Shame on you both
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
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1 November 2023
Shame on you both
Chris Hipkins
Caretaker PM
c.hipkins@ministers.govt.nz
Christopher Luxon
Incoming PM
Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz
Kia ora kōrua,
Shame on you both.
Israel is conducting genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and you haven’t opened your mouths demanding it end. Over 8,000 civilians now dead with more than 3,000 children killed but not a single word from either of you to hold Israel to account. This is contemptable.
"More than two million people, with nowhere safe to go, are being denied the essentials for life - food, water, shelter and medical care - while being subjected to relentless bombardment.” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Muttering meaningless comments about respect for international law is a copout when you won’t call out Israeli war crimes. As the UN Secretary General said “This didn’t happen in a vacuum”. Silence in the face of genocide is complicity.
You are siding with the US, Israel and the corporate boardrooms of the arms manufacturers whose share prices are soaring.
You are backing the settler colonial state of Israel in its racist apartheid policies, and now genocidal practices, against Palestinians.
New Zealanders expect you to stand up and speak out for a ceasefire.
Or will you keep siding with Israeli guns over Palestinian children?
(your name)
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
0220850161
johnminto@orcon.net.nz
www.PSNA.nz
John Minto
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
New Zealand 0220850161
John Minto is also former National Organiser for HART (Halt All Racist Tours) which successfully campaigned to stop rugby contact between New Zealand and apartheid South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.