PSNA Newsletter No 257 - 9 September 2026
9 Mahuru 2026
9 September 2026
Five steps for Palestinian solidarity this week
(Final chance to sign Nakba Petition)
1) Sign the PSNA Nakba Petition here (Petition closes 13 September)
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If you want to, please edit the messages below to better reflect Your thoughts. Or if you are happy with them, please just send them as they are.
Please Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) them to Admin@PSNA.nz so we can keep track of how many emails are being sent.
2) Click here to open this message to the leaders of all political parties represented in the New Zealand parliament. Please copy and paste the image below into your email between the text and your signature before you send it. (See additional instructions below)
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To Aotearoa New Zealand political party leaders
W.Peters@ministers.govt.nz; D.Seymour@ministers.govt.nz; C.Luxon@ministers.govt.nz; Chris.Hipkins@parliament.govt.nz; Chloe.Swarbrick@parliament.govt.nz; Marama.Davidson@parliament.govt.nz; Rawiri.Waititi@parliament.govt.nz; Debbie.Ngarewa-Packer@parliament.govt.nz
Kia ora koutou,
How to do it
This is what happens when a country is never held to account. It’s not because there are monstrous people in Israel, but because there are others, like Mr Peters, Mr Luxon and Mr Seymour who look on and do nothing.
<Your Name>
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3) 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,
78 days and still counting…
It’s now 78 days and you have said nothing about the United Nations Independent Commission report on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
Your love affair with Donald Trump has blinded you to Israel’s endless war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide.
Your spluttering indignation when challenged to do something for Palestinians and for humanity is a crass betrayal of New Zealand values.
Please respond to this email urgently.
(your name)
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4) Make a short video of yourself saying why you support the Free Palestine Party (refer to instructions in the item later in the newsletter)
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5) Spend a few minutes looking through our social media channels on our website. Go to our website at www.psna.nz and click on social media links. Like, follow and share.
Items in this newsletter
Nationwide rallies/marches/flagwavings this week
Free Palestine Party launch this weekend
And how to make as short video saying why you support the Free Palestine Party
Anti-Palestine violence surging in New Zealand
Threats of violence shut down art exhibition in Auckland
October 10 – international day of action for Palestine
Pita Tipene shames himself and all of us
Are you French and living in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Hāhona Ormsby in Te Tihi o Maru/Timaru
“Sitting on the Fence” movie – Ilan Pappe gives his verdict
Hesgeth and Beck
Recommended reading from the Palestine Forum of New Zealand
What’s happening for Palestine in Canada
Te Wero Poti – getting out the vote this election
Israel prepares for expulsion of Palestinians
Important stories this week
Films, books, performances, Palestinian culture
“How to sell a genocide” – book review
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” film coming this month
The Doctor’s Wife – new screenings
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.
Launching the Free Palestine Party
And…the Free Palestine Party would love a short video of you to use on social media during the election campaign
Instructions:
Write a short statement (under a minute is ideal - no longer than 3min) about why you are a part of the Free Palestine Party.
If it helps you can use prompts like:
I support the Free Palestine Party because…
I refuse to vote for a party that won’t commit to comprehensive sanctions on Israel because….
I recommend reading your statement out loud a few times to get used to it.
Find a quiet, well lit room
Film the video in portrait rather than landscape
You can use an app called Teleprompter if you want to read it from your phone while filming
Link to teleprompter app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1031079244
If you are in Ōtautahi and would rather film it at my house we can organise a time.
My contact is:
Will Alexander
It would then be helpful if you could screen record footage that you think would be suitable to be edited over your video.
Here is a link with instructions for screen recording on an iPhone:
If you’re unable to screen record you can send me links to the footage you would like me to edit over your video
Then upload your video and the screen recorded footage to this drive:
Please label your uploads with your name.
Anti-Palestine violence surging in New Zealand
PSNA media release 8 September (It’s on our website here)
A spate of tyre slashing and other attacks by Israeli supporters is concerning PSNA.
The most recent pro-Israel vandalism is in Christchurch and Wellington alongside a violent attack on a supporter in Auckland.
In Christchurch, a prominent Palestine supporter had a car tyre slashed in his driveway. In Wellington, another supporter of Palestinian rights had a solidarity sticker scraped off their car and a swastika scrawled on the vehicle.
Earlier in the year, a New Plymouth couple had their car tyres slashed outside their property and graffiti attacks on five separate occasions. Police could not find the perpetrator.
Other Palestine supporters had their tyres slashed in Raglan. In this case, the details of the offender, a prominent Auckland businessman in the pro-Israel lobby, were provided to police who refused to prosecute.
At the same time, Israelis, including serving Israeli Defence Force personnel, and former Israelis, have physically attacked people at demonstrations, including outside the Israeli embassy in Wellington.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa spokesperson Rinad Tamimi says these violent acts would be described as terrorism, if they had been carried out against the Israeli lobby in this country.
“A flat tyre can lead to an accident and death or injury. Lives have been put at risk. There is no question who the targets are – it’s the supporters of Palestinian rights protesting against a genocide.”
Tamimi says what she calls radicalised Zionists are to blame.
“They are likely to believe in the most extreme demands and threats made from within the Israeli government. They feel they are entitled to assault people who call out Israeli terror.”
Tamimi says she doesn’t know if any of the 50 New Zealanders who serve in the IDF might be responsible for any of the attacks here.
“But we do know that threats are coming more frequently from New Zealand fans of Israel. It seems they are frustrated that Israel is at last being revealed for the genocidal and apartheid state that it is, and they want to take it out on someone.”
Tamimi says PSNA met with senior police earlier this year to express concerns.
“We wanted to raise these attacks and threats against us with the Human Rights Commissioner, Stephen Rainbow, as well.’
“But we have just been informed that Dr Rainbow is too busy and other commissioners are not available till late October”
There is a disturbing pattern of official disinterest – a sharp contrast with their energy and action when the pro-Israel lobby is attacked.
Threats of violence from the pro-Israeli racists shuts down art exhibition in Auckland
October 10 – international day of action for Palestine
We have set up this page where details of local protest action around the country will able to be accessed. The link is here and a QR code which takes you directly to the page is here:
Pita Tipene shames himself, New Zealand and international law with an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel
Pita Tipene
Tipene has been hammered online for this shameful decision.
For example – Maui Soloman, Chair and Chief Negotiator for the Moriori Imi Settlement Trust says”
Maui Solomon
“I was also invited to be part of the delegation to visit Israel but declined for a number of reasons:
It was being fully funded by the state of Israel
Although the trip was promoted as a 'business and innovation' only trip it is simply not possible to separate this from the genocide happening next door perpetrated by Israeli government
A Maori man had been brutalized and tortured earlier in the year by Israeli security for being part of a flotilla delivering aid relief to Gaza Strip
I had serious concerns after speaking with the Israeli lady who organized the trip (now living in NZ) about the motives behind the trip and
Israel has been courting Indigenous peoples from Australia, Canada, US and now Aotearoa to give credence to their claim they are the 'Indigenous Peoples' of Israel”
“Sitting on the Fence” movie – Ilan Pappe gives his verdict
Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian / author, Professor at Exeter University UK
When asked to comment on the kiwi film by Daniel Cleary well-known Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has high praise:
“Albert Einstein said that "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” This includes those politicians in New Zealand who sat on the fence, and still do, during the most televised genocide in our times. But Sitting On The Fence and some of the brave critics interviewed in it give us hope that complicity is not only exposed but can also be challenged. This film is a tribute to the few who did not remain silent and a harsh indictment of those who will be judged for being on the wrong side of the history of New Zealand and of Palestine. This is not just a film about complicity in New Zealand, but how the silence in New Zealand tragically epitomises that of the world”
You can watch the film here: www.sittingonthefence.tv
Are you French and living in Aotearoa New Zealand?
"Are you a French citizen living in Aotearoa? Will you be voting in the French election in 2027?
We are putting together a group to support the campaign of "La France Insoumise" and help in the fight against the rise of the far right.
LFI has been one of the strongest voices for Palestinian struggle so it is vital for all our struggles that they defeat the right and far right next year!
Please feel free to contact us if you'd like to help, get involved or just want to chat. Merci
Hāhona Ormsby in Te Tihi o Maru/Timaru
Hāhona Ormsby with some of the locals after his public meeting in Timaru this week. Hāhona is on a tour of Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin and Wānaka this week to speak about his experience on the Global Sumud flotilla to Gaza earlier this year and the brutality of the Israel Defence forces against people trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Hesgeth and Beck
US Secretary of War Pete Hesgeth and Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck
Recommended reading from the Palestine Forum of New Zealand
We highly recommend reading it — carefully and with an open mind here
[Article: Taylor & Francis – Middle East Critique]
What’s happening for Palestine in Canada?
A supporter has sent us this link to a Canadian website for solidarity with Palestine
She says “This is an amazing website (Montreal is my hometown)”
Te Wero Poti – getting everyone out to vote this election
Here is a website with lots of good ideas to helkp get the whole community out to vote this election.
Details are at this link Te Wero Pōti - the Great Vote Challenge
Israel Isn't Debating a Palestinian State. It's Preparing for Expulsion
We don’t usually print news stories in our newsletter but this one is excellent but is paywalled on line. It is an up-to-date description and analysis of Israel’s plans for the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is written by the legendary journalist Amira Hass.
1 September 2026
Gadi Eisenkot's position on Palestinian statehood is beside the point. Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying the groundwork for mass expulsion
Members of the Jabarin family loading their sheep and goats onto a pickup truck after being evicted from their home in al-Minya village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday, August 21. Israel police called the expulsion a "human error." Credit: Amira Hass
Gadi Eisenkot, the election frontrunner and leader of the Yashar party, has a stance on a Palestinian state that is ultimately irrelevant. What is at stake today is not a "diplomatic solution," but the very existence of the Palestinian people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli forces striving to "erase" them recognize no limits or restraints. Their supporters are too numerous for us to rely solely on the steadfastness and resilience of a people that has already endured expulsion plans carried out by Israel.
The world stands by. The left is tiny, weak and hoarse from sounding too many warnings. The anti-Bibi opposition oscillates among downplaying the danger, remaining indifferent to it and outright supporting expulsion. The sporadic condemnations, prompted mainly by something the U.S. ambassador posted on X, are about as useful as a sieve in a rainstorm. The Jewish Phalangists attack constantly and everywhere, not only in Qusra.
The debate over one state, two states or a federation is more theoretical than ever. Any agreed-upon solution requires first acknowledging the problem and agreeing on what it is. Too many Jews in Israel have been conditioned to believe that the problem is the very presence in this land of a Palestinian people with roots, historical and economic continuity, cultural capital and material assets, a rich agricultural heritage and a profound love of homeland.
"Erasure" is the nightmare solution being written into reality every day. Knesset laws, politicians' declarations, military orders, school textbooks and the holy real estate battalions operating in Gaza, the West Bank and the Negev all work, together and separately, to advance this "solution" diligently and without fear of international condemnation.
Israeli settlers arrive at a Palestinian home under construction in the village of Qusra in the West Bank last month. The heroes of the settler militias openly declare that expulsion is their goal. Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP
Israeli policy is directed toward making life unbearable for Palestinians wherever they live, so that their emigration can be described as an act of free will. Within Israel itself, the authorities give Arab crime organizations free rein to arm themselves and kill Palestinian citizens in their homes. In the West Bank, those same Israeli authorities give "God's battalions" free rein to arm themselves, kill and expel, while the official army continues its raids day and night. In devastated and thirsty Gaza, the government and the army cultivate armed militias of criminal collaborators, while Israeli pilots continue to launch missiles of revenge and retribution that claim the lives of still more children. All these testosterone-fueled displays are interconnected.
At the same time, Israel is destroying or severely restricting Palestinians' ability to earn a living. In Gaza, that mission has been completed. A "living dead" population of aid recipients, two million people carrying the weight of some 74,000 fresh graves, families and memories, talents and professions, and evaporated savings, is crammed into roughly 150 square kilometers of scorched earth. Creativity, resourcefulness and mutual aid are dwarfed by the scale of the destruction and by Israel's prohibition on rebuilding and recovery.
In the West Bank, the Finance Ministry's financial noose is tightening around the necks of approximately three million people and the Palestinian Authority. The systematic theft of revenues is compounded by the army's campaigns of destruction in cities and refugee camps, as well as by the other methods used to prevent Palestinians from cultivating and developing their land: checkpoints, bureaucratic prohibitions, fences and Israeli-Jewish shepherds.
Haaretz Election Podcast: Do Israelis care about settler violence enough to change their vote?
Within Israel itself, the "Judaization of the Galilee and Negev" was and remains code for stealing land and resources from Palestinian citizens of Israel. Discrimination against them in allocations, subsidies and employment, along with building prohibitions and demolitions, has always featured prominently in official policy within the Green Line.
Let me reiterate:
The very existence of the Palestinian people between the sea and the river is now in danger. Too many active forces are creating that danger: Israel's military might and capabilities; the cult of military service under all conditions and under every government; obedience as a value; weapons and military attacks as the default modus operandi; the normalization of PTSD among soldiers and of soldiers dying by suicide; the attractions of a military career and the doors it opens; the lure of an affordable villa in a Galilee exclusionary community or a settler suburb in Samaria; the falsehoods of official and unofficial propaganda; indifference to the hell on earth Israel has created in the Gaza Strip; denial of 60 years of occupation and forced rule; the Pavlovian response, "But October 7"; the synergy among the army, the government, the rabbis and the kippa-wearing militias in the West Bank; equanimity in the face of Lebanon's destruction; disregard for the occupation of more parts of Syria; the normalization of expulsion discourse; justice and education systems tainted by secular and religious racism; and the army of jailers who abuse thousands of Palestinian prisoners, both under orders and by choice.
Together, these and similar forces are creating the material, ideological and psychological infrastructure within Israeli-Jewish society for another mass expulsion of Palestinians and for what might accompany it: mass slaughter.
The heroes of the settler militias openly declare that expulsion is their goal. They clearly recognize the readiness of large segments of Israeli-Jewish society to participate in carrying it out, actively or passively, directly or indirectly. Through their daily provocations and crimes, committed in broad daylight and made possible only by institutional support, the Phalangists constantly seek to provoke a Palestinian act of rage and revenge that "succeeds," so that it can be exploited as the match that ignites a new holy war.
The Jewish Phalangists and the right-wing organizations that fuel them are counting on broad mobilization, including from the leaders, voters and supporters of Yashar and the liberal Democrats party, for a war that could already be given the slogan: "One people, one army, one land cleansed of Arabs."
Important stories this week
Editor’s picks
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran here
Three-quarters of US college students say Israel is committing genocide here
This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Beat Elderly Woman and Defense Minister Says Expelling Palestinians From Gaza Is the Only ‘Real Solution’ here
Other stories
The UAE, like the US and Israel, is normalising a permanent state of war in the Middle East here
Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? here
Exchange Ratio - Sidecar: An Interview with Ervand Abrahamian here
Solidarity group condemns surge in anti-Palestine violence in NZ here
This UAE-backed Fatah dissident is allying with Hamas and pushing a proposal to change Palestinian politics here
2,030 Israeli attacks in West Bank in August here
Massacres in Gaza as Israeli leaders vow ethnic cleansing here
How Israel propagandists twist UN findings on Gaza hunger here
Gaza's roadmap to nowhere: Why Israel won't give up control here
US Fatally Bombs Wedding in Iran, Killing 4, Including Children here
Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’ here
Who Are Real The Sexual Perverts? here
Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Program Might Prolong the Iran War here
Iran vows ‘heavy response’ to any Israeli escalation against south Lebanon’s Ali al-Taher here
House passes bill blocking schools from boycotting Israel here
Inside the Australian Royal Commission turning anti-Zionism into a crime here
Films, books, performances, Palestinian culture:
“How to sell a genocide” – Book Review by Don Carson
How to sell a Genocide
Author: Adam H. Johnson
This book has just been swept off the shelves of the Waverly City Library in Sydney by ‘outraged’ and ‘upset’ Zionists.
It’s a supreme irony of any such in-depth and forensic analysis of how the Israeli lobby manipulates and cancels media and politicians. Israeli acolytes treat any exposure of Israeli bias and lobby-cancelling as a recipe to follow.
Their argument goes “it’s so outrageously antisemitic to claim that we conspire to ban books, that we demand any book which states this should be banned,”
It’s not surprising that American journalist Adam H. Johnson struck such a nerve with Sydney information gatekeepers with his recent volume.
He has written an excellent and painstaking quantitative breakdown of the bias of the US media towards Israel, comparable to the Centre for Media Monitoring exposure of the BBC bias against Palestine a year ago.
Johnson concentres his attention on where it matters – the conglomerate media giants such as Fox News and the New York Times. For instance, he documents their standard use of particular expressions, such as ‘massacre’ to describe Palestinian actions, but very rarely to categorise Israeli actions.
These western thought (sic) leaders determine our mainstream news paradigms too.
Not that Johnson has written a dry book. His targeted excoriation is the ‘liberal’ Atlantic magazine, for which “a crucial role in defending and opening up ideological and political space for the genocide in Gaza cannot be overstated.’
Its writers pretend to be academic and open minded, yet slavishly follow the Israeli paradigm. Johnson makes it wry entertaining reading.
How to sell a Genocide is available from Pluto Press.
The Voice of Hind Rajab – screening in cinemas around the country now
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
The doctor’s wife – new screenings
The number of screenings around the country is increasing steadily – 3 in Auckland last week – some with audiences of 70-80 . Retirement villages have been especially keen and have requested repeat visits as word has spread. Donations have flowed into the charity Alan and Hazel Kerr set up and $200,000 has been raised so far. The money was initially spent on heavy duty tents in Gaza but also some funds for a medical team from NZ to go to the Occupied West Bank when possible.
Check out https://whitioraproductions.com/the-doctors-wife
Coming screenings
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
Sitting On The Fence is now available to watch online in New Zealand.
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
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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Rotorua PSN Rotorua email
Gisborne PSN Gisborne email
Napier/Hastings Aotearoa Standing with Palestine Facebook
Hawkes Bay PSN-Hawkes Bay – Page
PSN-Hawkes Bay - Group Facebook
Palmerston North PSN Palmerston North email
New Plymouth PSN Taranaki Facebook
Whanganui Whanganui@PSNA.nz email
Masterton masterton@psna.nz email
Martinborough PSN Martinborough email
Wellington PSN Wellington email
Nelson Te Tau Ihu (Nelson) Palestine Facebook
Marlborough PSN Marlborough email
Greymouth PSN Greymouth email
Christchurch PSN Christchurch Facebook
Timaru PSN Timaru email
Wanaka PSN Wanaka email
Queenstown PSN Queenstown
PSN Queenstown Email
Dunedin Dunedin for Justice in Palestine Facebook
Invercargill Invercargill Stands with Palestine