Protests across the country today protests in 25 centres will be demanding our government hold Israel to account for its genocidal slaughter of Palestinian children.
While the Prime Minister focuses on literal interpretations of chants used in pro-Palestine protests, the ceaseless slaughter of children in Gaza by the genocidal Israeli regime goes on.
16,000 Palestinian children have been slaughtered so far – that’s the equivalent of all the children in 100 average sized New Zealand primary schools.
Israel bombs these children with weapons made in the US which almost certainly contain parts made by Rakon Industries in Auckland.
When we challenged the government specifically on this earlier in the year in our “letter of demand” the government ignored our questions on Rakon and simply said New Zealand doesn’t export weapons to Israel – end of story!
The Genocide Convention calls on governments to “prevent” genocide but Mr Luxon’s government is ignoring genocide and while the Prime Minister dithers, more Palestinian children are blown to pieces.
The Luxon government has condemned every act of resistance by Palestinians fighting the 76-year illegal occupation of their land but refuses point blank to condemn the genocidal statements of Israeli leaders and genocidal actions of the Israeli military.
We hold the Luxon government complicit in genocide by remaining silent in the face of the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian children.
We also hold New Zealand media bosses responsible for the gross failure to hold Mr Luxon’s government to account for its anti-Palestinian racism and cowardly refusal to condemn Israel.
The details of the protests around the country this weekend are on the PSNA Facebook events page here. Basic details are below.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
North Island
Opononi – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 11 August
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kaikohe – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
10:00 am
Meet at Library Car Park
Kerikeri – Rally
TBC
Whangarei – Rally for the Tamariki of Gaza
Saturday 10 August
10:00 am
Town Basin, Whangarei
Auckland picket and Leaflet hand out
Friday 9 August
12:00 noon followed by handing out Rally leaflets
Auckland University Library, Alfred Street, Auckland
Waiheke – Vigil for the Children of Gaza
Saturday 10 August
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Big ride for Gaza (hosted by the Progressive Cyclists Movement)
Saturday 10 August
Meet at 11:30 am (to ride at 12:00 noon) – 2:00 pm (joining the Rally at Britomart)
Western Park, Ponsonby Road
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 10 August
2:00 pm – (note change of time for this week)
Based at the Auckland rally as part of the PSNA Nationwide rallies
Text Steve for details (dependant on wind speeds)
Auckland – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice – Hauraki)
First Saturday of the month
Tauranga – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Not this weekend
Hamilton – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
TBC
Check the PSNA Facebook events page
Cambridge Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Gisborne – Farmers Market – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market
Rotorua – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Every Thursday
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 11 August
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 11 August
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Film – Israelism
Friday 16 August
7:30 pm
Davis Lecture Theatre, Watt Street Whanganui
Whanganui – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
Featherston – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
11:00 am
The Squircle (opposite the op shop).
Wellington – Vigil for Palestine (by Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine)
Every Friday
6:00 pm
In front of Wellington Hospital
49 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington
Wellington – Flags on the Bridge
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:45 – 8:45 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children Rally
(hosted by Collective groups of Wellington)
Saturday 10 August
2:00 pm
Glover Park to Midland Park, Wellington
South Island
Nelson – Rally
Saturday 10 August
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
1:00 pm
Latimer Square
Timaru – Rally to Stop the war on Children
TBC
Dunedin – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 10 August
1:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin
Queenstown
TBC
Invercargill – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 11 August
1:00 pm
Tweed Street / Elles Road Corner, Invercargill
Beautiful People.
https://youtu.be/Ypkv0HeUvTc?feature=shared
The sooner no one gives a fuck about the deeply weird little roger clone the better.
Go you @ J.M.
John – Get real.
Hamas is using Gazan children as Human Shields.
Stop using Hamas-supplied information and passing it off as facts.
Anything Hamas can do Israel can do better, sing along now Nathan.
YouTube has a video to accompany this decades old party song, it’s called IDF caught using Palestinians as human shields, I’m surprised you haven’t heard Nathan it’s been around for literally years. Some wise arse made dozens of versions to help with wet dreams for Zionist enablers and the “most moral army”. Palestinians are a bit behind the eight ball for some reason Palestinian party videos are scarcer than hens teeth.
Fingrinn – By not rejecting my points – YOU know what Hamas is doing, and support it…and still your answer is “but, but the IDF”
I make the very valid point that there is literally no documentary evidence of Hamas using human shields except the hearsay of the IDF genociders it’s important to note that after the latest school massacre nearly all alleged “Hamas” killed were in fact NOT Hamas and in a few cases the supposed terrorists were documented as dying several days before.
Given that Nathan is both very stupid and a repeated liar ,,, it’s hard to know with this example of his if he’s knowingly telling lies, or if it is just his natural stupidity that is behind his repeating that Hama’s uses Children as human shields….
Israel and it’s accomplices were claiming Hama’s was using children and civilians as human shields when Israeli snipers were shooting thousands of them during the great march of return — 7,996 Palestinians were shot according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).” https://www.msf.org/great-march-return-depth
Perhaps Nathan has never fired a gun because it’s too complicated for him to understand how to use and aim them…
….Because anyone who knows how to shoot would understand what a absurd load of impracticable bullshit the Israel propaganda of ‘Child human shields’ is,, and that’s against one sniper let alone multiple firing positions. Israeli lied ,,,
… they told another of their lies,, which Israel uses as an excuse for them killing children and pretending it’s not their fault.
Israel has been telling weak as piss lies about human shields for a long time now ,,, and it’s as good as an example of ‘blood libel’ as you could ever find ,,, it’s a lie told so the liar can kill/murder/spill blood.
Why does Nathan tell/repeat really dumb stupid lies,, lies that are supposed to shield Israel from their actions of murdering children, women, civilians etc.
Has Israel raped his mind? ,,, is he Zionist mind-fucked ??.
Serious questions about all the feeble minded degenerates apart from just Nathan.
There’s ole Nathan, keeping it real again. as in, the children of Gaza, despite most of them now suffering from debilitating starvation, still keep getting in the way of Israeli bombs n bullets! Tragic.
“Israel’s Imposed Famine on Gaza”, Human Rights Watch – https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/04/09
It is not possible for Hamas to use children as human shields because the IDF will kill children and any other non-combatant without compunction. Human shields only work against civilized armies which respect the rules of war. They do not work against the IDF. Hamas could gain no advantage from using “human shields” which in fact would provide no shielding whatsoever. That logical inference is consistent with the empirical evidence that Hamas does not use human shields.
That heading referencing Luxon killing children is bad taste, and possibly inflammatory to dumbos.
Nobody’s listening to the lies. Especially not the govt. Luxon should sue for defamation.
bring it on .He wont because it would show what a weak prick he is and how much he is sucking up to USA and Israell .And all the while he is cutting support to children right here in NZ on a daily basis ,but says its not me its David because Im too weak to punch him in the face and tell him to grow up .
He is better advised to offer John the charity of his silence
Running protests in New Zealand is not saving children in Gaza.
Hey John, how many people attended today’s protests, marches and demonstrations, and what percentage is that of the five million people in NZ?
In a righteous nation, Minto would be the Sir John, not Key.
3.2.1 and here’s the genocidal enabler pretending to be a Zionist, Oh wait!
Kind of rich scaby since Ive lost count of your lies.
Oh my God… The buzzing of the little flies above.
You do what no one else does @ J.M. You demand that the truth guides your narrative.
The gutless little shadow-flies above can only settle on the grotesque carnage their psychopathy profits from for their scant few seconds of infamy.
I have no intention of watching this. The flies however will find it * tantalising I’m sure.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/08/11/they-raped-a-prisoner-on-cctv-i-dont-know-what-to-say-anymore/
The Guardian
John key.
“He would come up behind me when I was at the ordering terminal, tug on my hair and then pretend that his wife, Bronagh, had done it (much to her embarrassment), and she would tell him to stop it. As he rounded the corner behind me he commented ‘that’s a very tantalising ponytail’,” she wrote.
The Flies above and their IDF hero’s are the flies on the dead meat of humanity.
Minti, goin to wake up the Kiwi.
I am a supporter of Palestinians (not Hamas), but you have lost me with that childish chart about Luxon killing children
The leader of every Western Nation that has done nothing about the deaths of thousands of children is complicit so it is quite right that it says ‘how many kids did you kill today’ he and only he in our nation could be calling out about this. But he incapable of it because the Yanks haven’t said anything.
Pointless appealing to a government that is subservient to US foreign policy. Just as pointless to appeal to NZ media whom are subservient to government on international matters.
You can’t appeal to crooked people full stop. You can only attempt to expose this corruption. One way to do that is to expose the inaction of the opposition. Why don’t we light a fire under their asses by branding them in the same light as the mob in power. They are just as complicit – especially the new Greenie figurehead whatshername. Do the Greens really represent the people or are they just b/s artists also. Put em to the test!
Bottom line being, nothing has changed – despite the many appeals – gotta try something different!
Huge carpet being delivered to government house so Luxon can sweep our very own child abuse under it when he moves in .
Gordon walker Don’t blame Luxon for New Zealand’s child abuse, blame the New Zealand abusers. Don’t listen to Davidson either, when she blames violence on white heterosexual males, that’s another racist sexist lie. Chanting Luxon kills children is another lie, and it sickly externalises a tragedy which cannot be attributed to him.
He is indeed complicit in these killings! He is the leader of a Western nation that has not called out the carnage that Israel has done to Gaza. Only he could make the real difference.
Luxon should appoint Sam as minister of child abuse ,after all he has had first hand experience of how it works .
That is an indictment and a half, John. Holding our heads under the ramparts, our thing since nuclear ships, is wise for a small country, but a seriously scummy foreign policy is another thing. It’s our duty to attack that.
Late in the train, so ignored. Do Nate and Gaby think, beyond christos, newbies and other ignorami, they’re making headway persuading anyone?
Israel’s decades long impunity from international repercussions has made it really shit at making a case.
Nate and Gaby, what is the point of your interventions? ‘Cos you’re not helping Israel.
Nate and Gaby belong at the Jerusalem post, but i guess their comments would get lost in the sea of hatred in that cesspool so they come here to be relevant.
This is Holocaust. This is what Holocaust LOOKS like.
An eschatological HATE crime, we watch, hourly,
on-line.
No excuses. Radnz. TVOne. NZ Government. No excuses. By your silence, you are PART of it.
No one with even a modicum of common sense listens to John Minto the negative,nasty screamer.