PSNA Newsletter No 187 - 7 May 2025

7 Haratua 2025
7 May 2025

Newsletter No 187

STOP PRESS:

Watch out for full page advertisements in the Waikato Times, the Wellington Post and Christchurch Press newspapers tomorrow morning – Thursday 8 May

Who needs to be held to account by the public and the media?

From 10am tomorrow morning an image of the newspaper add will be available from THIS LINK. Please help spread the message by sharing it online on your social media pages. 


Items in this newsletter

  1. Nationwide rallies/marches/vigils this week

  2. What you can do now with just a few clicks…

  3. Freedom Flotilla ship attacked by Israeli drones in international waters

  4. This Sunday May 11th is World Kuffiyeh Day

  5. I am a child of Gaza – Kareem Abdulaal

  6. Unerased - Palestine exhibition in Auckland

  7. Yousef Aljamal national tour postponed for six weeks

  8. Two stories from Japan

  9. Quotes of the week

  10. The Vach brothers: Israel’s first family of genocide

  11. Letter in the Otago Daily Times

  12. The must-see new film “The Settlers”

  13. A few pics from events last week

  14. Palestine for readers booklist

  15. Central Otago climbs high for Palestine

  16. The Doctor’s Wife – how to organize a local screening

  17. Palestine poetry competition

  18. Forgotten – an event with Raja Shehadeh

  19. Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!

  20. Important stories from last week

  21. Merchandise for sale

  22. SodaStream stickers available


Nationwide rallies/marches/MP protests/vigils this week

To view events around Aotearoa:

Go to the PSNA Homepage – www.PSNA.nz

  • Scroll down to the button “For a list of events Nationwide, please click here -  Check back often for updates”

  • Click the button

  • Check back on Friday for any moves, adds or changes

Or events are on the PSNA Facebook events page here

There are more than 25 events around the Motu this week.

North Island

Hokianga

No event this weekend 

 

Kerikeri - Rally

First Saturday of the Month

No Rally this weekend

 

Whangarei

No Rally this weekend

 

Auckland – UNERASED: The Palestine Experience

Saturday May 3 – Saturday May 17

12:00 noon – 7:00 pm

250 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland

 

Auckland – Stand for Palestine

Monday – Friday

3:00 – 4:00 pm at the US Consulate - 23 Customs Street East

4:00 – 5:00 pm at Te Komititanga Britomart Square

 

Auckland – Picket @ TVNZ

Wednesday May 7

12:00 mid-day

100 Victoria Street West, Auckland Central

 

Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!

Every Saturday

8:00 am – 1:00 pm

Ostend Market, Waiheke Island

 

Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau

Every Saturday

10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Join the team – text John on 021 899 659

 

Auckland – Rally

Saturday 10 May

2:00 pm

Te Komititanga - Britomart Square, Tamaki Makaurau

 

Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children

(Hosted by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice - Hauraki)

first Saturday of the month

 

Tauranga – Flag Waving

Sunday 11 May

Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui

 

Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine

Every Saturday

1:00 pm

Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton

 

Raglan

No event this week

 

Cambridge - Rally for Palestine

Every Saturday

11:00 am

Cambridge Town Hall

 

Rotorua – Rally for Palestine

Every Thursday

4:30 pm

National MP Todd McClay’s Office - Cnr Amohau and Ranolf St lights, Rotorua

 

Napier - Rally for Palestine

Every Saturday

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout

 

Hastings – Rally for Palestine

Every Sunday

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD

 

Palmerston North - Rally

Every Sunday

2:00 pm

The Square, Palmerston North

 

Ngāmotu-New Plymouth – Flags on the bridge

Saturday 10 May

1:00 pm

Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth

Whanganui - Rally for Palestine

Every Saturday

11:00 am

Riverside Market, Whanganui

 

Martinborough – Vigil for Palestine

Every Wednesday

11:00 am

Memorial gate - Martinborough Square, at the end of SH53

 

Masterton - Gathering for Gaza

Every Sunday

9:30 am

Town Hall Lawn, Masterton

 

Wellington – Flags on the Bridge

(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)

Every Friday

7:15 – 8:15 am

Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington

 

Wellington – Rally at Wellington Hospital

(hosted by Aotearoa Healthcare workers for Palestine)

First Friday of the month

 

Wellington – Open The Boarders- End The Blockade Rally

(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)

Saturday May 10

1:00 pm

Cuba Mall Stage near Bucket Fountain.
 Check out https://www.instagram.com/falastin_tea_collective for further details

 

 

South Island

Nelson

Saturday 10 May

No Rally notified this week.

Check back later in the week - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064134091562&sk=events 

 

Blenheim - Rally for Palestine

Every Saturday

11:00 am

Blenheim Railway Station

 

Picton – Rally for Palestine

Every Saturday

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Picton Foreshore

 

Christchurch – Flags for Palestine

Every Friday

4:00 pm

Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch

 

Christchurch – Rally for Palestine

Saturday 10 May

1:00 pm

Bridge of Remembrance

 

Christchurch – Film screening The Settlers

Sunday 11 May

7:00 pm

WEA - 59 Gloucester Street

 

Dunedin

Saturday 10 May

No Rally this week

 

Invercargill – Rally for Palestine

(hosted by Invercargill Stands With Palestine)

Every Sunday

1:00 pm

Wachner Place, Invercargill 


What can you do now with just a few clicks…

1.       Come along and support your local Palestine solidarity protests – see list above!

2. 1.       Contact chair@PSNA.nz if you can help organise a PSNA delegation to your local National MP asking them to support the Green Party’s “Unlawful occupation of Palestine” sanctions bill. We are organising delegations to every National Party MP and we particularly want to hear from our supporters in rural electorates. Are you one of them?

In the next week we will be contacting all supporters in electorates we still need to cover with delegation.

3.       If you didn’t do this last week. . . Copy and paste this email to the Prime Minister and all National MPs

C.Luxon@ministers.govt.nz

Kia ora Mr Luxon and all government MPs,

Please explain:

  • What are you doing to put sanctions in place against Israel as you did for Russia?

  • What is your government doing to initiate a no-fly zone over Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to prevent and punish the crime of genocide in Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to support the ICJ investigation into Israel’s genocide?

  • What is your government doing to stop Israel’s blockade of food, water, fuel and medical supplies into Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to condemn Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war against a civilian population?

  • What is your government doing to stop Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to stop the killing of children in Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to stop the killing of journalists in Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to give Fatima Hassouna the “loud death” she requested?

  • What is your government doing to stop Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank?

  • What is your government doing to stop New Zealand company Rakon from exporting crystal oscillators being used in bombs to kill civilians in Gaza?

  • What is your government doing to ban investments in Israel which support its illegal occupation?

 (Your name)


Freedom Flotilla ship attacked by apparent Israeli drones in international waters

Drone attacks resulted in a large fire on the ship, which was extinguished

The Freedom Flotilla ship, Conscience, has been attacked twice by an apparent Israeli drone in international waters near Malta. None of the 18 crew and international humanitarian volunteers on board has been injured, and a fire has been extinguished, but the vessel is without power and has called for urgent emergency assistance. No Kiwis were in board the ship. Although Kia Ora Gaza is a member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, we haven’t participated in this current mission. The Maltese authorities have offered to assist with repairs to the ship. The FFC is calling on supporters to demand their governments condemn this flagrant act of violent piracy on an unarmed civilian ship carrying humanitarian aid in international waters.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship, the Conscience shown recently in dock.

PSNA issued a media release in response to the Israeli attack:

Israel’s drone attack on the Freedom Flotilla boat ‘Conscience’ shows Israel’s genocide strategy has now gone global, according to PSNA.

The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says the attack in international waters is a thoroughly predictable war crime, committed by an out-of-control Israel, intent on violence anywhere to uphold its starvation strategy for Gaza.

The ‘Conscience’ was loaded with life-saving humanitarian aid for Gaza and was attacked and disabled off the coast of Malta.

“It’s another war crime to add to Israel’s blood-soaked reputation” says PSNA Co-National Chair John Minto. “This is a cowardly attack on the best of humanity trying to get aid to more than two million desperate and starving people.”

“Israel has blocked all aid for more than two months in an attempt to starve them to death.”

“This brazen attack in international waters shows how emboldened Israel has become by the silence of Western governments such as New Zealand.”

Minto is pointing to the UN Panel of Inquiry in 2011 on a similar Israeli attack on the Turkish aid vessel the Mavi Marmara the year before.  It was chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minster Sir Geoffrey Palmer.

Palmer found that Israel used ‘excessive and unreasonable force’ in boarding the vessel and killing ten people on board.

“But Palmer also said that Israel had conducted a ‘legitimate security measure’.  I wonder how Geoffrey Palmer feels about legitimising that action now,” Minto says.

“Palestinian Solidarity Network Aotearoa is calling on the New Zealand government to condemn the aggression on what is an unarmed, civilian vessel in international waters.”

“When Ansar Allah (Houthis) in Yemen did this to Israeli vessels to try to stop the genocide in Gaza, New Zealand involved itself by sending military support to western countries to bomb Yemen.”

“We are not calling on the government to send military support for the bombing of Israel. However, if New Zealand really believes in the freedom of passage of unarmed vessels in international waters, it must condemn Israeli outright for this cowardly attack on the ‘Conscience’.”

Minto says to maintain any credibility the government is also overdue and obligated to end its months long silence over other Israeli actions.

“Top of the list is Israel’s war crime use of starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war.  But the government must also condemn the Israeli army ethnic cleansing and assisting settler attacks in Occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.”

“Israel is building new illegal settlements there at an unprecedented rate.”

“Israel has also just conducted unprovoked major military assaults on Syria. Our Foreign Minister must surely know about these things, and we are at a loss to know why he says and does nothing.”

John Minto
Co-National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa


This Sunday May 11th is World Kuffiyeh Day

You can order Palestinian-made kuffiyehs through Preserved Identity in Auckland

https://preservedidentity.com/

https://preservedidentity.com/product-category/kufiyas-shawls/

Preserved Identity supports Palestinian refugees in Jordan who have a kufiya factory. For most of the kufiyas produced by them, they hand stitch the tassels on to finish the kufiya to a high standard.

The factory that produces our kufiyas was established in the 1950’s in Jericho, Palestine. After the 1967 war, the owners were displaced and sought refuge in Amman, Jordan where they relocated the factory and continued to produce a wide variety of kufiyas and textiles.

A standard kufiya is $35


I am a child of Gaza – Kareem Abdulaal

Kareem Abdulaal speaking at Christchurch’s Bridge of Remembrance on 3 May

Here is Kareem’s letter:

As a Palestinian child I am devastated with the starvation and genocide in Gaza, I have prepared a small letter to share with you all about how a Palestinian child would feel in Gaza.

I am a child of Gaza, like other children of Palestine, searching for my identity and reclaiming my right through steadfastness and resistance.

I am that same child who proudly resisted when I raised the flag of Palestine in the face of settlers and Israeli soldiers, rejecting oppression and clinging to the land. I am also the child of the Intifada who struggled side by side with the boys, youth, and men, terrifying Israeli soldiers hiding behind their tanks with defiance and pride. I defeated them with stones and showed the whole world the difference between the Palestinian and the occupier.

I am a child of Gaza

After every barbaric war and brutal aggression, my image has become an icon of blood. I have become a symbol immortalizing the tragedy of Palestinians and documenting their genocide.

I am a child of Gaza.

Israel descends upon my fragile body like venomous spiders, unloading its killing machine into my flesh, driven by the rage of defeat and fear of the collapse of the Zionist dream.

I am a child of Gaza.

I carried my schoolbag on my back, not with books in it, but with what remained of my brother’s limbs.

 I am the little girl, Hya, who wrote her will alongside small drawings, hearts, toys, and shoes.

I am the Palestinian child from Gaza.

I am no longer just a number in death records as Israel counted me to be.

The peoples of the world have awakened from their slumber after 76 years of occupation.

They now know my name, 

share my image,

memorize my face and eye color,

and tell the story of my killing in all languages. 

They pray, scream, and weep for me, exposing the ugliness and true face of Israel.

The peoples who are outraged by my slaughter, who detest racism, were once silent and unaware.

Unaware that there is still something on this earth worth defending,

 a right and a freedom to fight for.

I am a child of Gaza.

I now depart in peace to the sky,

And from above I look down on the land of dignity,

watching how from beneath the rubble,

from the limbs of brothers, 

the remains of fathers and mothers, and the blood of infants, 

The hope that Palestinians have a right of return, 

Right of land, and of promise.

And now the world is awaiting for the decision based on justice and humanity.

Kareem Abdulaal


Palestine exhibition in Auckland


Yousef Aljamal – national tour postponed to June

It’s very disappointing to have to pass on the news that Yousef Aljamal’s national tour has had to be postponed by about six weeks. Yousef has had problems getting his passport returned to him from a foreign embassy in time for his visa application for New Zealand to be processed. We were hoping up to the last minute that this could be resolved but unfortunately it wasn’t possible. He is as disappointed as we are at this delay in him coming.

Thanks for your patience with this. We are looking forward to a very successful tour later next month.


Two stories from Japan

A hotel in Kyoto Japan has Israeli guests sign a declaration that they have no involvement in war crimes. More here

Protest in Japan against Israel taking part in Expo 2025 in Osaka

Link to the story is here


Quotes for this week

“Israel has threatened us and attacked us many times before, in 2010, killing 10 of our volunteers. It is also the primary entity interested in keep us and any aid out of Gaza,” 

—Huwaida Arraf; Palestinian Rights Activist & Lawyer, Member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition 

 

“We are pro-peace and anti-war...To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain,  I see your suffering; and I see freedom - and it is very soon”

– US pro-Palestine Columbia Uni student Mohsen Mahdawi thanks supporters outside the courtroom after released from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) by Federal Judge. 

 

"There is no cooking gas and we can only cook over a fire, but firewood is too expensive for us, so we rely solely on prepared meals distributed by soup kitchens and some canned food. Without the soup kitchens, we would have died of hunger by now. We stand in long lines for food and come home with a plate of stew. Sometimes my children stand in line; sometimes I do. A kilo of flour costs 50 shekels (~ USD 14) and when I can, I buy and bake bread, but it runs out quickly. We have been truly starving for 53 days now.” …

--Anwar Hamad; Mother, Resident of Gaza


The Vach brothers: Israel’s first family of genocide

Read the story of these infamous brothers here


Letter in the Otago Daily Times


The new must-see film “The Settlers”

This new film from the BBC (it still has some excellent journalists despite its cowardly, servile management) is a must watch. It is being shown in many places around the country – you can see it in full at this link.


A few pics from events last week…

From the far north

Christchurch

Christchurch

Christchurch


Palestine for readers…

A supporter has sent in this list of recommended reading on Palestine:

  • The Question of Palestine – Edward Said (Palestinian)

  • Palestine a four thousand year history – Nurma Masalha (Palestinian)

  • The Last Earth – Ramzy Baroud (Palestinian)

  • A very short history of the Israel Palestine Conflict – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • The ethnic cleansing of Palestine – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • The ethnic cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • The forgotten Palestinians – A history of the Palestinians in Israel - Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • The biggest prison on earth - Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe (Jewish)

  • On Palestine – Noam Chomsky (Jewish)

  • The Invention of the land of Israel – Shlomo Sand (Jewish)

  • My Israel Question – Antony Lowenstein (Jewish)

  • The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein (Jewish)

  • Israel a Beachhead in the middle east – Stephen Gowans (Canadian, he also has an excellent blog)

  • The making of Hamas’s foreign policy – Daud Abdullah (former Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain)

  • The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk (deceased, middle East journalist)

  • Freedom Next Time – Resisting the empire – John Pilger (deceased, journalist, written many books and docos).


Central Otago climbs high for Palestine


Announcing the 2nd Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award

Entries are now open for the second Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award, which in 2025 will again be $500 NZD.

In honour of Mercedes’ support for Palestinian rights, her passionate resistance to injustice, and in light of the current genocide in Gaza, the topic for this year’s award is RESISTANCE. 

Entries are invited from writers resident in New Zealand, Australia and Palestine of one previously-unpublished poem per entrant, with a word count not exceeding 430 words.

Closing date for entries is 28 September, 2025, the 25th anniversary of the Second Intifada in Palestine, the 126th anniversary of NZ’s parliamentary vote to send troops to South Africa in support of Britain’s colonialist war, and the 42nd anniversary of the death of Aboriginal man John Peter Pat’s death in police custody in Roeburn, Western Australia. 

Five finalists will be selected and advised by 29 November 2025, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and invited to submit a video of a reading of their entry, to be posted on the Award Youtube channel. All finalists will receive a copy of one of Mercedes’ books.

The winner and runners-up of the award will be announced on 9 December 2025, the 38th anniversary of the First Intifada in Palestine, and of the 107th anniversary of the Surafend massacre committed by New Zealand and Australian soldiers in Palestine.

In addition to the main award of $500, there will be a second prize – if English-speaking, a copy of Mahmoud Darwish’s  Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: selected poems; if Arabic-speaking, a copy of Abdallah Abulaban’s Women in the Sun, co-winner of the 2024-2025 Palestine Cultural Awards - Ghassan Kanafani Award for Literature.

All poems entered for the award remain confidential, anonymous, and internal during the judging process.

Two copies of each entry are required:

1)     The first copy must be submitted as one PDF file and contain a Title Page with author's name, address, personal e-mail address, and telephone number. The poem file name format must be: Author last name_author first name_poem title. e.g plath_sylvia_mad girls love song  If no title, please use the first line of the poem as the title. e.g plath_sylvia_you might as well haul up

2)     The second copy must be a "blind" copy (PDF file) with the title and poem only on the Title Page. All identifying information must be removed or redacted within the file. The file name for this copy must be the title of the poem only.

Resist genocide and injustice, past and present, and send your entry to:

Email addressm.webbpullman.poetry.award@gmail.com

Subject: Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award 2024 - RESISTANCE


The Doctor’s Wife – how to organize a local screening

Among the many excellent documentaries which are being screened by the Palestine solidarity movement around New Zealand is an absolute gem of a film by local filmmaker Paula Jones and associate director Tamara Azizian.

The film is “The Doctor’s Wife” and follows the decades long work of Dr Alan Kerr, a surgeon from New Zealand, and his wife Hazel in the hospitals of Palestine.

We would encourage everyone around the country to organise local screenings of the film – even with family and friends in your living room – and raise funds for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF)

All details of organising a local film screening are on the website here: https://whitioraproductions.com/the-doctors-wife


Forgotten – an event with Raja Shehadeh


Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!

Remember possible action for local groups

For groups affiliated to PSNA we suggest the following actions could be taken at any time in support of this campaign

  • Asking your local backpacker accommodation to display the poster and draw it to the attention of any Israeli soldiers here on “rest and recreation” from the genocide.

  • Pasting the hotline poster (use the version in this newsletter which includes a contact email) around the vicinity of backpacker venues in your local area. This is already happening in some areas.

  • Hand out flyers to people in the vicinity of your local backpackers

  • Contact us on the hotline if you come across Israeli soldiers


Important stories from last week

Editor’s picks

  • A Palestinian-American Teen Allegedly Threw Stones That Hit No One. IDF Shot Him 11 Times here (paywalled)

  • Why I wrote an expert report against the UK classing Hamas as a terror group here

  • Israel's Backers Keep Whining That They're Losing Control Of The Narrative here

  • Too many journalists remain silent over the Gaza genocide, a threat to our media credibility by David

  • Freedom Flotilla ship attacked by apparent Israeli drones in international waters here

 

Other stories

  • Democrats push for “educational gag order” over Palestine lessons in California here

  • Israel is on a home demolition rampage in the West Bank. Its aim is to force Palestinians to leave here

  • Israel approves plans to expand Gaza operation here

  • Devastation, bombing and starvation: Israel is destroying life in Gaza here

  • Palestine protesters march on TVNZ, accuse broadcaster of bias on Gaza here 

  • Dave Robie’s Media Freedom Day speech here

  • Caitlin Johnstone: It was never about hostages. It was never about Hamas here

  • Gaza-bound aid ship attacked by ‘Israeli piracy’ in talks with Malta here

  • Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla ship here

  • RSF condemns Israeli targeting of Gaza journalists – then slandering them in death here

  • Germany’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Unhinged here


Merchandise for sale

We are ready to mail to you any of our t-shirts, long ($35) and short ($30) sleeved, hoodies ($45) bumper stickers ($3), Tino/Palestine pins ($3) flags ($10) and other items plus postage.

See more on the PSNA website here.

Email Merchandise@PSNA.nz with your order.


Sodastream stickering is going gangbusters…

What happens when SodaStream products are consistently stickered?

If you’d like some stickers for sodastream email your name and address to Merchandise@PSNA.nz and we will send them to you.


Reminder: Annual Dates for Palestine Solidarity

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.


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 - 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

PSNA National Committee

Website: www.PSNA.nz
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)