The New Zealand Jewish Council and the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand are dismayed at the use of inflammatory and Holocaust-related language in the political arena in New Zealand. At the first sitting of the new Parliament, we witnessed multiple .
The representative body of New Zealand Jewry, the NZ Jewish Council (NZJC), has expressed concern about the high number of antisemitic incidents in New Zealand recorded last month. Spokesperson for the NZJC, Juliet Moses, said: 'While we haven't .
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