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Winston Peter’s Bluff And Bluster At The United Nations Fools Nobody Here
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 1:36 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Winston Peters’ bluff and bluster in his General Assembly speech at the United Nations yesterday are a classic case of doing one thing at home and saying another for overseas audiences. Peters’ described the war on Gaza as an “utter ... More >>
Call To Ban Apartheid Israel From The 2024 Paris Olympics
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 3:34 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has written to the New Zealand Olympic Committee urging it to join the international campaign for apartheid Israel to be banned from the 2024 Paris Olympics (26 July to 11 August) Horrendous Israeli war crimes against ... More >>
New Zealand Is Wrong To Designate Hamas A Terrorist Group
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 5:44 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Today’s announcement by the government to designate Hamas a “terrorist” organisation is cowardly and wrong. The United Nations and most of the rest of world does not give Hamas this designation and neither should New Zealand. PSNA does not support ... More >>
Israeli Desecration Of Graves In Gaza Includes Damage To New Zealand War Graves From WW1
Friday, 9 February 2024, 1:40 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA is calling on the government to investigate reports that the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Gaza – which has 23 New Zealand graves from the First World War – has been damaged by Israel in its war on Gaza. The Guardian newspaper reports : “The ... More >>
PSNA Congratulates Labour Party On Its Support For South Africa’s Genocide Case At The International Court Of Justice
Thursday, 11 January 2024, 10:54 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has written to Labour thanking the party for its support for South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice . It is the right thing to do given Israel’s unrelenting slaughter of Palestinians. So far 3.5% of Gaza’s population ... More >>
New Zealand Urged To Support The South African Claim Of Israeli Genocide In Gaza At The International Court Of Justice
Wednesday, 3 January 2024, 12:19 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has written to the Prime Minister urging New Zealand to support the South African case against Israel in the International Court of Justice in the Hague. “In particular we want New Zealand to give active support to the first stage of the ICJ appeal in ... More >>
PSNA asks for assurance New Zealand will not join the US-instigated “Operation Prosperity Guardian” in the Red Sea
Tuesday, 26 December 2023, 5:47 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has written to Foreign Minister Winston Peters this morning seeking an assurance New Zealand is not taking part in the US-instigated “Operation Prosperity Guardian” in the Rea Sea. The PSNA approach comes after US claims that 20 countries have now ... More >>
A Cowardly, Anti-Palestinian Parliamentary Motion
Friday, 8 December 2023, 9:37 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The parliamentary motion passed today , a full two months after Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians began, says: "Express grave concern at the ongoing violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories, unequivocally condemn ... More >>
Appeal for New Zealand to follow France and call for a ceasefire in Gaza
Monday, 13 November 2023, 12:10 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has written to the outgoing PM Chris Hipkins and incoming PM Christopher Luxon this morning calling for New Zealand to join France and other countries demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Today French President ... More >>
Ceasefire Now! Rallies Throughout NZ This Saturday/Sun To Stop Israel’s Genocidal Rampage Against Palestinian Civilians
Friday, 3 November 2023, 11:31 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
This weekend people from at least 12 centres around the country are rallying to demand our government call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The turnouts have been doubling each week and the number of centres taking action has also grown quickly ... More >>
Prime Minister Calls Out The Killing Of Israelis But Has Been Deathly Quiet On The Killing Of Palestinians
Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 5:58 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this week. The killing of civilians or taking them hostage is a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention and should be universally condemned. ... More >>
Labour Refuses To Recognise Palestine – Even After 104 Years
Wednesday, 4 October 2023, 6:36 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA supporters are livid Labour is refusing to recognise the state of Palestine a full 104 years after the first Palestinian calls for an independent state. “It’s a disgraceful decision, both unprincipled and cowardly” says PSNA National Chair ... More >>
Jane Campion requests her film be withdrawn from apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival
Sunday, 23 July 2023, 6:20 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA congratulates New Zealand’s Academy-Award-winning film director Jane Campion on her request for her debut film “Sweetie” to be withdrawn from apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival. The announcement was made by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign ... More >>
Khader Adnan Died On Hunger Strike Protesting His Detention Without Trial
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 1:09 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Palestinian resistance leader Khader Adnan died after an 87-day hunger strike in an Israeli prison protesting his detention without trial and the arbitrary nature of the allegations against him. Adnan was being held under Israeli “administrative ... More >>
Protest at Israel Ambassador’s secret lunch celebrating 75 years of Israeli independence
Sunday, 30 April 2023, 7:27 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Palestine solidarity supporters in Christchurch picketed the Israeli ambassador’s private lunch today celebrating 75th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence. The pro-Israel lobby kept the venue secret to try to avoid protest action and were ... More >>
Pleasure As Doc Edge Abandons Israeli Embassy Sponsorship For 2023 Festival
Friday, 28 April 2023, 11:49 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The Doc Edge Film Festival as abandoned Israeli Embassy sponsorship this year after a furore caused by such sponsorship last year. “We are very pleased to chalk this up as a success”, says John Minto, National Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Network ... More >>
New Zealand Must Join International Condemnation Of Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians At Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:59 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA is urging the Aotearoa New Zealand government to join international condemnation of Israeli brutality against Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque . The Israeli leadership, keen to deflect attention from its internal crises, has launched a second ... More >>
PSNA Urges An End To Dealings With Cobweb Technologies And Calls Out Government Hypocrisy Over “Christchurch Call”
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 5:16 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has written to the Minister of Immigration, Michael Wood, urging him to immediately end his ministry’s contract with Cobweb Technologies – an Israeli internet surveillance company implicated in abuses of privacy rights, targeting of journalists, activists, ... More >>
Nationwide Rallies To Protest Israel's Ethnic Cleaning In Masafer Yatta
Saturday, 6 August 2022, 5:45 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA is holding nationwide rallies on Saturday August 6th in solidarity with Palestinians resisting ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta, an area of the South Hebron hills which is home to over 1200 Palestinians living in 20 villages. “Many of these people ... More >>
Government Joining IHRA Is A Weak, Cowardly Decision
Monday, 27 June 2022, 6:50 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The government decision to join International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is a step backwards in the fight against anti-semitism and the struggle for Palestinian human rights The government decision to take on observer status at the International ... More >>
