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The New Zealand Palestine Solidarity Network arose from the Conference on Palestine in 2013.

The network expanded and developed a more formal national structure at a National Seminar in Christchurch in June 2019 and has become the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa – PSNA.

PSNA is committed to working with groups around New Zealand and internationally to build and strengthen campaigns for a free Palestine. 

PSNA aims to change public opinion and bring pressure on the New Zealand government to join the majority of the international community in requiring Israel to recognize and support the following principles: 

  • A just peace in Palestine depends upon the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and the dismantling of the Zionist structure of the state of Israel, recognizing that the further partitioning of Palestine in order to create the so-called Two-State Solution would only lead to further injustice and suffering.

  • Acceptance of the primacy of international law and United Nations resolutions as the basis for the ending of military occupation and all forms of ethnic discrimination in Israel.

  • The international community's responsibility for upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the urgent need for the state of Israel to be called to account for its gross abuses of Palestinian human rights.

  • Justice requires the establishment of a single state in Palestine, bi-national, secular and democratic, with full and equal citizenship for all with ethnic and religious rights protected in a democratic constitution.

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PSNA Aims

Overall Objective

  • Freedom for Palestine


Aims

  1. To fight for the reinstatement of Palestine and recognition of its people.

  2. To fight for peace, equality and justice and fight against racism, occupation and colonization of the people of Palestine

  3. To raise awareness in our communities concerning the human and legal rights of Palestinians and Palestinian refugees.

  4. To develop relationships with the media to help promote community understanding of the human and legal rights of Palestinians and its refugees.

  5. Pressure the NZ Government and NZ citizens to be champions in raising awareness of the people of Palestine and its refugees.

  6. Connecting and networking with affiliated and likeminded groups to strengthen our ties, understanding and relationships in order to strengthen the fight for freedom in Palestine.

  7. To support and campaign for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) as promoted by Palestinian civil society organisations.

  8. We act in opposition to racism, including anti-Jewish prejudice and Islamophobia, and the apartheid nature of the Israeli state