“Sanction Israel for genocide” – nationwide protests continue in 2025

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While the stench of decaying morality hangs over the coalition government and its MPs after 15 months of complicity with genocide, nationwide protests against Israel’s genocide continue in 2025.

“Over 15 months of weekly nationwide protests is unprecedented in New Zealand history on any issue at any time” says PSNA National Chair John Minto. “We are enormously proud of New Zealanders who stand with the vast mass of humanity against Israel’s systematic, indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in Gaza”

“This week’s protests are the first of New Year and they will continue while our government cowers under the bedclothes and refuses to sanction Israel for genocide”

The horrendous official death toll stands at more than 45,000 – the majority killed being women and children.

Today’s death toll of innocents killed is a repeating nightmare for Palestine while our western media highlight every utterance of filthy Israeli propaganda to justify the endless massacres while ignoring Palestinian voices.

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John Minto

National Chair

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

 

Nationwide rallies/marches/MP protests/vigils this week

 

These are on the PSNA Facebook events page here with the basic details listed below.

North Island
Opononi – Gathering for Palestine
No Rally this week

Kerikeri – Rally
First Saturday of the month – Saturday 4 January
9:00 – 11:00 am
Kerikeri roundabout, State highway 10

Whangarei – Rally
No more Rallies until the new year

Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island

Auckland – Stand for Palestine
Starting again on Thursday 2 January
Monday – Friday
3:00 – 4:00 pm at the US Consulate – 23 Customs Street East
4:00 – 5:00 pm at Te Komititanga Britomart Square

Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Every Saturday
This week
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
St Lukes road overbridge(by Motat)
Text John on 021 899 659 for more details

Auckland – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
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 – Saturday 4 January
10:00 am
Thames Market, 700 Pollen Street, Thames

Tauranga – Picnic in the Park
Friday 3 January
6:00 pm
Gourmet Night Market, Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui

Tauranga – Flags
Sunday 5 January
11:00 am
Coronation Park, Mt Manganui

Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
1:00 pm
Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton

Hamilton – Vigil – Global Action Participation
Saturday 4 January
2:30 pm
Waikato Hospital – Lorne Street & Ohaupo Road Intersection, Hamilton

Cambridge – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall

Rotorua – Rally for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:30 pm
National MP Todd McClays Office – Cnr Amohau and Ranolf St lights, Rotorua

Gisborne – Farmers Market – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market

Napier – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout

Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 5 January
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD

Palmerston North – Rally
Every Sunday
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North

New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Every Friday
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth

New Plymouth – March for Gaza
Saturday 4 January
1:00 PM
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth

Whanganui – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
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 – Flags on the Bridge
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Friday 3 January
No Flags this Friday. Starts again Friday 10 January

Wellington – Vigil for Palestine
(hosted by Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine)
Every Friday
6:00 pm
In front of Wellington Hospital, 49 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington

Wellington – Rally
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Resuming rallies on Saturday 11 January
Watch this space

South Island
Nelson – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
10:30 am
Hikoi, Tahuna Beach, Rocks Rd, Nelson

Blenheim – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station

Christchurch – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 4 January
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch

Timaru
No Rally this weekend

Dunedin – Rally
No rally this weekend

Queenstown
No rally this weekend

Invercargill – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 5 January
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill

3 COMMENTS

  1. So incensing, because idealism is not allowed in the rich-rule era since 1980, we can only look on and so must look directly into the eye of our spiritual bankruptcy. As we will soon see our actual extinction. Thanks, richie-riches.

  2. Letter to the Editor.
    Opunake Coastal News.
    Taranaki
    Throughout this Christmas period, and now grinding inexorably into the new year, Israel’s Genocide of GAZA, continues. “No rest for the wicked”, tattooed on IDF pilots and soldiery as they go about their relentless, merciless, slaughter of the many many thousands of innocent children in the freezing cold, wet, tent ‘cities’ of Gaza. No rest for those precious little souls. Their fate – their lives – have been decided by western democracies as collateral to the needs of AngloZion and Empire. They are freezing to death now, those little ones. Our media’s vast silence continues to amaze those of us watching the daily slaughter, broadcast by the hundreds, in direct messaging from the hell hole of GAZA… 14 months of massacre. Broadcasts using every conceivable transmission device and platform available, to keep this terrible truth alive; to bear witness.
    When our media do report, it is to call it a ‘War’. And, by virtue of the zionist lobby, contextualise it as a ‘just’ one. But this is no war. And there is no justice. Palestine has no army. No tanks. No air force. No air defence against the targeting of civilians in tents by F35’s dropping 80,000 tonne of high explosive into the prison camp of GAZA. Reminding us again, it is by our silence our country is complicit. Just as NP Council directly invests in the occupied West Bank, where settler fanatics from all over the world gather to set fire to houses and cars, kill stock and force tangata whenua of Palestine from their land, claiming god’s authority as their right and immunity.
    But, no longer able to accept or respect the argument of men claiming god’s word, I wonder, listening to our Christian zionists recite their dogma to Palestine; how they will feel when the boot comes kicking at their door.

    • The armed wing of Hamas and the armed units of the PA still exist. Hizbollah have no tanks or air force, but the Lebanese army fear/feared them. Nor those who won power in Syria recently. Nor the Shia militias of Iraq, nor Kurds. Nor the Mujahadeen and Taleban of Afghanistan. Nor the Houthi (though they have captured tanks) who do not govern Yemen, but use an area of it as a base of operations (as per Hizbollah in Lebanon).

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