dawn ceremony and karakia around 6 30 am
9am leave Cape
11am Gather in Kaitatia Town Square
1pm leave Kaitaia to drive south
Saturday 22nd
Whangārei - Somewhere near / on North Shore
Rally at Whangārei Town Basin 10am
Then drive south
Sunday 23rd
Somewhere near / on Auckland’s North Shore - Hamilton
Meet at North Harbour Stadium car park and then convoy into centre
Time to be confirmed
Attend Auckland rally at 2pm
Then convoy to Hamilton
Monday 24th
Hamilton - Taupō
Details to be arranged
Tuesday 25th
Taupō - Somewhere near Palmerston North
Details to be arranged
Wednesday 26th
Somewhere near Palmerston North - Wellington
Meeting place on SH1 to be arranged for drive down to Wellington
Thursday 27th
Wellington
Rally on the steps of Parliament at 11am
South Island Caravan
More details next week but in the meantime Ōtautahi/Christchurch supporters will be travelling up in a vehicle convoy to Wellington on Wednesday 26th July. If you’d like to be part of this please contact Ben Vorderegger at ben.vorderegger@gmail.com or message him on 028 429 2302. Ben is co-ordinating transport and accommodation for people from Canterbury who want to come!
Don’t forget, updates will be posted on the Aotearoa Caravan for a Free Palestine page so please follow that page. We hope that lots of you can connect with one of the caravans in some way!
Government urged to abandon RIMPAC 2024 – the genocidal state of Israel is taking part
New Zealand must immediately withdraw from the 2024 US-led RIMPAC military exercises due to take place from June 26th to August 2nd around Hawaii.
Israel is listed as a participating country.
“We are calling on our government to withdraw from the exercise because of Israel’s ongoing industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza” says PSNA National Chair John Minto. “Why would we want to join with a lawless, rogue state which has demonstrated the complete suite of war crimes over the past eight months”
“It’s hard to believe the government hasn’t withdrawn already”.
RIMPAC with Israel aligns New Zealand with a pariah state and its genocidal enabler, the US. Every day Israel displays flagrant disregard for international law and international humanitarian law.
Israel has dropped more bombs on Gaza in eight months than were dropped on London, Hamburg and Dresden during the full six years of the Second World War. Israel is dropping these bombs on one of the most densely populated communities in the world.
Tens of thousands of people – the majority being women and children – have been indiscriminately killed.
Taking part in a military event alongside Israel will leave an indelible stain on this country. It will be a powerful symbol of New Zealand complicity with Israeli war crimes. It’s not on!
The killing fields of Gaza are in our faces everyday as are Israel’s flagrant abuses of the Genocide Convention and the rulings of the International Court of Justice.
Our government has been making only piteous noises in criticism of Israel.
Withdrawing from RIMPAC would be a signal of solidarity with the victims of Israeli genocide and show that New Zealand takes seriously its responsibility to PREVENT genocide under the Genocide Convention.
(See action you can take on RIMPAC with a few clicks later in newsletter)
Treating trauma under Israeli fire
Rallies, marches, vigils and protests around the motu this weekend
Ōtautahi/Christchurch poster for this week
To view events around Aotearoa:
Go to the PSNA Homepage – www.PSNA.nz
Scroll down to the button “For a list of events Nationwide, please click here – Check back often for updates”
Click the button
Check back on Friday for any moves, adds or changes
Events list
North Island
Opononi – Gathering for Palestine
Sunday June 16
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kerikeri
First Saturday of the month
Whangarei
No Rally this weekend
Petition drive. You can find it here
Auckland Picket
Friday 31 May
12:00 noon
Israeli Consulate – Within Thompson Wake
88 Shortland Street, Auckland CBD
Waiheke Island – Auckland
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Large Banner Making
Friday 14 June
10:00 am onwards to late evening
Contact Steve on 021 256 511 For details
Auckland –Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 15 June
10:00 – 1:00 pm
Meet at Ellerslie Train Station, Ellerslie
Auckland – Rally
Sunday 16 June
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Tauranga – Flag Waving 1
Wednesday 12 June
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Tauranga Bridge Marina, Mt Maunganui
Tauranga – Flag Waving 2
Sunday 16 June
11:00 am -12:00 noon
Greerton Community Hall - 1263 Cameron Rd Greerton
Hamilton – Rally
Saturday 15 June
1:00 pm
Civic Square, Hamilton
Cambridge Rally
Saturday June 15
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua - Rally
Thursday 13 May
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier - Rally
Saturday 15 June
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings - Rally
Sunday 16 June
2:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North - Rally
Sunday June 16
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 14 May
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth
New Plymouth – Rally
Saturday 15 June
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui - Rally
Saturday 15 June
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Gathering for Palestine
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
Featherston
Every Saturday
11:00 am
The Squircle (opposite the op shop).
Wellington – Flags (by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally (by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 15 June
1:00 pm
Corner of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place
Wellington – National Rally for Palestine
Organised by the Palestinian community
Thursday 27 June
Civic Park
Mark it in your calendars and consider a Hikoi to Wellington
Watch this space
South Island
Nelson – Rally
Saturday 15 June
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim
Saturday 15 June
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Rally
Saturday 15 June
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street
Timaru – Market Stall
No Stall this weekend
Look out for next week.
Dunedin - Rally
Saturday 15 June
2:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill - Rally
Sunday 15 June
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
Three things you can do now with just a few clicks…
1) Yes it’s another email to the Prime Minister… and the Minister of Defence…
Hon Christopher Luxon
Prime Minister
Parliament Buildings
Wellington
Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz
Judith Collins
Minister of Defence
Parliament Buildings
Wellington
Judith.collins@parliament.govt.nz
Kia ora Mr Luxon and Ms Collins,
Withdraw New Zealand from RIMPAC 2024 now!
We are asking you to immediately withdraw New Zealand from the 2024 US-led RIMPAC military exercises due to take place from June 26th to August 2nd around Hawaii because Israel is listed as a participating country.
Israel is continuing its industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Why would we want to join with a lawless, rogue state which has demonstrated the complete suite of war crimes over the past eight months.
RIMPAC with Israel aligns New Zealand with a pariah state and its genocidal enabler, the US. Every day Israel displays flagrant disregard for international law and international humanitarian law.
Israel has dropped more bombs on Gaza in eight months than were dropped on London, Hamburg and Dresden during the full six years of the Second World War. Israel is dropping these bombs on one of the most densely populated communities in the world.
Tens of thousands of people – the majority being women and children – have been indiscriminately killed.
Taking part in a military event alongside Israel will leave an indelible stain on this country. It will be a powerful symbol of New Zealand complicity with Israeli war crimes. It’s not on!
The killing fields of Gaza are in our faces everyday as are Israel’s flagrant abuses of the Genocide Convention and the rulings of the International Court of Justice.
Our government has been making only piteous noises in criticism of Israel.
Withdrawing from RIMPAC would be a signal of solidarity with the victims of Israeli genocide and show that New Zealand takes seriously its responsibility to PREVENT genocide under the Genocide Convention.
(your name)
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2) Sign this new petition calling for Israeli to be suspended from the 2024 Paris Olympics
Russia’s sports teams were banned from international competitions soon after its invasion of Ukraine. But as the Israeli military destroys everything in Gaza and has indiscriminately killed over 37,000 Palestinians, its sports teams play on.
Please sign this petition to call for the ban of Israel’s sports teams from international competition.
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3) Add the link to the petition and the meme to your social media pages.
Were Rakon components in the bomb that killed at least 40 people – children and women included – at the UNRWA school in Nuseirat camp in Gaza? Highly likely
PSNA is renewing its call for the government to suspend exports of Rakon parts to the US defence industry following yesterday’s Israeli strike on a United Nations School in Gaza which killed at least 14 children and nine women.
The school housed thousands of Palestinian families fleeing Israel’s war on Gaza.
Rakon makes crystal oscillators used in the guidance systems of smart bombs. Their 2005 business plan says the company’s objective was to dominate "the lucrative and expanding guided munitions and military positioning market" within five years.
Rakon sends these “smart bomb” parts to US arms manufacturers which build the bombs which inevitably end up in Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza.
Al Jazeera analysis of bomb parts from the attack on the school indicates the bomb was made in the US by weapons manufacturer Honeywell. Does Rakon export directly or indirectly to Honeywell? We don’t know.
However, given Rakon earlier aggressive campaign to “dominate” the market for guidance systems for smart bombs, it seems highly likely the bomb that killed the people sheltering in a United Nations school carried parts produced at Rakon’s factory in Mt Wellington, Auckland.
Already the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel and two weeks ago the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to end its attacks on Rafah because of Israel’s indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians.
Israel responded by launching 60 air raids on Rafah in 48 hours, killing dozens of Palestinians. The genocide continues.
However, by exporting parts for guided munitions and JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) bombs which end up in the killing fields of Gaza means New Zealand is actively supporting Israel’s genocide.
Rakon’s statement regarding the Gaza genocide puts up straw arguments just to knock them down.
We have never claimed Rakon manufactures weapons nor that it exports products to Israel. We do claim the company provides crystal oscillators for use in the guidance systems of munitions made in the US which are then inevitably shipped to Israel. Rakon has not denied this.
An Amnesty International investigation released last December highlighted two incidents involving JDAM bombs which appear to be war crimes. Again it is highly likely the bombs used in these mass killing events (43 civilians killed – 19 children, 14 women and 10 men) had parts manufactured in Rakon’s Mt Wellington factory.
The UN’s Genocide Convention requires New Zealand to take action to prevent genocide.
The government must SUSPEND these Rakon exports and INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE Rakon’s involvement in providing products for use in these guided munitions.
A welcome decision on support for UNRWA but the paltry level of funding is deeply disappointing
PSNA welcomes the government decision to continue funding UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians) but we are deeply disappointed the funding will remain unchanged from previous years despite the massive increase in need from Israel’s war on Gaza.
UNRWA is by far the most important and effective organisation at delivering aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
On 1 March this year a wide range of aid organisations joined together to say this about UNRWA:
“UNRWA is the largest provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza. The plain reality is that UNRWA’s humanitarian role in this crisis is indispensable – including, but not limited to provision of health and education services, food and water provision, psychosocial support, and solid waste management – and cannot remotely be replaced by any other aid organization”
“Their role in the facilitation and delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid at scale in this crisis has been heroic. UNRWA’s supply of vital shelter, food, and basic services like sanitation, as well as the use of infrastructure by other aid organizations, is irreplaceable”
Why are UNRWA’s heroic efforts and demonstrated effectiveness not been recognised by the New Zealand Government at a time when aid is so desperately needed?
The government providing $17 million to other aid groups for Gaza just doesn’t cut the mustard. These other organisations do good work but don’t have the infrastructure, the personnel or the reach to meet the needs of Palestinians on the scale or effectiveness which UNRWA has demonstrated year after year.
It seems clear the government has succumbed to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby which for years has sought to demonise and undermine UNRWA. Their campaign aims to undermine Palestinians’ status as refugees and remove their right to return to their land and homes in Palestine from which they are being progressively ethnically cleansed by Israel.
Part of this pro-Israel campaign involved the blatant lie that UNRWA staff were involved in the October 7th attack on Israel. Israel released its bogus claims within hours of the International Court of Justice finding a credible claim of genocide existed against Israel. It was a desperate, but successful, ploy with western media falling over themselves to print the phony information and downplay the ICJ ruling just as Israel intended. The Israeli claims were fact-free.
With the level of desperate need in Gaza we have urged the government to at least double and bring forward its contribution to UNRWA. The government is looking the other way.
The cost of pandering to the pro-Israel lobby is $17 million in poorly spent aid funding.
Hunger strike goes on - Write a short letter for Palestine
We have had 24 days straight of hunger strikes for Palestine! Shanti Ahluwalia is currently on a hunger strike, following from Will Alexander. He has a strong support team around him looking after his health and has asked to put out a call to action.
Here is what Shanti is asking you to do:
Write a short (~150 words) letter talking about Palestine and Christopher Luxon’s inaction – there is plenty on this (reports of inaction!) in the PSNA national newsletter.
Then email your local newspaper and they will consider publishing it!
Auckland, the NZ Herald: online-editor@nzherald.co.nz
Wellington, the Dominion Post: letters@thepost.co.nz
Christchurch, the Press: letters@press.co.nz
Waikato, the Waikato Times: editor@waikatotimes.co.nz
Nelson, the Nelson Mail: mailbox@nelsonmail.co.nz
Timaru, the Timaru herald: editor@timaruherald.co.nz
Dunedin, the Otago Daily Times: editor@odt.co.nz
Southland, the Southland times: letters@stl.co.nz
And for other community newspapers run by Stuff, you can contact: letterstoeditor@stuff.co.nz
More information can be found here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/about-us/350112976/how-contact-stuffs-newsrooms-and-editors-share-your-story-tips-feedback-or
The doctor’s wife – film screening
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
A reader tells us this book can be obtained on electronic copy at no cost here . Printed copies are available from The Nile, $26.10 + shipping from here.
There is also a 15-page article from Ilan Pappe based on the book and that is available here
Freedom Flotilla to Gaza ready to go from Türkiye but held up by Israeli pressure on supporting countries
Gaza Aid flotilla, due for launch last week has been delayed by ‘Israeli tactics’ here
Keep up to date with developments here https://kiaoragaza.wordpress.com/
Remember BDS for Aotearoa New Zealand
Remember our big six BDS targets for Aotearoa New Zealand?
Obela Hummus
Ahava skin care products
Sodastream
HP (Hewlett-Packard)
BP and Caltex
McDonalds
Israel’s flag day a celebration of Israeli racism
Generations of Jewish extremists are injected by Israeli educational curricula with racism, hatred, and extremism against everyone who is not Jewish.
Israeli youth attacked Palestinians and journalists including the ABC reporter Allyson Horn during their march through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem under Israeli occupation army protection chanting “Death to Arabs” and calling for “burning Arab villages down”.
Rebuilding the Gaza Centre for Human Rights
Damage to the Gaza Centre of Human Rights Office after an Israeli air attack in 2021
PSNA has been a long-time supporter of the Gaza Centre for Human Rights. The Centre is making an appeal for funds to rebuild at the earliest opportunity. New Zealander Julie Webb-Pullman worked at the centre for several years as an international expert on gathering evidence of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.
Before the latest Israeli attacks the centre had sent over 2000 claims of war crimes relating to Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2014 and its targeting the Great March of Return protests in March 2018.
We will have more about the centre in future newsletters.
In the meantime, people can donate to:
Account name: PALESTINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK
Account number: 38-9015-0849542-02 (Please put GCHR in the reference)
Watch out for this man promoting racism and apartheid
Here he is – the Israeli ambassador – watch out for him around Aotearoa New Zealand – if you hear of any planned appearances or speaking engagements please contact us urgently: Email apartheid-Israel@PSNA.nz or text 027 4 APARTHEID or 027427278.
Israeli ambassador Ran Yaakoby
Important stories this week
Editor’s Pick’s
Jeffrey Sachs on US policy here (video)
‘They forced us to undress’: children after Gaza raid here
Murray Horton on Genocide in Gaza here
Were Rakon components in the bomb that killed at least 40 people, women and children included, at the UNRWA school in Nuseirat camp in Gaza? Highly likely here
The financial destruction of Palestine here
A welcome decision on support for UNRWA but the paltry level of funding is deeply disappointing here
Mazin Qumsiyeh’s meeting in Queenstown here
‘Historic, but so, so late’: Israel added to UN’s child-killing ‘list of shame’ here
Israel’s descent here
As Gaza Starves, Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls to Reduce Humanitarian Aid here
Israel continues its crime of ethnic cleansing by destroying last neighbourhoods, UN shelter centres in Jabalia camp here
New Zealand company Rakon refuses to rule out its products are being incorporated into weapons used by Israel here
Other Stories
Australian journalist attacked at violent Jerusalem Day march here
Israeli army expands its use of quadcopters to kill more Palestinian civilians here
Israel secretly targets US lawmakers with influence campaign on Gaza war here
Between 7,000 and 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza need ‘urgent medical evacuation’ WHO warns here
Israeli white phosphorus stalks south Lebanon: rights groups here
Racists are Israel’s best friends in European parliament here
The case for calmness and compassion in the face of outrage here
Israel building watchtowers and outposts in Gaza in sign of post-war ambitions here
The Israeli terrorist Prime Minister here
How Kiwis are getting their families out of Palestine here
Israel mulls three options against Lebanon’s Hezbollah including full scale war here
8 months of death and destruction in Gaza here
Democrats are welcoming a genocidal war criminal to DC here
Biden’s Gaza announcement: what to make of the bizarre spectacle here
UN added Israel to UN global list of offenders against children here
World Food Programme pauses use of US aid pier in Gaza due to Israeli attacks here
We must never stop exposing cant and hypocrisy here
The Enduring and Racist Trope of Palestinian Rejectionism here
Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in south Lebanon, HRW warns here
An interview with Will Alexander, who was willing to die for the people of Palestine here
Pro-Palestinian Jewish groups from 16 countries hold international congress in London here
Israel’s treatment of Palestinian workers denounced at UN meeting here
Gaza unemployment since start of Israel’s war soars to nearly 80%: ILO here
US-made bomb used in Israel’s deadly Gaza school strike here
UN agency urges probe into all Israel violations against United Nations in Gaza here
Protesters in Tel Aviv urge Germany to stop sending arms to Israel here
Israel’s use of rape against Palestinian detainees from Gaza exposed here
Hundreds of Gaza-bound aid trucks pile up as Israel occupies Rafah border here
Israel kills 20 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; US allegedly involved in operation here
The Harvard graduating students denied their degrees over Palestine protest here
PSNA on NZ funding for UNRWA here
Reminder: Dates for Palestine Solidarity during the year
Israel apartheid week has been added to the dates for likely local and national Palestine solidarity activity this year.
28 Mar – 4 Apr Israel Apartheid Week
30 Mar Land Day Palestine
5 Apr Palestinian Childs Day
9 Apr Deir Yassin massacre - Irgun Terrorism - 107-120 Palestinian men, women and children massacred
17 Apr Palestinian Prisoners Day
11 May World Kufiya Day
15 May Nakba Day – marking the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948
5 Jun Nakba Day - Start of 1967 War - Land Grab – Invasion of Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, Egypt and Syria - 5 June 1967 – 10 June 1967
20 Jun Attack on Gaza - 6–21 May 2021 (2 weeks and 1 day)
16-18 Sep 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres
28 Sep Second Intifada - 28 Sept 2000 – 8 Feb 2005
2 Nov Balfour Declaration
29 Nov United Nations - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
8 Dec First Intifada - 8 Dec 1987 – 13 Sept 1993
Are you able to donate a cup of coffee a month to the campaign?
We will need some serious money to make our campaign as effective as possible. For example, we will need somewhere in the vicinity of $25,000 to bring speakers to New Zealand over the next year and organise large public meetings to help spread the message.
You can help. Are you able to donate a cup of coffee a month to the campaign? In other words, can you afford to make an automatic payment of $5 per month to support the Palestinian struggle? (If you can afford more that would be great!)
Our account details are:
Account name: Palestine Solidarity Network
Account number: 38-9015-0849542-00
We are happy to provide a receipt upon request (however, we are not a registered charity so this is not tax-deductible)
In Occupied Palestine daily newsletter – an invitation to subscribe from Leslie Bravery
Because of mainstream news media complicity, daily headlines and commentary only occasionally ever mention the relentless Israeli violence in Palestine, not even the frequent air strikes!
However, daily news and statistics regarding the violence Palestinians are forced to live under are regularly reported on in the “In Occupied Palestine daily newsletter”, sourced and compiled for easy reading and correlation chiefly from the Palestinian Monitoring Group's daily situation reports.
The In Occupied Palestine daily newsletter continues to be circulated, by email, worldwide to subscribers only, as it has been over the last two decades.
Please contact lesliebravery@icloud.com if you also wish to become a subscriber.
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More ways you can get involved
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Join in local activities in your area monthly Rallies - In Auckland at 2.00 pm on the first Saturday of every month. Please consider doing the same in your community. Contact Secretary@PSNA.nz if you would like to know where and how to get Flags and Banners
Help set up a Students for Justice in Palestine groups on your campus
Tell Your MP your opinions on Divestment and Sanctions of Israel.
Write Letters to Newspapers – Call Talkback Radio
Keep in touch with the campaign on social media
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o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/671376706283605/
o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network email: Secretary@PSNA.nz
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Human rights for Uyghur refugees - In line with our support for human rights for the people of Palestine we have added our name to the petition in support of human rights for Uyghur refugees so they can be included in the government’s refugee quota. PSNA members who wish to also sign this petition can do so here - https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/open-letter-let-s-show-compassion-to-the-uyghur-community
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