PSNA will continue to protest Israel’s genocide despite efforts to muzzle the Palestinian solidarity movement across the western world
Despite plans to suppress Palestine support protests throughout most of the western world, Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says it will continue to hold regular rallies and marches against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
PSNA co-chair John Minto says the movement will continue to organise consumer boycotts and demand government sanctions on Israel.”
“This is a genocidal, apartheid regime. We will not be cowed by the butchers in Tel Aviv who perversely claim it’s the protests which are causing a rise in anti-semitism.”
“Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, is the person most responsible for rising anti-semitism across the world. He claims to be acting on behalf of Jews everywhere.”
“This is bare-faced anti-semitism from Netanyahu himself. Jews are not responsible for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, nor for its apartheid policies.“
“Nor are they responsible for Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the Occupied West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem, which is on the largest scale since the Nakba in 1948.”
“Every week, hundreds of thousands of Jews across the world march side by side with Palestinians and human rights activists to demand an end to Israel’s genocide and to impose accountability on Netanyahu’s regime,” Minto says.
“The rise of anti-semitism, so horrifically expressed in the attack on Bondi Beach last week, is a direct result of Israel’s ongoing mass killing and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and the abject failure of western governments to hold Israel accountable.”
Minto says PSNA is appalled at the complete silence from the government since the so-called ‘Trump Plan Ceasefire’ came into effect.
“Our government has spoken out loudly and clearly over the Bondi massacre, as we would expect.”
“But the government has effectively joined Trump to declare that Palestine issues are all solved and so New Zealand can ignore, or even endorse Israeli killing and occupation, to enhance its relations with Israel and the US.”
“We’ve heard nothing from Foreign Minister Peters or Prime Minister Luxon over UN reports of 379 Palestinians killed by Israel since the ‘ceasefire’ was agreed two months ago”
“Because Israel still limits food access, every day, more United Nations reports come in of hunger, babies dying from the cold, and at least 100,000 still facing starvation.”
“Most of those killed in Gaza were women and children with another “Bondi-level” death toll every day – all marked with deathly silence from our government.“
“The only thing the New Zealand government has done, is to change its decades-long regular vote in the United Nations, to allow Israel’s unquestioned illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights to continue.”
“All the more reason for us to continue to protest.”
John Minto
Co-Chair PSNA
” “Most of those killed in Gaza were women and children with another “Bondi-level” death toll every day – all marked with deathly silence from our government.“
John many of us don’t recognize this cruel regime in Wellington.
It does not or will ever speak on behalf of all those ( of which there are many ) who did not cast a vote for any of the three parties that make up this government who ignore the rule of law when it suits their agenda and uses emergency powers to enact anti democratic legislation.
This cruel cartel support Netanyahu and his polices and actions in Palestine.
Many of us in New Zealand do not.
The sadness is the lack of protest in numbers by New Zealanders against this regime that in many ways is far worse than Muldoon in his most ugliest moments.
I think the numbers opposing the regime we have are high, my biggest concern is that Labour will sleep walk in to power. They have a tiny number of members these days, 4000. In the sixties they had 200,000 but they were the party to allow neo-liberal policies to run the show forever as they have done.
The Auckland so-called “Anti-Semitism rally” organised by Juliet Moses was actually a pro-genocide rally. It was a rally demanding that the Jewish State of Israel should not be held to account and that it should be allowed to murder with impunity. The 200 protesters “many wrapped in Israeli flags” walked behind the banner of the genocidal apartheid State of Israel.
“You get the sense that we love this country and we’re willing to fight for it” Juliet declared.
What exactly did she mean? Why “this country”? Why not “our country”?
Because “our country” would have confused her listeners. No one would have been sure whether she was referring to Aotearoa or New Zealand or indeed, Israel. So let us accept that she meant that she loves New Zealand and is “willing to fight for it”. But if Israel was up against Aotearoa, as it has been and still is, for whom would Juliet be “fighting” (in the metaphorical sense)? Not for Aotearoa. For a certainty, she would take the side of Israel. As it is she stands for things that are repugnant to the people of Aotearoa: apartheid, colonialism and genocide.
Juliet Moses has a choice. She can join the righteous Jews who oppose the work of genocide. If their number is insufficient to avert the wrath of God, then she should go out of Israel, without a backward glance or so much as a hint of regret, in the same spirit that Lot departed the city of Sodom.
The German people were held to account for the crimes of their Nazi leaders.
The Japanese people were held responsible for the atrocities of the Empire of Japan.
Not all Germans and Japanese were guilty, but all were punished, often in horrific ways.
God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if a minimum of just five righteous men could be found within its walls. Otherwise, the few innocent ones would perish along with the guilty.
Collective guilt and collective punishment are the way of the world and a fact of life which comes into play when morality has either failed or been discarded. Israel itself has determined to execute collective punishment. Did it never imagine that the principle would one day rebound upon it?
The logic of collective guilt will apply to the colonialists of New Zealand and to the population of Israel just as much as to the people of Germany or Japan.
So Jews should not be complaining about anti-Semitism. They have two choices. Stop the genocide, or dissociate themselves entirely from the Jewish state.
History has proven that allowing antisemitism to flourish unchecked will inevitably end in violence and death.
The Islamists who murdered Jews at Bondi were the same people who murdered Jews on October 7.
Not surprising the same apologists active.