08/10/2026
TAURANGAMOANA4PALESTINE OCTOBER 7 VIGIL
Weāve come together tonight 7th October 2026, to remember all the Palestinians who have been Martyred and injured in the 1,096 days of the Palestinian Holocaust and the 90 years of ethnic cleansing and land theft of Palestine. While the 1948 nakba has been recognise as the first Catastrophe, Zionists have been killing Palestinians and stealing their land as far back as the 1930ās.
But Weāre not going to delve into the zionist atrocities of the Palestinian holocaust, the hundreds of thousands of Martyred Palestinian civilians, 80% of whom were women and children, and the reality is we will probably never know the exact number of who were martyred, or the families whose family name has been extinguished after centuries of history living on the land. Weāre not here to talk about the over 5000 breaches of the 2025 so called ceasefire agreement, or the annexation of the west bank and the Zionist terrorists attacking Palestinian homes and villages,
we all know those details, all to well. that is why we come here tonight.
we are here to remember Palestinians and honour their Sumud, their steadfastness and resilience. After 90 years of Zionist atrocities, oppression, apartheid, murder and land theft Palestine and itās true people are is still there, the true meaning of āexistence is resistanceā .
If I could give but one example, Yahya Sinwar, who after being bombed, shot and beaten and knowing his time had come, picked up a stick and threw it in defiance at the drone about kill him. The mistake the Zionists made was releasing the video footage because rather than humiliation it was legend making. Then there are the medical staff, journalists, teachers, the rescuers who know the distinct likelihood of a Zionist double tap, still rush in to help
But It is also important we recognise our steadfastness and resilience for with out us and the millions just like us around the world who have put themselves on the line, who have taken action great and small to stand up and speak out for Palestinian Liberation. Here is Aotearoa there have been over 6,000 actions/events over the past 3 years and that is just the PSNA affiliated groups, some huge like the Tamaki Makaurau bridge march, that wasnāt, estimates had it at 50,-80 thousand, then there are groups/people like us 10-20-30 people showing up every week to wave the flag for Palestine, the group in Suva Fiji who have to protest on private property because if they step onto the footpath they face arrest or Peter from Alexandra who simply flies the Palestine Flag in the Cromwell gorge and gathers t***s, the man in Tokyo who every lunch time takes his Palestine flag to the Israeli embassy, the thousands of grandparents in Britain being arrested on terrorism charges for opposing a genocide, in Europe there have been over 68,000 protests, and the list goes on, point to any land mass on a world map and there has been Palestinian solidarity. So we are not alone and we are part of a growing global movement. We may not have stopped the genocide yet, but we have certainly stopped Palestine from being erased. And importantly Palestinians see us and know they are not forgotten or abandoned
So now I would ask us to take a moments silence to remember the Martyred Palestinians, those who have been injured, the families that have been torn apart and the unimaginable
Now lets finish on a positive note, yes there have been dark days when we have all thought it is pointless, weāll never defeat Zionism but the tide has been turning and just over the past 6-8 week we have witnessed the pace of that change quicken, weāve seen Macklemore attempted to be silenced which seriously Backfire on the Zionist, since then a number of other singers/ bands have openly supported Palestine, axle Rose, Rod steward, Zach Bryan wore a free Palestine t-shirt at his concert in Gillette stadium this is but a few of the celebrities speaking out, the British greens have just adopted Zionism is Racism resolution, the British government have placed sanctions on israel, for the second year in a row the most of the UN delegates walked out on Netanyahu during his speech, even the CIA have warned that Israel is facing a civil war, I hope for once they might be right. But for the first time in israel made up history they are facing consequences. Israel and Zionism are feeling the pressure and Palestinian liberation is coming.
I want to finish up with a couple of things,
As Antonio Gramsci said āthe old world is dying and the new world struggle to be born, now is the time for monstersā well that makes each and everyone of us revolutionary mid-wives, a Palestine Flag in one hand for slaying the monster and helping the new world be born with the other. Now not the time to release that pressure but itās the time for us all to do everything we can to support Palestine, not just what is comfortable but everything we can, when this is over, and one day it will be over, will you be able to look youself in the mirror and honestly say
I DID ALL I COULD
