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The Syrian Golan Heights are NOT in Israel
Thursday, 15 September 2016, 1:44 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
A news item in the NZ Herald published yesterday (14 September 2016), reporting on a missile that landed in the Golan Heights, commented: “The incident was the fifth case since last week in which fighting in Syria has spilled over into Israel.” More >>
Israel's blunt message to New Zealand
Monday, 2 November 2015, 9:29 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, Israel sent “a blunt message to New Zealand: Don't try to renew peace talks”. The message was delivered on 28 October 2015 when Israeli officials summoned New Zealand's ambassador to Tel Aviv. The newspaper ... More >>
New Zealand must speak out for justice at Security Council
Thursday, 17 September 2015, 1:37 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Palestine has joined the International Criminal Court and provided it with comprehensive evidence of the crimes committed by Israel against the people of Palestine. Israel is striving to erase Palestinian history with actions aimed atturning Jerusalem into ... More >>
Justice for all refugees
Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 8:50 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
With growing world-wide awareness of the humanitarian tragedy that the creation of refugees inevitably causes, it is timely to remember the plight of the Palestinian people. Palestinians comprise the largest group of refugees in the world and they ... More >>
“Olive branch” march to protest Israeli brutality in Gaza
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 12:34 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Palestine solidarity groups have organised an “olive branch” march in Auckland this Saturday to protest the never-ending brutality against the people of Gaza by the Israeli military. More >>
Open letter response to Murray McCully
Monday, 25 November 2013, 10:19 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Thank you for your reply dated 20 November 2013 to our email of 29 August 2013. In it you state that the “international debate on the possibility of military action against Syria as a result of the use of chemical weapons has now been overtaken by ... More >>
Israel's Bedouin Citizens Appeal For Protection
Monday, 5 August 2013, 1:44 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Palestinian Bedouin villages in the south of Israel were officially categorised as ‘unrecognised’ by the new government. Since then, the people there have been denied water, sanitation, electricity, ... More >>
Silence Will Not End the Suffering
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 3:39 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
You may possibly have read the Palestine Human Rights Campaign (PHRC) comments ( McCully fails to make independent stand for justice)[1] on your press release dated 20 July 2013, which was sent to several MPs, including yourself. More >>
McCully Fails to Make Independent Stand For Justice
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 2:44 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
In a press release, 'McCully welcomes US announcement on Middle East peace process' , dated 20 July 2013, the New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, expresses support for “direct negotiations” as a means “to move the peace process ... More >>
Holocaust Lessons
Monday, 15 July 2013, 2:18 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Stuart Littlewood's PressTV article on 11 July 2013 Who’s at the top of Britain’s Tory party? http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/11/313360/tory/ presents disturbing evidence of an invasive, ideological take-over of the British parliamentary process ... More >>
Australia Post stamp issue demeans NZ and Palestine
Monday, 1 July 2013, 4:49 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The 60-cent joint Australia Post/Israel Post stamp (one of a two-stamp commemorative issue) with its Tel el Saba inscription implies that the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade took the Turkish hill position. In fact, an attack planned for the Australian ... More >>
Demand Freedom for the Children of Palestine
Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 4:41 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
(See Palestine Human Rights Campaign's In Occupied Palestine newsletter : http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1651&Itemid=44 ) More >>
Israel's Water Crimes
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 4:15 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
By Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign – 18 June 2013 The International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) Deir Istiya Human Rights Report No. 479 [1] contains a vivid account of a typical Israeli war crime in Occupied Palestine. On Sunday, ... More >>
Negotiations: a gift of stolen Palestinian land to Israel
Monday, 10 June 2013, 3:16 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
On 6 June 2013 the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Minister, William Hague, told the House of Commons: "There is a long and proud history of this House asserting itself on the errors that have been made during our imperial rule ... More >>
Former EU Leaders Deplore Failure To Bring Israel To Account
Monday, 22 April 2013, 2:09 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Open letter to New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key and Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully 22 April 2013: More >>
What sort of state drives people out of their homes in order
Monday, 15 April 2013, 3:30 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
An International Women's Peace Service (IWPS) report on the Israeli Army's terrorising of a Bedouin community in the Jordan Valley tells of a continual programme of Israeli military training in the village of ‘Atuf. More >>
Open Letter - Child prisoners: an appeal to conscience
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 3:11 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Open Letter to the Israeli Ambassador: Dear Ambassador, Please read the evidence (presented below by the Christian Peacemaker Teams) of Israel's treatment of Palestinian children. This news is being circulated world-wide. Ordinary people who find such ... More >>
NZ vote in favour of a UN resolution
Friday, 30 November 2012, 5:33 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign welcomes New Zealand's vote in favour of a United Nations resolution giving non-member observer status to Palestine. New Zealand's vote for the resolution was, however, not wholehearted. Our Foreign Affairs Minister ... More >>
Only some of the truth - the trouble with selective news
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 11:54 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Today, after days of silence regarding the toll on Palestinian life and limb being taken by Israel in Gaza, Radio New Zealand's Morning Report carried the news of Israel's killing of a Hamas military leader. Up until then, in one 72-hour period alone, seven ... More >>
The sterility of 'dialogue' and 'negotiations' with Israel
Saturday, 1 September 2012, 11:32 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
A Jerusalem Post[1] editorial on 27 August 2012 reported that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a political point, deciding to visit a school in “the Gush Etzion community of Efrat” and quoted the Israeli PM as claiming that: “Efrat ... More >>