PSNA Newsletter No 191 - 4 June 2025

4 Pipiri 2025
4 June 2025

Newsletter No 191

Items in this newsletter

Nationwide rallies/marches/vigils this week
What you can do now with just a few clicks…
Auckland Business Chamber lines up for genocide
An interesting approach from Stuff
Delegations to MPs
Al Shabaka podcast
Quotes of the week
A Journey from Misery to Hell – Mohammad Sirdah
Letters in our papers this week
Gaza and genocide – A Christian call to action
And a message from a Baptist New Zealander
Yousef Aljamal Aotearoa NZ tour next month
Palestine poetry competition
Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!
Important stories from last week
Merchandise for sale
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

Saturday 7 June

9:00 – 11:00 am

Kerikeri roundabout, State highway 10

Whangarei

Saturday 7 June

No event on this weekend

Please check PSNA Facebook events page later in the week

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 at RAKON

Wednesday June 4

3:00 pm – Note change of time

8 Sylvia Park Road, Mount Wellington

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 and March to the German Consulate, MFAT and the US Consulate

Saturday 7 June

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

Saturday 6 June

10:00 am

Thames Market, 700 Pollen Street, Thames

Tauranga – Flag Waving

Sunday 8 June

11:00 am

Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui

Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine

Every Saturday

1:00 pm

Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton

Hamilton

No Rally notified for this weekend

Raglan

Hosted by Whaingaroa Palestine Solidarity

No event notified for this weekend

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 – Rally for Palestine

Saturday 7 June

1:00 pm

The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, Ngāmotu

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

Friday 6 June

6:00 pm

In front of Wellington Hospital, 49 Riddiford Street, Newtown

Wellington – Rally for Palestine

(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)

The Rally is on

Saturday June 7

1:00 pm

See https://www.instagram.com/falastin_tea_collective for further details

South Island

Nelson

Saturday June 7

10:30 am

1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar St, Nelson

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 June 7

1:00 pm

Bridge of Remembrance

Dunedin

Saturday June 7

No Rally notified for this weekend

Invercargill – Rally for Palestine

(hosted by Invercargill Stands With Palestine)

Every Sunday

1:00 pm

Wachner Place, Invercargill

Invercargill – Meeting at Council - amend their procurement policy to alignment with UNSC2334

(hosted by Invercargill Stands With Palestine)

A large group is needed

Wednesday June 11

10:30 am (meeting up at 10:00 am)

Environment Southland, Price Street, Invercargill

What can you do now with just a few clicks…

Join your local Palestine solidarity protests as well as share them on your social media pages – see list above!
Copy and paste the letter to the Auckland Business Chamber – see later in newsletter.
Copy and paste this letter to all government MPs.

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Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz; Miles.Anderson@parliament.govt.nz; Carl.Bates@parliament.govt.nz; andrew.bayly@parliament.govt.nz; Dan.Bidois@parliament.govt.nz;

Chris.Bishop@parliament.govt.nz; Cameron.Brewer@parliament.govt.nz; Simeon.Brown@parliament.govt.nz; Gerry.Brownlee@parliament.govt.nz; Mike.Butterick@parliament.govt.nz; Blair.Cameron@parliament.govt.nz; Hamish.Campbell@parliament.govt.nz; Carlos.Cheung@parliament.govt.nz; judith.collinspapakura@parliament.govt.nz; Tim.Costley@parliament.govt.nz; Matt.Doocey@parliament.govt.nz; Greg.Fleming@parliament.govt.nz;

Todd.Stephenson@parliament.govt.nz; Andrew.Hoggard@parliament.govt.nz;

Karen.Chhour@parliament.govt.nz; Mark.Cameron@parliament.govt.nz;

Simon.Court@parliament.govt.nz; Parmjeet.Parmar@parliament.govt.nz;

Laura.Trask@parliament.govt.nz; Cameron.Luxton@parliament.govt.nz

To All Government MPs:

How can you and your government look upon the images of mass misery in Gaza and stay silent?

You and your government still refuse to condemn the daily outrages against the Palestinian people.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"

Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

For 18 months you and your government have chosen Israel’s side – the side of the racist, genocidal state of Israel.

By failing to speak out all government MPs are complicit in this genocide.

Please respond urgently and without meaningless platitudes.

Auckland Business Chamber lines up for genocide

These people are the board members of the Auckland Business Chamber which is collaborating with the racist, genocidal state of Israel to promote business and profits in both countries.

Charlotte Parkhill, Ross George, Chris Carr, Fred Hellaby, Peter Thompson, Rakesh Nauhria, Mike Lightfoot, Priti Ambani and Jenny Liu.

These people think it’s OK to promote business with the racist, apartheid state of Israel. Even worse they are doing this while Israel commits genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza. Mass killings and mass starvation are no obstacle to making a profit.

Shame on them all!

We are calling on them to immediately cancel their collaboration event with Israel.

Copy and paste this email to the Auckland Business Chamber

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Auckland Business Chamber Board members

c/o membership@chamber.co.nz

Kia ora,

I was shocked to see you are promoting business opportunities with the racist, genocidal state of Israel.

Cancel your involvement in this event immediately!

Last July the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestine illegal and called for the end of any dealings which assist Israel to maintain its illegal occupation.

Beside the appalling promotion of deals with Israel to make profit from their occupation, this racist state is involved in genocide as I write.

Cancel your involvement in this event immediately!

Please respond without delay.

<your name>

An interesting approach from Stuff

Around the world news agencies are, after 19 months, confronting the truth that they have failed to adequately report the Israeli carnage in Gaza. Some, like the Zionist controlled BBC, are just doubling-down and reporting even more outrageous Israeli lies as plausible when there is clear and multiple evidence against the claims. The BBC/TVNZ waffle reporting this week on the blatant "aid centre" attack by Israel in Gaza is an example

Other agencies say they want to do better and one has asked PSNA to help.

Stuff, which publishes The Press and The Post and most daily newspapers aside from the Herald and the Otago Daily Times, has contacted us with this interesting message;

"The war in Gaza continues, yet every single day many of our readers turn away.

We get it. The scale of suffering is overwhelming for many. But it’s our job to show up and show you what is happened on the ground.

This is why we’re going to publish a single image from Gaza every morning, showing you a snapshot of what the people there face.

Obviously this will not replace our broader reporting, but we hope it can give you a simple and personal way into the ongoing story.

If you have any suggestions around ongoing reporting on Gaza, you can email us at newstips@stuff.co.nz”

Publishing a picture a day is a brave idea. The NZ Israeli lobby will be outraged. They know the enormous power of the images of what Israel is doing in Gaza on the public here. They will demand at least equal space for Israelis. We hope Stuff stand up against the standard Israeli lobby trope that Israelis are always the only real victims and it's antisemitic to deny it. Let's see.

The request for suggestions is an offer to PSNA supporters to feed into the reporting. Feel free to send information about local PSNA associated events. For those of you who pig-out online, send some suggestions to Newstips on where there are alternative news stories which the usual Stuff agencies fall to cover.

Again, let's see if anything changes. But the fact that Stuff has approached PSNA is promising.

Delegations to MPs

Delegations to National MPs around the country are well underway. If you are not part of a delegation yet and you’d like to take part you can join a group to organise one here: https://linktr.ee/unitedforpalestine_

Al Shabaka podcast

Al-Shabaka's US policy fellow, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, joins Co-Director Yara Hawari to examine whether mainstream media and political discourses are shifting their stances on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and what those changes could mean for potential accountability here (podcast)

Listen here on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts

Quotes of the week

"[W]ithin this horror, Amed keeps witnessing something profoundly human – he’s reminded of Steinbeck’s line in The Grapes of Wrath: 'If you’re ever in trouble or hurt or in need, go to poor people. They’re the only ones that will help you'.”

“We’re in the last moments before things totally collapse.”

Amed Khan; Frontline Humanitarian

“Where is the person who will take to the podiums and say that the horror must stop first of all on account of the suffering of Gazans, and to hell with all of the other learned considerations?”

Gideon Levy; Israeli Journalist & Haaretz Columnist

The way in which the civilian population has been affected... can no longer be justified by a fight against Hamas terrorism.”

German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz

“Israel is one domestic American decision away from a deal that will be imposed on Israel, rescuing the region from an unnecessary war and sending the Gaza-settlement dream espoused by Israel's far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, into the dustbin of history.”

Chaim Levenson; Haaretz Columnist

“It is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon.”

Ex-CEO Jack Wood; “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”

A Journey from Misery to Hell – Mohammad Sirdah

Letters in our papers this week

The horrendous suffering and mass killing of Palestinians can no longer be ignored and our newspapers have begun publishing some letters. Here is a selection of letters from the last week. Please look to write yourself or encourage those who get a paper to write…

Gaza and Palestine: A Christian call to action

Christian leaders in mainstream Christian churches have been absent from the public condemnation of Israel’s genocide in Gaza but here is the view from most Christians themselves.

A joint statement from Pax Christi Aotearoa New Zealand

and Aotearoa Christians for Peace in Palestine

We welcome the recent statement from the Catholic Bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand calling for hope and prayers to end the horrific wars in Gaza and other places.

Hope and prayer are essential starting points. Our Christian spirituality is grounded in prayer which connects us with God. This gives us hope that God is with us and that we can take action to end injustice and war. We have seen this in the action taken to stop the war in Vietnam, and to end the racist apartheid system in South Africa. At this time of so much death and destruction in Palestine, it is important for us to be people of hope, for without hope we will give up and do nothing to resist evil.

Catholic Social Teaching from our Popes and Bishops calls on us to analyse situations of war and injustice, and to organise with others to take effective action to end them.

The book of James expresses this powerfully:

“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.“ James 2:15-17.

Jesus took action in the temple when he encountered grave sin. There is a lot of money-counting behind this conflict by weapons manufacturers and other corporations.

As Fr Gabriel, Catholic parish priest in Gaza recently put it :

“So, we pray, and we ask people to pray and work for peace”. [Our emphasis]

The situation in Gaza is horrific.

Over two million people in Gaza, half of whom are children, are being deliberately starved by the Israeli blockade on food, water, and other necessities for life.[1] Israel continues to kill civilians, including children, journalists, healthcare workers and aid workers, destroy hospitals, and deny the entry of life-saving medical supplies. [2] The death toll in Gaza from direct and indirect deaths was estimated to be 186,000 or more in July 2024. [3] By now, it will be even higher.

Since the International Court of Justice deemed Israel’s actions in Gaza a plausible genocide in January 2024,[4] the evidence for genocide has become overwhelming. Human Rights Watch, [5] Amnesty International,[6] Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders),[7] genocide researchers [8], experts at the United Nations [9], and the Quaker Church in Britain [10] have all concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. As party to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, New Zealand has an obligation to act. [11]

In September 2024, New Zealand voted along with 123 other United Nations member states to support a General Assembly resolution calling for Israel to withdraw fully from the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including Gaza and the West Bank.[12] This resolution called for member states to stop trading with, and impose sanctions on, any person or organisation involved in maintaining the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The resolution further called for investigations and prosecutions to ensure Israel is held to account for its violations of international law, and for Israel to pay reparations for all damage, loss or injury inflicted upon the Palestinian people.

We encourage all Christians and people of good will to:

Learn more about the situation in Gaza and the other occupied Palestinian Territories.
Pray for peace and action to end this grave injustice.
Donate to charities who are helping the people of Gaza, such as Caritas, World Vision, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Bethlehem University.
Join organisations working for peace and justice in Palestine.
Join peaceful protests.
Write and talk to politicians asking them to take urgent action.

We call for

An immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the release of all hostages and prisoners of war on both sides, including the many Palestinians held without trial in Israeli prisons.
An immediate resumption of full humanitarian aid into Gaza, under the control of the UN and genuine humanitarian agencies.
An end to Israel’s aggressive actions in the West Bank and an end to the Illegal Israeli settlements there.
Suspending all military support to Israel, including the supply of weapons and services.
Implementing the International Criminal Court arrest warrants and supporting the work of the Court.
Banning all trade and business operations with illegal Israeli settlements.
Rejecting all forms of anti-Semitism and Isalmophobia.

The need for targeted sanctions on Israel

In 1987, the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference called for sanctions on South Africa, to help end the racist system of apartheid. Those sanctions were instrumental in peacefully ending apartheid.

The Netanyahu government has continually rejected international calls for an end to its violent aggression. The time has come for the international community to apply carefully targeted sanctions on Israel to end the violence, and to support the many good Israeli people working to the end the war and to bring justice to the long suffering Palestinian people.

We support the prophetic call for targeted sanctions on Israel from the Church of Norway :

"At this time, it is also necessary to increase pressure on the Israeli government to halt what appears to be an intentional policy of ethnic cleansing. All legitimate political and economic instruments, including various forms of sanctions that are typically used in response to violations of international law, must be considered. It is the responsibility and duty of political authorities to assess and implement the most effective measures in such a situation.” https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52402

We support Chloe Swarbrick’s Member’s Bill, the Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Sanctions Bill, which seeks to enact what New Zealand voted to support at the United Nations. Using the existing framework that New Zealand used to sanction Russia, the Bill will enable sanctions to be imposed on people, assets and services linked to the Israeli government and military. [13]

We encourage you to write to your local MP to support this bill.

https://justiceforpalestine.nz/sanctions/

May almighty God work through us to bring justice and peace to the Holy Land, where Jesus the prince of peace once walked, and today calls us to walk with him again.

The Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven, 1 Jun 2025

Footnotes

[1] World Health Organisation. People in Gaza starving, sick and dying as aid blockade continues. 2025 May 12 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.who.int/news/item/12-05-2025-people-in-gaza-starving--sick-and-dying-as-aid-blockade-continues.

[2] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Humanitarian Situation Update #288 | Gaza Strip. 2025 May 14 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-update-288-gaza-strip.

[3] Khatib R, McKee M, Yusuf S. Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential. Lancet. 2024 Jul 20;404(10449):237-238. Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext.

[4] International Court of Justice. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), Order of 26 January 2024. Available from: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf.

[5] Human Rights Watch. Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza. 2024 Dec 19 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza.

[6] Amnesty International. Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. 2024 Dec 5 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/.

[7] Médecins Sans Frontières. Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction. 2024 Dec 19 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.msf.org/msf-report-exposes-israel%E2%80%99s-campaign-total-destruction.

[8] Conley J. Even once reluctant scholars now agree on Israel's Gaza assault: it's a genocide. 2025 May 15 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza.

[9] United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war. 2024 Nov 14 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide.

[10] Quakers state belief Israel is committing genocide in Gaza https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52466

[11] United Nations General Assembly. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 78, p. 277. 1948 Dec 9, entry into force 1951 Jan 12. Available from: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf.

[12] United Nations. Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory - draft resolution A/ES-10/L.31/Rev.1. 2024 Sep 13 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://docs.un.org/en/A/ES-10/L.31/Rev.1.

[13] Swarbrick C. Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Sanctions Bill. 2024 Dec 11 [cited 2025 May 22]. Available from: https://bills.parliament.nz/v/1/b3c3be5f-47e4-4a86-fb81-08dd1985498b.

And a message from a Baptist New Zealander

A great podcast published yesterday on the Baptist NZ page helping people who claim to be Christians to realise if they are accidental Zionists. The main guy talking is called Philip Church and did a doctorate on Zionism and is a lecturer at Laidlaw Bible College. He wants people to understand how awful Zionism is and that it is not even in the Bible here

Dr Yousef Aljamal’s tour to Aotearoa New Zealand next month

We are looking forward to Yousef’s tour around the country next month. The poster below is for his New Plymouth visit. We will have full details of his public meetings in coming newsletters.

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 address: m.webbpullman.poetry.award@gmail.com

Subject: Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award 2024 - RESISTANCE

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

New Zealand journalists EXPOSE Gaza Genocide Media Cover Up here
Radio New Zealand gets the tick of approval from an investigation into its Gaza journalism – so let’s see how it covered the Palestinian Red Crescent massacre here
How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine here
A radical legal step towards ending impunity for the journalists murdered in Gaza here
Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide here
A blueprint to end the genocide 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…

Spitfire Square Woolworths in Ōtautahi Christchurch – plastering red tape over our “Boycott Sodastream” stickers – they are too hard to get off!

So frustrated at being unable to remove boycott SodaStream stickers Spitfire Square Woolworths in Ōtautahi have taken to covering them with red stickers – the hassle factor here is working…

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

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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

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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
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PSNA Newsletter No 191 - 4 June 2025

Newsletter No 191

Items in this newsletter

Nationwide rallies/marches/MP protests/vigils this week

What can you do now with just a few clicks…

Auckland Business Chamber lines up for genocide

An interesting approach from Stuff

Delegations to MPs

Al Shabaka podcast

Quotes of the week

A Journey from Misery to Hell – Mohammad Sirdah

Letters in our papers this week

Gaza and Palestine: A Christian call to action

And a message from a Baptist New Zealander

Dr Yousef Aljamal’s tour to Aotearoa New Zealand next month

Announcing the 2nd Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award

Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!

Important stories from last week

Editor’s picks

Merchandise for sale

Sodastream stickering is going gangbusters…

Are you able to donate a cup of coffee a month to the campaign?

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