International Day of Action – Sanctions on Israel to end the genocide Saturday 6 September

ByJohn Minto

The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is planning more protests on what it calls Winston Peters’ failed policy on Gaza.

PSNA has announced it is joining an International Day of Action for Palestine on 6th September.

PSNA Co-Chair, John Minto says there was “an incredible show of marches and rallies throughout Aotearoa New Zealand for sanctions against Israel during the past weekend.”

“But with Winston Peters obstinately running the Foreign Ministry, the government will ignore all expressions of public support for Palestinian rights.”

“So, we’ll be back with even more people on the streets on the 6th.”

“An opinion poll released by PSNA last week showed that of people who gave an opinion, 60 percent supported sanctions against Israel.”

“That number would have risen significantly in the past few weeks as people here are seeing the shocking images of Israel’s widespread use of starvation as a weapon of war especially against the children of Gaza.”

“Around the world, governments are starting to respond to their people demanding sanctions on Israel to end the genocide. Yet, Winston Peters is most reluctant to even criticise Israel, let alone take any action.”

“Sanctions are vital.  Israel takes no notice otherwise,” Minto says.

“We’ve seen Israel’s arrogant impunity in increasingly violent action and showing off its military capacity and intentions.”

“Not a peep from our ministers over anything. Just on the Occupied West Bank, there are settlers freely shooting and lynching Palestinians.  Israel’s parliament has just voted to annex the West Bank, as plans are also announced for a new settlement strategically designed to sever it irreparably into two parts.”

“In Gaza, Israeli troops are reinvading Gaza City to ethnically cleanse a million people to the south and Israeli aircraft are still terror bombing a famine devastated community,”

“Netanyahu has just started talking about a Greater Israel again.  That would mean an invasion of all of its neighbours and the extinction of at least Lebanon and Jordan, which in Israeli government eyes have no right to exist.”

“Our pathetic government thinks it’s responding appropriately by going through a process of considering recognition of a Palestinian state,” Minto says.

“That can only be seen as a deliberate distraction from a focus on sanctions.”

“Back in 1947, New Zealand voted in the UN for a Palestinian state in part of Palestine.  Recognition is token now, and it was token then, because the world stood aside and let Israel conquer all of Palestine, expel most of its people and impose an apartheid regime on those who managed to stay.”

“The global movement in support of Palestinian rights won’t be distracted. Comprehensive sanctions are the only way to force the end to Israel’s genocide.”

John Minto

Co-Chair PSNA

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11 Comments

  1. Winston is an ardent supporter of the apartheid state he has had many current & former ministers that have shook hands done deals with war-criminals like Moshe Yalon. Our rightwing political parties including Labour have been captured by these zionazi

    Free Palestine

    1. Labour are more centrist than anything and centrist is certainly not good for the majority of people in Aotearoa. And Labour have remained totally gutless over the Israel issue. The Israeli government is a genocidal fortress. The endless lies, many of which our mainstream media pick up as fact. And some of the information on the Holocaust Centre website is lies that they don’t fix even when they know the truth, see Deborah Hart’s piece from 9 November 2024. If they were concerned about mass murder as they suggest they are then they would call out what Israel is going. Or is it just concern about Jews who have been murdered. I would love to hear what they say at their school education sessions. And Ben Kepes also on the holocaust centre board, he still spouts stuff like Israel is the only democratic state in the middle East. Apparently the 65 plus laws that are made against Palestinians living in Israel are not counted as anti-democratic.

  2. You clearly have no idea the effect we had on South Africa following our big demonstrations against the Springbok playing in Aotearoa in 1981.

    Grow up Gaby, read the books – let me know when you have and we could have a real discussion.
    A very short history of the Israel Palestine Conflict – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
    Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
    The ethnic cleansing of Palestine – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
    The forgotten Palestinians – A history of the Palestinians in Israel – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
    The biggest prison on earth – Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
    Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan Pappe (Jewish)
    On Palestine – Noam Chomsky (Jewish)
    The Invention of the land of Israel – Shlomo Sand (Jewish)
    My Israel Question – Antony Lowenstein (Jewish)
    The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein (Jewish)
    Israel a Beachhead in the middle east – Stephen Gowans (Canadian, he also has an excellent blog)
    The Last Earth – Ramzy Baroud (Palestinian)
    The making of Hamas’s foreign policy – Daud Abdullah (former Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain)
    The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk (deceased, middle East journalist)
    The Question of Palestine – Edward Said (Palestinian)
    Palestine a four thousand year history – Nurma Masalha (Palestinian)
    Freedom Next Time – Resisting the empire – John Pilger (deceased

  3. Looking at entry on wikipedia for Tacitus Roman historian back in the day and came on reference to the First (of three?) Jewish – Roman Wars. Is this present just a continuance?
    Tacitus Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tacitus
    AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.
    It’s all been said before, but we must have got angry and killed the messenger!
    As Kurt Vonnegut said ‘And so it goes’. Deja vu all over again?? Everything meshes – ancient history into today when we are so up ourselves that we ignore past l;earnings.

    Looking at Tacitus on Wikipedia led me to the entry on the First Jewish-Roman War.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War
    Fought in the province of Judaea, it resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple, mass displacement, land appropriation, and the dissolution of the Jewish polity.

    Judaea, once independent under the Hasmoneans, fell to Rome in the first century BC. Initially a client kingdom, it later became a directly ruled province, marked by the rule of oppressive governors, socioeconomic divides, nationalist aspirations, and rising religious and ethnic tensions.
    In 66 CE, under Nero, unrest flared when a local Greek sacrificed a bird at the entrance of a Caesarea synagogue. Tensions escalated as Governor Gessius Florus looted the temple treasury and massacred Jerusalem’s residents, sparking an uprising in which rebels killed the Roman garrison while pro-Roman officials fled.

    Looting the Jewish temple treasury and massacre of Jerusalem residents sounds uncomfortably like Hitler’s regime-doings. This is the story told in the various productions called ‘The Monuments Men’ amongst others.
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-monuments-men-180949569/
    Film The Monuments Men – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/plotsummary/
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men,,,a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney, and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men_(book) 2007
    While people were being industrially put to death, the forces of the opposing powers were at least rescuing their valuable art and treasures!. This thought would leave a lasting sorrow and anger in those that escaped death but lost to the death regime all or part of their families and friends.

    This must be relevant to today’s gritty, bloody carry-on but the present compliance and assistance must not be carried on under the various excuses being used by abject politicians aiding excesses by Jewish zealots.* Another humanitarian and politically practical way of responding to the tragedy and aftermath must be adopted and carried out,; enforced by overwhelming means because previous attempts have been unsuccessful – since Adam it seems .
    *The term ‘zealot’ is from the Hebrew kanai/kana’im (those who are “zealous on behalf of God”).

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