International Court of Justice ruling overnight demands government action
The overnight decision of the International Court of Justice that Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal demands immediate action from our government.
The ICJ found that “Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law”
The Court went on to say that the UN Security Council, the General Assembly and all states have an obligation not to recognise the occupation as legal and not to give aid or support toward maintaining it.
In response our government should immediately:
- impose a ban on the importation of all products from the illegal Israeli settlements and
- direct our Superfund, ACC and Kiwisaver funds to divest from companies identified by the United Nations Human Rights Council as complicit in the building and maintenance of these settlements. The recently updated database is here in a pdf.
Friday’s ICJ ruling confirms what the United National Security Council found in passing resolution 2334 in 2016.
This resolution was co-sponsored by New Zealand (New Zealand had a place on the Security Council at the time under a National-led government)
The United Nations Security Council stated that, in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli settlements had “no legal validity” and constituted “a flagrant violation under international law”. It said they were a “major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace” in the Middle East.
Friday’s ICJ ruling reinforces the UN resolution and the need for government action.
“New Zealand, which co-sponsored the UN resolution in 2016 should lead the way on this” says PSNA National Chair John Minto. “We need to put our money where our mouth is – especially since the current far-right Israeli government has said its “top priority” is to push ahead with more illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land”
Around the country this weekend New Zealanders will be out in their thousands to demand government action.
The details of the protests this weekend are below.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
0220850161
Events list
North Island
Opononi – Gathering for Palestine
Sunday 21 July
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kerikeri
Every first Saturday of the month
Not this Saturday
Whangarei – Rally
Saturday 20 July
10:00 am
Whangārei Town Basin in front of Hundertwasser Building
Auckland Picket – Devonport Naval Base
Friday 19 July
12:00 noon
Meet at Outside the Devonport Ferry Terminal @ 11:15am
Walk along to the Devonport Naval Base
(Ferries from Downtown Auckland run on the hour and half past the hour after 10:30 am)
Waiheke Island Market – Auckland
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland –Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 20 July
10:00 – 1:00 pm
Cnr Stoddard and May Roads, Mt Roskill
Text Steve for details (dependant on wind speeds)
Auckland – Rally
Sunday 21 July
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Waiheke Film – Where Olive trees Weep
7:00 pm
Wednesday July 24,
Waiheke Community Cinema.
Bookings recommended. Tickets $10, koha to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians).
Organised by Stand with Palestine Waiheke!
Tauranga – David Seymour Protest
Thursday 18 July
5:30 pm
Trinity wharf Hotel, 51 Dive Cres
Tauranga – Flags
Sunday 21 July
11:00 am -12: 00 noon
Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui
Hamilton – Rally
Saturday 20 July
1:00 pm
Civic Square, Hamilton
Cambridge Rally
Saturday 20 July
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua – Rally
Thursday 18 July
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier – Rally
Saturday 20 July
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally
Sunday 21 July
2:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally
Sunday 21 July
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 19 July
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge
Check the local Facebook page to see if this is on this week.
New Plymouth – Rally
Saturday 20 July
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Rally
Saturday 20 July
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Gathering for Palestine
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
Featherston
Every Saturday
11:00 am
The Squircle (opposite the op shop).
Wellington – Flags (by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally (by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 20 July
1:00 pm
Te Aro park across from The Opera House
Please see Instagram account @falastin_tea_collective for updates.
South Island
Nelson – Rally
Saturday 20 July
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim
Saturday 20 July
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Rally
Saturday 20 July
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru – Market Stall
Not this week
Dunedin – Rally
Saturday 20 July
1:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill – Rally
Sunday 21 July
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
Indeed. Any ‘israeli’ products or services that cannot be proven not to have been produced in their explicitly illegal ‘settlements’ (as opposed to the main infestation that apartheid South Africa voted for) must be destroyed.
The only thing that will be destroyed Mo is Hamas.
End of story!
Then when Trump is president, Iran will feel the heat and be brought back to where it belongs, a stone age theocraty
Sorted…..
John – Hence why Israel quit Gaza in 2006, and even uplifted their graves from Gaza in 2006…what happened again in Gaza?
A couple of swallows don’t make a summer. We can’t swallow every action as if it was the ‘final breakthrough’. I think these words from Queen are for a Palestinian dream. Israel is in the stronger position and it would do the Jewish people good to cleanse some hate and sorrow and extend a practical response to Palestinians and Gaza. Query the Israeli leaders, all they have brought is pain, darkness and disaster; so time to change and show the world how to recover from what seems ultimate crushing, as Jewish have done so many times.
Break Through – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5TTF9XzPd0
Greywarbler – Gazans need to confront Hamas for bringing death, and destruction to Gaza.
Nathans an obvious liar ,,, and childish in how he blames Hamas for the mass murder and war crimes that Israel commits …. as if his/Israeli propaganda somehow hides or his position of supporting Israels mass murder and war crimes …
Nathan … “Hence why Israel quit Gaza in 2006, and even uplifted their graves from Gaza in 2006…what happened again in Gaza?” … In 2007 Israel imposed an indefinite blockade of Gaza that penned them in and literally starved kids (with a 10% malnutrition rater) and gave them a future of poverty.
Way back in 2010 then british prime minister David Cameron described what had happened and Israel had brought about as ,,, “”Everybody knows that we are not going to sort out the problem of the Middle East peace process while there is, effectively, a giant open prison in Gaza.” ,,,, ” he likened the experience of Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip to that of a “prison camp”.” …Perhaps a better more accurate description would have been a ‘walled in and deprived Ghetto’,,,, like the Nazis created in Warsaw
This blockade was still in in place when the military wing of Hamas broke out of the prison camp/Ghetto’s walls,,, in a near suicidal operation to engage in fighting with Israels Gaza garrisons,,, and take hostages for prisoner swaps.
I’d be surprised if Nathan knew even one of the military bases/targets that fell to Hamas on that day ….
…. He’s sure to have repeated many of the lies told about that day though ‘The truth about October 7: Director Richard Sanders discusses his Al Jazeera film with Peter Oborne’
https://youtu.be/u4vqO-Y70Mk
No doubt he’s onboard with any whitewash regarding Israels killings and murder …’Murder or “Incident” | The West Report’ https://youtu.be/ISy9Q-snYko …. judging by Nathans pathetic ‘Hamas is to blame for the civilians Israel chooses to kill’ stance/position.
B Awakesky – So Israel should let it slide?? I hope you do not make decisions for anyone.
Blockaded by Egypt don’t you mean?
It’s normal for Palestinian civilians to join the military wing of Hamas in their terror activities and to rape people taken hostage for “prisoner swaps” is it.?
I hope the NZ government does not spend taxpayers’ money on someone else’s issues. The ICJ is a toothless tiger and we should not be paying for its inability to enforce its judgements.
Ennius – Agreed. Israel is not a member of the ICJ anyway, so how would the ICJ enforce its ruling?
Lol, cry more buddy. Justice is coming for all you friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
Mohammed Khan – Wow. Just wow.
That’s low and undermines any previous good points you have put over about anything MK. Kindly be a little kindly and stick to the major concerns, not bring up side issues such as Epstein. There are individual faults every day – millions of them – but citing small ones or even school shootings etc. is just nit picking and cowpat throwing. Meanwhile the big intransigent ones keep happening every day too but as Voltaire said apparently:
Voltaire — ‘It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.’
If you stop blowing your own trumpet, perhaps it can be used to draw attention to the big and tragic rather than the petty.
The problem is zionism, which is the same thing as the problem of Jeffrey Epstein (the Mossad agent).
Well when you know something like that it needs to be noted in the comment.
From what I’ve learned, the reason there can never be peace in Gaza is because the IDF make good coin creating a demand then trafficking weapons and explosives to there for the U$A Military Indu$trial Complex.
“The military-industrial complex in a country typically attempts to marshal political support for continued or increased military spending by the national government. The term military-industrial complex was first used by U.S. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address on January 17, 1961.”
So, in short, and I’m not that short, the IDF create the market’s demand by mincing children, their mums and dads and pets and farm animals to turn over good coin through Wall Street for USA- MIC spending money which of course spins off into the IDF.
So effectively, Israel and the IDF are in cahoots with the U$A MIC and operate as a tag-team business. They’re in the business of killing Palestinian mums dads and kids. The double-bubble is that the Israeli populace get to move in, stepping over the blood and guts and mutilated little bodies to build nice homes on land that doesn’t belong to them that they murdered to own.
@ Annus? You’ll have a brain-fart about that I’m sure so write up or has your bank balance got a hold of your slimy little fingers?
@ John Minto. Great work, you lovely fellow.
Is that the only way that we get to get a house in the modern global predator world? Isn’t something I’d vote for if we had true democracies with Principle but presently riveted to PRINCIPAL.
Sanctions, de-recognition of Israel, an Iraq sized taskforce. But Israel is ‘special’. And the complete end of the West’s moral authority.
ICJ’s Decision on the Occupation Goes Beyond Israel’s Worst Fears
Israel’s fundamental arguments about its long-term occupation of the West Bank and Gaza are undermined in the ICJ’s advisory opinion, which essentially arms countries, institutions and corporations with justification to penalize Israel. Ignoring it shouldn’t be an option.
https://archive.is/TK8SH
The ICJ Just Demolished One of Israel’s Key Defenses of the Occupation
The International Court of Justice in The Hague did not leave any stone unturned in finding that Israel’s annexationist policies, dispossessing Palestinians, violate key principles of international law. The question is what happens next.
(Aeyal Gross is a professor of constitutional and international law at Tel Aviv University. X: @AeyalGross)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-19/ty-article/.premium/the-icj-just-demolished-one-of-israels-key-defenses-of-the-occupation/00000190-cc54-dcff-afd4-cfdc29ee0000
https://archive.is/KwAAn
“International Court of Justice” LOLOLOLOL
The Knesset just voted overwhelmingly against any form of Palestinian state.
sure, but you are a zionist apologist for murder and occupation dressed up a s aright of defence. Everything you have to add is poison Gabby.
According to the absurdists Adidas sneakers are an existential threat to Israel but products from Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop build their great nation. They’ve lost the plot
…and next the ruling on the South China Sea and that much larger expansionist, racist nation, eh? No? *crickets chirping*
Yes, the zionist puppet regime of the ‘USA’ is bad too. It has no place in the Pacific, any China sea, or anywhere on earth.
Okay, China.
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