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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Jane Campion requests her film be withdrawn from apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival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New Zealand’s Academy-Award-winning film director Jane Campion on her request for her debut film “Sweetie” to be withdrawn from apartheid Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival.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 >>
Call To Boycott The Doc Edge Film Festival – Film As Propaganda
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 10:18 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The decision by Doc Edge to retain the Israeli embassy as a financial supporter of the Doc Edge Film Festival means Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is calling on film makers and the general public to boycott the festival. “It is untenable ... More >>
Doc Edge Is “Art-washing” Racist Brutality And Apartheid
Monday, 30 May 2022, 11:16 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
We have become aware the 2022 Doc-Edge film festival includes the Israel Embassy of New Zealand as an official “supporter”. It appears this role of “supporter” involves the Israeli embassy sponsoring and funding Israeli film entries in return ... More >>
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Government And Media Must Own Up To Their Part In The Cold-blooded Killing Of Shireen Abu Akleh
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 12:14 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The absolute impunity which the Aotearoa New Zealand government has given to Israel’s racist apartheid regime over many decades and the cowering of the Aotearoa New Zealand media in the face of threats of false smears of anti-semitism from the racist pro-Israel ... More >>
Government Must Pull Out Of Agritech Seminar With Apartheid State
Wednesday, 2 February 2022, 9:19 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
In light of today’s Amnesty International declaration of Israel as an apartheid state, PSNA has renewed our demand for the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta and Minister of Primary Industries Damien O’Connor to pull the government out from ... More >>
PSNA Welcomes Declaration Of Israel As An Apartheid State
Wednesday, 2 February 2022, 8:05 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Amnesty International labels Israel as an apartheid state Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa welcomes Amnesty International’s ground-breaking declaration of Israel as an apartheid state . Titled “ Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians ... More >>
Government Agriculture Seminar Based On Ethnic Cleansing, War Crimes And Human Rights Abuses
Monday, 24 January 2022, 9:36 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has written to the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, urging the government to pull out of a proposed on-line seminar with Israel’s agriculture sector. The Chief Science Advisor to ... More >>
PSNA Asks Fat Freddy’s Drop To Withdraw From Sydney Festival
Sunday, 9 January 2022, 2:12 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
On Friday PSNA wrote to Fat Freddy’s Drop asking the Kiwi supergroup to withdraw from their scheduled 18 January performance at the Sydney Festival. So far more than 25 acts have either withdraw or distanced themselves from the festival in protest ... More >>
Archbishop Desmond Tutu - Friend Of Aotearoa New Zealand - Dies Aged 90
Monday, 27 December 2021, 6:16 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
26 December Palestine has lost a champion of the struggle against Israeli apartheid with the death today of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu , aged 90. Tutu is known internationally as a leader of the struggle against while minority rule in ... More >>
