Sanction Israel for genocide – nationwide protests this week
In the last few weeks the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity and this week Amnesty International has declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
None of these developments has moved the Luxon/Peters/Seymour government which maintains complicity with the US/Israel genocide through silence.
Nationwide protests this week are calling for the government to “sanction Israel for genocide”. They are outlined below.
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.
To view events around Aotearoa:
- Go to the PSNA Homepage – www.PSNA.nz
- Scroll down to the button “For a list of events Nationwide, please click here – Check back often for updates”
- Click the button
- Check back on Friday for any moves, adds or changes
Or events are on the PSNA Facebook events page here
There are more than 30 events around the Motu this week.
North Island
Opononi – Gathering for Palestine
Sunday 15 December
No Rally this week
Kerikeri – Rally
Saturday 14 December
No Rally this week. First Saturday of the month
Whangarei – Rally
Saturday 14 December
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 – Parallel Rally with the Palestinian National Rally in Wellington
Wednesday 11 December
12:00 noon
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square, Tamaki Makaurau
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Every Saturday
10:00 am – 1:00 pm (then off to the Auckland Rally)
Avondale shops corner Rosebank Rd and Great North Rd
Text John on 021 899 659 for more details
Auckland – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
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)
No Rally this weekend. First Saturday of the month
Tauranga – Flags
Sunday 15 December
11:00 am
Papamoa Shopping Center, Domain & Gravatt Rd, Papamoa
Whakatane
Rallies are starting to be organised
Watch this space
Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
1:00 pm
Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton
Hamilton – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
1:00 pm
Flynn Park this weekend – cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor St
Raglan
Sunday 15 December
No Rally this weekend
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 14 December
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 15 December
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally
Sunday November 15
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 13 December
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth
New Plymouth – March for Gaza
Saturday 14 December
1:00 PM
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
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)
Every Friday
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
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)
Saturday 14 December
1:00 pm
Please check out the Falastin Tea Collective Instagram page
Wellington – National Rally for Palestine
Wednesday 11 December
11:00 am– Rally start at Queens Wharf and march to Parliament
12:00 noon – Rally on Parliament steps
South Island
Nelson – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
10:30 am
Hikoi starting Tahuna Beach end of Rocks Road
Blenheim – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Flag Waving for Palestine
Friday 13 December
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 14 December
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru
No Rally this weekend
Dunedin – Jesus was Palestinian Rally and March
Saturday 14 December
1:00 pm
From the Museum Reserve to the Octagon
Queenstown
Saturday 14 December
No rally this weekend
Invercargill – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 15 December
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
One thing I fail to understand is that with a supposed genocide going on for over a year now, more and more New Zealanders are opting to have ‘protest holidays’. I counted at least six towns/cities with no protests and no doubt this trend will continue as Kiwis opt for a summer break from caring about Palestinians being massacred (what is it- hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands?). I’ve noticed the totals have been sitting around the same 4o thousand for weeks now. Perhaps the ‘genocide is slowing sown and so protests are slowing down to. Perhaps there never was a genocide. Dunedin is now protesting under the heading that ‘Jesus was Palestinia’. Give me a break. Of course we all know he was born a Jew and leftists hate Christianity as much as they hate Jews. Perhaps next week they could march under the banner that Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian.
Well, when people who have little time for these protests actually take time to notice them, then they are doing their job – drawing attention to one of the biggest issues of our time – the ability to harm people without repercussion! And to do this, at a level where no one has the ability to keep an accurate count on the numbers being harmed too, typically in war time among relatively equal foes, counts are both taken and maintained over the course of the conflict. But here, where we have one of the most high-tech military forces in the world going up against a guerilla force, surrounded by millions of civilians, ‘living’ in a fenced in area, half the size of Auckland and shrinking by the day (Israel clears out Palestinians then seizes that land, every day) here, there is no contest, thus counting becomes a near impossible task to undertake, hence the near static numbers.
As for these protests, not a lot of protests continue on for as long as these protests have, especially in this day and age. Otherwise, Lefties hating Christianity and protest holidays, this is all new to me.
Still, back to the main point, when people can harm people without repercussion – then the world soon becomes their hunting ground. This is the logical consequence of what the world is allowing to take place today.
One thing I fail to understand is that with a supposed genocide going on for over a year now, more and more New Zealanders are opting to have ‘protest holidays’. I counted at least six towns/cities with no protests and no doubt this trend will continue as Kiwis opt for a summer break from caring about Palestinians being massacred (what is it- hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands?). I’ve noticed the totals have been sitting around the same 4o thousand for weeks now. Perhaps the ‘genocide is slowing sown and so protests are slowing down to. Perhaps there never was a genocide. Dunedin is now protesting under the heading that ‘Jesus was Palestinia’. Give me a break. Of course we all know he was born a Jew and leftists hate Christianity as much as they hate Jews. Perhaps next week they could march under the banner that Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian.