Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says it’s astounded that an Israeli-NZ collaboration event is planned in Auckland later this month, and has written to the Auckland Business Chamber, demanding the chamber cancel all its business collaboration with Israel while Israel is carrying out genocide.
The Auckland Business Chamber is lining up with the Israeli Embassy to host “An evening for Kiwi-Israeli partnership and collaboration” to be held on June 25 in central Auckland.
PSNA Co-Chair John Minto says PSNA supporters are shocked to see such a tone-deaf, blatant promotion of money-making with such a pariah state.
“This is, especially after the International Court of Justice last year told countries not to provide ‘aid or assistance’ which would allow Israel to continue its illegal occupation of Palestinian Territory.”
“Any collaboration with Israel assists its economy and provides precisely the ‘aid or assistance’ at the heart of the ICJ ruling,” Minto says.
“Even worse, it seems mass killings, engineered starvation and ethnic cleansing, are no obstacle to the promotion of such profit-first dealings”
“Auckland Business Chamber head, Charlotte Parkhill should be leading the call for sanctions on Israel. You should be reminding the business community that ethical behaviour and moral standards should have a central place in all business dealings.”
Minto says he expects the Chamber has approached the government to have a senior cabinet minister attend the event.
“The people who run these types of trade promotions usually expect a senior cabinet minister to turn up and gush about the particular country New Zealand is collaborating with.”
“However even a bottom ranked MP in attendance would anger the growing number of New Zealanders who are outraged at New Zealand’s inaction on escalating Israeli atrocities.”
“Blatant sucking up to Israel at this time, would not go unnoticed by other governments as well.”
“The world is moving to sanctions against Israel, not trying to squeeze more profits out of it.”
John Minto
Co-Chair PSNA
I hope there is a big picket outside. The business community have no morals.
I was in the new Court Theater the other night and I see the names of two prominent businesses being used for two different things out in the foyer.
Carter & Gough. You know these grasping businesses could never just give the dosh to the Court, they have to have bits of it named after them, shame shame shame.
The Holocaust in real time. And these sprats can’t see a thing. Scumbags, but probably just fools.
I do enjoy Martyn letting the genocide-supporters on here. Free speech is not just a crowbar for the rich to overthrow real people rule. It also disproves these horrors on the side of killing whole peoples.
Indeed. As the Holy Quran says, to quote one English interpretation, ” A good word is as a good tree — its roots are firm, and its branches are in heaven; it gives its produce every season by the leave of its Lord. So God strikes similitudes for men; haply they will remember. And the likeness of a corrupt word is as a corrupt tree- uprooted from the earth, having no stablishment”. And as the Christian Bible says, “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”
These dogs condemn themselves to their punishment for their opposition to God and the human race through their words.
Despite being an atheist, because of my nitwit fabulist born-again rationalizer sibs, I still love religious verse. Genocide is a-ok as long as it’s Jews doing it.
I’m not surprised given that we’re a 45 year old neoliberal crime wave bending over for banksters, now australian owned.
Ever since 1936 and the formation of the national party there’s been an on-going and covert war of occupation against those unfortunate few who decided to become farmers. Urban tentacles reached out and up into our agrarian economy and communities to slither away with whatever they could pocket and in so doing destroyed farmers, their families and the small town communities that farming directly supported. Sound familiar?
The greedy, disgusting arrogance of those few here including the auckland business chamber you mention above came from good schooling and by good I mean evil.
Go fucking you @ John Minto for bringing this vile shit out into the Light.
I think Johnny Cash would agree.
“God’s Gonna Cut You Down ”
https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc?feature=shared
As of Friday, the Auckland Business Chamber has been removed as a sponsor of the event.
https://www.linkedin.com/events/aneveningforexploringisraeli-ki7330818628293931008/comments/
For further information about the event and it’s new business network partner, please write to contact@nziih.co.nz
You’re going to be stripped of your paper NZ citizenship, Josh.
As of Friday, the Auckland Business Chamber is no longer a business network partner for the event.
Opinion
London conference: ‘Stop funding the Zionist killing machine’ and end complicity in Gaza genocideBritish Palestinians, doctors and MPs demand end to UK arms sales and political cover for Israel’s war crimes amid live testimonies from starving Gaza
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250606-london-conference-stop-funding-the-zionist-killing-machine-and-end-complicity-in-gaza-genocide/
Host, Dr Sara Husseini, director of the British Palestinian Committee, closed the press conference stating, “This is not just about ending a genocide abroad. It is about ending complicity at home.” She accused the UK government of facilitating war crimes through arms sales, diplomatic protection, and political indifference. “What happens in Gaza affects British Palestinians too. This government is not a bystander, it is an active enabler of genocide.”
Israel just got ranked 10th most powerful country in the world.
As Natan Sharansky famously said, BDS = Bully Defame Slander
Yes no doubt but you know what goes with being the most powerful is enormous responsibility that both the US and Israel completely ignore. No compassion, no empathy, might is right, we’re white and we don’t care about anyone of another colour. Sadly for them the United States is on the wane and Israel will go down with them.
I would never talk to you, you are a thickie in the thicket. 80 % are like you. We are all anti-semites because we oppose the Gaza Genocide? Like we opposed the Holocaust?
You are insufferable, mate. You’re a thickie or paid off. Hopefully the latter for you. Have you not noticed we reasonable and moral people all hate you.
Make a fkn case! Or fuck off! You haven’t yet. We want Israel gone, being rational and moral. Make your case! Nah, there is no case to be he made for conquering another people’s land. NOW, FUCK OFF.
Haahaaa
How quaint, you make us laugh Sumsuch, yourself and squeaky are the clowns of TDB
The Laurel and Hardy….which one is the fat one?
At least clowns are entrertaining ya cumsock, you ain’t.
@ Gasbaggy. I just got rated the most powerful writer in the history of writing and I have an alarmingly vast memory plus a huge cock and my armpits smell of rose petals and freshly mown lawn grass after a soft spring shower therefore I feel more than qualified to say to you, go fuck yourself.
Warning! This link’s not for the feint hearted.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/27/videos-of-malnourished-children-show-gazas-forced-starvation-crisis
Without their supine American puppet, Israel are NOTHING. Control over the US Government is vital to Israel’s survival but it’s slipping daily as evidence of their iniquitous relationship with America is gradually revealed. Most Americans had no idea how deeply embedded the Zionist agenda was into the American way of life but that’s rapidly dying as evidence of Israel’s many atrocities are uncovered. Young Americans, especially, are not taken in by the increasingly-amateurish-sound hasbara propaganda. The Zionists seem to have cried “Wolf!” once too often
Disruptive Networking is the title , you couldn’t make it up. Except they do all the time.