PSNA Newsletter No 246 - 24 June 2026
24 Pipiri 2026
24 June 2026
Newsletter No 246
Take the four-click challenge for Palestine
Sign the petition to Invercargill City Council: Keep ratepayer money out of war crimes in occupied Palestine here
Sign the Greenpeace declaration against New Zealand providing minerals for the US/Israeli war machine here
Sign the PSNA Nakba petition calling for total sanctions on Israel here
Click here to send this message to Fisher Funds
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Simon Power
Chief Executive
Fisher Funds
c/o enquiries@fisherfunds.co.nz
Please act on the 2024 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Israel’s illegal occupation in Palestine
Kia ora Mr Power,
Day-by-day Israel flouts international law and makes a mockery of those who call for it to abandon its genocidal, apartheid policies towards Palestinians.
Fisher Funds must act on the 2024 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Israel’s illegal occupation in Palestine which stresses the international community has binding obligations “to take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation.”
This means Fisher Funds must end its financial support for Genocide and Occupation by withdrawing investments in:
Israel-based companies and Israeli government bonds
Companies on the UN Human Rights Council list of companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements.
Fisher Funds invests in several companies such as Expedia, Heidelberg Materials and Caterpillar which assist Israel in its war crimes and breaches of international law.
As a default Kiwisaver provider Fisher Funds has an even greater responsibility to ensure it invests in an ethical manner.
It’s not hard. Divest today.
And while you are focused on this issue, please cancel your naming rights to the building which is to house the Israeli Embassy. There is no commercial value is being associated with genocide and war crimes. Just the opposite in fact.
Please respond urgently.
(Your name)
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Items in this newsletter
New Items
Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week
Three urgent updates from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
And more meaningless drivel from Winston Peters…
Two public meetings with Chris Sidoti in Te Whanganui-a-tara/Wellington and Tāmaki Makaurau
Vital reading – if you only read one article this week – make it this one
Asra: Stories of Palestinian prisoners
“Indigenizing Zionism: Narrative Claims Deployed by the Indigenous Coalition for Israel to Evade Settler-Colonial Characterization”
An Evening with Hāhona Ormsby in Raglan: His Disturbing Account of Detainment by Israel
“Sitting on the Fence” now available online
A few pics from around the country this week
Quotes of the week
Peters’ ‘bulldust’ claim is bulldust
Bearing Witness – Palestinian Christian leaders to tour here next month
It’s still about Palestine – Boycott Israel
For Life – new Palestinian film screening in Auckland and Wellington
The Voice of Hind Rajab – new film will be at NZ International Film Festival later this year
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.
There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.
Three urgent updates from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
To access the links to all items listed, please click here.
On 14 June, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights warned that more than two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in severe environmental and health catastrophe due to the massive accumulation of solid waste, widespread wastewater leakage, and the rapid spread of rodents and insects around shelters, tents, and residential areas. These conditions stem from prolonged Israeli restrictions that prevent access to main landfills, block essential materials, destroy infrastructure, and halt medical‑waste treatment. Municipalities face fuel shortages, damaged networks, and inoperable equipment, leaving waste unmanaged and exposing displaced families to disease, contamination, and hazardous living conditions that deepen the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
On 15 June, Al‑Haq welcomed the Netherlands’ new Temporary Sanctions Decree banning the import of goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements, calling it an important first step toward ending third‑state complicity in Israel’s “settler‑colonial apartheid regime.” The organization sent a letter to Dutch Foreign Minister Berendsen urging the government to expand the ban to include all services and investments linked to settlements, warning that limiting the measure to goods risks making it “symbolic rather than effective.” Citing the 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion, Al‑Haq stresses that third states have binding obligations “to take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation.”
On 10 June, Amnesty International reported that Israel has accelerated the forced displacement of Palestinians across the West Bank through home demolitions, settlement expansion, land seizures, and escalating settler violence carried out with state backing. The organization stated that these actions amounted to ethnic cleansing and formed part of a broader strategy to entrench permanent control over occupied territory in violation of international law. Amnesty urged governments to impose an arms embargo, halt all support that enabled settlement growth, and take concrete measures to prevent annexation. It warned that global inaction had contributed to worsening abuses and further displacement of Palestinian communities.
And more meaningless drivel from Winston Peters…
Where is the accountability for Israel?
Where are the sanctions?
Where is the support for international law?
Two public meetings with Chris Sidoti in Te Whanganui-a-tara/Wellington and Tāmaki Makaurau
The Aotearoa NZ Human Rights Foundation is hosting Australian human rights expert Chris Sidoti next week for two talks.
Join the Aotearoa NZ Human Rights Foundation for a talk by the Australian human rights expert Chris Sidoti.
Events:
Pōneke: 1 - 2pm, Thursday July 2nd at 2/57 Willis St. Register here.
Tāmaki Makaurau: 6 - 7.30pm, Friday July 3rd at the Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland Central. Register here.
As a member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, Chris Sidoti has spent the past five years collecting evidence of grave violations of international law in Gaza and the West Bank. This included the UN commission of inquiry finding that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide under international law.
In late June, Chris will present further findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on human rights violations against Palestinian children and a further report on killings by non-state actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.
How should Aotearoa New Zealand respond to these findings?
Chris has called on the Australian government to take immediate steps in response to these atrocities. In his talk, he will outline the steps the New Zealand government can and should be taking to fulfill its legal obligations to respond.
About Chris Sidoti
Chris Sidoti is a leading human rights advocate and legal expert. He served as Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000), Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995) and was the founding Director of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1987-1992). Internationally, he was a member of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (2017-2019) and currently is a Commissioner on the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
For more information about the events, visit New Zealand Human Rights Foundation
Vital reading – if you only read one article this week – make it this one
UN verifies rapes of Palestinians, but still cites no Israeli victims | The Electronic Intifada
Asra – Stories of Palestinian Prisoners
The plight of Palestinian prisoners has never felt more urgent. Today, more than 10,000 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons, including hundreds of children, with thousands detained without charge or trial. In recent months, the world has witnessed escalating abuses, a death penalty introduced, and those released from Israeli prisons continue to share harrowing accounts of torture, starvation and dehumanisation.
As activists, we often speak about the numbers. As theatre-makers, our role is different.
Asra – Stories of Palestinian Prisoners brings audiences face to face with the people behind those statistics through the prisoners’ own words. A woman who tore up her dress to make a bed for a stray cat in solitary confinement. A child who found a thousand mothers after being released into an unfamiliar village. A man who translated stories and secretly passed them between prisoners so they could imagine life beyond the prison walls.
Created by Harakat Productions and Sumud Ensemble, directed by Palestinian theatre-maker Dr. Rand Hazou, Asra is a documentary theatre work using verbatim testimony, puppetry and live music to honour the resilience, creativity and humanity of Palestinian prisoners.
After a powerful 2024 season at Basement Theatre, we’re raising funds to redevelop the production for touring, so these stories can reach theatres, schools, marae, festivals and community spaces across Aotearoa.
If you believe these voices deserve to be heard, we’d be deeply grateful for your support
“Indigenizing Zionism: Narrative Claims Deployed by the Indigenous Coalition for Israel to Evade Settler-Colonial Characterization”
This is the face of New Zealand first - failed National Party MP Alfred Ngaro is standing for NZ First in Glendene this election. And like Winston Peters, it's a case of Israel First rather than New Zealand First as the party provides political support and complicit cover for the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel.
Aotearoa New Zealand academic Arama Rata has examined the stance of the “Indigenous Coalition for Israel” of which Alfred Ngaro is a key figure. The abstract from her research is below along with a link to the research in full.
Arama Rata
From inception, the Zionist project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine has been explicitly colonial. However, recent attempts have been made to frame global Jewry as indigenous to Palestine, including by groups who foreground their own indigeneity. This article focuses on the Indigenous Coalition for Israel, the New Zealand-based group whose founders opened the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem in February 2024. Background details of the group’s members and networks are described, exposing a Christian nationalist agenda that is antithetical to indigenous liberation. Thematic analysis of claims made by the group via their website reveal narrative subthemes and rhetorical techniques used to serve two specific discursive functions: to invert the colonizer–colonized relationship, and to reject settler-colonial theory. Both enable Zionism to evade characterization as settler-colonial. Settler-colonial theory is shown to illuminate historical and contemporary power dynamics in Palestine. However, the abstraction of the theory leaves open conceptual gaps enabling the recuperation of its terms. This article concludes that indigenous liberation requires theory grounded in the historical trajectories and material realities of resistance and situated within the global systems sustaining colonial domination.
The full research article can be read here
An Evening with Hāhona Ormsby in Raglan: His Disturbing Account of Detainment by Israel
We are privileged to have Hāhona Ormsby (Ngāti Maniapoto) in Whaaingaroa for an evening talk on Wednesday July 1 at 7pm.
Hāhona, who is a teacher, will be at the Old School in Eva's Room to discuss his experiences of 7 weeks on the Global Sumud Flotilla (Spring 2026). 54 vessels with 500 international activists from 56 countries, and over 300 tons of humanitarian aid for Gaza, set out to break the siege on Gaza and deliver life-giving aid. Hāhona follows in a long whakapapa of New Zealanders who, in true humanity, stood up for justice: New Zealanders who sailed into the French nuclear testing zone in the Pacific in the 1980's; who protested against apartheid South Africa; and who went to Spain in the 1930's to fight against Franco's fascists.
Doctors, nurses, eco-builders, teachers --all unarmed civilian protesters-- responded to a direct call from Palestinians in Gaza. They prepared to disembark and establish an international civilian presence in Gaza. Hāhona was taking educational materials to the kids. He was on one of the boats illegally intercepted by Isreal on 18 May 2026, near Cyprus, hundreds of miles from Israeli waters. He will discuss his kidnapping with six other New Zealanders in international waters, and their subsequent detainment in Ashdod, Israel, and treatment by the Israeli government.
The Australian Federal Police have opened an independent investigation into claims by
eleven of their citizens of their kidnapping, abuse, rape and torture by Israeli forces. New Zealanders are calling on our government to investigate Israel over similar claims by our Internationalistas and respond appropriately.
Come along and hear Hāhona's first hand account: 1 July at 7pm at the Old School.
Whaaingaroa Palestine Solidarity
“Sitting on the Fence” now available online
In Sitting On The Fence, Kiwi voices speaking truth to power in Aotearoa, US and Israel over their complicity in genocide have at last been given the platform that those in Parliament, the media and diplomacy have sought to silence.” Jane Kelsey - Emeritus Professor of Law, Auckland University, Aotearoa / New Zealand
With the NZ International Film Festival not selecting Sitting On The Fence it can now finally be released online in NZ.
The film can be viewed at this link www.sittingonthefence.tv. Please share on your social media networks.
A few pics from around the country this week
Lyn Hume cannot easily get to our rallies in Auckland on account of disability. So she goes to a local Glenfield intersection and waves the flag there!
Go Lyn!
“We will Return” – the new t-shirt design in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland
Put on your walking shoes if you are in Wellington this weekend
On the sand in Raglan which hosted an international surfing event this year which included an Israeli surfer
Quotes of the week
"The bond between Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah is mutual. This week, posters of Khamenei, father and son, have emerged at the entrance of Dahia, the Hezbollah heartland in southern Beirut, with a big "Thank You"."
"Israel has become a serial killer of Palestinians, and the more they murder, the more they have to murder."
—David Hearst; Executive Editor, Middle East Eye
Peters’ ‘bulldust’ claim is bulldust
PSNA Media release last week:
PSNA is challenging the government to obtain medical records held in Türkiye to prove the truth of Global Sumud Flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby’s claim that he was beaten and injured by Israeli guards in Israel in late April.
In a confrontation at today’s hearing of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee, Peters claimed Ormsby’s charges against Israel were ‘bulldust’.
“But when other countries, such as Italy, Malaysia, France and Australia, are actively investigating Israeli torture against their citizens, then the New Zealand government position, that Peters’ claims against Israel are lies, is untenable.”
“There are plenty of witnesses who will testify that Israeli Prisons’ Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir personally spat on Ormsby when he was held in Israeli detention.”
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says Israel captured members of the flotilla on international waters in the Mediterranean, and then deported Ormsby, and other activists, from Israel to Türkiye, where their injuries were medically assessed.
PSNA spokesperson Rinad Tamimi says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs to urgently request those records from Türkiye. Sumud activists have so far not been able to procure their own files.
“It might be embarrassing for MFAT to go through diplomatic channels get real evidence to show up their minister,” says Tamimi.
“There were three Opposition MPs at the Select Committee, Deputy Chair Damien O’Connor, Labour Foreign Affairs spokesperson Vanushi Walters and Greens’ Foreign Affairs spokesperson Tuiono Teanau.”
“They should demand Peters instruct his ministry to interview Sumud Flotilla participants captured by Israel, get their medical records from Türkiye and liaise with other countries, and the International Criminal Court, doing real investigations of Israeli violence.”
“If the Ministry finds Hāhona’s claims vindicated, then these Opposition members should make sure Hāhona’s trespass order from Parliament is revoked, and he is invited to share his experiences with the Select Committee, along with other New Zealanders who were likewise illegally detained and beaten by Israeli thugs.
Bearing Witness – Palestinian Christian leaders to tour here next month
It’s still about Palestine – Boycott Israel
PSNA’s latest leaflet delivers a strong message focusing on our latest petition and steps we can all take to force the government to back Palestine and call our accountability for Israel. If you’d like some leaflets for yourself or your local group email campaigns@PSNA.nz
This is the latest PSNA leaflet – hot off the press. If you would like some, free of charge, to leaflet your neighbourhood or hand out at flag waving then email campaigns@PSNA.nz
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.
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
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
The new Middle East: How the Old Order died and what is rising in its place here
‘Take this seriously’ – flotilla activist claims beating allegations ignored by NZ govt here
People power against Trump’s wars – act against NZ ‘war mineral’ deals here
Winston Peters clashes with Palestine protestors at Parliament here
Israel Picking Up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’ here
Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador here
Behind the noise of an ‘Iran deal’, Palestine continues to burn here
Other stories
“You’re a liar! You’re a liar!” New Zealand’s Israel First Foreign Minister Winston Peters has a brain explosion in Parliament here
Pro-Israel media in meltdown at our war criminals campaign here
Far-Right Israeli Minister Ben Gvir to Attend UN Cops Conference in NYC in July here here
Gaza Municipalities Warn of Imminent Collapse of Essential Services here
Winston Peters clashes with Palestine protestors at Parliament here
Israel Picking Up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’ here
Veteran activist John Minto gets $10,000 from NZ police after unlawful pro-Palestine arrest here
Saige England: We need to write about wrongs, read about wrongs – and be active about those wrongs here
Drop Site News: Stand with analyst Trita Parsi against deportation from US here
People power against Trump’s wars – act against NZ ‘war mineral’ deals here
Trump’s war on Iran ends with a ‘triumphant’ Tehran and a diminished US here
‘You’re a liar! You’re a liar!’ NZ foreign minister Peters insults Gaza flotilla torture survivor in Parliament here
‘Is it NZ First, or Israel First?’ Ormsby challenges NZ foreign minister Peters here
Trump went to war against Iran and got a deal far worse than Obama here
Veteran activist John Minto gets $10,000 from NZ police after unlawful pro-Palestine arrest here
Tentative But Defiant, Lebanese Families Return to Southern Lebanon Amid Continued Occupation here
Nicole Jenes interviews Palestinian politician and medical doctor, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti here (31min video)
Christian Zionism seminar here (1hr 21mins)
In Maryland District, a Last-Minute Scramble to Stop “AIPAC Adrian” Boafo here
Listen: The plot against Palestine Action here (Johnathan Cook)
When Israel and the US Destroy Gaza’s History, the World Looks Away here
Trump’s Hezbollah Paradox: The President Who Promised to Destroy Hezbollah Is Now Restraining Israel here
Why Lebanon has become central to the fate of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding here
Stop ‘Greater Israel’ to make peace here (Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares)
Hāhona Ormsby calls out Winston Peters at parliament here
Iran Defends Lebanon While Lebanon's Government Collaborates With the Enemy here
Gaza’s water crisis has reached a critical point here (Caritas Jerusalem)
Despite the ceasefire, Israel resumes bombing entire residential blocks in Gaza, displacing dozens of families here
The Labour MPs determined to show they represent Israel, not the British people here (Jonathan Cook)
In Campaign to Seize More of Gaza, Israel Expands Attacks on Palestinians Near “Yellow Line” here
Internal Debate Rages in Tehran Over Deal with Trump here
Gaza: Israel’s shelter restrictions force nearly a million people to endure summer heat in tents here
Iran Warned Trump: If You Do Not End War on Lebanon, We May Strike Israel Without Warning here
Trump's U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel's Middle East dream here
Israelis Invaded Lebanon And Then Cried Victim When Their Soldiers Got Killed, And Other Notes here
Behind the noise of an ‘Iran deal’, Palestine continues to burn here
The War After the War: Israel’s Fight to Keep Its Buffer Zones 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
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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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