PSNA Condemns The NZ Govt’s Silence Over US Sanctions Against United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
The Palestine Solidarity Network has just demanded that the government speak out against the US sanctions imposed on United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
Albanese released a damning report identifying companies complicit in Israel’s mass killing and mass starvation of civilians in Gaza, provoking the US to sanction her.
PSNA Co-Chair Maher Nazzal says it is unacceptable for the US to bully the UN and for New Zealand to stay silent.
“Anyone who stands up for Palestinians is attacked and menaced by the US. New Zealand claims to support the United Nations and the so-called ‘rules-based international order’ but we stay cowardly mute when the Trump administration does Israel’s bidding and attacks United Nations representatives and UN agencies such as the United Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).”
“New Zealand’s silence is eerily reminiscent of western silence as the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany targeted Jews, socialists, communists, gays, and gypsies, and took over country by country through Europe.”
“New Zealanders are calling on the government to sanction Israel, but our government remains cowardly complicit” says Nazzal. “Our silence represents the weakest and worst of human nature.”
“Silence is what empowers racism, genocide and imperial thuggery as personified in US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio’s attack on Albanese.
PSNA, last week, referred four New Zealand government ministers and two business leaders to the International Criminal Court for investigation over their criminal support for Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
“Anyone who stands up for Palestinians is attacked and menaced by the US.” If that is the case then millions must be menaced. Such hyperbole diminishes the credibility of this post. Albanese needs to recognize that many of her statements are anti-semitic and she is not sufficiently cautious with the information she quotes.
Even this post doesn’t attempt to support its allegations of “mass starvation.” As far as “mass killing” does someone need to remind the writer that there is a war underway and that wars involve mass killings?