PSNA Newsletter No 149 - August 14 2024
14 Here-turi-kōkā 2024
14 August 2024
Newsletter No 149
Kia ora koutou,
Targeting Israeli genocide and apartheid – take action against Obela Hommus…
This month we are targeting Obela Hommus to drive it off the shelves of our supermarkets across the country. Please note PSNA has written to our two big supermarket chains asking them to withdraw Obela products but they have not responded.
What can you do to help?
Make a formal complaint to your local supermarket about them stocking a product which proudly supports and helps fund the Israeli military as it conducts genocide against Palestinians. More details are here and on the leaflet below. Some supermarkets such as Foodstuffs outlets (New World, Pak ‘n Save, Four Square) have a formal complaint process, for their customers, which they take seriously. You can get more details here. Otherwise you can make a complaint in person at the supermarket - and request a response from management.
Work with your local Palestine solidarity group to distribute our leaflet – see copy below – and help spread community awareness of the international campaign to boycott Obela and get it off our supermarket shelves.
Boycott Obela stickers will shortly be on their way to solidarity groups around the country…
Take Obela products for a walk around your supermarket and drop them off in various places…
This is the campaign leaflet we will be using:
What else are we asking people to boycott and pressure retailers to withdraw from sale?
Our key BDS targets are:
Obela Hommus:
Obela is 50% owned by Israel’s largest food company, Strauss Group, which is known for its support of the Israeli military, namely the elite Golani and Givati infantry brigades, whom they fund and provide care packages for. Since 1948, the Golani and Givati Brigades have been notorious for their severe human rights abuses in Lebanon and Palestine. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on a team of fighters from the Golani Brigade committing hate crimes against Palestinians in Nablus in the occupied Palestinian territories. Former members of the Golani Brigade describe the use of the "neighbour procedure", a term for the use of Palestinian civilians, often children, as human shields to protect Israeli occupation soldiers. The procedure was ruled illegal by Israel's own high court in 2005.
AHAVA products:
(“Dead Sea Mineral Skin Care Products”) Ahava manufactures its cosmetics in a factory in the illegal Mitzpe Shalem settlement in the occupied West Bank. However, AHAVA labels its skin care products imported into the EU as originating from "The Dead Sea, Israel." AHAVA uses Palestinian natural resources without the permission of or compensation to the Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israel denies Palestinians access to the shores of the Dead Sea and its resources, although one-third of the western shore of the Dead Sea lies in the occupied West Bank.
SodaStream:
Soda Steam is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev). SodaStream have a long history of mistreatment of and discrimination against Palestinian workers.
HP (Hewlett-Packard):
HP-branded corporations provide and operate technology that Israel uses to maintain its system of apartheid, occupation and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people.
Aside from providing services and technology to the Israeli army and police that maintain Israel’s illegal occupation and siege of Gaza, HP provides Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority with the exclusive itanium servers for its Aviv System. This system enables the government to control and enforce its system of racial segregation and apartheid against Palestinian citizens of Israel and is directly involved in Israel’s settler colonialism through its “Yesha database”, which compiles information on Israeli citizens in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
BP and Caltex:
Both brands are involved in extracting petroleum products from the Eastern Mediterranean, within Palestine’s maritime boundary, for Israel’s benefit at the expense of Palestinians. Stealing from the occupied people of Palestine is a breach of international law.
McDonald’s:
McDonald’s franchises in Israel have been openly supporting the Israeli Defence Force’s genocide in Gaza with free meals for Israeli soldiers. McDonald’s International have been happy for their brand to be associated with the slaughter of Palestinians. Active boycotts of McDonald’s in different countries have already hit their sales and some franchises in the Islamic world are now flying the Palestinian flag to distance themselves from the Israeli franchise. This adds to the pressure on McDonald’s to close its Israeli restaurants.
Remember - Swim with Gaza – August 24th/25th
Yes we know it’s winter BUT….
Last year several PSNA groups joined the Swim with Gaza (in their summer – our winter!) We received this message last week to say:
We hope you can join us in this year’s Swim With Gaza.
We had a very successful Swim last year in over 40 location around the world, but this year could not be more different in Gaza.
We debated whether we should go ahead with this year’s swim. We were moved by the fact that even in these darkest of times, people in Gaza are finding joy any which way they can – dancing, singing, playing music and more.
Our Swim With Gaza this year is to keep faith with the people of Gaza, that things can and will get better and we are with them in good and bad times.
Would you be able to organise a swim in your area?
Have a look here and leave your details if you would like to join this year’s Swim With Gaza.
Paul O’Brien
Swim With Gaza
Is Labour slowly getting warmed on Palestine?…from the general debate in Parliament last week
Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Labour—Te Atatū): Today, the Labour Party has called on the Government to use its Government procurement rules to ban Government agencies from purchasing goods and services from Israel's illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and we are also asking the Government to communicate directly to the Government of Israel that it should act immediately on the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and withdraw from the occupied territories now.
Why this; why now? Because the International Court of Justice, the United Nation's highest legal body has handed down an advisory opinion that is a sweeping and damning indictment of Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank, which it acquired by force in 1967 and has held ever since. It's worth a look at what the ICJ ruling actually says, and I want to quote directly: "The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying Power, through annexation and an assertion of permanent control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory and continued frustration of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, violates fundamental principles of international law and renders Israel's presence in the Occupied … Territory unlawful."
The ICJ goes on to catalogue forced evictions, extensive house demolitions, restrictions on residents and movement, the transfer by Israel of 700,000 settlers into the illegal settlements, its failure to prevent or punish violent attacks by settlers on Palestinians, restricting the access of the Palestinian population to water. But here's the important thing for this House: the ICJ found that all States, including New Zealand, are under an obligation not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the occupied territories and not to render aid or assistance to that occupation.
The ICJ ruling has changed the game. The world has watched in horror over the last eight months as Israel has killed nearly 40,000 civilians in Gaza, in spite of repeated calls by the United Nations General Assembly for a permanent ceasefire. Now the UN's highest court has issued a damning indictment of Israel's illegal occupation. Governments, like New Zealand, have a duty to act and this builds on a range of initiatives and policies that successive New Zealand Governments have held on this issue, and I want to reference when Murray McCully was the foreign Minister of the National Government of the time, in 2016, New Zealand then held a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council and co-sponsored a resolution that was passed in the Security Council that condemned Israel's illegal settlements and called on governments—with the force of international law—to differentiate between Israel the State, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I note that some members, some Ministers in this Government disown that resolution now and publicly have differed with it.
I also want to point out that our Government, in recent days, has called on the Government of New Zealand to recognise Palestine, to give it diplomatic recognition, just as Ireland has done in recent days, just as Spain and Norway have done—144 other countries in the United Nations have recognised Palestine, as a way of signalling the need for a negotiated political settlement in the region.
Finally, I want to say that the ICJ ruling is not a suggestion; it's not a request. It is international law and this Government likes to talk a big game on the international rules - based order, but it has been strangely quiet on Israel's war crimes and its multiple breaches of international law going back decades. If this Government doesn't speak out on this question that the ICJ has ruled on, if it doesn't take the kind of practical actions that we are calling for today—at least in the beginning, a ban on Government procurement of goods and services produced in the illegal settlements—then this Government is inviting people to accuse it of being selective, inconsistent, and hypocritical and undermining New Zealand's standing in the world.
Petition to the Aotearoa New Zealand parliament
“That the House of Representatives urge the Government to impose sanctions on Israel (including sanctions on settlers in the West Bank) until Israel has withdrawn from all Palestinian territory and it has reverted to the borders established for Israel under the UN Mandate of 1947 (Resolution 181)”
You can sign the petition here (note this is not a PSNA petition)
Local actions around the country last week
Creating their own red line in Nelson
Pictures and videos in Tamaki Makaurau protests here
Luxon is put on trial for complicity in genocide at the Hikoi mō ngā Tamariki protest in Ōtautahi/Christchurch last Saturday.
“There is no time to waste” says Winston as he parrots US cover for Israel
When he says “there is no time to waste” does Winston means the government must redouble its efforts to protect the US/Israel from international condemnation and resist all demands to hold Israel to account for genocide and war crimes?
Nationwide rallies/marches/actions this week
EVENTS LIST
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
There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.
North Island
Opononi – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kerikeri - Rally
First Saturday of the month
Whangarei – Rally for the Tamariki of Gaza
Saturday 17 August
No Rally this week
Auckland - Q&A with Brooke and Iona, The British High Commissioner to NZ
Friday 16 August
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Gather at 12:30 pm)
St Heliers Bay Church and Community Center
100 St Heliers Bay Road, Auckland
Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Saturday 17 August
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau at Eden Park
Saturday 17 August
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (note Change of time)
Sandringham side of Kingsland railway station. Cnr Sandringham and Walters Roads
Text Steve for details (dependant on wind speeds)
Auckland – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice - Hauraki)
First Saturday of the month
Tauranga – Flag waving for Palestine
Saturday 17 August
11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Papamoa Shopping center, Domain & Gravatt Rd, Papamoa
Hamilton – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
TBC
Check the PSNA Facebook events page
Raglan - Movie – Where Olive Trees Weep ($10 Koha)
Wednesday 28 August
7:00 pm
Raglan Old School Arts Center, Raglan
Cambridge - Rally to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Gisborne - Farmers Market - Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market
Rotorua – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Every Thursday
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier - Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North - Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 16 August
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge
New Plymouth – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Film - Israelism
Friday 16 August
7:30 pm
Davis Lecture Theatre, Watt Street Whanganui
Whanganui - Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton - Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton - Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
Featherston – Gathering for Gaza
Every Saturday
11:00 am
The Squircle (opposite the op shop).
Wellington – Vigil for Palestine (by Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine)
Every Friday
6:00 pm
In front of Wellington Hospital
49 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington
Wellington – Flags on the Bridge
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:45 – 8:45 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children Rally
(hosted by Collective groups of Wellington)
Saturday 10 August
2:00 pm
Midland Park, Wellington
South Island
Nelson – Rally
Saturday 17 August
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim - Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Flag Waving for Palestine
Friday 16 August
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Food for Peace – Kai and Fundraising for families in Gaza
Saturday 17 August
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Risingholme, 22 Cholmondeley Avenue, Opawa, Christchurch
Timaru – Movie – Where Olive Trees Weep
Sunday 18 August
10:00 am
Movie Max, Timaru
Dunedin
Saturday 17 August
No Rally this weekend
Queenstown - Kōrero with University of Otago's Dr Leon Goldsmith
Hosted by the Catalyst Trust
Sunday 18 August
6:00 -7.30pm
The Rees Hotel Queenstown’s Ruma Wai Kahu on the fifth floor
Bookings essential - https://events.humanitix.com/the-complex-middle-east-context-of-the-gaza-war/tickets
Invercargill - Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
Two things you can do now with just a few clicks…
Share the poster/event details for the solidarity action in your area on your social media pages – see the details on our FB events page.
Take action on Obela Hommus as we encourage you to do in the first item in this newsletter.
“Educators for Palestine”, seeking your help
We included this message in the previous newsletter but are including it again because it’s an important initiative:
“Educators for Palestine”, standing together for the right of young Palestinians to life and education, are asking for PSNA supporters and groups around the motu to not only sign this open letter but to promote it at rallies and events.
We are keen that at the nationwide events supporters are encouraged to ask the vast and varied kinds of educators in our whanau, communities and associated organisations to go on line and sign this Open Letter, as Educators are everywhere. (Below read more about Educators for Palestine along with the state of education under bombardment in Gaza which has been described as being ’scholastacide.’).
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/educators-for-palestine
The open letter says:
We, the undersigned educators, call on the New Zealand government to:
Use diplomatic means to push for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and an end to the 17-year blockade of Gaza.
Increase funding and support to agencies which run schools in Gaza, including but not limited to UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency), which runs 40% of Gaza’s schools.
Condemn the deliberate and targeted bombing of schools and education infrastructure in Gaza as an attack on Palestinian children and society.
“NO OTHER LAND” – A Palestinian film showing at the New Zealand International Film Festival
Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
"Produced by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this is a film poised to meet a world changed by events that have unfolded since it wrapped production in October 2023. No Other Land documents a Palestinian village and its residents as they struggle against forced displacement. The West Bank’s Masafer Yatta faces mass evictions at hands of Israeli authorities. Yet this is as much a story of its own co-directors’ asymmetrical relationship, as it is an account of events in Masafer Yatta. The result is a masterful exploration of 21st century apartheid and colonisation." — Nadia Abu-Shanab
Auckland
Thursday 8 August 10AM The Civic
Saturday 17 August 1:15PM The Civic
Wellington
Thursday 8 August 2:15PM Roxy Cinema
Saturday 10 August 1:15PM Embassy Theatre
Christchurch
Sunday 18 August 10:00AM Lumiere Cinemas (Bardot)
Friday 30 August 4:15PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bernhardt)
Saturday 31 August 3:30PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bernhardt)
Dunedin
Sunday 25 August 10:45AM Regent Theatre
Hamilton
Monday 26 August 6:15PM LIDO Cinemas
Sunday 1 September 1:00PM LIDO Cinemas
Tauranga
Monday 19 August 6:00PM Luxe Cinemas Tauranga
Thursday 22 August 2:15PM Luxe Cinemas Tauranga
New Plymouth
Monday 2 September 4:15PM Len Lye Centre
Wednesday 4 September 6:15PM Len Lye Centre
Napier
Tuesday 27 August 7:45PM MTG Century Theatre
Nelson
Thursday 15 August 2:00PM State Cinemas
Thursday 22 August 6:15PM State Cinemas
Masterton
Friday 23 August 2:00PM Regent 3 Cinemas
Monday 26 August 6:00PM Regent 3 Cinemas
From Auschwitz to Gaza - Kieran Hegarty performs his song here
Looking out for government MPs
“Pitiful in the face of genocide” – yes that’s our government. It still hasn’t even reached first base in responding to the industrial scale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. First base would be to condemn Israel and call for an immediate permanent ceasefire.
We need to challenge government MPs in National, New Zealand First and Act.
If you come across information with details of where any of these MPs will be for speaking or have meeting engagements, then please contact us urgently so we can organise to protest and challenge them.
Email apartheid-Israel@PSNA.nz or text 027 4 APARTHEID or 027427278.
Important stories this week
Editor’s Pick’s
Israeli rape of detainees is the result of a society that sees Palestinians as ‘human animals’ here
Haniyah’s assassination and Israel’s charade of diplomacy here
The Fajr massacre: every 70kg bag of human remains is considered a martyr here
Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it? here
How Israeli soldiers film their war crimes for social media here
Israel journalist urges rape to become state policy for Palestinian prisoners here
Largest UK pension fund sells off Israeli assets amid member anger over Gaza here
WATCH: ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’ - A Startling New Documentary from Zeteo here
Other Stories
NZ rallies protest over Israeli killings of children as world condemns latest school ‘bloody massacre’ here
The Perils of a Looming Saudi-Israeli Normalization Deal here
Petition: Bankers: stop doing business with companies supplying arms to Israel here
Declaiming antisemitism: tribal solipsism or linguistic imperialism? here
The UK Elections and Palestine with Sara Husseini here (podcast)
To stop the century-long genocide in Palestine, uproot the source of all violence: Zionism here
Gaza casualty rate is a fraction of the death rate here
How Israeli leaders create hate for Israel here
How Israelis Invade Their Own Military Bases to Protest Arrest of IDF Rapists here
Israeli army probe covered up “friendly fire” killings on 7 October here
Here Are Three Things You Need to Know About Israel’s Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh here
ICC to rule if the Australian government is complicit in Israel’s genocide here
New Zealand not attending Nagasaki events – support for Israel? here
Change on the way? ABC reviews ICJ ruling here
Starmer learnt the price of power was support for genocide here
Israeli media publishes video of soldiers allegedly raping Palestinian detainee here
‘Raped by female soldiers’: Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out here
“Welcome to Hell”: Torture, abuse and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli jails is deliberate policy
Israel bans Imam of Al-Aqsa Ekrema Sabri from entering mosque for six months after he eulogised Ismail Haniyeh here
Netanyahu 'most cunning, most ruthless leader': Veteran diplomat here
Israel’s Netanyahu calls occupied West Bank ‘part of our homeland’ here
Smotrich says its “justified and moral” to let Palestinians die of hunger here
Over 100 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City school-turned-shelter, world condemns here
Israeli forces step up attacks, raids in occupied West Bank here
UNRWA reports 300% surge in child malnutrition in northern Gaza here
Palestinians burned alive in Israeli attack on Khan Younis ‘safe zone’ here
Palestinian women endure increasing violence, depression from Israeli war, survey finds here
‘An entirely preventable disaster’: Health officials warn of catastrophic polio epidemic in Gaza here
Israel has created its own Abu Ghraib - and the world is silent here
There is a link between fascism in the UK and fascism in Israel here
“Hey Luxon what do you say – how many kids did you kill today?” here
The World Court says Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land is illegal: Four steps NZ can take now here
ICC to rule if the Australian Government is complicit in Israel's genocide here
Decades of US Arms Deals With Israel Paved the Way to Genocide in Gaza here
Malnutrition up 300 percent as Bezalel Smotrich says Gaza 'should starve' here
B'Tselem details systematic abuse and torture of Palestinians held in Israeli jails: Report here Commentary here
Haniyeh’s Assassination & Israel’s Charade of Diplomacy here
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
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
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
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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Go here - https://www.psna.nz/shop
More ways you can get involved
Forward this Newsletter – If you know people who may be interested in this movement, please forward this Newsletter to them.
Join in local activities in your area - 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
o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network website: https://www.PSNA.nz
o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/671376706283605/
o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network email: Secretary@PSNA.nz
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign produces the In Occupied Palestine newsletter. It is a regular daily newsletter on the daily situation in Palestine, compiled by Leslie Bravery and emailed to subscribers. If you would also like to become a subscriber, please contact Leslie at “lesliebravery @ icloud .com” (remove the spaces to use as an email address) for further information.
Keep Updated on our Facebook pages and websites (listed below)
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
PSNA Groups
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Chair - John Minto: Chair@PSNA.nz
Secretary - Neil Scott: Secretary@PSNA.nz
Regional Groups
Bay of Islands PSN Bay of Islands (Email)
Whangarei PSN Whangarei (Facebook)
Auckland PSN Auckland – Tamaki Makaurau (Website)
Hamilton Palestine Human Rights Campaign Waikato (Facebook)
Tauranga Tauranga Moana 4 Palestine (Facebook)
Napier/Hastings Aotearoa Standing with Palestine (Facebook)
Palmerston North PSN Palmerston North (Email)
New Plymouth PSN Taranaki (Facebook)
Wellington PSN Wellington (Email)
Nelson Te Tau Ihu (Nelson) Palestine (Facebook)
Christchurch PSN Christchurch (Facebook)
Dunedin Dunedin for Justice in Palestine (Facebook)
Invercargill PSNA Invercargill (Email)