As Israel extends the genocide to Lebanon – protests across 30 centres this weekend demand government sanctions on the rogue state of Israel
Protests in 30 centres across the country this weekend will demand government steps to sanction the rogue state of Israel for its genocide in Gaza and now extending the genocide to Lebanon.
“Israel want wars – endless wars” says PSNA National Chair John Minto “because that’s the only thing which keeps Netanyahu’s far-right government in power”.
“Netanyahu has repeatedly tried to provoke all-out war in the Middle East in recent months with highly provocative attacks aiming to draw Iran into a military confrontation”
“Israel is an out-of-control rogue state”, says John Minto “simply because it has never been held to account for its racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and endless war crimes against the Palestinian people.
“The demand for sanctions from our government is a demand for accountability for Israel in line with the calls from the International Court of Justice”
All 30 events across the motu for this week are on the PSNA Facebook events page here
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
North Island
Opononi – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 29 September
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kerikeri – Rally
No rally this weekend
Whangarei
No event this weekend
Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – British Consulate Picket
Friday 27 September
12:00 pm
Outside British Consulate, Corner Queen and Wyndham
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 28 September
10:00 am – 1PM
Bond Street overbridge
Auckland – Rally at Britomart
Saturday 28 September
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Thames
No rally this weekend
Tauranga – Flag waving
Sunday 29 September
11:00 am
Coronation Park, Mount Maunganui
Hamilton – Rally against Obela
Saturday 28 September
1:00 pm
Te Rapa New World, 751 Te Rapa Road
Cambridge – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
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 for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 28 September
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 29 September
2:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 29 September
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 27 September
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge
New Plymouth – March for Gaza
Saturday 28 September
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 28 September
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton – Gathering for Gaza
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Vigil for Palestine
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
Memorial Square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton – Gathering for Gaza
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
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
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Obela boycott protest
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 28 September
1:00pm
Parliament Lawn
South Island
Nelson – Rally Against Obela
Saturday 28th September at 10.30am
Outside Woolworths, Champion Road, Richmond
Blenheim – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 28 September
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Quiz Night Fundraiser
Wednesday 25 September
7:30 – 9pm
Pedal Pusher, 286 Lincoln Road, Addington
Christchurch – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 28 September
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru
No Rally this weekend
Dunedin – Rally for Palestine
No public rally this weekend
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 29 September
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
LOL
The usual losers protesting about Israel winning.
I saw a couple the other day. They asked me to join them but I just said I’d just page them instead!
Finally! Trucks are entering into Gaza from Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyP1nY329HM
Why are our media not singing the praises of this humanitarian gesture by Israel?
I Honestly don’t know. Maybe because there were over 500 aid trucks a day entering Gaza just to meet basic needs pre October 7th and now barely 200 a day according to Israel. Their generosity knows no bounds. (Sarcasm)
John – I want peace between Israel and Lebanon … but the 7,000 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel since the 8th Oct last year cannot be explained away…
I’m ready to join that one guy in Auckland! I even made a banner Free The Hostages.
It’s not hostages, its sausages. So make your banner “Free sausages”.
Kia Ora John,
Israel is not stupid, unprincipled yes, but not stupid.
Is it possible that blowing up war with Lebanon is a diversion with benefits? So whilst the world is preoccupied with this and Gaza their ethnic cleansing of the West Bank continues relatively unnoticed, but an inceased rate.
After all, Israel’s goal has always been the eradication Palestinians from both the West Bank and Gaza.
You know Hamas is winning when even humble blogs like TDB start getting infected with new posters defending Israel.
Israel doesn’t “Need” war, it wants war 78% of Israelis approve of the war crimes in Lebanon.
Its a sick world when a myriad of agencies condemn these crimes they are labeled “Antisemitic” here’s a thought if everyone’s telling you that you’re an @hole then its pretty much guaranteed you’re an @hole.
Nasrallah is toast. Hamas are finished. Israel wins again.
Gaby, you are engaging in political self-abuse again. It gives you a thrill, but it makes you no friends, creates nothing of value, and when performed in public merely arouses universal disgust.
The Israeli policy of war by assassination is unusual. For whatever reasons, most civilized states avoid such tactics even in war time. If you eliminate the leadership of your enemy then you have no one left with whom you can negotiate peace. Of course that does not worry the state of Israel, because Israel does not want a negotiated peace. It wants absolute victory. But there is another consideration. If you eliminate the enemy leadership you have no one to persuade the defeated people to unconditionally surrender, the very important role performed by Emperor Hirohito, Marshal Petain and General Hindenberg for example. So the State of Israel is looking for something beyond unconditional surrender from the people of Lebanon and Palestine. It is seeking their total destruction. This is the paradox of assassination across the board. It appears to be aimed at the leadership, but the real target is the entire population. The United States, which also uses assassination as a standard tactic of war is similarly disposed to seek elimination of entire peoples in the Middle East region, starting with the Palestinians and the Lebanese but unlikely to end there. The West no longer even claims to be acting solely against Arab autocrats, such as Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi whom it selectively executed in an previous era. The object is to eliminate all levels of leadership, which necessarily means the elimination of peoples. There is no more scope for the classic western pretense that “We are only severing the head, and we have no complaint against the body”. Israel and the West are bent on genocide, and the string of assassinations are all the proof that is needed.
Interesting, draining but thought provoking nonetheless.
Geof, fortunately Hesbollah and Hammas are not hierarchies, they are heterachies where leadership is spread multiply. You cannot cut off the head.
It is true that there appears to be a depth to the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas which makes the assassination campaign problematic. However that does not change the fact that the intentions of Israel and the West are to eliminate the Palestinians and the Lebanese Shia by a top down strategy of progressively assassinating the leadership down through the levels combined with a bottom up strategy of causing mass fatalities through sanctions, blockades and bombing leading to starvation and disease.
This is the Western playbook, to which the Realm of New Zealand has signed up. To what extent it might work remains to be seen. I say to Mr Netanyahu, Mr Biden, and the “rich and sorted” Mr Christopher Luxon “Beware the wrath of God”. He will come like a thief in the night, unexpected and unseen, to sweep away everything that you have taken into your power.
And now the Jews have killed that POS, Nasrallah. Go Jews.
Don’t try and conflate Jews with Zionism
Why not? The Left is doing so – aside from the only “good Jews” in your pantheon, the dwindling number of hard-Left Jews left over from the days when the USSR supported the creation of Israel.