Nationwide protests for Palestine demand government action – 50,000 leaflets distributed in Christchurch

1. How is it acceptable for Israel to compete when the International Court of Justice has accused it of genocide? We need to put pressure on our athletes to boycott events involving Israel.

   • When do you think the ICJ will wake up to the ongoing jihad by Hamas?

     • Define “Jihad” Anne E because the word jihad has 2 separate meanings under Islam.
       Isn’t it a “holy war”? “Jihad” literally means striving, or doing one’s utmost. Within Islam, there are two basic theological understandings of the word: The “Greater Jihad” is the struggle against the lower self – the struggle to purify one’s heart, do good, avoid evil and make oneself a better person.

       • Indeed. And the Hamas Charter lays out the Palestinian view of jihad in very precise terms.

     • Does jihad mean fighting to stop a bunch of land thieves taking everything that’s rightfully theirs? The euphemism “settler” is used to describe a bunch of law breaking arseholes.

       • Your argument equally applies to the Holy Land, in particular Jerusalem, taken by a bunch of land thieves in 638 AD.

         • Ahh.. so you are one of those… Eagerly awaiting the rapture are you?

         • Are you always so dubious about your claims that you have to ask questions about them?

         • So you don’t dispute the Israelis are land thieves, you just doubt that could help the motivation of Hamas. Good to know

         • There was of course no Israelis when the Arabs arrived in 638. They were Jews, as they have been, both before and after that time. You could call that year one of the many Jewish Nakbas.

2. I hear the government has decided not to be hypocritical and Netanyahu is sending PSNA an apology.

   • No Netanyahu is busy justifying not having an election because he knows he will lose. There’s growing realisation that Netanyahu does not care about the hostages and does not want the fighting to stop. He’s a dodgy bastard.

3. Iran and fascist Hamas love the west’s useful communist idiots John.

   • Ann E – Are you a Zionist?

     • Tell me what you think a Zionist is Pat.

   • Neither Gaby, neither Nathan, neither Ann E. None of Israel’s supporters, on being asked, will admit to being a Zionist.

     Why is that?

     Is it because just like in Germany after the war, you couldn’t find anyone in Germany who would admit to being a fascist. When we know millions were.

     None of Israel’s supporters here will admit to being Zionists.

     This tells us something. That at some level Israel’s supporters have come to the same unsettling realisation, that to admit to being a Zionist even to themselves is to admit to something shameful.

   • Oh dear another bit of misinformation – what is a communist?

     You have never actually met the man, who is already in the history books for his passion on social justice issues both in Aotearoa and in the big wide world.

     I think you would find that Minto is a social democrat in reality.

     • Bit impossible to not meet John when you reside in the same city and attend some of the same rallies Michal so kindly refrain from emulating Awakesky and Kahn and telling me whom I have and have not met in my life. And you are reading with an-inbuilt misinformation bias if you think I was referring to John as a communist.

4. Even NZ Warriors player Shaun Johnson is supporting Palestine…

   https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fsport%2Fnrl%2Farticle-13314391%2FFooty-star-Shaun-Johnson-spotted-wearing-Free-Palestine-badge.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0O_XHVprWjNxN8DnGRqnKMAcjdFUjE7lrWRTyODqeakRrCpoSidUfnUpQ_aem_ASOBCb0yu1PWc-UvUiFp7VEWB9a2G1bXlXRctliWOxy63O2A9NLGbUgrwDOHYegS1kUCW-nmFR_lV3wuBKAUNIoE&h=AT11GPlMDdDLMuhMsoHwbG6Noz1AIbfDT2D3S8APbQAHpWVShKLKT1EAd1F34M7RX7VVcEQnP_TEbzZVLfdzhJiFRhspf7Y59BQu3YyWLGq-3WXoKhTShYWCeDlV_KeSr7FqM48bDrc

5. Seems Ann the extremist is a temple mount nutter … https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-extremist-jews-arrested-for-planning-animal-sacrifice-atop-temple-mount/ ….

   Seeing as she’d happily sacrifice tens of thousands of kids for ‘greater Israel’ ,,, slitting a few animals throats for some extremist sect would be right up her alley…..

   …. and it’s rather ironic to hear an ‘evil clown’ like Ann E talk about “useful idiots” ,,, I suppose in her act she’d slip on sacrificed animal blood rather than a banana peel

   • Nah, I’m neither a Temple Mount nutter or a Boulevard nutter. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/709345/Muslims-urged-not-to-SLAUGHTER-ANIMALS-in-the-streets-of-France-at-Eid-al-Adh
     Neither will I eat the meat sacrificed under Islamic law and methodology in all New Zealand abbatoirs. Only extremists do that.

     • “… I’m neither a Temple Mount nutter or a Boulevard nutter.” Ann E

       Are you a Zionist?

     • Totally amazing. Not one of supporters of Israel’s actions in Gaza who comment here will admit to being a Zionist.

       Even in their eyes to admit to being a Zionist is something to be embarrassed about. Even under a pseudonym.

       • I believe Nathan has replied on another post so you may want to withdraw your allegation. And I’m still waiting for a reply to my questions. Knowing how marxists are into re-interpretation of language as well as historical revisionism I need your definition of “a zionist” thanks.

6. And as per usual any article about Israel descends into a pit of puss, led by the typical genocidal apologists Gaby, Nathan and Anne E.
   On my way home the last few nights i witnesses an electronic billboard with the Israeli hostages saying “let my people go” and it was WTF the hostages are here in NZ? The second thought was how biblical of Israel.
   I’m seriously tempted to get a T shirt printed with dead Palestinians on it saying ‘Let your people go” WTF should we!
   Take your sympathy pity party elsewhere, Israeli hostages VS 32,000 dead Palestinians has no moral equivalence in my book. You reap what you sow.

7. https://www.instagram.com/p/C56X8OpqNdM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

8. https://www.instagram.com/p/C56SYOdpqaH/

   Palestinians have a right to resist occupation.

9. Insofar as the Palestinian struggle against the frankly genocidal IDF presence in the Gaza and West Bank goes, several things occur to me:
   (1) Why is that apologists for Israel are deliberately ignoring the widespread abuse, harassment, homicides and illegal expulsion of Palestinian villagers and farmers from the Occupied West Bank, which reached a crescendo and was widely criticised by the European Union, United States and United Nations beforehand? It could be argued that this escalated activity was the real trigger to the current Gaza War.
   (2) Why have ultra-Orthodox Netanyahu Cabinet Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) and Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist) repeatedly stonewalled reciprocal hostage releases?
   (3) Why is the IDF so damned careless with its ordinance? And don’t give me the old chestnut about Palestinian medical facilities harbouring Hamas headquarters. That has never been independently verified.
   (4) And this time, right-wing apologists for Netanyahu regime and IDF atrocities are facing dissension from the Jewish diaspora and from an increasingly vocal Israeli anti-war movement. Antizionist Jews have joined Palestinian solidarity protests the world over, including here in Aotearoa? So please, no facile accusations of antisemitism.

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