As the ceasefire in the Middle East holds, Israeli state forces have begun mass arrests of Palestinian citizens of Israel involved in peaceful solidarity actions in support of Palestinians in Gaza, occupied Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian Territories.
Needless to say no effort is being made to track and arrest the hundreds of Jewish Israelis who chanted “Death to Arabs” through many cities across Israel during its heavy bombardment of Gaza.
We have been asked numerous times – what can New Zealanders do to help the Palestinian struggle?
One thing New Zealanders can do is to change their Kiwisaver provider.
Over the past year PSNA has contacted all 29 registered Kiwisaver providers to ask if they have any investments in the 112 companies identified by the United Nations Human Rights Council as complicit in the construction and maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.
The Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land are illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The UNHRC media release and link to the full report are here.
Investments in any of these 112 companies are investments in companies complicit in grave breaches of international law.
Six Kiwisaver companies have informed us they have no investments in any of these 112 companies.
- AmanahNZ KiwiSaver Limited (www.amanahnz.com)
- Generate Investment Management Limited (www.generatekiwisaver.co.nz)
- Milford Funds Limited (www.milfordasset.com)
- NZ Anglican Church Pension Board (www.christiankiwisaver.nz)
- Pathfinder Asset Management (www.caresaver.co.nz)
- Pie Funds Management Limited (www.junokiwisaver.co.nz)
PSNA is beginning a campaign to ask New Zealanders to shift their Kiwisaver funds to one of these six providers.
The other 25 companies cannot give the assurances we have sought and some have been quite rude about it. If any of them change their policies and abandon investment in these companies then we will add their names to the list.
…”The other 25 companies cannot give the assurances we have sought and some have been quite rude about it. If any of them change their policies and abandon investment in these companies then we will add their names to the list”..
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Great stuff again !
I’ll go with the Anglicans !
Too humorous for words..and more delusions of grandeur. This is going to bring down Israel, the country that still managed to make billions during lockdown, and elevate the terrorists? Bahahaha!
Well wouldn’t you know it, the resident troll is again quick off the mark to helpfully fuel the flames of growing dissent over Israel’s support of illegal occupations. No wonder that internationally, non-Zionist Jews are increasing saying, “Not in my name!”
Ahhhh AOM, you prefer an echo chamber, only views/subjects that align with you (or the author of the thread) and everyone else is a troll/nat or act supporter?
You fit very well on the left, cancel culture is in your bones and dissent not allowed.
Do you have a snowflake safe space AOM?
Stop making shit up Im right. You know nothing about either myself or my politics. It doesn’t take much effort to discern from contributions that there is a belief that human rights should be universal. There is also ample evidence of an intolerance of simple minded propagandist statements.
However, feel free to live in you own little bubble and enjoy the assumptions and pithy insults. The are plenty of well researched, informed and in depth comments by various contributors available on TDB. These more than make up for the ‘off the top of the head” nonsense that the war criminal supporting bubble lifts from clearly Gobbelian Zionist sources.
Eliminate you mean?….elevate works too, elevated to their 72 virgins lol
Brilliant! Actually I have a really good recommendation for aom and Brewsie.
https://besacenter.org/boycott-palestine/
Yanis Varoufakis interviews Omar Barghouti (co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n76IACVBsXM&t=901s
Ah, the guy who was educated in Israel and now openly says there is no place for Israel in the ME…. he means genocide, which is also the goal of Hamas and Fatah.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/02/bds-co-founder-says-goal-of-movement-is-end-of-israel/
It is generally known that Israel helped create Hamas. However, since Tel Aviv University provides Masters and PhD courses for learned academics like Barghouti, one must do a rethink on the Israeli education system. They must provide liberal learning environments there, or is it only that is TAU staffed by non-Zionist anti-Semites Gaby?
Conclusions of the Report of the National Lawyers Guild Delegation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel.
In light of the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s use of U.S. foreign assistance to violate human rights, the delegation concludes as follows:
(1) The Israeli military and police have consistently used excessive force against the Palestinian population leading to a large number of Palestinian casualties and permanent injuries as well as extensive and unnecessary property damage. Such excessive military actions violate international law including, but not
limited to, Articles 2.3 and 2.4 of the United Nations Charter, the United Nations Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials, the Fourth Geneva Convention and Article 9 of the Law Enforcement Principles. In addition, many of these actions violate Israel’s internal Open Fire Regulations.
(2) The Israeli military and police have inflicted indiscriminate attacks on the Palestinian civilian population as a form of collective punishment in violation of Article 50 of the Hague Regulations and Articles 33 and 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
(3) The Israeli government has used closure, isolation of communities, demolition of homes, and destruction of agricultural property as a form of collective punishment in violation of Article 50 of the Hague Regulations and Articles 33 and 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
(4) Most of the weapons Israel has used and is using in these acts of aggression were manufactured in the
United States, jointly developed by Israel and the United States, or financed by the United States.
(5) The use of United States military assistance in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories against the Palestinian civilian population has not promoted the purposes and policies of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (“AECA”).
(6) The excessive and indiscriminate force of the IDF and the Israeli police is not necessary to Israel’s legitimate self defense” or “internal security” and thus violates Israel’s 1952 mutual defense agreement with the United States and the AECA.
(7) Israel has demonstrated a “consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” which has been well documented by numerous non-governmental organizations. Under these circumstances continued United States funding of military arms and training to Israel is unlawful under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (“FAA”).
(8) Palestinian citizens of Israel face systemic discrimination with respect to economic, social and cultural rights including, but not limited to, the right to housing, unrestricted movement, equal employment, quality public education, proportional access to government resources, and property rights.
http://www.nlginternational.org/report/2001_Palestine_del_report.pdf
Outrage at Israel Fueling Global BDS Movement.
BDS has had a significant impact on Israel. The BDS campaign played a major role in the 46 percent decrease in foreign direct investment in Israel in 2014, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Individuals and entities who have answered the call for divestment include George Soros, TIAA-CREF public sector pension fund, Bill Gates Foundation, Norwegian bank Nordea and Dutch pension giant PGGM.
Many churches, including the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church USA and several Quaker meetings have divested from companies targeted by the BDS movement. Veolia, the French multinational utility company, withdrew from Israel, resulting in billions of dollars in lost contracts. Major international trade union federations in South Africa, Europe, Latin America, India, Canada and the United States endorse BDS.
There is substantial opposition in the United States to Israel’s occupation. In a 2018 poll, 40 percent of Americans overall and 56 percent of Democrats supported the imposition of sanctions or even more serious penalties on Israel to end the occupation.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/26/outrage-at-israel-fueling-global-bds-movement/
The Saker always has an interesting take:
Palestine: Hamas defeats Israel
https://thesaker.is/palestine-hamas-defeats-israel/?inmoderation
Absolutely Gabba
Good article explaining exactly why BDS is such a failure. Israeli/Jewish know-how and technology are indispensible. Ditched your cell phones yet, aom and Brewsie?
https://teten.com/the-anti-israel-bds-movement-will-fail/
The same stupid comment on how the world is depended on Zionists, on two concurrent threads. Running out of inspiration Gaby, or has the minder forgotten to update the weeks propaganda log?
These are the children WE have killed
The children of Gaza killed this time around, photos of each
Why do I say “We”?
They were killed by our silence.
They were killed by our failure to speak out about these atrocities.
They were killed by our tacit support, by our indirect financial support of the murderers.
They were killed by weaponry made in the US!
They were killed by weaponry made in Canada.
They were killed by our support of those countries, without ever raising a voice in protest.
The killing of children will continue as long as “good” people remain silent.
Just as the ongoing cruel imprisonment is continuing right now, of those over there who dare to protest.
What mindless, callous, selfish, sadistic savages we all have become.
Hamas dropped over 600 of their rockets on their own people. They killed those kids, not Israel. Hamas want their kids to die for the ‘Pallywood’ media shots, otherwise they wouldn’t deliberately endanger them while they also try to kill Israeli kids.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/misfired-hamas-rockets-killed-children-in-gaza-r0xllf679pc
Gab’s article is from March, 2015
In March 2015??? Suggesting that the report related to the latest Zionist campaign of death and destruction is one of your most blatant attempts at deception yet Gaby!
Its an evidence-free thumbsuck.
That being said, friendly-fire incidents are sadly not uncommon. There were about 8,000 of them during the Vietnam war. By late in that war anecdotal rumour had it that as many as one third of all American deaths were due to friendly fire. This would make a total in excess of 19,000.
Israel is not immune. The Liberty incident was claimed by Israel to be one such but subsequent evidence has proven it to be planned. During the invasion of Lebanon, 1882, the IAF bombed an IDF unit killing 24 of their own and injuring 108.
Those who live in grass houses should not stow thrones.
1982 sorry
At least 2,284 Palestinian children and 137 Israeli children have been killed by someone from the other side since 2000.
https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/
This time, the ICC is watching
The ICC has already indicted Hamas for war crimes and because they short-sightedly signed the Rome Statute (Israel did not) they will be investigated. Is that egg on your face?
https://www.standwithus.com/factsheets-hamas-war-crimes
Bullshit! Both the Hamas and Israel’s potential war crimes are still under investigation. The only difference is that Hamas accepts the situation while Israel claims immunity because it is not prepared to recognise the jurisdiction of the International Court. (https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/03/icc-open-formal-investigation-war-crimes-palestine).
Your dishonesties are becoming more audacious all the time Gaby! Have your Zionist minders lost control?
The characteristic obscenities and fatuous rhetorical questions. I already pointed out that Israel does not recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC as many countries, including USA, do not, but you apparently need bludgeoning to absorb even the most basic of facts. Israel conducts its own internal investigations. Hamas, on the other hand, by pushing for an investigation into war crimes, have effectively shot themselves in their terrorist foot since they are guilty of double war crimes: targeting civilians while using their own as human shields. Good job. Stupid is as stupid does.
‘Inescapable Hell’: Euro-Med Releases Report Documenting Israel’s Violations in Gaza
A new report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from May 10-21 was released today by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
The report concluded that the International Criminal Court (ICC) must hold the Israeli leaders and soldiers accountable and not allow them to enjoy impunity.
Titled “inescapable hell”, the report examined the Israeli army’s violations during its recent military attack on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The report was based on field research and documentation by Euro-Med Monitor’s team during and in the aftermath of the military attack, where dozens of field interviews and serious violations were documented.
Statistics support the report, which presents day-by-day documentation of the Israeli attack, including violations such as mass killings and premeditated killings by deliberately targeting citizen gatherings and vehicles.
The Israeli forces also targeted children, women (including pregnant women), people with disabilities, paramedics, medical facilities, and media and educational institutions.
Read more here
Link fix attempt:
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/inescapable-hell-euro-med-releases-report-documenting-israels-violations-in-gaza
“The forced displacement of the protected Palestinian population and the presence and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank… represent flagrant violations of international law.” —Irish parliamentary motion
Ireland Condemns Israel’s actions: “Israel is acting illegally!”
The [Irish] Government has backed a Sinn Féin motion describing the building of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories as de facto annexation.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said during a Dáil debate on the motion that “we need to be honest with what is happening on the ground and call it out” as “de facto annexation”.
He added that Ireland is the first EU country to state this and it could be a message to the global community.
The Minister echoed the comments of Sinn Féin foreign affairs spokesman John Brady who said “we are baldly stating that Israel is acting illegally under international law”. Read more at this link
Link fix 2: Irish Times, Coalition backs motion re building on Palestinian land
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