The Palestine Solidarity Network has written to Minister of
Defence Ron Mark asking him to urgently cancel a reported
New Zealand Defence Force multi-million-dollar purchase of
military equipment from an Israeli company.
Military equipment from Israel is tested on the civilian
population of occupied Palestine by a brutal Israeli regime
which murders unarmed civilians – particularly young boys
– with impunity.
The government will be complicit with
this ruthless occupation and associated war crimes should
the deal go ahead.
We have requested an urgent meeting
with the minister to discuss the proposed
purchase.
Palestinian groups have repeatedly called for
BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against the Israeli
regime which across the world is seen as an apartheid state.
New Zealand gave support to the struggle against apartheid
South Africa through boycotts and we should do the same to
help isolate apartheid
Israel.
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