Tag: PSNA
Palestine advocate condemns NZ silence over Israel’s UN attacks
Asia Pacific Report
The national chair of one of New Zealand's leading pro-Palestine advocacy groups has condemned New Zealand over remaining "totally silent" over Israeli...
Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t...
By John Minto
Published in the Christchurch Star newspaper yesterday -- this was the advert rejected last week by Stuff, New Zealand's major news website,...
PSNA puts New Zealand govt ‘on notice’ over breaches of Genocide...
Asia Pacific Report
A pro-Palestinian advocacy group has put the New Zealand government "on notice" over its alleged complicity with Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza...
Protesters picket Rakon offices and demand NZ halt Israel-bound sales
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestine protesters picketed the offices of Auckland-based electronics manufacturer Rakon today, accusing it of exporting military-capable products for Israel, which is under...
Palestine protesters condemn Google, demand NZ action over Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestinian protesters today condemned Google for sacking protesting staff and demanded that the New Zealand government immediately "cut ties with Israeli genocide".
Wearing...
NZ local council calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza as strikes...
By Robin Martin, RNZ News reporter
A New Zealand local authority, Whanganui District Council, has passed a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza,...
Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up...
Asia Pacific Report
A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga...
PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN
Asia Pacific Report
The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country's Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making...
NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s...
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against...
‘Food not bombs’ Gaza protesters picket MFAT offices in Auckland
Asia Pacific Report
About 20 pro-Palestinian protesters picketed New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) office in Auckland today, demanding a stronger stance...
‘Not complicated’ over killing children, Swarbrick tells Gaza ceasefire rally
Asia Pacific Report
About 5000 protesters calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli's genocidal war on Gaza today took part in a...
John Minto: Why is mainstream media in NZ so blatantly ignoring...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Why is Aotearoa New Zealand media so silent on the Gaza genocide happening before our eyes?
Amid unreported-in-Aotearoa media stories of horrific...
Palestinian foreign minister tells ICJ of ‘besieged, bombed and killed’ Gazans
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki began his address to the week-long "historic" International Court of Justice hearings into the status of the...
NZ police accused of aggression after arrests at pro-Palestine protest
RNZ News
An activist organisation is accusing the Aotearoa New Zealand police of brutality after arrests were made at a pro-Palestine protest in Lyttelton today.
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‘Ceasefire now’ protesters march on NZ naval base, demand Luxon upholds...
Asia Pacific Report
About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland's tourist suburb of Devonport today to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing...
John Minto: NZ’s Labour refuses to recognise Palestine – even after...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) supporters are livid Labour is refusing to recognise the state of Palestine a full 104 years...
‘Business as usual’ Israeli repression against Palestinians predicted
COMMENT: By John Minto
The swearing in of a new Israeli Prime Minister after 12 years of appalling anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism from former Prime...
Indonesia condemns Israeli attack on Al Aqsa mosque – call for...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has condemned the Israeli police violence against Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the holy city of...
NZ Super Fund dumps Israeli banks for funding settlements in Palestine
By Roger Fowler in Auckland
The multi-billion-dollar NZ Super Fund - New Zealand's state pension fund - has finally divested from five of Israel’s biggest...
John Minto: The truth behind the lies being told about Palestine
ANALYSIS: By John Minto
Tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna tātau katoa
The topic of this talk is about the lies told about Palestine by the pro-Israeli...
NZ silent over ‘backdoor’ Israeli deals, says Palestinian support group
Pacific Media Watch
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has accused the New Zealand government of developing a "backdoor policy entanglement" with Israel.
PSNA had discovered that...
Obituary: John Miller, a passionate advocate for Philippines justice
OBITUARY: By Murray Horton
John Miller (1929-2016) died in Christchurch in November, aged 87. John and Leonida (Leony) have been members of the Philippines Solidarity...