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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 >>
Juliet Moses Attack On Palestine Solidarity Protestors At The Christchurch Counter-terrorism Conference Was Wrong
Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 5:27 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
15 June 2021 The New Zealand Jewish Council spokesperson Juliet Moses should never have been invited to speak at a counter-terrorism conference in the wake of the terror attack against New Zealand Muslims on 15 March 2019. As a mouthpiece for the Israeli ... More >>
New Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: “I’ve Killed Lots Of Arabs In My Life And There’s No Problem With That”
Thursday, 3 June 2021, 9:03 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The just-announced formation of a new government in Israel is not a cause for celebration. For those who might think new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett must be an improvement after 12 years of appalling racism from Benjamin Netanyahu – think again! Netanyahu ... More >>
Misinformation Regarding Green Party Parliamentary Motion To Recognise Palestine
Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 12:46 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Sent to Act MP Brooke Van Velden Kia ora Brooke, I read online that you are objecting to a parliamentary motion which recognises Palestine as a state because you have been told the saying “From the river to the sea – Palestine will be free” is ... More >>
The Gaza Centre For Human Rights Has Been Targeted And Destroyed By Israel
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 3:44 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The offices of the Gaza Centre for Human Rights have been targeted and destroyed by a missile from an Israeli fighter jet. New Zealander Julie Webb-Pullman has been working for the Centre for several years as an international expert on gathering ... More >>
Palestinian Solidarity Protests Will Continue And Grow Next Weekend
Monday, 17 May 2021, 5:32 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
16 May 2021 PSNA met online tonight and decided to organise nationwide protests again next Saturday 22 May. We were very pleased with the 4,000 people who turned out in 10 centres around the country last Saturday – the largest public protests ... More >>
Congratulations To New Zealand MPs Showing Solidarity With Palestinians At A Time When It Is So Desperately Needed
Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 5:58 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Today is World Keffiyeh Day (the keffiyeh is a piece of iconic Palestinian dress) and a big group of MPs got together to wear keffiyehs as a show of solidarity with Palestinians at a time when it is so desperately needed – they ran out of keffiyehs ... More >>
This Is Your Moment – Take It!
Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 12:43 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Nanaia Mahuta Minister of Foreign Affairs Parliament Buildings Wellington Once again we urge you to speak out condemning Israel’s brutal aggression against the Palestinian people which is escalating in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories. ... More >>
Govt Urged To Speak Out Against Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Polices & Unbridled Brutality Towards Protesting Palestinians
Sunday, 9 May 2021, 5:17 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The Palestine Solidarity Movement Aotearoa has written to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta tonight urging the government to speak out against the imminent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the Occupied East Jerusalem area of Sheikh ... More >>
Trading Military Equipment With Israel Is A Human Rights Outrage
Saturday, 10 April 2021, 1:08 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Revelations that foreign affairs officials have approved the sale of military equipment to a host of human-rights-abusing countries, including Israel, is an outrage. In recent years foreign affairs has been dominated by trade priorities with concerns ... More >>
NZ Super Fund Disinvestment In Israel Banks Lesson For New Zealand Government
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 4:49 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The ethical decision by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to disinvest in Israeli banks should be followed by our government according to local Palestinian supporters. The NZ Super Fund has announced that it has dumped its investments in five Israeli ... More >>
Misrepresentation Of Israel’s Covid 19 Vaccination Programme
Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 3:42 pm | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
It is unacceptable to have Israel’s vaccination programme constantly misrepresented in the New Zealand media. Israel is regularly being paraded as the world leader in vaccination rates but this hides an ugly, racist truth. Israel is refusing to vaccinate ... More >>
Another New Zealand Middle East Military Deal Fails Prime Minister’s ‘Sniff Test’
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 5:59 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says the Prime Minister should apply the ‘Middle East sniff test’ again. This time to a New Zealand government military deal with Israel. This follows revelations Air New Zealand was servicing equipment for the ... More >>