PSNA Newsletter No 161 - November 6 2024
6 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2024
6 November 2024
Newsletter No 161
The north of Gaza is an open graveyard
“As the world watches, Palestinians in Gaza are living through a deliberately engineered humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions that worsens by the hour. In recent weeks, Israel has imposed a total siege of northern Gaza and intensified its bombardment here, with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is implementing a policy of starvation to force the remaining Palestinians south. Israel has already laid waste to much of Gaza, but if the international community does not act immediately, there will be nothing and no one remaining in the north.
The past year has tested our endurance in ways we could never have imagined. But the last few weeks have pushed us to the limit of anything that can be described as “living.””
The full piece, by 28-year-old doctor in northern Gaza, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, is here. (Ezzidean was raised in Jabaliya, where he is currently sheltering)
NZ the staunchest western supporter of Israel – the silence of the complicit
PSNA Media release 4 November
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says it is appalling that the government has remained totally silent on Israeli military and diplomatic attacks on the United Nations.
PSNA Chair, John Minto, says the Israel parliament decision this week to ban UNRWA operations in Israel and East Jerusalem effectively closes down the major aid organisation’s desperately needed work in the Gaza Strip.
“UNRWA was set up by the United Nations to assist the hundreds of thousands Palestinian refugees expelled by Israel in 1948, pending their right of return – which Israel refuses to recognise.”
“Israel sees UNRWA as an unwelcome reminder of Palestinian national rights and has always aimed to get rid of it. Support for banning UNRWA came from the Zionist New Zealand Jewish Council earlier this year.”
Israel has also recently shelled United Nations peacekeeping positions in Lebanon and has killed an estimated 230 UNRWA workers in Gaza.
“Our government has previously stated how important UNRWA relief work is for Palestinian refugees in Gaza. The US government says the UNRWA supply of food, water and medicine is ‘irreplaceable’”.
“Yet, under no doubt as a result of Israeli lobbying, our commitment to the UN and its work is increasingly exposed as somewhere between shallow and non-existent.”
John Minto says other western governments have been critical of the UNRWA ban and the recent Israeli refusal to allow the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres to enter Israel.
Despite New Zealand having UN peace keepers in the Lebanon border areas, it failed to join the more than 40 countries which condemned the military attacks on a number of UNIFIL bases in south Lebanon last month”.
“Our government refuses to offend Israel in any way. Even major arms suppliers to Israel, particularly the US, France and the UK, have been sometimes critical of what is a genocide by Israel in Gaza.”
“In contrast, the New Zealand government blames Hamas for all the killing and destruction committed by Israel, though it also finds space to condemn Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran.”
Previous New Zealand governments have formally rebuked Israel for its violence, most recently former Foreign Minister Murry McCully in 2010 and former Prime Minister John Key in 2014, both by summoning in the Israeli ambassador.
“This time, when Israeli attacks on Gaza are becoming even more savage and sadistic by the day, our Foreign Minister and his government remains inactive and silent.”
John Minto says the Israeli war crimes in Gaza now clearly include ethnic cleansing.
“Reports of what is called the Israeli ‘General’s Plan’ are now widespread in our news media. The General’s Plan is a vile combination of military assault, starvation and exclusion of both aid workers and news media, to hide and facilitate the ‘death march’ of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from north of the Netzarim Corridor”.
“This is to prepare for a resumption of illegal Israeli colonisation in northern Gaza.”
“In September, our government voted with 123 other countries for a UN General Assembly resolution to demand that Israel withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territories without delay.”
“That was welcome.”
“What is not welcome is for New Zealand to then stand by when genocidal Israel carries out ethnic cleansing on a massive scale to once again spit on the UN and increase its occupation of Palestinian lands.”
Quote of the week relating to Israel’s decision to outlaw the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Words Agency)
“This decision will turn a humanitarian catastrophe into a humanitarian ‘apocalypse”.
I use that word advisedly, as I believe we are seeing Gaza transformed on live TV into an industrial scale death camp.”
—Chris Gunness, former UNRWA spokesperson
Something you can do now with just a couple of clicks…
Email this note to your local MP (You can find your local MP here)
Kia ora (MP Name)
Please read the following three quotes:
1) Greg Gunness, former UNRWA spokesperson
“This decision (Israel’s decision to outlaw UNRWA) will turn a humanitarian catastrophe into a humanitarian ‘apocalypse”.
I use that word advisedly, as I believe we are seeing Gaza transformed on live TV
into an industrial scale death camp.”
2) Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories
"The violence that Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-7 October is not happening in a vacuum, but is part of a long-term intentional, systematic, state-organised forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians"
3) 28-year-old doctor in northern Gaza, Dr Ezzideen Shehab.
“The north of Gaza is an open graveyard. As the world watches, Palestinians in Gaza are living through a deliberately engineered humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions that worsens by the hour.
What should be parliament’s response while our government is silent while the settler colonial state of Israel runs riot across the Middle East in an orgy of industrial-scale slaughter?
<your name>
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
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.
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 - Gathering for Palestine
Sunday 10 November
No Rally this weekend
Kerikeri - Rally
No Rally this weekend. Next is First Saturday of the month – 7 December
Whangarei – Rally
Saturday 9 November
No Rally this weekend
Auckland – Picket UK Consulate
Wednesday 6 November
12:00 Noon
151 Queen Street, Auckland CBD
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
Every Saturday
10:00 am – 1:00 pm (then off to the Auckland Rally)
This week - Carrington Road overbridge - Point Chevalier
Text John on 021 899 659 for location
Auckland – Rally
Saturday 9 November
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga - Britomart Square, Tamaki Makaurau
Auckland – Seymour in Mt Eden
Sunday 10 November
10:30 am – Cnr Mountain Road and Almorah Road
11:00 am – Cnr Gillies Ave and Domett Ave
11:30 am – Cnr Owens Road and Marama Ave
12:00 pm - Cnr Windmill Rd and Hasbury Ave
12:30 pm – Cnr Mt Eden Road and Ngauruhoe Street
1:30 pm – Cnr Fairview Road and Henley Road
2:00 pm – Cnr Valley Road and Ashton Road
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(Hosted by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice - Hauraki)
No Rally this weekend. Next is First Saturday of the month – 7 December
Tauranga - Flag wave
Wednesday 6 November
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Tauranga Harbour bridge Marina, 101 Te Awanui Dr (SH2)
(by the Jay Vine Coffee Hub)
Tauranga - Flag wave
Sunday 10 November
11:00 am
SH2 Bethlehem - (by the BP service station)
Whakatane
Rallies are starting to be organised
Watch this space
Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine
Every Saturday
1:00 pm
Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton
See next ad for Hamilton Rally
Hamilton – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 9 November
1:00 pm
The Base - corner of Wairere Dr & Te Rapa rd, Hamilton
Raglan
To be advised
Watch this space
Cambridge - Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua – Rally for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:30 pm
National MP Todd McClays Office - Cnr Amohau and Ranolf St lights, Rotorua
Gisborne - Farmers Market - Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market
Napier - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 9 November
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 10 November
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North - Rally for Palestine
Sunday 10 November
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 8 November
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth
New Plymouth – March for Gaza
Saturday 9 November
1:00 PM
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 9 November
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 – Flags on the Bridge
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Vigil for Palestine
(hosted by Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine)
Every Friday
6:00 pm
In front of Wellington Hospital
49 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington
Wellington – Rally for Palestine
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 9 November
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Glover Park - Hikoi to Cuba Mall
South Island
Nelson – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 9 November
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 9 November
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch - Flag Waving for Palestine
Wednesday 6 November
4:00 pm
Corner of Sutton Quay and Norwich Quay, Littleton
Christchurch - Flag Waving for Palestine
Friday 8 November
4:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Rally
Saturday 9 November
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru
No Rally this weekend
Dunedin – All out for Palestine - Rally and March
Saturday 9 November
1:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill - Rally for Palestine
Sunday 10 November
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
BDS action: Watch out for the Obela campaign newsletter later this week
In the meantime you may want some of these stickers – send a note to obelastickers@PSNA.nz and we will send you some.
Don’t Bank on Apartheid
Right now, ASB KiwiSaver funds have over $14 million invested in Motorola Solutions Inc. who are part of a United Nations list of 116 companies enabling illegal Israeli settlements.4 They are the technology and surveillance arm of the Israeli military and have custom built technologies for this occupying force. Their technology is used in illegal settlements, checkpoints, in the illegal “separation barrier” and by the military.5 Due to the recent ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) there is now also a legal case that we should not be doing business with companies like Motorola.
We are asking ASB to make a choice: divest its KiwiSaver funds from Motorola Solutions Inc. or watch your customers switch en masse on November 29th, Day of Solidarity with Palestinians.
Whether or not you have a Kiwisaver with ASB.
Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti o Waitangi
In mid-November, the country will join in kotahitanga (unity) to hīkoi across the motu, and meet in Te Upoko o te Ika to send a clear message: Toitū Te Tiriti. The immediate call will be to stop the Treaty Principles Bill, and the raft of anti-Te Tiriti legislation that undermines our shared relationship.
Toitū Te Tiriti is coordinating the Hīkoi across the motu. We recommend following their facebook and/or instagram pages for up-to-date information. Please would you share the information below through your networks?
The information below all comes from Toitū Te Tiriti.
Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti will consist of three types of activities:
Hīkoi: moving on foot at main rally points
Convoy: by vehicle from one destination to another
Activations: rallying together to make noise, whakawhanaungatanga and kōrero
Health & Safety
The health and safety of ALL people over the course of this hīkoi is a priority. There will be safety marshalls along the way, and we expect everyone to ensure safety on the road and in vehicles is maintained to the highest standard. This includes safe and calm behaviour.
Please ensure you have prepared enough kai and wai to sustain your whānau for the duration of the Hīkoi. Please also ensure you prepare for all weather scenarios: warm clothing, wet weather gear, hats and sunblock.
There is an expectation that everyone priorities the safety, care and needs of our kaumātua and our tamariki. Please look out for them. Write your name and phone number on your tamariki hands in the event they decide to take off for a play and can’t find you.
Marae for each evening of the hīkoi has been booked. Priority will be given to kaumātua, tamariki and Māmā. We encourage everyone to make their own arrangements for accommodation if the marae becomes too full.
Please ensure that you have enough pūtea to support yourself and your whānau on the road (gas and kai money). We know these are tough times for our whānau, so please do not put yourself under too much pressure. Also have a plan to get home after!
Travel and event details
5am: Karakia, then Hīkoi departs Te Rerenga Wairua
10am: Activation in Kaitāia
1pm: Activation in Kawakawa
6pm: Pōwhiri Whangārei
9am Activation, Whangārei
1pm Activation, Tunatahi/Dargaville
6pm Pōwhiri, Te Raki Paewhenua/North Shore
10am Hīkoi over the Harbour Bridge
2pm Activations at Orakei/Bastion Point and Ihumātao
6pm Karakia, Rangiriri
9am meet for Hīkoi at Kirikiriroa Marae
11am Activation, Kirikiriroa/Hamiliton
6pm Pōwhiri, Rotorua
10am Hīkoi & Activation, Village Green, Rotorua
6pm Pōwhiri, Heretaunga/Hastings
10am Activation, Clock Tower, Heretaunga/Hastings
6pm Pōwhiri, Papaioea/Palmerston North
10am Activation, Te Marae o Hine, Papaioea/Palmerston North
2pm Activation, Ōtaki train station car park
6pm Pōwhiri, Ngāti Toa Domain
10am Wānanga and preparation, Takapuwahia marae
9am Whakatau/Welcome Waitangi Park
12 Noon Hīkoi arrives at Parliament
4pm Concert hosted by Mana Whenua at Waitangi Park, farewell & karakia
Tautoko Gaza won – best compilation EP for 2024
Such a great evening - a pleasure to accept the award for best EP compilation at the Mighty Aotearoa Alternative Music Awards last Saturday” says PSNA National Chair John Minto.
John Minto accepted the award on behalf of Flo Wilson who is in Berlin and who asked him to accept on behalf of the artists. The winning album is called “Tautoko Gaza” with all the proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
A big warm congratulations from PSNA to all the artists!
You can see the award acceptance speech here
Tautoko Gaza in music
TAUTOKO GAZA
Tautoko Gaza - Aotearoa Artists in Solidarity with Palestine
You can listen and buy the album at the link above - all funds go to Medical Aid for Palestine!
Give this album the big push it deserves!
A great Xmas present.
Zionism: Origins, Goals and Influence
Zionism: Origins, Goals and Influence
Never Again Is Now: Sanction Israel’s Genocidal and Apartheid Regime... 20 - 29 November.
More details here.
Invitation from International League of People’s Struggle to an ILPS assembly on November 15-17
Already several people from PSNA are attending this event and it would be good if more can come. Here is the letter of invite we received.
Kia ora,
Warm greetings of solidarity!
We are honoured to invite PSNA to the first in-person assembly of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) Aotearoa, where movements, organisations, and alliances committed to unity, cooperation, and coordination in anti-imperialist and democratic struggles will come together.
The assembly will take place from 2 pm on November 15 to 3 pm on November 17, 2024, at the Willowhaven Holiday Park in Rotorua.
This gathering is especially urgent in the face of global crises, including the worsening genocide in Palestine. As the resistance to imperialism grows, the need to strengthen our collective resolve has never been more critical. Together, we aim to build new alliances and fortify existing ones, ensuring that our global fight against imperialism and all forms of oppression remains steadfast and resolute.
Your participation in this assembly is vital, and we warmly welcome the powerful insights and contributions your organization will bring. Let us unite in solidarity to stand against imperialism and support the struggles of oppressed peoples worldwide.
For registration and more details of the conference please email ilps.nz@proton.me
Kasama sa pakikibaka/In Solidarity,
Eugene Velasco,
GABRIELA Aotearoa NZ Secretary
Truck for a free Palestine gets lots of friendly beeps
Cactus pear for my beloved – new book by Samah Sabawi
Don't forget to grab a copy of my new book Cactus Pear for My Beloved: A family story from Gaza
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/cactus-pear-for-my-beloved-9781761344978
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.
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
Why Israel outlawed UNRWA, and what it could mean for Palestinian refugees here
UN rapporteur says Israel committing 'settler-colonial genocide' against Palestinians, urges immediate intervention here
The international system has shamefully failed to halt Israel’s genocide in Gaza here (Euromed monitor)
Al-Shabaka Board President Tareq Baconi and Co-Director Yara Hawari reflect on one year since the start of Israel's genocide in Gaza here
Israel is hitting a wall in Lebanon. What is its endgame? here
Francesca Albanese on Democracy Now here
Israel’s mass killing campaign in Gaza is escalating here
Zionists inflammation of anti-semitism here
Deadly Israeli strikes on 'apocalyptic' north Gaza here
Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism here
Haaretz publisher: ‘Palestinians are freedom fighters’ here
Other Stories
The North of Gaza Is an Open Graveyard here
Israeli journalists join the live-streamed genocide here
Beit Lahia Massacre: More than 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli Gaza strike here
The North of Gaza Is an Open Graveyard here
Israeli journalists join the live-streamed genocide here
More than 6,000 military flights in a year, transport missions ferrying arms to Israel, and reconnaissance flights from the UK here
Jabalia: Israeli assault forces Palestinian civil defence to cease operations here
The banning of UNWRA: The situation could not be grimmer here
Israel’s attacks on Iran were an apocalyptic error by Netanyahu here’s why
Gaza's Beit Lahia declared disaster zone as Israeli strikes kill scores here
Elbit: The Israeli killing machine that has been given billions by Australian taxpayers here
US says Israel hasn't done enough to reverse Gaza humanitarian crisis since its warning here
In less than a month, Israeli army attacks shelter centres 39 times to displace Palestinians and empty Gaza here
Urgent int’l intervention needed to send rescue teams to residential block bombed by Israeli army in Jabalia here
The Australian Government must impose sanctions on Israel NOW here
“Medicide”: the killing fields of Gaza here
Millions of refugees in danger of losing their fundamental rights and lives as a result of Israel’s anti-Palestinian legislation here
Israel is at war with the UN. It is time to revoke its membership here
Israel Is Waging War on Palestinian Prisoners here
US, Germany involved in Israel’s ongoing crime of genocide across the Gaza Strip, particularly in the north here
US tracking nearly 500 incidents of civilians harmed by US weapons during Gaza war here
The history of the Israeli Defence Forces here (Mohammed Hassan)
Tell Netflix to stop erasing Palestinian voices here
Israel’s Actions in Gaza Show Genocidal Intent, UN Rights Expert Says here
John Minto on the genocide here (bFM interview)
Spanish MP: Israel must be treated like Nazi Germany here
Lawmakers send letter to Biden questioning US role in Israel's regional war here
Activists warn Canada's IHRA antisemitism handbook silences Israel criticism, Palestinian voices here
Only Israel joins US to vote for continued embargo on Cuba here
Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News 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
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
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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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