Spies, police chiefs, academics: NZ s first counter-terrorism hui opens Tue, 15 Jun 2021, 10:00AM
He Whenua Taurikura, New Zealand s hui on countering terrorism and violent extremism, has opened in Christchurch this morning. (Photo / George Heard)
Spies, police chiefs, academics: NZ s first counter-terrorism hui opens Tue, 15 Jun 2021, 10:00AM
The country s first annual hui on countering terrorism and violent extremism, He Whenua Taurikura, which has attracted global experts, spy chiefs, and tech players has opened in Christchurch.
The historic event comes after recommendations in the Royal Commission of Inquiry report into the March 15, 2019 terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques.
The two-day hui will attract some of the most powerful figures in New Zealand, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Rebecca Kitteridge, director general of spy agency New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS), and Police Commissioner Andrew
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Labour MP Phil Twyford has returned a $2,000 donation after Newsroom found that it came from a man who claimed the Christchurch terror attacks were part of a Jewish conspiracy.
Twelve days before voting closed in the 2020 election, the Te Atatū MP and new disarmament minister accepted the donation from Ahmed Bhamji, who in 2019 baselessly alleged that the gunman behind the Christchurch massacre was funded by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and “Zionist business”.
A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Jewish Council, Juliet Moses, said Bhamji’s “anti-Semitic conspiracist comments” came while “just up the road, at the largest Jewish community centre in New Zealand and the only Jewish school, there were armed police standing outside”. She said his comments were “extremely distressing for the community” at the time.