Thousands will march for Palestine across Aotearoa this weekend as UN investigators accuse Israel of deliberately targeting Gaza’s health facilities and killing medical personnel.
In a landmark human rights ruling on Gaza, the investigators have said Israel is
“committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities”
If this were happening anywhere else in the world the government would act decisively.
It’s long past the time to expel the Israeli ambassador…
But where are our political leaders?
The dozens of events across the motu for this week are on the PSNA Facebook events page here with the basic details given below.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
North Island
Opononi
Sunday 13 October
Nothing this weekend – watch this space
Kerikeri – Rally
Saturday 12 October
No Rally this weekend
Whangarei – Rally
Saturday 12 October
No Rally this weekend
Auckland – Say Hi to Judith Collins at Dinner
Thursday 10
6:30 pm
Annabelles Restaurant, 409 Tamaki Drive, St Heliers, Auckland
Auckland – Picket
Friday 11 October
No Picket this week
Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 12 October
10:00 am
Auckland – Rally
Saturday 12 October
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square, Tamaki Makaurau
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(Hosted by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice – Hauraki)
First Saturday of the month
Tauranga – Flag Wave & Mural Painting
Sunday 13 October
11:00 am
Coronation Park, Mouth Manganui
Hamilton – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
1:00 pm
Civic Square, Hamilton
Raglan
To be advised
Cambridge – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua – Rally for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Gisborne – Farmers Market – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market
Whakatāne – Snap Rally for Palestine
Wed 9 Oct
12 – 1pm
49 Kakahoroa Drive (outside the Library)
Napier – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 13 October
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 13 October
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 6 September
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth
New Plymouth – Vigil
Saturday 12 October
1:00 PM
Hatchery Lawn- Pukekura Park, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
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
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton – Gathering for Gaza
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn, Masterton
Featherston – Gathering for Gaza
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
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Boycott Obela rally
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 12 October
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Opposite Chaffers New World and next to the Bowlzilla Skatepark
South Island
Nelson – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 12 October
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch- Flag Waving for Palestine
Friday 11 October
4:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Otautahi stands with Lebanon
Saturday 12 October
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru
No Rally this weekend
Dunedin – Rally and March
Saturday 12 October
1:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve (marching to the Octagon)
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 13 October
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
John – Most Palestinians and Israelis have many shared ancestors…also, Israel’s population is 20% Arab, mostly Palestinians…your thinking is flawed.
Nathan your undying support for a pseudo pedophile apartheid genocidal state is flawed thinking at its worse!! You should volunteer to join the Kahanist settlers to fight Hamas they apparently take gentiles into their ranks?
stephen – Many Palestinians and Israelis are related by blood…name calling, and making outrageous suggestions change that.
nathan – opps…making outrageous suggestions does not change that.
Nathan anything coming out of your trap is pointless BS and evidence and video recording say that the “chosen ones” are systematically gang raping children how is that an outrageous suggestions?
stephen – The Jews have 1 country…while the Arabs have 21 countries…come on!
So calling out war crimes is flawed thinking. Doesn’t seem flawed to me.
Dave the 2nd – Oct 7th war crimes…?
So what happen on the 23 of September 2023 doesn’t count as a war crime? Two weeks later Hamas retaliates on OCT 7 2023 a natural reaction
flawed logic Nathan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/23/gaza-second-aid-convoy-rafah-crossing-israel-bombardment
A LARGE amount of what nathan says is 100% wrong,, and when he’s wrong it’s ALWAYS in favor of Israel and their outrageous propaganda which is full of lies …
Here’s just one example of how he attempts to mislead ,,, the example of many ….
nathan – “the UN has failed the Middle East by not posting UN PeaceKeepers on the border of Israel – Lebanon, Hezbollah refuse to accept the Peace Keepers”,,,,,
nathan is wrong X 44….. ” For 44 years the presence of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon has provided a much-needed measure of predictability and stability on an international fault line that has the
potential to trigger a larger war in the Middle East.”
nathan ..” Israel asked the UN numerous times to post them… now the UN is instructing Israel to stop for Peace…yet, refused to post Peace Keepers” ……… The UN is asking Israel to stop attacking their peacekeepers that nathan tells us are not there,,, nathan is supporting Israels attacks and rejecting peace by spouting rubbish for Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-assault-un-peacekeepers-sparks-widespread-condemnation “These attacks
constitute serious violations of international law and must stop immediately,”
nathan … “Hezbollah threatened those Peace Keepers to keep them out”…..
But but but,, Threats nathan says? – “US: former White House advisor urges Israel to ‘carpet bomb’ Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon” , carpet bomb AND Napalm them if they do not ‘get out’,, not get out/leave as Israel has threatened them that they must do ,,,
Israel does more than just threaten the UN peacekeepers,,, peacekeepers that nathan claims are not there because nathan say “Hezbollah threatened those Peace Keepers to keep them out ,”, ,
In reality Israel follows up on it’s own threats to these very real peacekeepers and attacks them…ie, “Israel has to be accountable for “deliberate” and “direct fire” on UN outposts, the head of Ireland’s armed forces has said”…..
ie 2 ,, Has Israel just declared war on the UN? https://youtu.be/RkSSrUOyEdo ,,, ” Israel have taken aim directly at the United Nations itself now, having fired both yesterday and the day before on a United Nations peacekeeper headquarters within Lebanon when their positions were known. Israel knowingly fired on UN peacekeepers, which is yet again yet another violation of international humanitarian law.”
So UN peacekeepers have been within south Lebanon and by the border for decades ,,,, Nathan is spouting absolute garbage and wasn’t just wrong, but he was/is spreading the polar opposite of the truth. Arse about face from nathan
It is Israel that does not allow UN peacekeepers within Israel ,,, Israel threatens them and has repeatedly attacked them,,,, over decades. ,,,, ie “In 1996, Israel shelled UNIFIL’s Fijian battalion in southern Lebanon’s Qana. More than 120 Lebanese civilians were killed and about 500 injured. Four UN soldiers were also injured.” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/naftali-bennett-and-qana-massacre
ie 2, “In 1987, an Israeli tank squad opened fire on a village where a UNIFIL command post was located, killing an Irish peacekeeper.”
nathan,,, (the) UN has failed the Middle East….. nathan clearly fails in telling the truth and representing basic facts honesty,,,
Why is he so bad?….. “As long as they (zionists) can create a fog of war and misinformation about what’s taking place, it provides cover for this to continue.”,,,,,
nathan “I call for peace”
About the only thing I can say in nathans defense is I have never heard him claim, or repeat the claim, that Hamas Al Qassam fighters raped Israeli woman so badly and with such savagery that they “broke the victims pelvic bone” while doing it ….
…I’ve never heard/read nathan saying that ,,,, I think I read it at Kiwiblog, from a anti-minto author that Farrar promotes….
So there are smarter people telling even worse lies than nathan ,,,,
eh nathan…
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B Awakesky – So many Palestinians and Israelis are not related?
Or do you like to insult people who do not agree with you always?
B Awakesky didn’t insult you, they just spat some facts and truths in your face. Unlike B Awakesky I don’t have a problem insulting people, so here goes, you are an inbred, pig fucking, bag of shit dressed up in human skin, go fuck a barbed wire dildo.
A proper insult takes far more intellectual acumen than that childish twaddle or Awakesky’s little boy obsession with bodily functions. Go study some Churchill and up your game.
Ann E – Off the deep end reply from stand_alone_complex…not helpful to the general debate.
There is no debate with you, shit for brains. No matter what proof is put in front of you , you stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes and scream, “That two year old child is HAMAS!”. You are a fucking hypocritical idiot. You and Ann E sit there with your self righteous excuses for the year long ethnic cleansing, genocidal, terror campaign and have the temerity to think you occupy the “moral” and intellectual high ground? Give me break, you are joke without a punchline.
Oh Ann E, you obviously haven’t caught up with the fact that Churchill was a White supremist who hated Jews? Fucking imbecile.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767
stand_alone_complex: Another spray – and walk away
Point 5, para 6 of your linked article is frequently paraphrased by commenters on this very site. Who knew so many of you were covert white supremacists who hated Jews?
stand_alone_complex: Nope…B Awakesky posts chaff then dresses it up as relevant – it is not.
Given the censorship on this forum perhaps you take your arguments and ego to Kiwiblog and see how you make out.
Free Palestine
stephen – Here are some better slogans…
– Bring back Buck
– Elvis Lives
– Kilroy was here
-9/11 was an inside job
Here’s a slogan for you @ – nathan-
-nathan saying into a mirror:
” nathan- you are strong and handsome and nice and true and blue and wonderful and I like ‘-‘s quite a lot and I’m a wonderful, beautiful apologist for money fetisheshists with as much charisma and nobility as me, as if that were possible. ( Giggle….) Oooooh I mean just a look at me? ( $50.00 for half an hour. Debit cards accepted. Can do 4 x weekly repayments of $12.50 ) Yes, it’s me, nathan, putting the – into wonderful-. Oops, pardon the dead children littering the streets. Don’t they just get on the nerves? ”
Ok. It’s a bit longer than ” Fuck you, you vile little thing.” but you get the drift. Oopsie, nearly forgot your -.
Free Palestine…of Jews.
That’s what it really means.
No, just a democracy. Or, even 2 states would be good enough, with the ubermensch ruling in Israel proper. But, yes, the ultimate result would be the conquerors not liking it.
sumsuch – Since the 1930s Israel has offered Palestine a State 5 times…
The power of the flag and the nerve of its bearer –
https://x.com/Nadira_ali12/status/1842751621765181488
Why is this government still funding terrorists in UNWRA?
Andrew – Yes, it is puzzling that…at the very least get a guarantee from UNWRA that if Terrorists are working for them, they, UNWRA, will return our money back.
Why not? You prefer them to fund genocide?
In UNWRA they have funded actual genocide. UNWRA officials knew of the attack against Israel that killed over 1200 civilians and some of them even took part.
It is the stated objective of both Hamas and Hezbollah to maximize casualties of their own people in order to garner international sympathy.
They’re angling to get John Minto a job with UNWRA. Open positions apparently and he’d fit right in.
“Where are you Christopher Luxon? Winston Peters? David Seymour?”
Why up each other’s arse holes while spending your money of course.
Here’s an image of luxon on his way.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/530416/decision-to-remove-luxon-artwork-from-trade-me-weird-artist
The Guardian
US-made munition used in Israeli strike on central Beirut, shrapnel shows
Exclusive: Strike that killed 22 is first time US-made munition confirmed to have been used in attack on central Beirut since 2006
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/us-made-munition-used-in-israeli-strike-on-central-beirut-shrapnel-shows
Killer white T-Cell: Wow, just wow…
I had another boring day at Palestine church today in Dunedin. Endless churned out repetitive chants by lackluster cheerleaders and drummers and when they finally settled into their appointed places /pews surrounding the pulpit, we (the surrounded non-committed) were treated to a 101 lecture on the evils of colonialism. I’m certain that the faithful who have heard this sermon many times before were again uplifted in their faith along with the ‘fact’ that a ceasefire was just around the corner like the second coming. Dreams are free I guess, see you again next week – if I’m not on holiday that is!
Regimental Sargeant Major “Attenshun”!
(Collective click of heels).
RSM. Corporal Luxflake, why are we here?
CL. To defend King Country and Empire sir.
RSM. Private Peters why else are we here?
PP. To defend the American way of life sir.
RSM Squadie Seymour, who against?
SS. Wogs, gypos, Rabs sir.
RSM That’s the right answer platoon, dismissed, and no thinking . I won’t have thinking in my army.
Palestine has been offered a state 5 times, with major trip-wires, outlined by Israeli politicians and analysts. Never as good as the UN’s demands for Israel to fuck off out of the occupied territory.
Israel is a conquest, just like the Crusaders. But in the modern filmed age. 5% Jews in the 1890s. Still haven’t got back to the 20s demographics.
Answering to the headline, Peters is a little freer as a foreign minister to follow his lights, which seem to favour, slightly, justice. But, shit, it does show the troika aren’t up to the general understanding of reality necessary to politics. Like, recognizing a genocide is within your overlook.
The 1922 census of Palestine, 700 odd thousand people, 9 % Jewish. And the Arabs definitely wanting no more Jewish immigration. But they didn’t have control.
Watch how quickly the ICC will drop the case against Benjamiin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant now that Yahya Sinwar is dead.
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/10/17/israeli-military-says-checking-possibility-that-hamas-leader-sinwar-has-been-killed
The ICC have been waiting for this moment waiting like vultures, because they knew that they couldn’t charge Sinwar with war crimes comitted on October 7 because they would have to charge Netanyahu and Galant for war crimes comitted after October 7. With Sinwar dead the problem goes away.
It is only a matter of time now before the ICC drop the case.
The ICC’s biggest dread is that the report of Sinwar’s death cannot be confirmed, and the possiblility that he may still be alive will delay their finaL decision to drop the charges against Netanyahu and Galant
How ironic that Ann E seems is dumping a her rank Zionist slops over International laws instituted by the Allies in 1945 as the statutory basis for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals,,, laws that were a civilized and just response to the extraordinary criminality of Nazi Germany…….
These International laws recognized crimes against humanity and that’s defined as “atrocities and offenses including but not limited to murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and other inhuman human acts committed against, and this is an important par, a Civilian Population, ,,,,, 6 out of 7 for Israel/ Netenyahu & Gallant on their charge sheet
and then there’s War crimes and they includes many of the same types of things,,, But when they are committed by an army,, especially an occupying army,,, against the civilian population.
Ann E by showing her depraved criminality certainly deserves the medal that she’s earned https://medium.com/@evansd66/the-jewish-victims-of-zionism-c43b451bb8a7
Evidence of (war) criminal intent …..
Yoav Gallant, Defense Minister: “We will eliminate everything.”
and “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed…We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
animals = untermensch — less than human
Netenyahu ““We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness… we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah.”—– ““We’re facing monsters, monsters who murdered children in front of their parents (Beheaded babies Bibi is tell more lies) …This is a battle not only of Israel against these barbarians, it’s a battle of civilization against barbarism”—December 24, 202
“Over the last year we have witnessed what is the greatest crime of the 21st century,,and perversely it’s a crime that has been meticulously
documented and presented to us by the people who are carrying it out.”
“No one can hide here no one can pretend they didn’t know what was happening because the Israelis were shouting it in our faces,”,,,,,,
Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED https://youtu.be/gEo813rYm8g
“on October the 7th two babies are killed okay, which is Dreadful and it’s appalling,,,, BUT at the end of August when the gazen health Ministry published DETAILED figures the first 14 pages, 701 names, were taken up with children under the age of one,,,,,,
and that doesn’t include 7,000 people whom there was no documentation, it doesn’t include the large numbers of people who are still under the rubble … or who have died of because of lack of access to health care it’s very very likely that in the end the total number of dead and injured in the Gaza Strip will be more than a quarter of a million.
Let em off goes Ann E ,,, ‘those laws and courts are anti-Zionis’t,,, which is the same as being’ anti-semitic’
Never again was for the Germans only ….. unless they are helping Israel of course.
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p.s Ann E is a proven repeated liar ( proven by her childish denial that Israel supports and uses extremist Muslim terrorists,, support which was demonstrated and shown in a Syrian Girl video that Youtube has since removed/deleted/censored.
Nice. Syrian Girl’s deceit has finally caught up with her.
Yahya sinwar is a dead ducky.
Yahya Sinwar is a martyr for his people. I hope if my ancestral Scotland was colonized like Palestine we’d produce heroes like him.