Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 12:48 pm
The representative body for New Zealand Jewry condemns
the inflammatory comments and inaccurate statements made by
two Green MPs in recent days, which risk stoking
antisemitism and endangering Jews in New Zealand, as we have
seen around the world in the last few days.
Following
Saturday’s anti-Israel rally, Green MP Ricardo Menendez
March posted on Twitter and Facebook photographs of himself
and other Green MPs with the caption “From the river to
the sea, Palestine will be free”.
This slogan is
used by Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza whose
charter calls for the elimination of Israel and murder of