PSNA Newsletter No 204 - 3 September 2025
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3 September 2025
Newsletter No 204
Stand with Palestine in September
Saturday 6 September – Global Day of Action for Gaza
Saturday 13 September – March the Auckland Harbour Bridge for sanctions against Israel
Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 September – Disrupt complicity with genocide (BDS international initiative)
Tuesday September 23 – UN General Assembly begins general debate to sanction Israel
Items in this newsletter
Nationwide rallies/marches/vigils this week
March the Auckland Harbour Bridge for Sanctions Against Israel
3. Three things you can do now for Palestine…
4. PSNA legal challenge to Superfund investments in illegal Israeli settlements
5. Open letter from journalists and media people to the PM
6. A smattering of mainstream media journalists begin to speak out…
7. PSNA refers TVNZ to the Broadcasting Standards Authority – again…
8. International Association of genocide scholars speaks out…
9. Quotes of the week
10. Seen in Newtown
11. Sticker! Sticker! Barcode! Barcode!
12. Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!
13. Important stories from last week
14. Lots of new, interesting merchandise for sale
15. Events this week
Nationwide rallies/marches/MP protests/vigils this week
Auckland poster for August 30
To view events around Aotearoa:
Go to the PSNA Homepage – www.PSNA.nz and scroll down to to the button linking to the Facebook events page - Check back on Friday for any moves, adds or changes
Or go directly to events here PSNA Facebook events page
Or Scroll down to the bottom of this Newsletter to get to the detailed list of events around the motu this week.
There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.
Please Scroll down to the bottom of this newsletter for details.
March the Auckland Harbour Bridge for Sanctions Against Israel
Three things you can do now for Palestine…
Share your local event for this weekend’s Global Day of Action for Gaza on your social media pages. Events are here on PSNA’s Facebook page
Share the Harbour Bridge March poster (above) on your social media pages
Share the “Disrupt Complicity” poster (below) on your social media pages
Disrupt New Zealand government complicity with genocide
PSNA legal challenge to NZ Superfund’s investments supporting illegal Israel settlements
The Palestine Solidarity Network has issued judicial review proceedings to challenge the New Zealand Superfund’s investments in companies helping to build or maintain illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories.
The case will be heard in the Auckland High Court on 14/15 October. The named plaintiffs are PSNA Co-Chairs, Maher Nazzal and John Minto, and Rawaa Elhanafy. The lawyers taking the case are Rodney Harrison KC and Frances Joychild KC.
Mahar Nazzal says the Superfund has investments in companies identified by the United Nations Human Rights Council as providing services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The UN list was updated in 2023 and the updated database is here in a pdf.
Nazzal says the recent report by Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ says when Israel is committing genocide in Gaza many companies such Booking.Com and AirBnB are profiting from “occupation tourism” in Palestine.
“We look forward to the court having a thorough look at the Superfund’s investments and whether they are in line with their legal obligations”
John Minto & Maher Nazzal
Co-Chairs
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Summary of PSNA’s case against the Superfund’s policy
The New Zealand Superfund has investments in four companies listed in June 2023 by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
AirBnB
Booking.com
Motorola
Alstrom
Each of these companies is deeply embedded in Israel’s illegal occupation. AirBnB and Booking.com are advertising homes for rent in illegal Israeli settlements. This encourages investors to purchase these properties and also encourages the building and expansion of these illegal settlements.
Motorola has a long lucrative history of providing technology and infrastructure to enable Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territory as well as involvement in providing transport infrastructure which links the illegal settlements via racially segregated roads.
Why does this matter now?
In December 2022, Israel elected arguably its most extreme ethno-nationalist government ever. It stepped up the brutal repression of Palestinians and made clear it would not countenance a meaningful peace plan or the formation of a Palestinian state.
The new government said its “top priority” was to push ahead with more illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
In the last week of June 2023, Israeli ministers announced plans to build more than 5,000 additional houses in these illegal settlements on Palestinian land. Further expansion of these settlements in the Occupied West Bank is taking place while the world is distracted with Israel’s ongoing mass killing and mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
This “green light” to illegal Israeli settlers has resulted in a massive wave of settler attacks on Palestinians towns and villages with pogroms against the Palestinian populations – attacks which have been actively supported and assisted by the Israeli Defence Forces.
A very recent case was the killing of Awdah Hathaleen who was involved in the production of the Oscar Award winning documentary ‘No Other Land’.
Within the last two weeks Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich has approved plans for another illegal Israeli settlement which would split occupied East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank – a move his office said would “bury” the idea of a Palestinian state.
The case has taken on renewed urgency with the July 2024 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, which found Israel’s occupation of the land it captured in the 1967 Six-day War is illegal and urged signatory countries to withdraw all “aid or assistance” to Israel in maintaining its illegal occupation.
On 18 September 2024 the United Nations General Assembly voted in support of the ICJ ruling (New Zealand supported the resolution) which includes the demand:
(c) To implement sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, against natural and legal persons engaged in the maintenance of Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in relation to settler violence;
A further United Nations General Assembly resolution (Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine) was passed in November 2024 which also called for states
“Not to render aid or assistance to illegal settlement activities”
ENDS
A welcome open letter from journalists and media people to the Prime Minister
A small smattering of mainstream journalists are now challenging our government’s silence in the face of genocide
Writing on the Spinoff Joel MacManus wrote a welcome article challenging government complicity with the genocide in Gaza. The article is here
PSNA has a few comments on the article here:
Joel MacManus’s excellent article is a well constructed case against the pathetic New Zealand government acquiescence to systematic Israeli atrocities over the past two years.
There are some important follow-up elaborations which reinforce MacManus’ case even further.
The 7 October death toll
This toll, together with the fabricated stories of mass rape and incinerated babies, is the often-repeated mainspring of Israeli justification for doing whatever it likes in ‘response’.
That includes a standard media trope that the ‘majority were civilians’. This does not stand scrutiny.
MacManus seems to use the Associated French Press claim that 1195 died, and of these, 815 were civilians.
Human Rights Watch stated 364 of these civilians died at the Supernova Music Festival. The Supernova Festival - located right next to the Gaza border fence - is a very youthful event.
This is significant because Jewish Israelis are conscripted into the Israeli Defence Forces at 18, for a minimum of two years for women, and two years and eight months for men, and eligible to serve on call-up until they are 40 years old.
So, it seems, that if indeed it was true a 'majority of victims were civilian’ (and certainly to the extent pretended by AFP) then those who were serving as occupation troops in the IDF, but out of uniform and on leave that day, were counted as civilian.
The death tally is usually laid at the door of Hamas. But the evidence is that Hamas targeted military sites, and over the next few hours on 7 October, other groups and individuals crossed through the fence and targeted non-military areas.
What has never been mentioned in our mainstream media, as far as I am aware, is that the Israeli government employed the Hannibal Directive on 7 October, in many locations, instructing the IDF to fire on hostage takers with the intention of killing both abductors and abductees. The Israeli government would prefer to kill its own citizens than have to pay some political price to get them released.
Israel has admitted using the Hannibal Directive on 7 October. Electronic Intifada estimates 'hundreds' of Israelis were killed through Israel's use of the Directive on that day. TVNZ says the number killed by this was so few that it wasn't worth reporting, even though its 1News has broadcast footage of the '7 October Memorial' which comprises walls of cars wreaked by missiles fired from above, which can only have been perpetrated by the IDF.
It may seem trite and defensive to dwell on the facts of 7 October, now almost two years into the Israeli genocide. But the 7 October fables obstinately remain the justification for that Israeli genocide.
The prime example is the New York Times led and Israeli government orchestrated hysteria of mass rapes on 7 October, even though to this day not a single case has been identified.
RNZ is still repeating this myth. It is not beyond imagining that if Netanyahu were to claim that little green men from Mars were responsible for shooting starving Palestinians at the military Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites every day, that RNZ and 1News would dutifully report the guilt of these aliens.
It is also worth noting in this context, that 7 October may well have been the only day since 1948 when there were more Israeli victims than Palestinian ones.
In particular, at least twice as many Palestinian civilians were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli supported militia, than Israelis killed on 7 October. But who in the West is reminded to be shocked enough to remember 17 September 1982?
Gaza death toll
MacManus cites the British medical journal, the Lancet’s estimate of how many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli attack began.
The Lancet conservatively calculated how many more people had died than were listed in the official Health Ministry direct death toll to June 2024. Including indirect deaths, Lancet concluded 186,000 people had lost their lives, against the official toll of 37,877 at the time.
It you use the same methodology today, based on an official toll of 60,000, you will reach an astonishing death total toll of 300,000.
Allowing for about 100,000 Palestinians who have managed to flee Gaza, that updated Lancet death toll matches very closely with a recent Harvard linked study of depopulation.
In other words, Israel has managed to kill one in every eight Palestinians in Gaza. And our government still can't call it a genocide.
New Zealand toughens its stance on Hamas
In the initial stages of the Israeli assault on Gaza, the New Zealand government frequently, and often jointly with Canada and Australia, called for a negotiated settlement.
Our government has hardened its position since then to match the Israeli stance. New Zealand no longer calls for a negotiated settlement, only that Hamas must release all its hostages, and there can be no role for Hamas after an end to hostilities.
In contrast to this hard line, the government attitude towards Israel is softer than previous governments. MacManus points to the Israeli ambassador getting the ‘call in’ diplomatic rebuke in 2010 over Israeli piracy on the high seas.
But in 2014 John Key took the same measure, at least once and possibly twice, over the comparatively modest Israeli excesses in Gaza at that time. Nowadays, MFAT denies there is such a diplomatic device.
Cabinet is agonising over whether to join the rest of the Western world in recognising Palestine – a totally symbolic measure. It engaged in no such policy writhing last year to enthusiastically send a military contingent to join Israeli and US forces fighting to break an Ansar Allah (Houthi) maritime blockade of Israel. New Zealand is obviously more interested in protecting sea lanes than starving people.
Best course for Israeli hostage release
Netanyahu gets a free ride in the news media with his position that he must continue the genocide so Israel can free its hostages held in Gaza. Not reported is the fact that some 140 hostages have been released through negotiations and a ceasefire.
Only seven have been freed alive through military action. It would have been ten had not the trigger-happy IDF shot three hostages who had escaped and were carrying a white flag.
Not reported either, are the 7000 Palestinians now held in Israeli jails under appalling conditions without charge. Hostages by any other name.
PSNA refers TVNZ to the Broadcasting Standards Authority – again…
Throughout June, TVNZ’s 1News broadcast a weird series of stories about the four IDF operated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites in Gaza.
It is common knowledge that Israel set up to GHF centres to pretend it was delivering aid, to defuse the headline that Israel had blockaded hundreds of UNRWA trucks a day.
It was also common knowledge that hundreds of unarmed and starving Palestinians were being killed at these GHF sites.
But for week after week, 1News was adamant in its refusal to believe foreign aid workers and Palestinians that Israel was doing the killing.
When Haaretz published a grim IDF whistleblower account about instructions to shoot at people at the sites, 1News led its item with Netanyahu’s denial. 1News wouldn’t even name the newspaper as Haaretz. It was just ‘local Israeli media.’
Soon afterwards, when a former GHF contractor, American, Anthony Aquilar, went public in the US, 1News ignored the atrocities story altogether.
We have also complained to the BSA – again - about 1News invariably referring to the ‘Hamas led Heath Ministry’ to discredit death toll numbers.
International Association of genocide scholars speaks out…
And condemns Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This an important statement and we are reprinting it here in full.
IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
Recognising that, since the horrific Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, which itself constitutes international crimes, the government of Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure (hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc.) of Gaza, which, according to official UN estimates, at the date of this resolution, has killed more than 59,000 adults and children in Gaza;
Recognising that these crimes are estimated to have left many thousands of people buried under the rubble or otherwise inaccessible, and most probably dead;
Recognising that this bombing and other violence is estimated to have injured more than 143,000 people, with many maimed;
Recognising that the actions of the Israeli government against Palestinians have included torture, arbitrary detention, and sexual and reproductive violence; deliberate attacks on medical professionals, humanitarian aid workers and journalists; and the deliberate deprivation of food, water, medicine, and electricity essential to the survival of the population;
Recognising that Israel has forcibly displaced nearly all of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip multiple times, and demolished more than 90 percent of the housing infrastructure in the territory;
Recognising that the consequences of these crimes have included destroying entire families and multiple generations of Palestinians;
Recognising that Israel has destroyed schools, universities, libraries, museums, and archives, all of them essential to the continued existence of Palestinian collective well-being and identity;
Recognising that Israel has killed or injured more than 50,000 children and that this destruction of a substantial part of a group constitutes genocide, as emphasized in a joint declaration of intervention in the International Court of Justice case of The Gambia v Myanmar by six countries—Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom— which states “that children form a substantial part of the groups protected by the Genocide Convention, and that the targeting of children provides an indication of the intention to destroy a group as such, at least in part. Children are essential to the survival of any group as such, since the physical destruction of the group is assured where it is unable to regenerate itself.”;
Recognising that Israeli governmental leaders, war cabinet ministers, and senior army officers have made explicit statements of “intent to destroy”, characterizing Palestinians in Gaza as a whole as enemies and “human animals” and stating the intention of inflicting “maximum damage” on Gaza, “flattening Gaza,” and turning Gaza into “hell”;
Recognising that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the current US President's plan to forcibly expel all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with no right of return, in what Navi Pillay, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has said amounts to ethnic cleansing;
Recognising that the deliberate destruction of agricultural fields, food warehouses, and bakeries and other violence that prevents food production, in conjunction with denial and restriction of humanitarian aid, indicate the intentional infliction of unlivable conditions resulting in starvation of Palestinians in Gaza;
Acknowledging that, on 21 November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of Israel, in the court's ongoing investigation opened on 3 March 2021, of crimes committed on Palestinian territory since 13 June 2014, charging them with crimes identified in the Rome Statute, in the Gaza Strip from at least 8 October 2023, including the starvation of civilians, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, murder, and persecution;
Whereas Israel's actions in response to the October 7 attack and subsequent holding of hostages have not only been directed against the Hamas group responsible for these, but have also targeted the entire Gazan population;
Acknowledging that the International Court of Justice found in three provisional measures order in the case of South Africa v. Israel — January, March, and May 2024 — that it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide in its attack in Gaza and ordered Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement of genocide and to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza;
Acknowledging that leading global international law organizations and UN bodies, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Forensic Architecture, DAWN, B ’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, have conducted extensive investigations and issued reports concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza;
Acknowledging that a number of Israeli, Palestinian, Jewish, and other scholarly experts working in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and in International Law have concluded that Israeli governmental and military actions constitute genocide;
Acknowledging that international civil society has a responsibility to prevent genocide by encouraging and assisting states to fulfil their obligations under the Genocide Convention to prevent, suppress, and punish genocide;
Acknowledging that putative security measures against members of a group are often pretext for mass killing and genocide as it has become in this case;
Therefore, the International Association of Genocide Scholars:
Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948);
Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;
Calls upon the government of Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid, water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population;
Calls upon the government of Israel to comply with the Provisional Measures orders of the International Court of Justice;
Calls upon the state parties of the International Criminal Court to comply with their obligations, cooperate with the Court, and surrender any individual subject to an arrest warrant;
Calls upon all states to actively pursue policies to ensure respect for their obligations under international law, including under the Genocide Convention, the Arms Trade Treaty and international humanitarian law, with regards to Israel and Palestine;
and
Calls upon the government of Israel and all other United Nations members to support a process
of repair and transitional justice that will afford democracy, freedom, dignity, and security for all people of Gaza.
Resolution passed 31 August 2025
Quotes of the week
Seen in Newtown
SodaStream campaign
STICKER! STICKER! BARCODE! BARCODE!
(Stickering the barcode makes it difficult to scan these products for sale)
With the huge effort leading up to the National Day of Action there was less activity on SodaStream this week but get yourselves geared up for action in the next few weeks and remember when you take action, tell us your stories and send us your pics and videos for the PSNA Newsletter at sodastreamboycott@psna.nz
Remember the Noel Leeming stores are our first selected focus for the PSNA Swap out of Sodastream campaign.
Keep up with the campaign here:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/psna_otautahi/
https://www.instagram.com/psnaotearoa/
Websites: Check out the link to the campaign on https://www.psna.nz/bds
And at
https://bdsaotearoa.nz/economic-boycott/soda-stream
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYbiKoTll4/
Petition:
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/swap-out-sodastream
Quotes of the week
[Israel’s government has] engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure [in Gaza]
— International Association of Genocide Scholars; Statement on Gaza
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“E1 (the latest approved illegal Israeli settlement in Palestine - ed) buries the idea of a Palestinian state and continues the many steps we are taking on the ground as part of the de facto sovereignty plan that we began implementing with the establishment of the government."
— Bezalel Smotrich; Israeli Finance Minister
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
21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated anti-semitic attacks in Australia here
NZ media workers call for decisive action by Luxon over Gaza journalists here
There is a plot Mr Luxon – it’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians based on biblical justification here
Israeli government claims credit for pushing Albanese to expel Iranian diplomats here
Let's honour Mariam's legacy and 10x our outcry here (petition)
Other stories
'Two state, deluded state – shuffling of the deck isn’t stopping Gaza genocide here
Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists here
Rallies across New Zealand honour Gaza strip journalists and condemn our own news media here
A message to editors about Gaza – your euphemisms made the bullets easier to fire here
Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and the occupied West Bank here
Let's honour Mariam's legacy and 10x our outcry here
Even the media's Gaza 'investigations' hide the real story of Israel's atrocities here
In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate here
WATCH: A Farmer’s Fight and the Ongoing Siege of Southern Lebanon here
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population here
Lebanon's Berri calls for dialogue over plan to disarm Hezbollah of weapons here
Germany blocks EU push to sanction 'Israel' over war on Gaza here
Pro-Israel IGJ judge exposed here (video)
Did Europe just make war with Iran more likely? here
Zionist lobby in Brazil silences critics of Israel and fuels antisemitism, researcher warns - Brasil de Fato here
Trump’s Iran War Mulligan - The president soon will have another shot to avoid the sand trap of a Mideast war here
Conquering Gaza City: Israel's new ethnic cleansing plan begins here
The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza here
Israel's E1 settlement: Paving the way to annex the West Bank here
Merchandise for sale - please check with your local branch and/or contact us Merchandise@PSNA.nz
If your local branch does not have what you are after 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 large & medium ($10 or $7) and other items plus postage.
See more on the PSNA website here.
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)
Nationwide Rally list to 23 August 2024
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
Or Scroll down to the bottom of this Newsletter for the detailed list of events for this week.
There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.
North Island
Rawene
Saturday September 6
No Event this weekend
Kerikeri - Rally
First Saturday of the Month
6 September
9:00 – 11:00 am
Kerikeri roundabout, State highway 10
Whangarei - International Day Mobilisation:
Saturday September 6
No event in Whangarei this Saturday
Whangarei joining action in Kerikeri
Carpooling 8.15/30am at Hatea Drive carpark
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 – Leafletting for major rallies
Wednesdays September 3 & 10
Any part of the day
Email AK-Leaflets@PSNA.nz to join in
Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Visit to Simeons Browns office
(Hosted by Pakuranga for Palestine)
Saturday September 6
10:00 am
Gather outside the Rotary Reserve on the Pakuranga Highway and walk to Simeon Browns office
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Every Saturday
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join the team – text Rhona on 021 035 8617
Auckland –Global Day of Action
Saturday September 6
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga / Britomart Square
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(Hosted by Voices for Palestine - Hauraki)
Saturday 6 September
10:00 am
Thames Market, 700 Pollen Street, Thames
Tauranga – Flag Wave and Hikoi - Global Day of Action
Saturday 6 September
11:00 am
Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui
Hamilton – Global Day of Action
Every Saturday
1:00 pm
Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton
Raglan – Silent Vigil for Palestine
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
Gisborne
Saturday August 30
No Rally notified for this weekend
Napier – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Every Sunday
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North - Global Day of Action
Every Sunday
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
Ngāmotu-New Plymouth – Global Day of Action
(Hosted by Palestinian Solidarity Taranaki)
Saturday September 6
1:00 pm
The Landing, 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 September 5
6:00 pm
In front of Wellington Hospital, 49 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington
Wellington/Porirua - Global Day of Action
Hosted by Porirua for Palestine
Saturday September 6
1:00 pm
Parumoana Street, by the Porirua Library
Contact Josie 021 037 9513
South Island
Nelson - Global Day of Action
Saturday September 6
10:30 am
Paru Paru Rd (adjacent to Nelson Squash Club),
March to Upper Trafalgar St for Rally
Picton / Blenheim - Global Day of Action
Every Saturday
10:30 – 12:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Picton
Joined with the Rally in Blenheim from now on
Greymouth - Te Tai Poutini - West Coast
Saturday 6 September
11.00am
On lawn below GDC Fountain, High St
If raining : Meet outside old Noel Leeming building Mackey St.
Christchurch – Flags for Palestine
Every Friday
4:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Global Day of Action
Saturday September 6
12:30 pm - Flag Waving before the rally - Durham Street side of the bridge
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch
Timaru - Global Day of Action
Saturday September 6
10:30 am
Gather at the Caroline Bay Piazza. Timaru
Dunedin - Pot banging and speeches for Palestine
Saturday September 6
1:00 pm
The Octagon, Dunedin
Invercargill - Global Day of Action
(hosted by Invercargill Stands With Palestine)
Saturday September 6
1:00 pm
Wachner place, Invercargill
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
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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
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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)