PSNA Newsletter No 184 - 16 April 2025
16 Paenga-whāwhā 2025
16 April 2025
Newsletter No 184
Items in this newsletter
1. Nationwide rallies/marches/vigils this week
2. What you can do now with just a few clicks
3. Webinar with Robbie Barkan
4. The Doctor’s Wife – how to organize a local screening
5. May Day Concert for Palestine in Palmerston North
6. Quotes for the Week
7. FIFA covers for racism and apartheid
8. Watch the withdrawn BBC documentary
9. Just six National MPs needed to pass Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Bill
10. Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!
11. Important lessons in helping to build the Palestine solidarity movement
12. Important stories from last week
13. Merchandise for sale
14. SodaStream stickers available
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 25 events around the Motu this week.
North Island
Hokianga
No event this weekend
Kerikeri - Rally
First Saturday of the Month
Whangarei
No event this week
Auckland – Stand for Palestine
Monday – Friday
3:00 – 4:00 pm at the US Consulate - 23 Customs Street East
4:00 – 5:00 pm at Te Komititanga Britomart Square
Auckland – Picket – German Consulate
Wednesday 16 April
12:00 mid-day
188 Quay Street, Auckland Central
Tāmaki Makaurau - 10km Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimages
These 10km pilgrimages (3 hours) will continue to take place once a week until Thursday 17th April, the day before Good Friday.
Next one is
Thursday 17th April @ 3:45pm. (earlier time because daylight savings has ended)
Starting Location: Outside Onehunga Library, Onehunga
Ending Location: Auckland International Airport arrivals gate
See here for further details
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
This week
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join the team – text John on 021 899 659
Auckland – Gathering for Palestine
Saturday 19 March
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 Waving - Palestinian Prisoner Day
Thursday 17 April
3.30-5.30 pm
Tauranga Bridge Marina, SH 2 Mt Maunganui
Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine
Saturday 19 April
1:00 pm
Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton
Raglan - Easter Weekend Silent Vigil Whaingaroa (Raglan)
Saturday 19th April
11:00 am
Meeting at Community center to walk down Bow Street
Cambridge - Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua – Rally for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:30 pm
National MP Todd McClay’s Office - Cnr Amohau and Ranolf St lights, Rotorua
Napier - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 19 April
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 20 April
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North - Rally
Every Sunday
2:00 am
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Please note, Flags on the bridge have moved to Saturdays.
New Plymouth – Flags on the bridge
Note – Flags on the bridge will be on Saturdays except for a Rally on first Saturday of the month.
Saturday 19 and 26 April
1:00 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth
Whanganui - Rally for Palestine
Saturday 19 April
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Martinborough – Vigil for Palestine
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
Memorial gate - Martinborough Square, at the end of SH53
Masterton - Gathering for Gaza
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn, Masterton
Wellington – Flags on the Bridge
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally at Wellington Hospital
(hosted by Aotearoa Healthcare workers for Palestine)
First Friday of the month
Wellington – Rally
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 19 April
1:00 pm
Lambton Quay and Hunter St corner
Check out https://www.instagram.com/falastin_tea_collective for further details
South Island
Nelson
Saturday 19 April
Yet to be advised. Please go here and check for a Nelson event
Blenheim - Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Picton – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Picton Foreshore
Christchurch – Flags for Palestine
Every Friday
4:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 19 April
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance
Dunedin - Rozana Bazaar - Cash Market
Thursday 17 April
5:00 – 9:00 pm
50 Prince Albert Road, St Kilda
Dunedin – Rally
Moved to once a month
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill – Rally for Palestine
Every Sunday
1:00 pm
Wachner Place, Invercargill
What can you do now with just a few clicks…
1. Come along and support your local Palestine solidarity protests – see list above!
2. Contact chair@PSNA.nz if you can help organise a PSNA delegation to your local National MP (see item 8 from the newsletter index at start of newsletter)
3. Sign the open letter to the government here https://www.psna.nz/letter-to-winston-peters
4. Select some BDS memes about FIFA (international football federation) to share on your social media pages (See item 6 from the newsletter agenda at start of newsletter)
Webinar with Robbie Barkan
The Doctor’s Wife – how to organize a local screening
Among the many excellent documentaries which are being screened by the Palestine solidarity movement around New Zealand is an absolute gem of a film by local filmmaker Paula Jones and associate director Tamara Azizian.
The film is “The Doctor’s Wife” and follows the decades long work of Dr Alan Kerr, a surgeon from New Zealand, and his wife Hazel in the hospitals of Palestine.
We would encourage everyone around the country to organise local screenings of the film – even with family and friends in your living room – and raise funds for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF)
All details of organising a local film screening are on the website here: https://whitioraproductions.com/the-doctors-wife
May Day Concert for Palestine in Palmerston North
If you are anywhere near Palmerston North on 3 May - this is the place to be - it will be fantastic - all proceeds from the evening will go to PSNA for Palestine solidarity campaigning.
Quotes for the Week
“I have determined that the activities and presence of these aliens in the United States
would have potentially serious foreign policy consequences [based on information provided by DHS/ICE/HSI] antisemitic protests and disruptive activities.”
—Marco Rubio; US Secretary of State
“I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly, what we witnessed today, neither of these principles [was] present today or in this whole process. This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court – 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me [is] afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.”
—Mahmoud Khalil; Palestinian Legal Resident of the United States
FIFA covers for racism and apartheid
FIFA has a long, awful history of providing cover for Israeli racism and apartheid and recently, Israel was elected to the Executive Committee of European football (UEFA)
Below are links to social media posts from the BDS Movement our posts, with UEFA spelling out Underwriting Ethnic cleansing, Forced displacement, Apartheid (and genocide). Please share on your social media pages.
More shocking quotes this week
“[We were ordered to] deliberately, methodically, and systematically annihilate whatever was within the designated perimeter, including entire residential neighborhoods, public buildings, educational institutions, mosques, and cemeteries, with very few exceptions."
—Breaking The Silence; Israeli Soldier Testimonials (of those who took part in the creation of Rafah as a buffer zone.)
"We're killing [men], we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We're destroying their houses and pissing on their graves."
—Israeli Soldier; Speaking of the Destruction of Rafah.
Watch the withdrawn BBC documentary
Just Six Government MPs Needed To Pass “Unlawful Occupation Of Palestine” Sanctions Bill
As we reported last week the Green Party bill calling for sanctions on Israel has gained support from Te Pāti Māori and Labour and needs support from just six government MPs for it to pass when introduced into parliament. The details are here.
PSNA is organising deputations from local constituents to every National MP across the country. If you live in a National Party electorate and are happy to be on a deputation to encourage them to support the Sanctions Bill then please email chair@PSNA.nz
Keeping up a high profile for Palestine in Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington
Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!
Remember possible action for local groups
For groups affiliated to PSNA we suggest the following actions could be taken at any time in support of this campaign
Asking your local backpacker accommodation to display the poster and draw it to the attention of any Israeli soldiers here on “rest and recreation” from the genocide.
Pasting the hotline poster (use the version in this newsletter which includes a contact email) around the vicinity of backpacker venues in your local area. This is already happening in some areas.
Hand out flyers to people in the vicinity of your local backpackers
Contact us on the hotline if you come across Israeli soldiers
Important lessons in helping to build the Palestine solidarity movement
Important stories from last week
Editor’s picks
Government should back Sanctions Bill – John Hobbs – here
Israel is about to empty Gaza – the greatest crime of this century here
Hamas succeeded in exposing the true face of the empire here
Israel is About to Empty Gaza here
Jason Hickel who brings it all together in a six-minute video on Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism here
Hamas Launches Unprecedented Legal Case in Britain, Demanding the Government Remove its Terror Designation here
The Waikato doctor caring for Palestinians in Gaza here
Other stories
Baptist Church condemns appalling Israeli Palm Sunday attack on hospital here
Israel destroys only a quarter of Gaza’s tunnels in 18 months of deadly war here
Israel deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza says Australian author after latest killings here
The greater Israel’s crimes the quitter the BBC here
When apartheid met Zionism – the case for NZ recognising Palestine as a state here
100 children killed or wounded every day since Gaza ceasefire broken here
With hasbara failing Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list here
Zionist Federation launches Federal Court complaint against journalist Mary Kostakidis here
Israeli Policies and Settler Violence Are Driving Palestinians from the Jordan Valley here
Trumps hypocrisy – peacemaker in Ukraine, genocide enabler in Gaza here
Chief Human Rights Commissioner apologises to Muslim community here
Health workers call for NZ government to join global demands for ambulance massacre inquiry here
UN: 36 recent Israeli strikes on Gaza killed only women, children here
Dutch gov’t complicit in Israeli war crimes; export of military dogs must be halted, investigated here
US demands impossible from Iran here
Grassroots Resistance Builds Against Israeli Occupation of Southern Syria here
The dark depths of Israeli ambitions for Gaza here
The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows here
Israeli brutality surpasses all recent forms of terrorism here
Israel Ramps Up Assault on Gaza To Seize ‘Extensive Territory’ and ‘Divide’ the Strip here
UN extends Francesca Albanese’s mandate despite pro-Israel pushback here
Palestinian teenager died after being starved in Israeli custody here
UN says 100 children killed or injured in Gaza every day since war resumed here
600,000 children in Gaza face paralysis as Israel blocks vaccines here
UN chief calls Trump, Netanyahu plans to relocate Gazans 'against international law' here
Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia expelled from Rwanda genocide conference here
Palestinians mourn journalist burned alive in Israeli strike on Gaza tent here
Israel’s Systematic Destruction of Life Essentials in Gaza Has Forced Palestinians into a Hunt for Survival here
4,500 amputations including 800 children, 540 women in Gaza here
“The Target is Unmistakable”: The Shooting of Gaza’s Children here
Macron says France could recognize Palestinian state in June here
Trump Faces Palestine here
The Gaza War Without Israeli… and Palestinian Objectives here
Trump Sends Israel 20,000 Rifles Withheld by Biden Over Settler Violence here
Trump can end the battle in the Red Sea by forcing Netanyahu to stop Israel’s genocidal war here
Tell Microsoft: stop providing support to the Israeli military. Sign the petition here
Merchandise for sale
We are ready to mail to you any of our t-shirts, long ($35) and short ($30) sleeved, hoodies ($45) bumper stickers ($3), Tino/Palestine pins ($3) flags ($10) and other items plus postage.
See more on the PSNA website here.
Email Merchandise@PSNA.nz with your order.
What happens when SodaStream products are consistently stickered
If you’d like some stickers for sodastream email your name and address to Merchandise@PSNA.nz and we will send them to you.
Reminder: Annual Dates for Palestine Solidarity
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.
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
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Hamilton Palestine Human Rights Campaign Waikato (Facebook)
Tauranga Tauranga Moana 4 Palestine (Facebook)
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