Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: The 1977 hate speech attack on Jews in Auckland's Remuera
CHRIS MCKEEN/STUFF The delivery of anti-Semitic pamphlets around Auckland's Remuera in the 1970s led to New Zealand's first conviction for hate speech. Leaflets likening Jews to the devil resulted in New Zealand’s only prosecution for hate speech – but it’s a story most are unaware of. Torika Tokalau reports. Expensive homes and quiet tree-lined streets – Auckland’s Remuera is a picture-perfect slice of suburbia, but it was also the location of New Zealand’s first and only prosecuted incident of hate speech. In the late 1970s, members of the Jewish community were targeted in a l...