Accusations after flying after new anti-Semitic vandalism appeared at Owairaka, reports The SpinOff’s Leonie Hayden.
For the second time since New Zealand went into lockdown, the public toilet block and carpark at Owairaka has been defaced with racist images.
The dispute over the native restoration programme for the maunga of Owairaka took a nasty new turn last week when the words “Majurey lies” were spray painted in orange across the public toilet block at the base of the mountain, accompanied by two stars of David. Paul Majurey is the chair of the Tupuna Maunga Authority (TMA), the Auckland mana whenua collective who have ownership and kaitiakitanga of Auckland’s 14 volcanic cones.
The TMA has been embroiled in an ongoing battle with protesters who oppose the native restoration programme for the maunga, which includes plans to cut down a number of exotic trees. Protesters believe that cutting down the trees will have a negative impact on native flora and fauna.
By yesterday morning the words “wai” and “5G?” were painted on stall doors in the same orange paint, and a large star of David with a dollar sign in its centre – an unmistakable anti-semitic trope – was painted in white across the carpark…
Read the full story on The SpinOff here.
