10 Pipiri 2026
10 June 2026

Newsletter No 244

Five things you can do with a single click each…

1) We have reached the 500 signups needed to register the party but we encourage more people to join. Fill out and sign the membership form on a smartphone here

2) Do you know a Chartered accountant who could take on the role of Auditor for the Free Palestine Party? We need an auditor as part of the registration process. Please email campaigns@psna.nz if you can help with this.

3) Sign the PSNA Nakba petition here

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4) Visit our social media pages – look and like

Facebook PSNA here

Instagram

@psnaotearoa

@psna_otautahi

@psnatamakimakaurau

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5) Send this letter to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Police
The One Click link to send the email to Luxon is here

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Rt Hon Christopher Luxon
Prime Minister
c.luxon@ministers.govt.nz

Mark Mitchell
Minister of Police
m.mitchell@ministers.govt.nz

Kia ora Mr Luxon and Mr Mitchell,

Appalling pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian bias in policing decision demands attention

Today the police informed PSNA that they would NOT be prosecuting an Auckland businessman after he slashed two tyres on the car of a Palestine supporter in Raglan in mid-April. It was an action which could have led to serious injury or death of our supporters.

However last year police in Christchurch charged five people putting stickers on a central city window with wilful damage.

We are disgusted.

Earlier this year a PSNA delegation met with senior police in Wellington and we went through a litany of instances where police have charged pro-Palestine supporters for the mildest of solidarity actions but refused to act against pro-Israeli supporters for much more serious and violent actions.

We wasted our time.

If the situation were reversed and a pro-Israel supporter had their tyres slashed the police, media and politicians would be in a frenzy claiming it as a violent, anti-semitic attack which endangered Jewish lives.

If we are wrong here please explain how.

We are asking the government to set up an independent assessment of this police decision not to prosecute the tyre slasher for wilful damage but to prosecute people stickering windows for the same offence.

(your name)

Items in this newsletter

New Items

Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week
Marlborough District Council asks for staff report on PSNA procurement motion
‘They used dogs’: New Al Jazeera film exposes Israel’s use of rape in jails
UN International Commission confirms sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers is commonplace and deliberate
For Life – new Palestinian film screening in Auckland and Wellington
Some of the events coming up this week
The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy – New Zealand’s Superfund and local body wins recorded on global map
The Voice of Hind Rajab – new film in the NZ International Film Festival
Snapshot from the latest UN latest report on Gaza
Stolen Palestinian land listed on Booking.com
Important stories this week

Regular items

Your KiwiSaver may be funding violations of Palestinian rights
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.

Marlborough District Council calls for report on procurement resolution

Palestine solidarity supporters made a strong presentation to the Marlborough District Council arguing for the council to exclude from their procurement policies companies on the United Nations Human Rights Council list of businesses involved in illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

The call was well received and the council will consider it again once a staff report has been produced.

Here is the local news report:

‘They used dogs’: New Al Jazeera film exposes Israel’s use of rape in jails – don’t expect to see this in NZ media reporting

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

And the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry outlines the system of Israeli sexual abuse of Palestinians as a weapon of war and occupation…

More details here

For Life – new Palestinian film screening in Auckland and Wellington

THE FILM

Hind is a Palestinian woman whose husband is serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison. The state has tried to rob her of her right to motherhood — but she refuses to accept that.

Determined and defiant, she finds a way to smuggle his sperm across one of the most surveilled borders in the world and begins IVF treatment — refusing with every cell of her body to let occupation be the end of her story.

For Life is a film about love under confinement, about a woman's body as contested territory, and about the most primal human longing: to create life as an act of resistance.

This is not just another Palestinian story. It is a story about what states take from women when they control their bodies, their borders, and their futures.

Some events coming up this week

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

Check out the Global Accountability Map, one of the most comprehensive living records of concrete accountability actions taken by governments, institutions, and courts around the world since October 2023.

The Voice of Hind Rajab – new film will be at NZ International Film Festival later this year

In The Voice of Hind Rajab, the voice in question is a small one, belonging to a young girl alone and in unconscionable peril, high and breathless with fear and confusion. But it cuts through Kaouther Ben Hania’s film with piercing clarity, largely because, in contrast to a surrounding chorus of frantic adult voices, it isn’t performed. Rather, it’s a real-life recording of the last words ever spoken by Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian child killed on Jan. 29, 2024, after her family’s car was shelled by Israeli forces during their invasion of the Gaza Strip. In her final hours, the girl repeatedly phoned call-center volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, pleading for a rescue vehicle that never made it to her.

Making that horrifying 70-minute audio file the heart and spine of her film, Ben Hania baldly confronts her audience with the real-time fate of one of more than 18,000 children killed so far in an ongoing genocide.

If The Voice of Hind Rajab opens one hitherto blinkered eye, or ear, to the atrocities in Gaza, it will have done its job. - Guy Lodge, Variety

Snapshot from the latest UN latest report on Gaza

Stolen Palestinian land listed on Booking.com

A Palestinian landowner just found out his stolen land is listed on Booking.com for $170 a night.

The Dutch government — where Booking.com is headquartered — wants to pass a bill to stop it — but only if enough of us make sure the new bill includes services like Booking.com.

Booking.com: Stop listing stolen Palestinian land. Sign the petition here

Important stories this week

Editor’s picks

Te Kuaka advocacy group calls for NZ transparent, independent ‘Pacific foreign policy’ here
Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel here
System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report here
How activists kicked Israel Bonds out of a Michigan scheme here
Iran fires missiles at Israel after Beirut attack ‘crossed all red lines’ here
Gaza is being offered coercion, not reconstruction here

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Your KiwiSaver may be funding violations of Palestinian rights

Important message from Barry Coates – founder and CEO of Mindful Money

(Website: mindfulmoney.nz. Join our mailing list here)

The judgement won by PSNA forcing the NZ Super Fund to review its investments in four companies that violate the rights of Palestinian people was important. It also sends a warning across the bow of KiwiSaver and other investment funds funds. You may not realise it, but your KiwiSaver might be invested in those four companies.

Mindful Money is a charity that tracks investment in KiwiSaver, including companies on the United Nations Human Rights Council database of companies involved in the building and maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Our analysis shows there is even more invested in the four companies by KiwiSaver funds than by the NZ Super Fund.

So what can you do? Check your fund – it is free, quick and easy to do so. Go to www.mindfulmoney.nz, type in the name of your KiwiSaver fund into the Fund Checker, click the button ‘Show Companies’ and look for the companies with an OPT symbol. If you see any of those companies in your fund, write to your fund manager (the address is on your KiwiSaver statement) and tell them you don’t want your savings going to those companies.

If you want to shift to a fund that doesn’t invest in those companies, use the Fund Finder to find a Mindful Ethical Fund. You can also use the same website for non-KiwiSaver managed funds.

It’s your money. Don’t let it be used to fund companies that violate human rights.

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