The Liberal Agenda – Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa activity guide

PSNA is demanding the government condemn Israel’s cutting off of all humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Israel announced its latest humanitarian outrage against the Palestinian people of Gaza as it tries to withdraw from the ceasefire agreement it signed with Hamas in January.

“Israel is trying to weasel its way out of the agreement because it doesn’t want to negotiate stage two which requires it to withdraw its troops from Gaza” says PSNA Co National Chair John Minto.
“Israel signed the ceasefire agreement and it must be forced to follow it through.”

“Cutting off humanitarian aid is a blatant war crime and New Zealand must say so without equivocation”

“Our government has been complicit with Israeli war crimes for the past 16 months and has previously refused to condemn Israel’s use of humanitarian aid as a weapon of war”

“It’s time we got off our knees and stood up for international law and United Nations resolutions.”

Pleasing to see the Labour Party has joined this call to urge the government to condemn Israel’s latest war crime.

Mr Christopher Luxon
Prime Minister
C.Luxon@ministers.govt.nz

Mr Winston Peters
Minister of Foreign Affairs
W.Peters@ministers.govt.nz

Kia ora Mr Luxon kōrua ko Mr Peters,

On Sunday Israel announced a total humanitarian blockade against the population of the Gaza Strip.

This is a war crime.

Please condemn it immediately and as well as Israel’s massive ethnic cleansing programme on the occupied West Bank.

I look forward to hearing from you both shortly.

(Your name)

1. Click here for the detailed list in this Newsletter below.
2. 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”  and Click the button. Check back on Friday for any moves, adds or changes
3. Or events are on the PSNA Facebook events page here

There are more than 25 events around the Motu this week.

A warm congratulations to the two activists who occupied the roof of the building and to the team who gave fulsome support outside.

The protest was widely covered in mainstream media here and here and here

Despite you and thousands of their customers telling them to divest from Motorola Solutions Inc and Israeli apartheid, ASB has so far refused to divest.

Today we’re asking you to keep the pressure on ASB with one small action. Email them to ask if they’re still banking on apartheid.

When we met with ASB last year, they said they were reviewing the investment, meeting with both Motorola and the UN over December and January.

Despite the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the violent displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank for the expansion of settlements is escalating. It is more important than ever that we stop financing Israeli apartheid.

We’ve followed up with ASB on their meetings and review of their investment in Motorola – a company that supports these settlements – but we’re being ignored. Despite the ethnic cleansing we are witnessing in the West Bank, ASB appears to be hoping this will just go away.

Write to ASB today and remind them that you don’t want them to be investing KiwiSaver dollar in Israeli apartheid. Click the link here to use our template email. Remember to sign your name at the bottom, and if you create your own unique subject line it will be most effective!

We know ASB care about what their customers and other New Zealanders think about their investments. It’s part of their policy. So we need to make sure they hear loud and clear that we don’t want them to invest in illegal Israeli settlements, and we’re not going to stop until they divest.

Want to get more involved in the campaign? Here are two actions you can take:

1. Come to our webinar: From Aotearoa to Palestine Colonial Expansion is a Crime – a conversation between Wajd El-Matary (Justice for Palestine) and Dr Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka) – Sunday, 9 March 8pm – Register here.
2. Join our online phone bank for the ASB Divest campaign – join us to call ASB customer who already support the campaign to encourage them to take action to get ASB to meet our divestment demand. Training provided – Thursday, 13 March 7-8:30pm – Register here.

With your help we can continue to build up the pressure until ASB realises it’s not worth banking on apartheid!

Ngā mihi,
Justice for Palestine

However back in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank activists say ‘Our film won an Oscar. But here in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta we’re still being erased’ here

The regional council paused the campaign to protect the Palestinian teen from attack but has reinstated the campaign in full and rejected the Israel Institute’s racist attack.

Here is the facebook post by Councillor Elliot Weir. PSNA is joining others in protesting this racist attack to the Human Rights Commission.

Pass on to us any news you have of government MPs at public events so we can hold them to account. Send messages to Secretary@PSNA.nz

• Asking your local backpacker accommodation to display the poster and draw it to the attention of any Israeli soldiers here on “rest and recreation” from the genocide.
• Pasting the hotline poster (use the version in this newsletter which includes a contact email) around the vicinity of backpacker venues in your local area. This is already happening in some areas.
• Hand out flyers to people in the vicinity of your local backpackers
• Contact us on the hotline if you come across Israeli soldiers

• Israel blocks aid to Gaza and escalates violence as first phase of ceasefire expires here
• We are staying’: Israeli war chief vows indefinite occupation of Lebanon, Syria here
• I am seeking a discharge from the U.S. military over the Gaza genocide. I was inspired by Aaron Bushnell here
• The Gazafication of the West Bank: ‘Is This Really Happening Again?‘ here

• NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide claim peace activists here

• Depressing the Vote: Genocide and 2024 US Presidential Race | Al-Shabaka here
• The monsters aren’t just in history books. They live among us. They’re everywhere here
• Trump sends weapons to Netanyahu while talking tough to Zelenskyy here
• NZ must protest Israel’s latest war crime cutting aid to Gaza says PSNA here
• Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank but western media ignores it here
• Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations here
• Arab leaders must embrace multipolarity to counter Trump’s Gaza plan here
• In the ‘NYTimes,’ Israeli captives are ‘hostages.’ But Palestinians are ‘prisoners.’ The biased coverage continues here
• Time to drop the rhetoric on Palestine here
• More details of the win are here and the outrage sparked in Israel is here.
• The Day After “Phase 1“: What Comes Next for Gaza, Hamas, Israel, and the Future of Palestinian Liberation? here
• Living in the Open: Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks and Impossible Conditions as They Return Home here
• Palestinians forced to flee US-armed Israeli military in West Bank here
• The Lebanese Villages Recently Destroyed by Israel here
• Israeli Prisoner Acknowledges Palestinian Ownership of Land After Release here
• Germany’s Obsession With Defending Israel and Criminalizing Speech Aided AfD’s Rise here
• Israel says 40,000 displaced Palestinians in northern West Bank will not be allowed to return here
• If Arabs want Trump to ditch his Gaza plan, they must make him an offer he can’t refuse here
• J’accuse the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being anti-semites here
• Critics condemn BBC for pulling Gaza warzone youth survival documentary here
• Barred European Union politician brands Israel as a rogue state here
• Hamas handover spectacles are a demonstration to the world of keeping captives safe says analyst here
• Fiji’s diplomatic move to Jerusalem sparks controversy with Palestine here
• Palestine and Gaza’s Hamas resistance condemn Fiji over embassy plan here
• Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches here
• Open letter – No Mr Trump, we will not be happy and safe elsewhere here
• Eugene Doyle on human sacrifice – remembering Aaron Bushnell here
• POTUS posts horrifying video of his Gaza fantasy here
• McCarthyism reborn: Australian universities capitulate to Israel lobby, suppress criticism of Israel here
• Read the ABC article about the definition and the decision to implement it immediately here

See more on the PSNA website here.

Email Merchandise@PSNA.nz with your order.

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Whangarei
No event this weekend

Auckland – Stand for Palestine
Monday – Friday
3:00 – 4:00 pm at the US Consulate – 23 Customs Street East
4:00 – 5:00 pm at Te Komititanga Britomart Square

Auckland Picket @ TVNZ
Wednesday 5 March
12:00 mid-day
TVNZ – 100 Victoria Street West, Auckland Central

Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island

Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Every Saturday
This week
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Te Whitinga pedestrian bridge in Mount Albert
Join the team – text John on 021 899 659

Auckland – Gathering for Palestine
Saturday 8 March
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)
First Saturday of the month.

Tauranga – Flag Waving
No Flag waving this weekend. Moved to every 2 weeks.
But
Tauranga Moana – Check your emails Friday night (7th March) for a possible snap action

Hamilton – Flag Waving for Palestine
Saturday 1 March
1:00 pm
Flynn Park, Cnr Wairere Drive & Naylor, Hamilton

Hamilton
No rally this weekend?

Raglan
No Event week

Cambridge – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall

Rotorua – Rally for Palestine
Every Thursday
4:30 pm
National MP Todd McClay’s Office – Cnr Amohau and Ranolf St lights, Rotorua

Napier – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 8 March
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout

Hastings – Rally for Palestine
Sunday 9 March
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD

Palmerston North – Rally
No Rally this weekend.

New Plymouth – Flags on the bridge
Friday 7 March
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth

New Plymouth
Saturday – March 8
10.30 am
Marching In The Multiethnic Extravaganza – Clocktower Devon St
and
Stall at the Racecourse New Plymouth
from 11.30 am
https://www.facebook.com/events/857414482884704/ 

Whanganui – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 8 March
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui

Martinborough – Vigil for Palestine
First Wednesday of the month
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 – Rally
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Moving to Third Saturday of the month. Next Rally Saturday 15 March
Check out https://www.instagram.com/falastin_tea_collective for details

South Island
Nelson – Flag Waving
Saturday 8 March
10.30 am
Flag waving Rocks Rd, Tahuana Beach end

Blenheim – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 8 March
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station

Picton – Rally for Palestine
Every Saturday
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Picton Foreshore

Christchurch – Flags for Palestine
Friday 6 March
4:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch

Christchurch – Rally for Palestine
Saturday 8 March
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch

Dunedin – Rally
Moved to once a month
No Rally this weekend

Invercargill – Rally for Palestine
No rally this weekend

30 Mar                  Land Day Palestine
5 Apr                     Palestinian Childs Day
9 Apr                     Deir Yassin massacre – Irgun Terrorism – 107-120
Palestinian men, women and children massacred
17 Apr                   Palestinian Prisoners Day
11 May                 World Kufiya Day
15 May                 Nakba Day – marking the mass ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians from Palestine in 1948
5 Jun                    Naksa Day – Start of 1967 War – Land Grab – Invasion of
Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, Egypt and Syria – 5 June 1967
– 10 June 1967
20 Jun                   Attack on Gaza – 6–21 May 2021 (2 weeks and 1 day)
16-18 Sept            Anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres
28 Sept                 Second Intifada – 28 Sept 2000 – 8 Feb 2005
2 Nov                    Balfour Declaration
29 Nov                  United Nations – International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People
8 Dec                     “First Intifada – 8 Dec 1987 – 13 Sept 1993

We will need some serious money to make our campaign as effective as possible. For example, we will need somewhere in the vicinity of $25,000 to bring speakers to New Zealand over the next year and organise large public meetings to help spread the message.

You can help. Are you able to donate a cup of coffee a month to the campaign? In other words, can you afford to make an automatic payment of $5 per month to support the Palestinian struggle? (If you can afford more that would be great!)

Our account details are:
Account name:            Palestine Solidarity Network
Account number:        38-9015-0849542-00

We are happy to provide a receipt upon request (however, we are not a registered charity so this is not tax-deductible)

• Forward this Newsletter – If you know people who may be interested in this movement, please forward this Newsletter to them. They can sign up themselves by emailing Secretary@PSNA.nz
• Join in local activities in your area – Contact Secretary@PSNA.nz if you would like to know where and how to get Flags and Banners
• Help set up a Students for Justice in Palestine group on your campus
• Tell Your MP your opinions on Divestment and Sanctions of Israel
• Write Letters to Newspapers – Call Talkback Radio
• Keep in touch with the campaign on social media
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