PSNA Newsletter No 157 - October 9 2024
9 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2024
9 October 2024
Newsletter No 157
Palestinians inspect damages at Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital and the area around it following a two-week operation in Gaza City on April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
A special thanks to everyone who came out for Palestine at rallies, marches and vigils last weekend. It was heartening for Palestinians in Palestine and across the world to see the large numbers still marching a year after the genocide began.
But it isn’t over yet – Israel has brought the genocide to Lebanon now as well as INCREASING its attacks and slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
This is a time of deep shame for the New Zealand government and media and a time for concerted action against their complicity with genocide.
Banned by Stuff – the information Stuff don’t want you to see!
Last week Stuff newspapers told us they would not print this full-page advertisement which had been booked to go in all Stuff newspapers yesterday (Tuesday) At this stage Stuff has given no official reason for banning the add aside from saying they won’t do so “while the ongoing conflict is developing”
It seems that for Stuff, pro-Israel sympathies are more important that Palestinian realities.
It’s important to point out that Stuff has, over many years, printed full page advertisements from a Christian Zionist, Pastor Nigel Woodley, from Hastings. Woodley’s advertisements have been full of the most egregious and fanciful misinformation, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.
Our advertisement on the other hand is 100% factual and speaks truth to power – demanding our government hold Israel to account for its war crimes and 76-years of brutal military occupation of Palestine.
Something you can do now with just a few clicks…
Write your own email to Stuff or copy and paste this email:
Keith Lynch
Editor in Chief
Stuff newspapers
Dear Stuff,
I was deeply disappointed in Stuff’s refusal to print the PSNA advertisement on the genocide in Gaza.
It seems to me your decision is part of a long pattern of Stuff’s Eurocentric reporting on Israel’s various wars against the indigenous people of Palestine.
Your use of only European news sources such as Reuters, AP, BBC and a host of UK and US newspapers which centre Israeli narratives, Israeli reasoning, Israeli explanations and Israeli justifications while only reporting Palestinians as helpless victims of Israeli “retaliations” is helping Israel avoid accountability.
In fact your reporting is prolonging Israel’s industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians.
In the past you have printed the most awful anti-Palestinian racism in advertisements from the pro-Israel lobby but have refused to print a 100% accurate advertisement which hold Israel to account. Is the reason that your pro-Israel sympathies trump Palestinian realities?
On your website you invite people to subscribe to Stuff to “Help keep trustworthy journalism flourishing”. Why would you expect anyone to accept this statement?
Please respond urgently.
(Your name and contact details)
Appeal to NZ media: “Stop telling us porkies”
PSNA protest outside TVNZ on 7 October against TVNZ’s blatant pro-Israeli, anti-Palestinian reporting (Dean Purcell)
PSNA’s appeal to media a week before the 12-month anniversary of the genocide in Gaza to stop reporting debunked Israeli war propaganda as though it was true:
As the 12-month anniversary of the October 7th attack on Israel approaches, PSNA is appealing to New Zealand mainstream media to stop reporting Israeli war propaganda when it has already been comprehensively debunked.
For example, on TVNZ News tonight, 4 October, the presenter told us that in the October 7th attack “Hamas gunmen killed around 1200 people - mostly civilians”. This is repeating Israeli war propaganda. Even ABC News in Australia has reported on this debunked lie but a full year on TVNZ is happy to keep telling us porkies.
Israeli news reporters and independent journalists have investigated and found:
Most of the victims were either Israeli soldiers and police or army reservists. One analysis concluded "A total of 1,269 individuals were affected, predominantly military males aged 18-25”
Many Israeli civilians were killed by Israeli military commanders adopting the “Hannibal directive” whereby it is better to kill or risk killing Israeli war captives than having them taken hostage or prisoner. Orders to attack any vehicle heading to Gaza meant hundreds of cars were attacked, killing hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis alike
After the resistance fighters broke out from Gaza there was a “second wave” of people who came through the fence and it appears this group were responsible for most of the war crimes committed on that day rather than fighters from the highly-disciplined resistance groups
There was no widespread sexual assault committed by the Palestinian resistance fighters against Israeli women and children as claimed by Israel
There were no beheaded Israeli babies, no foetuses ripped from slaughtered mothers, no children raped – all claims made by the Israeli propaganda machine
Israel has taken more than 9,000 counter hostages (held without charge or trial) from Gaza and the Occupied West Bank since October 7th
6,400 Palestinians in Gaza are missing since October 7th
This is not to deny war crimes were committed on October 4th. Taking Hostages and killing civilians are war crimes which should be investigated and prosecuted by the International Criminal Court as the court has done in the case of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the myriad war crimes of genocide and apartheid by Israeli leaders must also be investigated and prosecuted.
Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein summed it up well shortly after October 7th when she said "Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."
So what are the debunked Israeli propaganda lies we are appealing to the media to stop reporting as though they were factual?
Hamas hates Jews and wants to kill every Jew in the world
Hamas beheaded babies, burned babies alive in ovens etc
Hamas used systematic widespread rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women and children.
Hamas uses civilians as human shields
Hamas educates Palestinian children to hate Israelis
Hamas has hijacked humanitarian supplies which is the main reason Palestinians in Gaza are starving
Looking at these one by one:
Hamas hates Jews and wants to kill every Jew in the world
In the latest Hamas charter from 2017, the organisation says
“Hamas reiterates that its conflict is with the Zionist project and not with the Jews based on their religion.”
“Hamas is not fighting against the Jews because they are Jews, but against the Zionists who are occupying Palestine.”
“Hamas rejects the persecution of people or the undermining of their rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian ground.”
In fact, their new charter goes further and Hamas accepts the state of Israel based on 1967 borders – precisely the same policy as the New Zealand government along with the US, the UK and most of the world!
To read more go to the link here:
Government condemns Palestinian resistance attack on Israel but no mention of 12 months of genocide in Gaza which started on October 7th
Here we go again – government hypocrisy on steroids!
From a PSNA media release 2 October 2024:
It’s appalling but not surprising to see the New Zealand government condemn Iran’s attack on Israel while refusing to condemn any of Israel’s inflammatory actions designed to provoke Iran into a wider Middle East war.
Israel’s deliberate provocations to create a wider Middle East war include:
The assassination of Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr in Beirut
The assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Hanniyah who was negotiating a ceasefire agreement with Israel. The assassination took place in Iran in a flagrant breach of Iranian sovereignty
The Israeli missile attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria which killed several top Iranian officials
The “exploding pager” attack in Lebanon
The Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut
Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon
“We are used to government hypocrisy in condemning every act of Palestinian resistance as terrorism but refusing to condemn Israel’s wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza or Lebanese civilians in Lebanon but latest this government tweet is hypocrisy on steroids,” says PSNA National Chair John Minto.
“Israel is the aggressor here, Israel is breaching international law, Israel is pushing to widen the war and yet the government points the finger at Israel’s victims”
New Zealanders are bigger than this level of unprincipled, cowardly response.
Nationwide rallies/marches/MP protests/vigils 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
Or events are on the PSNA Facebook events page here
There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.
North Island
Opononi
Sunday 13 October
Nothing this weekend – watch this space
Kerikeri - Rally
Saturday 12 October
No Rally this weekend
Whangarei – Rally
Saturday 12 October
No Rally this weekend
Auckland – Say Hi to Judith Collins at Dinner
Thursday 10
6:30 pm
Annabelles Restaurant, 409 Tamaki Drive, St Heliers, Auckland
Auckland – Picket
Friday 11 October
No Picket this week
Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 12 October
10:00 am
Auckland – Rally
Saturday 12 October
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga - Britomart Square, Tamaki Makaurau
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(Hosted by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice - Hauraki)
First Saturday of the month
Tauranga - Flag Wave & Mural Painting
Sunday 13 October
11:00 am
Coronation Park, Mouth Manganui
Hamilton – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
1:00 pm
Civic Square, Hamilton
Raglan
To be advised
Cambridge - Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua – Rally for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Gisborne - Farmers Market - Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market
Whakatāne - Snap Rally for Palestine
Wed 9 Oct
12 - 1pm
49 Kakahoroa Drive (outside the Library)
Napier - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 13 October
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North - Rally for Palestine
Sunday 13 October
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 6 September
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth
New Plymouth – Vigil
Saturday 12 October
1:00 PM
Hatchery Lawn- Pukekura Park, New Plymouth
Whanganui - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton – Gathering for Gaza
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Vigil for Palestine
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton - Gathering for Gaza
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn, Masterton
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
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Boycott Obela rally
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 12 October
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Opposite Chaffers New World and next to the Bowlzilla Skatepark
South Island
Nelson – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch- Flag Waving for Palestine
Friday 11 October
4:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Otautahi stands with Lebanon
Saturday 12 October
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru
No Rally this weekend
Dunedin – Rally and March
Saturday 12 October
1:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve (marching to the Octagon)
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill - Rally for Palestine
Sunday 13 October
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
After 12 months of genocide in Gaza…
The following comes from https://www.ochaopt.org/
Ongoing US supported genocide: 365 days of forced starvation and deliberate preventing humanitarian aid; 3628 massacres; 41900 registered deaths that arrived at hospitals; over 10,000 missing presumed dead (some maybe in Israeli jails); 11,458 registered women and >16,891 registered children killed (710 less than one year old); estimated 90,000-100,000 dead due to medical and food conditions; 986 medical personnel killed; 174 journalists killed; 96359 injured; 25973 orphaned children; over four thousand children lost limbs; over 10,000 cancer patients not getting treatment (or even pain killers); 1,737,524 acquired communicable or other diseases due to health/sanitation issues (71,338 hepatitis); >55,000 pregnant women without prenatal care; nearly 2 million displaced/homeless; 611 mosques and 3 churches completely destroyed (+211 partial); 125 schools and universities completely destroyed (337 partial); 34 hospitals put out of service or destroyed; 2835 km of roads destroyed; 655 km of water system lines destroyed; 86% of buildings/infrastructure damaged/destroyed; 33 billion estimates damage.
What happened 7 October?
Al Jazeera investigation reveals Israeli lies and war propaganda here
See also https://ongaza.org/
Quotes of the week
“As far as I'm concerned, Gaza should be hermetically sealed. We shouldn't provide them anything. Let them die of hunger, thirst, and malaria. I don't care, they are not my citizens, I owe them nothing”
- Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Minister of Finance
“Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed…There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation. Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons…”
- Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Short and sweet
Excellent Te Pāti Māori Statement on Israel & Iran
Press Release –Wednesday 2 October 2024
Over 41,000 Palestinian’s have been murdered by Israel in the last 12 months. At the same time, Israel have launched attacks against at least four other countries in the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
“You cannot play the aggressor and the victim at the same time,” said Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.
“What we are seeing today is the culmination of decades of US imperialism in the Middle East. Iran has for a long time been a barrier to Western control in the region. This is what the West’s uncritical support of Israel has been leading up to” Ngarewa-Packer said.
“Meanwhile the New Zealand Government is in talks with the United States about joining AUKUS to further support their war efforts. This represents the next phase of global colonisation, and it is being negotiated behind closed doors,” co-leader Rawiri Waititi said.
“The US want to use Aotearoa as a Pacific spy base. This could mean the end of our longstanding nuclear free policy to allow their war ships into our waters.
“AUKUS threatens our sovereignty as an independent nation, and the Mana Motuhake of every nation in the Pacific. It threatens to drag Aotearoa into World War 3,” said Waititi.
“The New Zealand Government is putting everyone in Aotearoa at risk through their complicity. They must end all talks about joining AUKUS immediately. They must sanction Israel and cut ties with all countries who are committing and aiding war crimes,” said Ngarewa-Packer.
“As Tangata Whenua we will not allow our sovereignty to be determined by others, whether it is the New Zealand Government or the United States Government,” said Waititi.
Te Pāti Māori condemns the killing of innocent people. We condemn all actions that have led to today’s escalation of war.
Ngā mihi,
Te Pāti Māori
https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/
And once again remember you can still take action on these asks from recent newsletters…
1. Each week thousands of letters are going to all MPs – have you written your letter and sent it to us so we can get it to all MPs?
All the details you need to join the letter-writing campaign are on our website here
2. Have you sent a letter of complaint to your local supermarket about selling Obela Hommus and other products yet?
Sample letter of complaint to your local supermarket
Kia ora,
I am asking you to withdraw Obela Hommus and other Obela products from your shelves because it is supporting the genocide in Gaza. Obela is owned by the Strauss Group in Israel which helps finance and provides “care packages” for Israeli troops involved in genocide in Gaza.
It is unacceptable to have such a product in the store, particularly as the International Court of Justice ruled last month that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is unlawful and that all countries should end any “aid or assistance” to Israel to maintain its illegal occupation.
Selling Israeli products in New Zealand supermarkets is assisting the Israeli economy enabling the occupation to continue.
Please stop selling this product which assists genocide and assists Israel to continue its occupation of in Palestine.
Please get back to me urgently.
Name
Contact details
More details of the campaign will be in the Obela Newsletter special later this week.
3. Keep your ear to the ground?
Pass on to us any news you have of government MPs at public events so we can hold them to account. Send messages to Secretary@PSNA.nz
Local actions around the country
Welcome to our newest solidarity group from Akaroa
Whakatū/Nelson:
Auckland:
On the main street in Avondale
Vandalism on a fence in Ngāmotu/New Plymouth – a reaction to being effective in promoting opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Remember BDS for Aotearoa New Zealand
Remember our big six BDS targets for Aotearoa New Zealand?
Obela Hummus and other Obela products
Ahava skin care products
Sodastream
HP (Hewlett-Packard)
BP and Caltex
McDonalds
BIBI - My Story
Watch out for this book in booksellers around the country which celebrates the life of a genocidal racist whom the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court wants to arrest and try for war crimes…
If you see the book in a bookstore, protest to the management and/or be creative in shifting copies out of the public eye, use your imagination….
Important stories this week
Editor’s Pick’s
A year of unprecedented loss and solidarity here (Al Shabaka annual report)
Palestinian journalist, 19, killed in Israeli raid after receiving threats here
On this day in particular here (Caitlin Johnstone)
Investigating war crimes in Gaza here (Al Jazeera investigation)
Israel’s policy of genocide here
The US and Israeli leaders pushing for war on Iran here
The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel's crimes here (Jonathan Cook)
What lands are promised to greater Israel here
Other Stories
Words kill: Why Israel gets away with murder in Gaza and Lebanon here
What atrocity would Israel have to commit for our leaders to break their silence? here
Arab Voters Are Abandoning Kamala Harris. Why Doesn’t She Seem to Care? here
What are the Biden administrations motivations in the Middle East here
Irish MP: I hope Netanyahu burns in hell here
Repression of anti-genocide forces in Australia, NZ media goes after Labour MP here
Israel escalates massacres in Gaza after Iranian missile attack here
The struggle for academic freedom – why the bill on anti-semitism at Australian Universities is divisive here
The McCarthyist plan to suppress critique of Israel in Australia here
How messianic Zionism conquered the west here
American Healthcare Workers Who Volunteered in Gaza Say Over 118,000 Have Been Killed here
An Israeli air strike on a West Bank cafe wipes out entire family here
Australia billionaire Andrew Forrest donates $10m for Gaza aid here
Israel targets Nasrallah 'successor' Safieddine in Beirut attacks as road out of Lebanon bombed here
Beirut’s Dahiyeh left deserted and destroyed after brutal Israeli bombardment here
Israel acting with impunity in Middle East, says former Irish President here
Hezbollah repels 6 infiltration attempts by Israel here
Internal emails show officials warned Biden administration about possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza: Report here
Biden’s Gaza Genocide is Now Biden’s Greater Middle East War here
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: bombed to death, yet again by Israel here
Social media platforms face accusation of censoring Gaza content here
Israel prevents call to Friday prayer at Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron here
Blinken approved policy to bomb aid trucks here
Pope Francis slams Israel’s attacks in Lebanon that go “beyond morality” here
Pope Francis slams Israeli attacks which go beyond morality here
Hezbollah leader Nasrallah mourned across Middle East here
Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Israel: Five Things You Need To Know here
Israel’s assassinations can’t kill resistance here
Starving Gaza here
Drunk with power, Israel's 'victory' opens the gates for war without end here
Lebanon death toll continues to climb amid indiscriminate Israeli bombing here
Christians attacked, spat at in Israel here
Israel has been bombing Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza here (video)
Israeli settler group shares ad for properties in south Lebanon amid invasion threats here
Exposing the Zionist settler-colonial mindset: A review of Holy Redemption here
UK independent MPs push for sanctions against Israel amid Lebanon attacks here
Hundreds of Greek Cypriots protest role of British bases in Israel attacks on Gaza here
Israel mass killing by no means guarantees victory in the Middle Eastern cauldron 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
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
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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
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
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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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