PSNA Newsletter No 104 - September 19 2023
19 Mahuru 2023
19 September 2023
Newsletter No 104
Kia ora koutou,
PSNA National meeting 2023 – 25/26 November in Wellington
Our 2023 national meeting will be in Wellington on Saturday 25th November and the morning of Sunday 26th November. The venue is Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street, Wellington.
We would love everyone to come and we are happy to help with the cost of you getting there. (Make sure you don’t let the cost of travel stop you from coming!)
We will be arranging billets for the Friday and Saturday nights for people coming from outside Wellington.
To register to come please email our National Secretary Neil Scott at secretary@PSNA.nz to let him know you are coming and if you need help with travel costs or billets for the Friday/Saturday nights.
A huge amount has happened this year – mostly good news! We will consider all this and help plan for the coming year. Bring your ideas and your energy!
Hope to see you all in Wellington in November!
Palestine and Election 2023
We are repeating here a section from the last newsletter dealing with the upcoming national election on October 14th because of its importance for the next parliament and government. Government.
If you missed taking action before… the chance to take action is here once again…
For election 2023 Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has sent three simple questions to each candidate from all major parties. The questions are:
1. If elected to parliament, will you support moves to implement United Nations Security Council resolution UNSC 2334?
2. If elected to parliament, will you support the New Zealand government voting in favour of a planned United Nations General Assembly resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state?
3. If elected to parliament will you support moves for the New Zealand government to recognise Palestine as a state?
We provided detailed background information for each question to stress its importance and to give the context for it.
Despite requesting individualised responses from candidates, for the most part the National Party, Labour Party and Green Party candidates have relied on prepared responses from their party. These “party policy” responses, in alphabetical order, are:
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Green Party:
1. Yes. The Green Party supports moves to implement United Nations Security Council resolution UNSC 2334. The Green Party believes the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and further encroachment by Israel into Palestinian territories is a denial of the rights of the Palestinian people. The Green Party supports boycotting goods and services produced in the occupied territories.
2. Yes. The Green Party would endorse New Zealand supporting UN resolutions that condemn discrimination against Palestinian citizens within Israel and the occupied territories. The Green Party agrees with international human rights groups that have labelled the actions of the Israeli government as a form of apartheid due to the persistent denial of Palestinian rights to self-determination and denial of equal rights within the territories controlled by the Israeli government.
3. Yes. The Green Party Manifesto 2023 includes a commitment to call on the Government of Aotearoa to formally recognise Palestine as a state.
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Labour Party:
Aotearoa New Zealand remains committed to supporting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envisions the creation of an independent state of Palestine living in peace and security alongside the state of Israel.
While New Zealand is a long-standing supporter of Israel’s right to live in peace and security, successive New Zealand governments have also been clear that Israeli settlements and some actions are in violation of international law and have negative implications for the peace process.
All sides have a responsibility to de-escalate, stop the violence and prevent further suffering and loss of life.
In recognising the two-state solution, in recognising the right of Palestinians to security, to a stable home, and the right of Israel to exist, the Government is supporting the outcomes that much of the international community seeks and continues to call for increased efforts to reduce tensions and promote peace.
Aotearoa New Zealand stands ready to assist in any constructive way we can to support urgent de-escalation of the situation.
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National Party:
The three questions that you've asked each election candidate all have a degree of complexity behind them that does not lead to easy yes and no answers. For that reason the National party has provided the following statements.
1. If elected to Parliament, will you support moves to implement United Nations Security Council resolution UNSC 2334?
New Zealand supports the notion of Israel and Palestine living peacefully side by side and we support efforts to achieve that outcome.
2. If elected to parliament, will you support the New Zealand Government voting in favour of a planned United Nations General Assembly resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state?
National does not believe that labelling Israel as an apartheid state would advance the goal of a peaceful solution to the current very long-standing animosities.
3. If elected to parliament will you support moves for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine as a state?
National has long used the term 'Occupied Palestinian Territory', however we do not plan to recognise Palestine as a State at this stage.
Something you can do right now with a few clicks…
Send an email to each of your local electorate candidates requesting they respond individually to the three questions, if they have not already responded. You can send your own message or copy and paste this message.
The candidate names and email addresses for those who have not provided an individual response are here and the background information for each question is here.
You can send your own email or copy and paste this email below.
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(candidate name)
Party
Electorate
Kia ora (candidate name)
Please don’t send Palestine to the back of the queue!
Earlier in the campaign you were sent these three questions from the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
1. If elected to parliament, will you support moves to implement United Nations Security Council resolution UNSC 2334?
2. If elected to parliament, will you support the New Zealand government voting in favour of a planned United Nations General Assembly resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state?
3. If elected to parliament will you support moves for the New Zealand government to recognise Palestine as a state?
I know you will be very busy with the election campaign but we’d appreciate if you could take the time to answer these questions. Important background material was provided for each question. In case you have lost track of this information it is online here.
The situation for Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation is becoming more serious by the day after the election of a particularly racist and rabidly anti-Palestinian regime in Israel.
Please don’t send Palestine to the back of the queue.
Look forward to your response.
(your name)
Badil’s campaign for the release of Walid Daqqah
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights, based in occupied Bethlehem, is calling for the immediate release of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah. They say
As BADIL prepares for its participation in the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session 54, focusing its written and oral statements and side event; on addressing the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime’s wide range of policies and practices against the Palestinian people, calling for practical measures to be taken regarding the alarming case on Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah as he faces fatal cancer and critical medical neglect under Israel’s arbitrary detention, we highly believe that your support and solidarity with our cause can make a multi-layered real positive change.
Something you can also do now with just a few clicks…
Although we have missed the twitter storm campaign calling for Walid’s release you can still select one of the messages calling for Wallid Daqqah’s release and share it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
World Aquatics Junior Championships – don’t swim in apartheid waters
PSNA National Chair John Minto worked with BDS South Africa’s Roshan Dadoo on an opinion piece outlining why countries such as Aotearoa and South Africa should have boycotted this event held in Israel in early September. Our opinion piece was published in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian newspaper.
We are working with South African activists on a much broader campaign to isolate apartheid Israel which is in flagrant breach of the non-racial constitution of World Aquatics.
Foreign Minister “defers” trip to Palestine
The letter below was sent to PSNA supporters who wrote to the Foreign Minister expressing disappointment at what she describes as the deferment of her proposed trip to the Middle East. The problem of course is that she is very unlikely to be Foreign Minister following the October 14 elections so this will be left to the next foreign minister to pick up.
Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’ appalling anti-semitic remarks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been widely condemned for anti-semitic comments he made at a recent Palestinian Authority meeting. Abbas said Adolf Hitler chose to "fight" Jews because of "their social role" and not due to their Judaism.
We are reprinting an article from the Intercept below because it’s an important story which highlights how unrepresentative and undemocratic Abbas’ Palestinian Authority is. The PA has had no elections for close to 20 years simply because both Abbas and Israel know Abbas would lose.
Israel wants a weak, ineffectual Abbas in power rather than an assertive Palestinian leadership which represents the Palestinian people and fights effective campaigns against the Israeli occupation.
Mahmoud Abbas Holocaust Controversy Spotlights Deep Disillusion With Palestinian Authority
Thirty years after the Oslo Accords, Palestinians question whether the pseudo-government born from the peace process can — and should — survive.
September 15 2023, 7:00 a.m.
Mahmoud Abbas, the usually low-profile president of the Palestinian Authority, was widely condemned around the world this week, including by prominent Palestinian intellectuals, after making antisemitic comments about the Holocaust in a televised speech to his party last month. While Abbas’s words and actions rarely command significant international attention, the incident put a spotlight on his deep unpopularity among Palestinians, some 73 percent of whom want him gone, and their growing disillusionment with the PA.
Abbas, whose spokesperson disputed that his remarks were antisemitic, was one of the architects of the Oslo peace process, which commenced with a historic handshake between Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn 30 years ago this week. Oslo has long been dead to Palestinians, whose hopes in the statehood promised to them under the deal collapsed years ago.
Now, faced with the most far-right extremist Israeli government to date, escalating settler and military violence that have laid bare the PA’s inability to protect its people, and Abbas’s increasingly authoritarian rule, many Palestinians have also begun to question the future of Oslo’s most enduring legacy: the PA itself. As Palestinians look with growing concern to an unclear succession path following Abbas, who is 87 and has ruled since shortly Arafat died in 2004, they are also asking whether the institution itself can — or should — survive a political moment so profoundly distant from that of its establishment.
“There’s a very big question mark about the sustainability of the Palestinian Authority,” said Ammar Dwaik, director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights, Palestine’s official rights ombudsman.
It was a question I heard from many Palestinians across class, generation, and political allegiance during a trip to the occupied West Bank earlier this year.
“What’s the point of the PA?” asked Ehab Bseiso, a former minister of culture whom Abbas fired in 2021 after he publicly criticized Palestinian security forces’ killing of an outspoken critic of the PA. “What’s the point of having a PA if we still have expansion of settlements, incursions, killings, shootings, and so on? There’s nothing that the PA can offer. It’s been trapped in one function: maintaining order, condemning Israeli violations, addressing the international community. It doesn’t match the anger and frustration on the ground.”
Bseiso pointed to Abbas’s rule-by-decree governance, with no elections held in a generation and Parliament dissolved years ago. “The whole Palestinian political future is linked to, ‘What’s going to happen after Abbas is gone?’” Bseiso said. “That’s a failure in itself, because if we had institutions, this question wouldn’t have been emerging. In a healthy political system, one president goes and another comes. But we have no institutions, there is no Parliament, no elections for the last 18 years.”
The authority has become “irrelevant” to many Palestinians, echoed Mustafa Barghouti, a co-founder of the international boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement and secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, a third party aiming to overcome the split between Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, Abbas’s party.
Abbas Zaki, a veteran Fatah member, put it more bluntly. “The PA is over, they are finished,” Zaki said. “We need to reorganize ourselves.”
Subcontractors for the Occupation
The Palestinian Authority was established as part of the Oslo agreements as a transitional body to administer the territories Israel has illegally occupied since 1967: the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. It was supposed to be a temporary arrangement until the contours of a sovereign Palestinian nation could be finalized in negotiations. That, of course, never happened. Instead, Israel has spent the last 30 years seizing control of most of the territory that was intended to constitute the basis for a Palestinian state. In the five years that Oslo set aside for negotiations, the population of settlers in the occupied territories more than doubled, ballooning to some 700,000 today.
With prospects of a two-state solution all but vanished, so has the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority itself. While Abbas is deeply unpopular, his potential successors fare hardly better, a clear sign that the institution, more than the man himself, is the problem.
Still, even the PA’s most outspoken critics stress that its failures must be understood in the context of an Israeli occupation of which the authority is but an extension. From the start, the PA had no real sovereignty or power. While a series of agreements technically gave it administrative and security control over 17 percent of the West Bank — the most densely populated areas known as Area A— Israeli forces frequently invade those lands, exposing the meaninglessness of those arrangements. Meanwhile, the PA has virtually no control over the majority of the West Bank, what’s known as Areas B and C.
The PA is charged with running the functions of local government — such as education, health care, trash collection, and policing — even though under international law, the occupying power is responsible for the care of the people under its control. Israel, meanwhile, controls all movements outside and within the West Bank, its natural resources, and its economy.
The Oslo agreements also resulted in one of the most fraught features of the authority’s existence: its obligation to a deeply controversial security coordination with Israel. While PA officials need to coordinate with their Israeli counterparts to administer a host of services, including policing, the security coordination also sets up Palestinian security forces, trained and funded largely by the United States and European countries, to work with the Israeli military to suppress Palestinian resistance. That, in addition to the PA’s inability to protect Palestinians against violence by the military and settlers, has deepened its delegitimization in the eyes of Palestinians.
A growing number of Palestinians have come to view the PA as an enabler to their oppression rather than a legitimate representative of their political aspirations.
At the same time, the authority’s role as civic administrator has made it indispensable to maintaining a modicum of normalcy and services for the population. Crucially, the donor-funded PA has become the primary economic engine in Palestine, employing at least 150,000 people in a bloated bureaucracy designed to inject liquidity in an otherwise strangled economy. (Some 942,000 Palestinians, a quarter of the population, are entirely dependent on PA salaries). But even those economic benefits are subject to Israel’s whims. Israel collects taxes and tariffs from Palestinians and transfers them to the PA, frequently withholding funds to apply political pressure and leaving tens of thousands of people without income.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of Palestinians have come to view the PA as an enabler to their oppression rather than a legitimate representative of their political aspirations.
“The people look at it as a subcontractor,” said Shawan Jabarin, the director of the prominent Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, echoing a common refrain. “The PA, at the end of the day, is not an independent state, it’s still not a sovereign state. We don’t like to say that, for national reasons, not to harm them, but purely speaking, it is a subcontractor.”
The End of the PA
In Ramallah, the authority’s de facto capital, foreign-sponsored ministry buildings bear the insignia and flags of a “State of Palestine.” That statehood was recognized by an overwhelming majority of the United Nations’ General Assembly in 2012, perhaps Abbas’s greatest political accomplishment, but it does not exist in practice.
In fact, mostly powerless at home, the PA’s leadership has staked its hopes in international forums and mechanisms, including bids to bring Israeli crimes before both the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. It’s a strategy that has slowly earned Palestinians global solidarity while also angering Israeli officials, who dubbed the efforts “diplomatic terrorism.” But it also put the fate of Palestinians in the hands of fickle global trends and left many of them feeling alienated by efforts that have no real impact on their daily lives.
“We cared more about the outside. We worked so hard in the international arena to get some recognition and support,” said Zaki, the Fatah veteran. “Now we’re shifting, we’re turning inside. We need a plan to protect our people and help people confront the settlers. We need to focus on national unity and reorganizing the Palestinian household.”
He and others pointed to the current moment in Israeli politics, with the country’s most extremist government to date — headed by third-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in coalition with some of the country’s most far-right parties — attacking its institutions and enflaming internal divisions, as one of great danger but also of opportunity for Palestinians. “The big difference between the Israeli governments of the last 20, 30 years is that some of them were working under the table, and this one is working in front of the whole world,” Mousa Hadid, the former mayor of Ramallah, told me. “This government will take us to a place that the whole world must stop and start thinking about.”
Israeli leaders have relied on the PA for the last 30 years, understanding the strategic need for maintaining its administrative role and security cooperation. Yet the current Israeli government has shown little interest in its survival. Instead, the country’s leadership has made no secret of its disdain for the PA. Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, for instance, has called on Israel to “work towards its collapse.”
Whether that will happen or not, many Palestinians have already begun to think about a future not only after Abbas, but also with leadership and a political process that is more representative of their aspirations. With some 70 percent of the population younger than Oslo, many Palestinians are also pushing for different goals and frameworks than those laid out by the agreements.
“I do believe our goal as Palestinians should not only be fighting the occupation, I think we should call for ending and bringing down the whole system of apartheid and racial discrimination in the whole of Palestine,” said Barghouti, the Palestinian National Initiative secretary. “They’re killing the two-state solution? We can have a one-state solution. But we will not live as slaves in a system of apartheid.”
Australia’s complicity with Israeli apartheid – webinar – Thursday 28th September, 9pm (NZ time)
Register here. ( Zoom details will be sent to people who register)
The Voice vote in Australia
Although this does not involve Aotearoa New Zealand or Palestine directly, the struggle of indigenous Australians links with indigenous struggles globally and this includes the struggle of Palestinians against Israel’s racist apartheid policies.
Indigenous Australians are supporting a proposal for a referendum on the establishment of an Aboriginal advisory council to advise the Australian government on policy affecting Aboriginal people.
Right-wing Australians are running a well-resourced campaign attacking the proposal. Here is what Amnesty International in Australia are saying:
Misinformation and disinformation on the Voice is circulating widely–and will ultimately lead to people making misinformed votes. So we wanted to clear a few things up.
The Uluru statement is in fact a one-page document–there is no hidden version. It proposes a simple and practical solution to First Nations recognition and aims to address the divide between First Nations People and non-Indigenous Australians. And yes, the Voice is a model proposed to specifically support a population based on their race–but it is not racist and it will not create a greater divide. In fact, the Constitution already refers to race, and a Voice would not lead to different categories of citizenship.
Whether your vote is yes or no on October 14, we want to ensure it’s an informed vote, a vote based on the facts, not on conspiracy. In the video below, our Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Kacey, breaks down and debunks more of the myths doing the rounds at the moment. I encourage you to share it with those around you so we can combat this misinformation and surface the truth.
PSNA encourages our supporters to support the YES campaign with friends and family in Australia.
Israel: #ShutDownNation
17 reasons to think again before investing in apartheid Israel 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
Is your property an “apartheid free zone”?
These are popping up on letterboxes and fences all over the country – to get your “Apartheid free zone” coreflute to stick on your letterbox or your front fence just deposit $5 in:
Account Name: Palestine Solidarity Network
Account Number: 38 9015 0849542 00
and send an email to secretary@PSNA.nz with your address and we’ll send you one - or as many as you’d like for your neighbours and friends….
Petition to Close the Israeli Embassy
If you haven’t signed our petition to close the Israeli embassy yet…
Scan and Sign here
Or Click and Sign here
Important stories from the Web
General
41 years after the massacre – remembering Sabra and Shatila here
1982 – Sabra and Shatila here
Cartoon Movement here
EU-Mid East-India trade plan launched here
Oslo Accords: 30 years of lost Palestinian hopes here
Oslo lives – Death to Oslo here
30 years after the Oslo Accords – facing the reality of apartheid here
We didn’t need hindsight to see Oslo as a failure here
“It was set up to fail us” – Palestinians reflect on 30 years after Oslo Accords here
Understanding Oslo is crucial for moving forward here
Judaism on our own terms – the answer to an anti-Zionist Jewish future here
IHRA definition of anti-Semitism have harmful impact on UK schools here
Policy deceit – Britain-Palestine 1914-1939 here
Race and gender, Jewish supremacy, and refusal in the Israeli racial colony here
Saudi Arabia pulls out of Israel normalisation talks here
Israel to bankroll PNG Embassy in Occupied city of Jerusalem here
More Canadians view Israel as an apartheid state than a vibrant democracy here
Palestine
Police confiscate textbooks with Palestinian flags here
Mohammed-El-Kurd and Rarda Taha on Palestinian identity, martyrdom and revolutionary honesty here
Remembering the second intifada here
Focus on visions for political futures here
The Palestinian boy whose village was destroyed turned into a true freedom fighter here
Palestine Writes responds to racist attacks here
Mahmoud Abbas Holocaust Controversy Spotlights Deep Disillusion With Palestinian Authority here
What role does culture play in Palestinian liberation here
My Palestinian mother-in-law and the generation of survivors here
Israel
Revealed: Israeli cyber firms developed an insane new spyware – no defence exists here (paywalled)
“Palestinians are not an ancient people so their land belongs to Jews” here
“The universities and Israel” book review here
Israel profits from global arms shopping spree here
Israel defence startups exhibit at DSEI London here
Elbit systems wins $109 million iron fist deal here
Denmark’s Defence Minister steps down following Elbit deal here
Illegal Israeli settlers have a very effective system for forcing Palestinians out of their homes here
Former Mossad chief says Israel is an apartheid state here
US
How Democrats learned to defend Israel’s ethnocracy here
Cornel West’s US presidential run will centre the rights of all including Palestinians here
Democratic megadonor Haim Saban calls Bernie Sanders a self-hating Jew over criticisms of Israel here
Democratic rep Gottheimer calls on universities to censor Israel’s critics here
It’s time for US church leaders to challenge Israeli apartheid here
To the members of the Illinois legislature traveling on a Jewish United Fund delegation to Israel here
UN
Reminder: Dates for Palestine Solidarity in 2023
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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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 monthly Rallies - In Auckland at 2.00 pm on the first Saturday of every month. Please consider doing the same in your community. 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
PSNA Groups
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Chair - John Minto: Chair@PSNA.nz
Secretary - Neil Scott: Secretary@PSNA.nz
Regional Groups
Bay of Islands PSN Bay of Islands (Email)
Whangarei PSN Whangarei (Facebook)
Auckland PSN Auckland – Tamaki Makaurau (Website)
Hamilton Palestine Human Rights Campaign Waikato (Facebook)
Tauranga Tauranga Moana 4 Palestine (Facebook)
Napier/Hastings Aotearoa Standing with Palestine (Facebook)
Palmerston North PSN Palmerston North (Email)
New Plymouth PSN Taranaki (Facebook)
Wellington PSN Wellington (Email)
Nelson Te Tau Ihu (Nelson) Palestine (Facebook)
Christchurch PSN Christchurch (Facebook)
Dunedin Dunedin for Justice in Palestine (Facebook)
Invercargill PSNA Invercargill (Email)