The Auckland University Students’ Association is backing students who have complained about a growing white supremacy movement on campus.

Last month RNZ spoke to students fearful of a movement they said had ramped up in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack.

University vice chancellor Stuart McCutcheon dismissed the claims describing them as “utter nonsense”.

Now students and staff have met to discuss their fears as well as other harassment, bullying and discrimination.

About 80 people packed into the Waipapa Marae at Auckland University yesterday. Media were not allowed in.

But students who spoke to RNZ afterwards said a self-described Nazi spoke at length about the bullying he had suffered on campus and how it had made him stronger.

This was in response to a young Jewish student who told the meeting how she had been harassed by white supremacists…

Read the full story here on Radio New Zealand.

Read The SpinOff’s account of the University of Auckland’s racism hui here.