PSNA Newsletter No 263 - 21 October 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 263

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Local body campaign win in Wellington

  • Kaikoura District Council edges forward

  • “Thank you Auckland” – today’s full-page ad in the NZ Herald

  • IDF soldiers not welcome in New Zealand

  • Where do our political parties stand on sanctions against Israel?

  • Get Free Palestine Party leaflets

  • Election activity ramps up around the country

  • PSNA – S’bu Zikode and Hāhona Ormsby – upcoming tours

  • International action by dockworkers targeting Israeli goods

  • Tertiary Education Union puts Palestine into contract negotiations

  • Highly-recommended speech from Yousef Sammour

  • Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 262 - 14 October 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 262

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flag-waving this week

  • Auckland aces the 10 October global march for Palestine with 15,000 strong march

  • Reflection on the Auckland protest – Paul Maunder

  • A few pics from other centres on October 10

  • From our collection crew in Ōtautahi/Christchurch

  • Where do our political parties stand on sanctions against Israel

  • Free Palestine Party leaflets

  • Making Palestine the baseline this election

  • Sign the pledge: Make your vote count for Palestine

  • Christchurch City Council – Boycott Israel!

  • The Golden Bay Weekly – 2 October 2026

  • Quotes of the week

  • PHD Candidate sharing stories from teachers in Gaza

  • PSNA – S’bu Zikode and Hāhona Ormsby – upcoming tours

  • Pedal for Palestine – October 18

  • Follow the apartheid money – J4P’s new campaign

  • Three years of genocide in Gaza

  • Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 261 - 7 October 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 261

Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

Debunking Israeli October 7th propaganda

Where do our political parties stand on sanctions against Israel?

Free Palestine Party leaflets

Fighting back against Police and Noel Leeming harassment and legal bullying

Making Palestine the baseline this election

Sign the pledge: Make your vote count for Palestine

PSNA – S’bu Zikode and Hāhona Ormsby – upcoming tours

Spotted in the papers this week

Satellites images of a genocide

Pedal for Palestine – October 18

Follow the apartheid money – J4P’s new campaign

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PSNA Newsletter No 260 - 30 September 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 260

One Click Emails

Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

Where do our political parties stand on sanctions against Israel

Free Palestine Party update

Pedal for Palestine – October 18

Bake sale for Palestine in Wellington

Hind Rajab files criminal complaint against Israeli soldier

Māori Identity Is Not a Political Access Pass

Fight police harassment of Palestine supporters

Follow the apartheid money – J4P’s new campaign

Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 259 - 23 September 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 259

Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

Congratulations Invercargill Council

October 10 – International day of action for Palestine

Fly high with Palestine – how to make a kite and fly it for Palestine!

Building a database of intimidation aimed at silencing critics of Israel

Māori delegation come back apologists for racism and genocide

Macklemore and Ed Sheeran

Two letters seen in the papers this week

Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 258 - 16 September 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 258

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Presentation to Hamiliton City Council last week by Palestine Action Waikato

  • Retiring Labour MP Duncan Webb presented PSNA petition to parliament this week

  • “The Elimination Project” – new report from B’Tselem

  • Peters out of step with the world and legal obligations on Israeli settlement trade

  • Campaigning for humanity during the election

  • Al Shabaka webinar on Israeli elections

  • Too little, too late

  • October 10 – international day of action for Palestine

  • Noel Leeming and SodaStream

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PSNA Newsletter No 257 - 9 September 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 257

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Free Palestine Party launch this weekend

  • And how to make as short video saying why you support the Free Palestine Party

  • Anti-Palestine violence surging in New Zealand

  • Threats of violence shut down art exhibition in Auckland

  • October 10 – international day of action for Palestine

  • Pita Tipene shames himself and all of us

  • Are you French and living in Aotearoa New Zealand?

  • Hāhona Ormsby in Te Tihi o Maru/Timaru

  • “Sitting on the Fence” movie – Ilan Pappe gives his verdict

  • Hesgeth and Beck

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PSNA Newsletter No 256 - 2 September 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 256

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Launching the Free Palestine Party

  • Free Palestine Party meets with Sumud Committee in Gaza

  • Are you French and living in Aotearoa New Zealand?

  • Palestine solidarity in University workers employment negotiations

  • Quote of the week

  • Winston Peters reactionary role

  • Holocaust Centre refuses to condemn mass killing and starvation in Gaza

  • Calling all social studies teachers!

  • October 10 – International Day of Action for Palestine

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PSNA Newsletter No 255 - 26 August 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 255

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • When resistance to complicity with genocide goes viral

  • Calling all social studies teachers!

  • A few pics from around the country this week

  • Quote of the week

  • How the western media manufactures consent for genocide

  • What genocide looks like from the air

  • Documentary series – “Genocide in Gaza”

  • Fighting for the last Christian valley of Bethlehem

  • October 10 – International Day of Action for Palestine

  • Humanity (but not our politicians) has woken up to genocide

  • Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 254 - 19 August 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 254

  • Send a One Click email to WinstonPeters

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Describing the case against Judith Collins

  • October 10 – international Day of Action for Palestine

  • Holocaust Centre event cancelled after community pressure

  • Calling all social studies teachers!

  • A few events from around the country this week

  • Letter to Editor

  • New Russia sanctions expose double standard towards Israel

  • Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 253 - 12 August 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 253

  • Court proceedings filed challenging government approving BlackSky satellite launches from Rocket Lab site at Māhia, for spying for Israel over Gaza

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • When you can't convince someone to vote for you, Block the vote!

  • The Free Palestine Party is now registered for this election

  • Winstons Gallows Whinge

  • Solidarity with Cuba

  • Global Alliance for Palestine - Global Activation - October 10

  • A few pics from around the country

  • Quote of the week

  • Notes on Video making – Part 3

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PSNA Newsletter No 252 - 5 August 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 252

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flag-waving this week

  • TVNZ continues to funnel Israeli propaganda into our living rooms

  • Ron Mark would join New Zealand at the hip with genocidal Israel in Defence role

  • Otago University’s partnership with Palo Alto challenged

  • Free Palestine Party meeting to plan party launch event

  • A few pics from around the country this week…

  • Quote of the week

  • The alleged rising tide of anti-semitism

  • Cameron Slater emerges to attack PSNA

  • Notes on Video making – Part 2

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PSNA Newsletter No 251 - 29 July 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 251

Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

Webinar with Francesca Albanese: “When the world sleeps”

PSNA full-page ad in Wellington’s Post newspaper this week

PSNA ad hits a raw nerve with ACT MP Simon Court

“The Voice of Hind Rajab” film coming this month

Free Palestine political party update

Did New Zealand back the Israel/US at the ICC this week or did it back international law?

Important stories this week

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PSNA Newsletter No 250 - 22 July 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 250

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Bearing witness – Palestinian Christians are here this week!

  • Webinar with Francesca Albanese: “When the world sleeps”

  • Will New Zealand back the Israel/US at the ICC this week or will it back international law?

  • A few pics from around the country this week

  • New Zealand First frightened by PSNA leaflets at their national conference

  • The Future of US Aid to Israel: Webinar by Al Shabaka

  • Andrew Feinstein’s new film for Al Jazeera’s investigative unit

  • UN latest report on Palestine

  • Latest news from Mazin Qumsiyeh

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PSNA Newsletter No 249 - 15 July 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 249

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Send this message to the Foreign Minister

  • Send this message to the Prime Minister

  • “Gutless coward” description too much for PM Luxon

  • Did Winston Peters stay silent to curry favour with the US?

  • An all too familiar cartoon…

  • UN Independent Commissioner warns NZ government of its obligations

  • India’s PM Modi and his deep links to Israel

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PSNA Newsletter No 248 - 8 July 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 248

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Bearing witness – Palestinian Christians to tour New Zealand

  • Asra – Stories of Palestinian Prisoners

  • PSNA Chair Ben Vorderegger makes it to the New York Times

  • Palestine Traditional Dress Day – 25 July

  • Some pics from around the country this week

  • Canada hosts Nakba exhibition

  • In the Christchurch Press this week

  • Poneke Loves Palestine – 16 July fundraiser in Wellington

  • David Seymour loses the plot

  • Honest “government” ad about Palantir – enjoy!

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PSNA Newsletter No 246 - 24 June 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 246

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Three urgent updates from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

  • And more meaningless drivel from Winston Peters…

  • Two public meetings with Chris Sidoti in Te Whanganui-a-tara/Wellington and Tāmaki Makaurau

  • Vital reading – if you only read one article this week – make it this one

  • Asra: Stories of Palestinian prisoners

  • “Indigenizing Zionism: Narrative Claims Deployed by the Indigenous Coalition for Israel to Evade Settler-Colonial Characterization”

  • An Evening with Hāhona Ormsby in Raglan: His Disturbing Account of Detainment by Israel

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PSNA Newsletter No 245 - 17 June 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 245

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Disrupting the narratives on the West Asian war

  • Two more things you can do with a single click each…

  • PSNA takes police failure to prosecute tyre-slasher to the IPCA

  • Palantir worms its way into New Zealand’s deep state

  • Asra: Stories of Palestinian prisoners

  • It’s still about Palestine – Boycott Israel

  • Global Sumud Flotilla submits accounts of Israeli abduction, torture and sexual violence against the flotilla participants

  • Help fund free swimming lessons for children in Gaza

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PSNA Newsletter No 244 - 10 June 2026

PSNA - Newsletter No 244

  • Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week

  • Marlborough District Council asks for staff report on PSNA procurement motion

  • ‘They used dogs’: New Al Jazeera film exposes Israel’s use of rape in jails

  • UN International Commission confirms sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers is commonplace and deliberate

  • For Life – new Palestinian film screening in Auckland and Wellington

  • Some of the events coming up this week

  • The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy – New Zealand’s Superfund and local body wins recorded on global map

  • The Voice of Hind Rajab – new film in the NZ International Film Festival

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