Something you can do right now – with just a few clicks…
1. Join the global movement to get the United Nations General Assembly to begin an investigation into Israel’s apartheid policies towards Palestinians
2. Join the global campaign to Boycott Puma
3. Sign the Justice for Palestine (formerly Wellington Palestine) petition to the Silver Ferns calling on them to drop their Puma sponsorship.
Read MoreSomething you can do right now – with just a few clicks…
1) Call on the Minister of Foreign Affairs to have New Zealand attend the Durban IV conference against racism to be held on 22 September in New York.
2) Join in our on-line solidarity protest with Palestine. Lockdown means the usual monthly solidarity protest in Auckland had had to go on-line.
Something you can do right now – with just a few clicks… Email Nanaia Mahuta - Speak up for Palestine. Let Nanaia know Kiwis Care!
1. The next two events of the tour in Whanganui and Invercargill – these events are on this week!
2. Each week try to remember to post the events that are coming up in the week ahead
3. Come to the meeting closest to you when it comes up! We will need help collecting names and selling merchandise!
Read MoreSomething you can do right now – with just a few clicks…
Please post on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram the links to
1. The next two events of the tour in Whanganui and Invercargill – these events are on this week!
2. Each week try to remember to post the events that are coming up in the week ahead
3. Come to the meeting closest to you when it comes up! We will need help collecting names and selling merchandise!
Read MoreSomething you can do right now – with just a few clicks…
Please help circulate these two posters on social media. The first is the poster for the national tour which has details of the main meetings and the second one is the poster for the day in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) - a special part of the 1981 Springbok tour protests.
1. The national PSNA poster
2. The local Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) poster for the whole day.
Read MoreSomething you can do right now – with just a few clicks…
Please help circulate these two posters on social media. The first is the poster for the national tour which has details of the main meetings and the second one is the poster for the day in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) - a special part of the 1981 Springbok tour protests.
1. The national PSNA poster
2. The local Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) poster for the whole day.
Read MoreTwo quick things you can do right now!
1. Sign the petition to close the Israeli embassy. The petition is on-line here and is in English and Arabic or use the QR code here.
1. Share the petition on social media – the FB event link is here.
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Celebrating another marvellous day of nationwide support for Palestine – 22 May 2021
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Donations still needed for the Gaza Centre for Human Rights which has been targeted and destroyed by Israel
Since we publicized this appeal in our last newsletter over $6,000 has been donated – we’d love to get over $10,000 to help the center get on its feet again and collect evidence for war crimes prosecutions from the latest Israeli outrages.
Can you make a donation? – account details are below. . .
Read MoreTwo quick things you can do right now!
1. Sign the petition to close the Israeli embassy. The petition is on-line here and is in English and Arabic or use the QR code here.
1. Share the petition on social media – the FB event link is here.
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Celebrating another marvellous day of nationwide support for Palestine – 22 May 2021
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Donations still needed for the Gaza Centre for Human Rights which has been targeted and destroyed by Israel
Since we publicized this appeal in our last newsletter over $6,000 has been donated – we’d love to get over $10,000 to help the center get on its feet again and collect evidence for war crimes prosecutions from the latest Israeli outrages.
Can you make a donation? – account details are below. . .
Read MoreTwo quick things you can do right now!
1. Sign the petition to close the Israeli embassy. The petition is on-line here and is in English and Arabic or use the QR code here.
1. Share the petition on social media – the FB event link is here.
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Celebrating another marvellous day of nationwide support for Palestine – 22 May 2021
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Donations still needed for the Gaza Centre for Human Rights which has been targeted and destroyed by Israel
Since we publicized this appeal in our last newsletter over $6,000 has been donated – we’d love to get over $10,000 to help the center get on its feet again and collect evidence for war crimes prosecutions from the latest Israeli outrages.
Can you make a donation? – account details are below. . .
Read MoreThe past week has seen heart-breaking images of death and destruction in Gaza while our government wrings its hands impotently.
Palestinians have suffered over 70 years of racism, apartheid and unbridled brutality at the hands of the Israeli regime. That is the problem. Rockets from Gaza into Israel are a symptom response to decades of Israeli expulsions, violence, land grabbing and apartheid and yet our politicians and media more often than not portray the issue as the “terrorist group Hamas fires rockets at Israel and Israel retaliates in self-defence”. Countries like ourselves, the US, Canada, Australia and the UK typically justify Israeli brutality rather than hold Israel to account.
Read MoreThis newsletter has a call to action - Email Minister of Foreign Affairs - "Israeli policies towards Palestinians are Apartheid policies"
It also has proposed national tour dates for our National Committee Chair, John Minto, based on the Apartheid South African tour of New Zealand in 1981. This time we will be supporting Palestinian Human Rights rather than Racism.
A number of centers have already expressed interest in holding a rally in their center.
Read MoreThis newsletter has a call to action - Email the Human Rights Commissioner and ask him Not to propose adopting the, Internationally recognised as being Flawed, IHRA Working definition fo anti-Semitiism. That he should consider the new Jerusalem Declaration of anti-Semitism instead.
It also has proposed national tour dates for our National Committee Chair, John Minto, based on the Apartheid South African tour of New Zealand in 1981. This time we will be supporting Palestinian Human Rights rather than Racism.
A number of centers have already expressed interest in holding a rally in their center.
Read MoreThis newsletter has a call to action as well as acknowledging the Very Successful National Conference held in Auckland over the weekend 27/28 March 2021.
It also has proposed national tour dates for our National Committee Chair, John Minto, based on the Apartheid South African tour of New Zealand in 1981. We intend to mirror that tour with a tour of New Zealand supporting Palestyinian Human Rights.
Read MoreThis newsletter is devoted to our first face-to-face national meeting since the Covid pandemic. It’s an exciting agenda which will draw the national movement together for a dynamic mix of inspiring speakers, celebration of our hard work and successes and planning ahead to drive the campaign for Palestinian human rights.
You can see this from the full agenda included later with this newsletter.
If you can make it we’d love you to be there! In particular we want to extend our representation to many more centres around New Zealand. If you live in an “under-represented” area of New Zealand please get in touch and we can help to get you to Auckland!
Read MorePut down the brickbat – we have a bouquet for the New Zealand Superfund!
Last week the New Zealand Superfund announced it had withdrawn its investments from five Israeli banks because of their complicity in the building of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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