20 Haratua 2026
20 May 2026

Newsletter No 241

Items in this newsletter

New Items

Nationwide rallies/marches/vigils this week
The Nakba petition – sever all ties to Israel
The “Free Palestine” Party is half way to the goal of 500 members…
A few things you can do with a single click each…
Ex IDF major “looks after his own” by hosting the Israeli embassy in Wellington
Global Sumud Flotilla – keep up with the latest events here
Important stories this week

Regular items

Join the ICC Six watch
MPs Complicit with Genocide
Keep spreading the message about the Genocide Hotline!

Nationwide rallies/marches/MP protests/vigils this week

To view events around Aotearoa:

We have an events page on our website as well as a Facebook events page

PSNA Website events page:

You can find it here – www.PSNA.nz/Events

The QR code for the PSNA website events page is this:

It is updated on Wednesday afternoon and ongoing as events are notified to us. Please check back on Friday afternoon to see if there has been Additions or Changes.

Or 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

PSNA Facebook events page

Go to the PSNA Facebook events page here

There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.

PSNA’s Nakba petition – sever all relations with genocidal, apartheid Israel

Click here now to sign the petition.

We’re going back to the fundamentals with our Nakba petition.

We’d like you to sign it to support the most basic rights of Palestinians.

In 1948, immigrant Zionist militia gangs ethnically cleansed most Palestinians from their homes in Palestine – nearly a million of them.

The Palestinians call this the Nakba – the Catastrophe.

Israel never let them return, because that demographically would end the apartheid state which is Israel.

So, this is not just about occupation, either in 1948 or in 1967.

It’s about expulsion and the right of return. The UN votes for that right every year. Our government votes for it too.

Our petition goes to the heart of the issue – that western government won’t even talk about.

Our demand is that our government severs all relations with the state of Israel, until Israel has observed the rights of Palestinians to return to their homes and vote in elections.

Otherwise, its apartheid.

Go online and sign now – the petition closes 13 September

Please sign the petition and share the link on social media. The Instagram post is here

The “Free Palestine” Party is half-way to the 500 members it needs – please join up and encourage family and friends to do so too!

From the organisers:

Our purpose in creating a party is not to seek power, but to raise awareness.

If we can reach 500 members quickly we will qualify for government funding to be used in campaign advertising. Every cent will go towards supporting the cause of Palestinian liberation.

“Palestine Free from the River to the Sea” was named to challenge political censorship and creeping fascism. Every ballot paper in the country will feature our name.

You can join our party for any amount of $2 or more at https://palfree.nz/.

You can join even if you belong to another party. We don’t ask for your loyalty to us. We don’t even ask that you vote for us. We ask that your loyalty go to Palestinians. We ask that you vote in accordance with your own conscience.

Our existence as a party will give us access to debates and events where we can give voice to the cause. We need good people for this. If you think you can be a voice for Palestine, please let us know.

This is a small country and we can make a big difference here. We are the weak link in the 5 eyes and it is time to break that chain!

[Read the press release for our launch here: https://community.scoop.co.nz/2026/05/palestine-free-new-party-to-contest-nz-general-election/]"

Four things you can do with a single click each…

(Note the first two are the same as last week – please action them if you didn’t last week. Numbers three and four are updates from last week)

1) Sign the PSNA Nakba petition here

2) Sign up to join the “Free Palestine Party” here

3) Click here to send this letter to Prime Property (see story later in newsletter)

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Eyal Aharoni
Pilot
Prime Property Group
e@primeproperty.co.nz

Kia ora Mr Aharoni,

Israel Embassy office accommodation

I request you cancel your offer of office accommodation to the Israeli Embassy in the Fisher Funds building or any other office block you own.

Your complicity with Israeli apartheid and genocide has become clearer with your personal history in the Israeli occupation forces.

Your experience as an IDF major is not an excuse or a reason to support Israeli war crimes and shelter an embassy whose Prime Minister is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Again I am asking you to withdraw the offer and cancel the tenancy agreement you have with this rogue state of Israel.

(your name)

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4) Click here to send this letter to Ben Kennings from Surf New Zealand. Israeli surfer Anat Lelior is competing in Raglan

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Ben Kennings
Chief Executive
Surfing New Zealand
benkennings@surfingnz.co.nz

Mr Kennings,

Shame on you for collaborating the racist genocidal state of Israel

Your shameful refusal to stop Israeli surfer Anat Lelior from competing in Raglan is an embarrassment to New Zealanders.

We expect leadership and courage from sports administrators but you have shown cowardice and complicity in thew worst human rights atrocity of the 21st century.

Shame on you, and shame on your organisation.

(Your name)

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Please consider Blind Carbon Copying (BCC) each of these emails to Admin@PSNA.nz so we can see how many emails are being sent.

Ex IDF major “looks after his own” by hosting the Israeli embassy in Wellington

**Our Instagram post on the ex IDF major helping the rogue state of Israel find a home in Wellington**

Here is the PSNA Media Release:

Nobody wants to share building with Genocide Embassy of Israel

PSNA says the shift of the Israeli embassy into the Fisher Funds building in Wellington has concerned other tenants in the office high rise.

The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is citing the Wellington Post front-page article which reported only some occupants of the 13-storey site had been told that Israel was moving in.

PSNA spokesperson Rinad Tamimi says the building’s owner was obviously trying to keep the arrival of the embassy a secret until it was too late to object.

“It’s pretty obvious why. The Fisher Funds building is owned by Prime Property Group, which is controlled by rich-lister and former Israeli Defence Force major, Eyal Aharoni.”

“He’s looking after his own.”

Tamimi says the solution to the embassy location concern was the New Zealand government could expel the ambassador and his staff.

“We broke off diplomatic relations when it was discovered Israel’s Mossad spy agency had been getting fake New Zealand passports. So, there is a precedent.”

“It all comes down to the fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It’s the world’s worst atrocity of this century and shamefully its ongoing perpetrators are flying their flag over our capital city,” Tamimi says.

“At this very moment, Israel is firing on the Sumud Flotilla trying to bring aid to Gaza and kidnapping and assaulting New Zealand citizens on that convoy.”

“Our ministers are shaking hands with the people who represent this illegal violence in international waters.”

Tamimi says though Fisher Funds does not own the building it operates out of, it must have powers as the holder of naming rights.

“If Fisher Funds’ CEO was to represent its KiwiSaver stakeholder interests, then he would tell Aharoni to find somewhere else for the Israelis to go to.”

“But since the CEO is an ex-minister of the National Party – Simon Power - then the head of Fisher Fund appears to part of the problem and not the solution.”

Rinad Tamimi

National Spokesperson

PSNA

Some pics from around the country this week

**Nakba day protest at parliament with children’s shoes the focus representing Israel’s industrial scale killing of Palestinian children**

**The Israeli embassy is moving into the Fisher Funds building in Wellington – the tenants aren’t happy.**

**Nakba Day display in Ōtautahi/Christchurch**

Global Sumud Flotilla – keep up with the latest events here

See the Global Sumud Flotilla website + boat tracker

Follow the Aotearoa Delegation of the Flotilla on Instagram

Wellington journalist Eugene Doyle writes After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis our government does nothing.

Spain has demanded the release of two of its citizens who were on the Flotilla and who are still being held by Israel

The Israeli military establishment is already devising ways to deal with future Flotilla activists to limit damage to Israel's image.

More here

Important stories this week

Editor’s picks

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’ here
The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself – is finally being burst here
Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran here

Regular items

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Join the ICC Six Watch

Share the poster on social media – keep alert – email ICC6@PSNA.nz if you find where any of these six genocide deniers are due to show up.

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

Merchandise for sale - please check with your local branch and/or contact us Merchandise@PSNA.nz

**Recent new material – leaflets and stickers are free the bucket hats and caps are $25**

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.

The watermelon and the fist stickers will be back in stock early next week.

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 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.
We have added a page to the PSNA website where we now post the Events list. You can find it here – www.PSNA.nz/Events

The QR code for this is:

It is updated on Wednesday afternoon and ongoing as events are notified to us. Please check back on Friday afternoon to see if there has been Additions or Changes.

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