Letters For Palestine
Cancel Buying Israeli weapons — Stand With Palestine!
Background
2) Find the Ministers email address here
3) Put "Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel" into the Subject Line
3) Copy and Paste the suggested text below into that email
4) Edit that email to reflect any words YOU want to include in that email
5) Send your email
6) Wait 24 hours and follow up asking for a response if you don't receive Confirmation of your email
Suggested Text
To: – Minister of Defence
CC: – Prime Minister
Subject - Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead!
Kia ora Minister,
Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead.
The latest is the proposed spending of millions of our taxpayer dollars on military equipment from the apartheid state of Israel.
Our Defence Force didn’t make the announcement. Instead it was bragging by the Israeli arms supplier to the Jerusalem Post newspaper on May 22nd which revealed the proposed deal. The story is here:
https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Tel-Aviv-company-to-supply-robots-to-New-Zealand-Defense-Force-590394
Here are a few of the reasons this is morally and ethically wrong and must be stopped:
Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead.”
Kind regards
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- The New Zealand Military is going to purchase weapons from Israel.
- Palestinians have called for a Boycott of Israel
- Please take action and ask the Defense Minister to cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel
- How to take action:
2) Find the Ministers email address here
3) Put "Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel" into the Subject Line
3) Copy and Paste the suggested text below into that email
4) Edit that email to reflect any words YOU want to include in that email
5) Send your email
6) Wait 24 hours and follow up asking for a response if you don't receive Confirmation of your email
Suggested Text
To: – Minister of Defence
CC: – Prime Minister
Subject - Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead!
Kia ora Minister,
Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead.
The latest is the proposed spending of millions of our taxpayer dollars on military equipment from the apartheid state of Israel.
Our Defence Force didn’t make the announcement. Instead it was bragging by the Israeli arms supplier to the Jerusalem Post newspaper on May 22nd which revealed the proposed deal. The story is here:
https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Tel-Aviv-company-to-supply-robots-to-New-Zealand-Defense-Force-590394
Here are a few of the reasons this is morally and ethically wrong and must be stopped:
- 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 whom the Israeli regime see as the next generation of leaders of the Palestinian struggle – with impunity. We, the people of New Zealand, will be complicit with this ruthless occupation and associated war crimes should this purchase go ahead.
- Palestinian groups have united in an international call for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against the Israeli regime to provide non-violent resistance and pressure on the regime to end the occupation of Palestinian land, end the siege of Gaza, allow the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and land and end its apartheid policies towards Palestinian Israelis.
- New Zealand citizens gave support to the struggle of black South Africans against apartheid South Africa through boycotts and we should do the same to help isolate apartheid Israel.
Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead.”
Kind regards
<your name>
<suburb>
<city> <post code>
<email address>
