{"id":204849,"date":"2021-06-15T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=59284"},"modified":"2021-06-15T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:01:11","slug":"hui-on-countering-terrorism-sees-mass-walkout-over-hezbollah-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/15\/hui-on-countering-terrorism-sees-mass-walkout-over-hezbollah-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hui on countering terrorism sees mass walkout over Hezbollah comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/authors\/eleisha-foon\">Eleisha Foon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/\">RNZ News<\/a> journalist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s anti-terrorism hui has been marked by a mass walkout from members of the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s first hui on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in \u014ctautahi\/Christchurch involved experts discussing the evolution of terrorism risk in New Zealand, online extremism, the role of media, and the consequences of hate.<\/p>\n<p>The walkout happened yesterday during a panel addressing the causes of terrorism after a comment from NZ Jewish Council spokesperson Juliet Moses about the Israel-Palestine conflict sparked a commotion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyblog.co.nz\/2021\/06\/16\/juliet-moses-attack-on-palestine-solidarity-protestors-at-the-christchurch-counter-terrorism-conference-today-was-wrong\/\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Juliet Moses attack on Palestine solidarity protestors at the Christchurch counter-terrorism conference was wrong &#8211; <em>John Minto<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moses had told the crowd that leaders should be consistent in condemning terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to hear leaders condemn all support for terrorism and all terrorism equally whatever the source, target, and circumstances, and even when it is not politically expedient to do so,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hezbollah and Hamas, their military wings are proscribed terror organisations in New Zealand but we saw a rally in support of Hezbollah on Queen St in 2018.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks caused a strong response from members of the Muslim community, including victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks, as people shouted: &#8220;Free Palestine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federation of the Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) chair Abdur Razzaq said the hui was about &#8220;discussing social cohesion &#8230; we came here to discuss ways to peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are lots of things out there that divide us, let us have some wisdom and prioritise what unites us first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said it was &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; to discuss issues &#8220;that divide us&#8221; and was not the tikanga way.<\/p>\n<p>After the panel had finished, the hui organisers gave those in attendance a chance to respond to the comments which included a remark from Rashid Omar whose son Tariq died in the 15 March 2019 mosque attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Moses said she was only &#8220;stating fact&#8221; and did not believe her comments were controversial and that she was referring to the 2018 march, not the one that happened in Auckland in support of Palestine this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanks Simon. For those wondering, I said that leaders should be consistent in condemning support for terrorism and that the military wing of Hezbollah is a proscribed terror group which we had seen a rally supporting in Auckland 2018. I said we need to leave that overseas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bjh51z2Z2S\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bjh51z2Z2S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Juliet Moses (@JulietMosesNZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulietMosesNZ\/status\/1404659014319808512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59287\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-59287 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Minto-on-hui-comments-APR-500wide.png\" alt=\"John Minto comments\" width=\"500\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Minto-on-hui-comments-APR-500wide.png 500w, https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Minto-on-hui-comments-APR-500wide-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Minto-on-hui-comments-APR-500wide-334x420.png 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian Solidarity Network Aotearoa president John Minto resppnd to the comments by Juliet Moses. Image: APR FB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/06\/16\/hui-on-countering-terrorism-sees-mass-walkout-over-hezbollah-comment\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eleisha Foon, RNZ News journalist New Zealand\u2019s anti-terrorism hui has been marked by a mass walkout from members of the Muslim community. The country\u2019s first hui on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in \u014ctautahi\/Christchurch involved experts discussing the evolution of terrorism risk in New Zealand, online extremism, the role of media, and the consequences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,5,12804,365,1659,1653,6,24326,29745,118,534,535,255,12,14,368,29746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204974,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204849\/revisions\/204974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}