PSNA Newsletter No 249 - 15 July 2026
Two clicks for Palestinian children this week
1) Click here to send this message to the Foreign Minister.
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Rt Hon Winston Peters
Foreign Minister
w.peters@ministers.govt.nz
Kia ora Mr Peters,
22 Days and counting…
It’s been 22 days and you have still not made comment on the United Nations Independent Commission report on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
Are you or your officials still studying the report? Or was that claim of studying the report just a ruse to avoid making any comment which might upset Israel or the US?
We see you found the time to offer condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of UN Senator Lindsay Graham who died a few days ago but nothing yet on Israel’s deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian children.
And remember the report found that it appears the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers were engaged in a “game” of target practice with “different body parts of children being targeted on different days”.
Don’t shame New Zealand any more with your silence.
Speak up now.
Please respond to this email urgently.
(your name)
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2) Click here to send this message to the Prime Minister
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Rt Hon Christopher Luxon
Prime Minister
c.luxon@ministers.govt.nz
Kia ora Mr Luxon,
22 Days and counting…
It’s been 22 days and your government has still not made comment on the United Nations Independent Commission report on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
Is your foreign minister still studying the report? Or was that claim made simply as a ruse to avoid making any comment which might upset Israel or the US?
Israel’s deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian children has been documented down to the last details in the UN’s report.
And remember the report found that it appears the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers were engaged in a “game” of target practice with “different body parts of children being targeted on different days”.
These appalling war crimes continue behind your government’s silence.
Don’t keep shaming New Zealand with your silence.
Speak up now.
Please respond to this email urgently.
(your name)
Items in this newsletter
Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week
Bearing witness – Palestinian Christians begin their tour this week!
“Gutless coward” description too much for PM Luxon
Did Winston Peters stay silent to curry favour with the US?
An all too familiar cartoon…
UN Independent Commissioner warns NZ government of its obligations
India’s PM Modi and his deep links to Israel
Films, books, performances, Palestinian culture
Asra – Stories of Palestinian Prisoners
Three Palestine films in NZ Int Film Festival
The Voice of Hind Rajab film coming
And at the DocEdge film festival…
For Life – new Palestinian film screening in Auckland and Wellington
Bassam Youssef – the belly of the beast tour
Pedalling in Palestine
Poneke Loves Palestine – 16 July fundraiser in Wellington
Palestine Traditional Dress Day – 25 July
Important stories this week
Regular items
“Sitting on the Fence” documentary now available for general release
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!
Annual Palestinian Solidarity Dates
How to Donate
Palestine Solidarity Groups around Aotearoa
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.
Bearing Witness – Palestinian Christian leaders to tour here in July
“Gutless coward” description too much for Luxon
Waikato Times two weeks ago
Did Winston Peters stay silent on explosive UN Commission report so it wouldn’t interfere with his first meeting with the new US ambassador?
PSNA media release this week: (It’s available on our website at this link here
PSNA is accusing Foreign Minister Winston Peters of staying silent on the explosive UN Independent Commission report on Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children so it wouldn’t interfere with his first meeting with the new US ambassador – pictured above.
“It’s clear to us the two are linked” says PSNA National spokesperson Rinad Tamimi. “Winston Peters would see this as clever politics but his refusal to condemn Israel’s targeting of Palestinian children has betrayed New Zealand values in favour of obeyance to Israel and the US.”
In the report released by the United Nations Independent Commission late last month, in the leadup to Peters’ first meeting with the ambassador, Israel is accused of deliberately killing Palestinian children in Occupied Gaza and the Occupied West Bank using sniper rifles and quadcopter drones.
Doctors on medical missions in Gaza reported to the commission that it appeared Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers were engaged in a “game” of target practice with “different body parts being targeted on different days”.
The comprehensive report, drawing from multiple sources, details horrendous war crimes against Palestinian children, including the horrific killing of Hind Rajab, and calls on all countries to take immediate action to protect Palestinian children and hold Israel to account.
“This report is sickening and heartbreaking reading” says Ms Tamimi. “New Zealanders know what’s going on and they know our government is complicit”
“Polls repeatedly show New Zealanders favour sanctions against Israel (41% yes, 27% no) but Winston is playing to his NZ First base which is the most opposed to sanctions”
“We are living in a time of great shame for this country. Our people are on the right side but our Foreign Minister is on side with the genocide”
“In light of the latest UN report PSNA is renewing its call for the government to withhold visas from all Israeli military personnel and hold Israel to account for its cruelty and its war crimes.”
As UN Independent Commissioner Chris Sidoti says:
"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide"
“We agree” says Ms Tamimi.
An all too familiar cartoon from an earlier Israeli bombing campaign…
UN Independent Commissioner warns NZ government of its obligations
Chris Sidoti
The recent UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry report on children in Gaza has been viewed by more than two-million people according to Commission Board member, Australian Chris Sidoti - the highest ever response to any such report.
Sidoti was on a short visit to Aotearoa last week, where he addressed audiences in Wellington and Auckland. He had just reported to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Israel's war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide under international law.
His take-away message was that governments have obligations to take action to prevent these gross breaches of the law, and that there is no provision in the law for countries, such as Australia or New Zealand, to opt out of their obligations simply because they are a long distance from where the breaches are occurring.
A message from a supporter about links between India’s PM Modi and Israel
I am here today to talk about the relationship between India and Israel and how the current Modi regime supports and endorses Palestinian genocide.
Very few know about this.
It is a long story and starts from the time India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru voted against the creation of Israel in 1947, yet recognized it 1950, all the while supporting the Palestinian cause.
I won’t go into historical detail but focus on today and the connection between Hindutva and Zionism.
Because Narendra Modi is coming to Auckland next week and we must make some noise. Because he is a genocide enabler.
How many of you here know what Hindutva is?
The word was coined by VD Savarkar in 1923. So it is a 100 year old Hindu ethnonationalist ideology that wants to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu nation, where every minority, especially our Indian Muslims are secondary ‘citizens’. Savarkar was a fan of Zionism and a staunch supporter of the idea of Israel. So both, love for Zionism and the illegal state of Israel are deeply embedded in Hindutva. And Narendra Modi is a child of Hindutva.
According to an Al-Jazeera investigation, as of May 2026, India was the second largest military goods supplier to Israel after the United States at 26%. India is also one of the largest buyers of Israeli spending billions. India and Israel have a ‘defense’ partnership through which they share technology, co-produce weapons and trade weapons.
Elbit’s Hermes drones are produced in a facility in Hyderabad in the state of Telangana. They are used for surveillance and killing Gazans but also in the West Bank.
Elbit’s Indian partner is billionaire Gautam Adani.
Gautam Adani also owns 70% of Haifa Port.
Weapons from India are shipped through the Indian ocean to Haifa Port if they are not flown by air.
Remember that name. You will hear it more now through the NZ-India FTA. He will soon seek mining projects, start buying ports, water facilities and whenua. Māori especially must be vigilant.
Narendra Modi and Gautam Adani have a long, mutually beneficial association. Modi is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians.
Over the time that Modi has been India’s Prime Minister. India’s relationship with Israel has deepened. What Israel does to Palestinians, Modi’s government now carries out in Kashmir. The world’s most militarized region.
How many of you know that soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Force go to India to ‘decompress’? I witnessed this myself in 2010 in Dharamsala, the place here the Dalai Lama was allowed to live by Jawaharlal Nehru when he escaped from Tibet in 1952. I have also witnessed Israeli soldiers in the holy city of Varanasi. So while this is not new, the presence of Israeli soldiers going to India to ‘unwind’ has increased in India since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2024. There are Israeli only areas in Himachal Pradesh and Goa.
Eitan Gilboa, an Israeli reservist, who flaunted killing Palestinians in Khan Younis, Rafah and Gaza was found by the Hind Rajab Foundation to be holidaying in Himachal Pradesh in May 2026. They complained to the local police and the government of India was made aware of this by local Palestinian solidarity activists. He should have been arrested under the Geneva Conventions Act by the government of India but he was not and Eitan left India just as easily as he entered the country. India under Narendra Modi has flouted international conventions to which she is a signatory and through which she has obligations. However Narendra Modi and the Hindutva ideology embrace Zionism and killing Palestinians, especially Muslims.
Like I said before Israeli oppression of Palestinians and genocide are now being copied in Kashmir by Modi’s government and you will see many similarities in how Kashmiris are treated.
Finally I just want to point out how yoga is being used to ‘heal’ Israelis and ‘teach resilience’ to Palestinians by the current government of India.
This is how Hindutva is pushed. Through a cultural framework that diffuses ethnonationalism into social behaviours.
Yoga diplomacy that Modi uses to obfuscate his government’s oppression of Indian minorities and that he pushes overseas with the same idea. That kind of yoga is coming here through the FTA and AYUSH visas, i.e. Ayurveda. Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy that are grouped as indigenous Indian forms of wellbeing and medicine but will potentially be used to propagate Hindutva.
And Hindutva is no different from Zionism or white supremacy except that it is hard to recognize if you are not paying attention.
So Narendra Modi, an Islamophobe and genocidaire visiting Aotearoa, where not only Christopher Luxon but also Chri Hipkins will greet him, without questioning his human rights abuses, his support of Israel. You must ask Vanushi Walters, who at these very rallies promised to sanction Israel how she can reconcile to supporting the FTA with India when India is the second largest supplier of weapons to Israel.
Free, free Palestine.
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
Three Palestine films in the New Zealand International Film Festival
As you know the NZ International Film Festival is showing the following three great Palestinian films. If you would like to secure a group booking, distribute leaflets or sell merchandise in your local area then our secretary Anne should be able to help. Email her at secretary@PSNA.nz
With Hasan in Gaza
With Hasan in Gaza - In rediscovered 2001 camcorder footage, acclaimed Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari goes in search of a man he once met when they were prisoners, in a heartfelt tribute to the lost of Gaza, and the life that persists.
Auckland Thu 30 July at 8pm (ACA)
Christchurch Sun 16 August at 4.30pm (LUM)
The voice of Hind Rajab
(see elsewhere in this newsletter for more details)
The Voice Of Hind Rajab - With the last words of a five-year-old girl, Kaouther Ben Hania's devastating documentary puts a single, unbearable human story at the heart of an ongoing catastrophe.
Chronicles from the siege
Chronicles of a Siege - Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhatib’s Berlin Film Festival winner is an absurdist, inventive tapestry of tales from a besieged city, where the desires of its citizens become sparks of resistance against oblivion.
Auckland Saturday 8 August 2pm (HWB)
Christchurch Sunday 16 August 2.45pm (JMA)
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
More information here
And at the DocEdge film festival…
Jack Mann theatre is at Canty. Uni.
AMERICAN DOCTOR
Three physicians — Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian— are unlikely friends united by a single oath to save lives. Dr Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Captured as events unfold on the ground, the film follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege to the halls of Congress. Together, they fight to honour a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, carrying the struggle to where it matters most: the United States of America.
INSIDE GAZA
Best International Feature and Best International Editing. The jury said: “At a time when journalism is under attack across the world, this film goes to the dark centre of the issue and lays bare the devastating human cost of silencing those who bear witness, while offering a rousing defence of the importance of documentary film to the pursuit of justice the world over.” They concluded: “Uncompromisingly human, this film reminds us why we all watch, make and value documentary film: because of its unique ability to bring complex stories about the real world to a wide audience and, in doing so, to seek to change the world for the better.
(Please note the Jack Mann theatre is at Canterbury University)
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.
A protest inside Luxon’s meeting in Waikato was covered in a brief paragraph describing a “shift” in the mood when Palestine came up. Well done Kirikiriroa/Hamilton!.
Bassem Youssef – the belly of the beast tour
Tickets can be booked here
Bassem is a well-known comedian and strong supporter of Palestine. He has asked Palestine activists and supporters to come to his show!
Tickets On Sale Now!
Following the global success of The Middle Beast, which sold more than 100,000 tickets worldwide and saw sold-out runs across the US, Bassem Youssef brings his new live show, The Belly of the Beast Tour, to Australia and New Zealand in 2026.
The Egyptian-American comedian, satirist and former heart surgeon has become one of the world's sharpest comic voices, blending stand-up, personal storytelling and cultural and political commentary.
Performing in English, Bassem takes audiences inside fame, exile, identity, media chaos, politics and navigating through the absurdity of our digital age.
Smart, fearless and seriously funny, The Belly of the Beast is Bassem Youssef at full force, live on stage.
Pedalling in Palestine
Kiwi cyclist from Nelson, Sarah Biss, rode through the Occupied West Bank before the genocide and produced this great book of pictures and description which humanises the Palestinian people she met along the way.
She is selling her book through Amazon online with all the proceeds going to the Palestine Red Crescent.
You can order the book here for NZ $14.40
You can also view the book from the site.
(If you are boycotting Amazon, it is also on Kobe in digital form)
Poneke Loves Palestine – 16 July fundraiser in Wellington
From Emily:
Kia ora!
This is just a quick note to let you know we are having a really cool event in about a week and a half!
On the 16th July we are taking over Meow again with Pōneke loves Palestine! We have brilliant writers, poets and musicians. And of course a really good raffle and spot prizes.
If you are in Wellington we’d live to see you there! If not let family and friends in Wellington know about it.
Tickets can be bought here if you'd like to share I'd be grateful.
The FB event is here if you want to invite people there.
About the fund:
The Aotearoa 2 Gaza mutual aid fund was set up last year to directly support families in Gaza. We are a grassroots collective based in Aotearoa standing in unwavering solidarity with Palestinian families in Gaza.
Through consistent, direct mutual aid, we send up to $100 at a time (usually once a week) to families who are living through unimaginable hardship under Israel’s occupation and genocide. These contributions go straight to verified recipients, without intermediaries, ensuring urgent support reaches those who need it most.
Arohanui Emily
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Palestine Traditional Dress Day – 25 July
Message from the Palestine Forum of New Zealand:
Dear friends and supporters,
We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating Palestinian Traditional Dress Day, observed annually on July 25. This day honours the rich heritage of the Palestinian thobe and the timeless art of tatreez embroidery.
For centuries, tatreez has carried the stories of Palestinian identity, resilience, and belonging hand-stitched and passed down through generations. Each pattern and colour reflects a region, a family, and a lived history, preserving memories of home that continue to endure despite displacement and injustice.
On Saturday, July 25, we invite you to take part by:
Wearing your thobe or Palestinian embroidery with pride at home, at work, or in public
Sharing photos on social media.
Sharing the story behind your garment its origin, its maker, and what it means to your family
Tatreez is more than embroidery; it is a living archive of Palestinian identity. To wear it is to preserve culture, honour heritage, and affirm presence.
We hope you will join us in marking this day with pride and solidarity.
With gratitude and solidarity,
Palestine Forum of New Zealand
Important stories this week
Editor’s picks
Envoy cites CIA as EU helps Israel to tighten grip on Jerusalem here
Israel is murdering Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. The U.S. media is covering up the crime here
‘Response to Antisemitism is Decolonization of Palestine’: Pappé on Zionism and Europe here
A new ‘strategic’ plan being pushed by the Israeli settler movement would establish 100 outposts in the heart of Palestinian cities here
The Crimson Thread: The Israeli Military Barrier Cutting Off Palestine’s Breadbasket here
Other stories
Trump’s ‘Memorandum of Surrender’: An empire battered, bluffing and buying time here
Al Shabaka annual report here
Armed Israeli Settlers Detained Ro Khanna. He Wants Their Illegal Outposts Demolished here
Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power here
Hamas Gaza government dissolves; Dr. Abu Safiya beaten, expects to be killed; 40,000 still missing in Venezuela here
How Congress manipulates its own rules to make sure Israel still gets its weapons here
When the story breaks the journalist here
The NCAG: Gaza’s Technocratic Turn to Genocide Management here
On The Strange World of Israel’s Domestic Politics here (Gordon Campbell)
RNZ Guyon Espiner pushed back on Israeli ambassador on UN report here
Magnum, the ice cream conglomerate, gutted Ben & Jerry's Independent Board for championing human rights. Tell Magnum to reinstate the Board here (petition)
“They’re scum.” F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by Iran here
Call on Coles to ditch Palantir here (petition)
Inside the ‘World Symposium Against Antizionism’: Where contempt for Muslims and leftist Jews took center stage here
Palestine and the role of the activist intellectual here
Regular items
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“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.
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
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o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/671376706283605/
o NZ Palestine Solidarity Network email: Secretary@PSNA.nz
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